Embarrassed American

[sbfluter]

Have you seen this video where an Australian guy sets out to show how stupid Americans are? It's very embarrassing even as it is funny. I didn't know North Korea was so big either.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2U_KRpz5NY

[Walden]

Ah the old "man on the street" gag. One of the funniest shticks out there. They even have made game shows based on it.

[Anstapa]

Rick Mercer, a comedian in Canada has done two shows like the Austrailian above for the CBC but don't take to hard, I think if the gag was reversed in Canada and Australia it would also be embrassing.

Anstapa

[Wanderer]

Rick Mercer, a comedian in Canada has done two shows like the Austrailian above for the CBC but don't take to hard, I think if the gag was reversed in Canada and Australia it would also be embrassing.

Anstapa

Yup..if you interview people on the street all day, you're bound to run into plenty of nutters for the film, no matter where you are.

[djm]

I think there is something about catching ordinary people off guard in a potentially embarrassing position in public that causes their brains to freeze up just a tad. What amazed me about Mercer's stuff was that he was in no way subtle about what he was doing. His questions were so outlandish that I suspect it just added to the stupefying effect, e.g. asking Harvard professors to sign a petition to the Prime Minister of Canada to end the practise of getting rid of old women by setting them adrift on ice floes, or going to S. Dakota and telling the tourists that a Canadian company had just bought the mining rights to Mt. Rushmore and what did they think of that? Screamingly funny at the time, but I suspect kind of hurtful once people had had a chance to reflect on what fools they had made of themselves on TV.

djm

[anniemcu]

Isn't that sort of the premise of the recent movie "Borat" as well? I've not seen it, but the ads for it make me think so.

[s1m0n]

Canadian Comedian Rick Mercer has been doing this since the 90s.

Talking to Americans