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  keven sutton, Oct 22nd, 2009 @ 5:07am

  
  

  On funny...

  They probably could have added a few things to make it more entertaining, however....
  
  Canada may be very similar, culturally, to the U.S. but so is the U.K. and what is seen as hilarious there is sometimes received very luke warm in the U.S.
  
  If they put more bits, the impact of the message might be lost.

   

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  Liam, Oct 22nd, 2009 @ 5:50am

  
  

  Re: On funny...

  I'm not sure what you are trying to say?

   

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  CommonSense (profile), Oct 22nd, 2009 @ 6:25am

  
  

  Re: Re: On funny...

  American's have a different sense of humor than Canadian's, and if they'd made more jokes it couldn't be taken seriously.
  
  At least that's how I understood it.

   

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  rick, Oct 22nd, 2009 @ 5:53am

  
  

  Not so funny...

  but then the "fake interview" sketches are always the weakest part of this show. They work *way* too hard at social relevance at the expense of funny.
  
  If anything, I'd say this was a leading indicator of public opinion and not a trailing indicator.

   

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  Anonymous Coward, Oct 22nd, 2009 @ 5:53am

  
  

  Sound was too low, I had to download it from YT (oh! the evil!) to be able to amplify the sound a little. Anyway, I loved the punch line "would you burn me a dvd?".

   

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  Yogi, Oct 22nd, 2009 @ 5:57am

  
  

  Great

  I liked it.
  
  It's the truth, stated simply, clearly and humorously.

   

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  Mr. LemurBoy (profile), Oct 22nd, 2009 @ 6:09am

  
  

  I came, I saw, I laughed.
  
  Not their strongest sketch ever, but I agree, the punchline was good.

   

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  www.eZee.se (profile), Oct 22nd, 2009 @ 6:14am

  
  

  Not the best comedy ever but... it does showcase the point on mainstream, and like my granda used to say:
  Every drop makes up the ocean
  
  I'll take this something over nothing anyday, and i bet the scumbags at **AA central arn't too happy with this going mainstream, heck, i think they would be downright jittery right about now.

   

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  vivaelamor (profile), Oct 22nd, 2009 @ 6:28am

  
  

  Oblig. IT Crowd reference

  Much funnier: The IT Crowd - Season 2 - Episode 3

   

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  nasch (profile), Oct 22nd, 2009 @ 8:14am

  
  

  Re: Oblig. IT Crowd reference

  You're right, that was funnier.

   

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  Anonymous Coward, Oct 22nd, 2009 @ 12:10pm

  
  

  Mike, how come you don't call this "propagnda"? Is it only propaganda when you don't agree with it?

   

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  BigKeithO, Oct 22nd, 2009 @ 12:35pm

  
  

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  It isn't propaganda because it's true.

   

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  Anonymous Coward, Oct 22nd, 2009 @ 12:40pm

  
  

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  To be fair, the original definition of propaganda pretty much covers all opinions.

   

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  Mike Masnick (profile), Oct 22nd, 2009 @ 4:45pm

  
  

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  Mike, how come you don't call this "propagnda"? Is it only propaganda when you don't agree with it?
  
  Propaganda is misleading or incorrect content put out by a specific party to influence opinion. This is a comedy show that was just put out to be funny.

   

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  Anonymous Coward, Oct 22nd, 2009 @ 6:35pm

  
  

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  So if the RIAA did everything as comedy, you would be fine with it?

   

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  Lawrence D'Oliveiro, Oct 23rd, 2009 @ 3:19am

  
  

  Re: Propaganda

  Mike Masnick wrote:

  Propaganda is misleading or incorrect content put out by a specific party to influence opinion.

  There’s a bit more to it than that. As Goebbels pointed out, with the best propaganda, people don’t even realize it’s propaganda.

  Goebbels was a big fan of Hollywood.

   

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  zcat (profile), Oct 22nd, 2009 @ 1:59pm

  
  

  They could have gone further.
  
  I want a grainy, sepia-tone silent movie interview with John Philip Sousa. These infernal talking machines are going to bring to an end musical development of the entire country!

   

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  Lawrence D'Oliveiro, Oct 22nd, 2009 @ 11:27pm

  
  

  Wayne-and-Schuster-Funny

  Could have been worse. Could have been Seinfeld-funny...

   

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  Jorvay (profile), Oct 23rd, 2009 @ 6:49am

  
  

  In fairness, This Hour has 22 Minutes hasn't been very good since the best original cast member, Rick Mercer, left the show years ago.
  The original foursome on that show were funny and dangeriously smart.

   

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