Who is your favourite Canadian?

Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world – 45 points – 11 months ago

I'm a Canadian visiting in America, the question came up and the answers were fascinating and not at all what I expected.

Curious as to whom you folks think of!

Ryan Reynolds, Catherine O'Hara

RIP Phil Hartman, John Candy, Alex Trebeck

So many great Canadians, so hard to choose.

Gosling, too. Jim Carrey repped us really well, more than most of them, though Mike Meyers is up there, also.

Oh man SCTV! Eugene Levy, Martin Short, Rick Moranis, just to add a few. Then there's the Kids In The Hall and The Trailer Park Boys.

Linus Sebastian

What about Anthony?

Thought she was from Sweden, also TIL Anthony Young is now Emily Young

Oh really? Did not know that.

Ha, a friend of mine works for him!

Unfortunate timing

Yeah, but real people are not perfect pr images. They are rough, with good and bad sides.

Based ~~on the hardware that's installed in it~~

We have replaced his daily Tim Horton's with Gamer Fuel, lets see what kind of speed we can get before he overheats!

Norm MacDonald

Keanu Reeves

Holy fucking shit, TIL! And I AM Canadian!

Colin Mochrie.

Bonnie McMurray

That's a Texas sized 10-4.

Allright, let's take 10% off there bud.

Also Roberta Bondar, of course

From here, astronaut Chris Hatfield was top of mind. And Shania Twain a close second.

Anyone besides Jordan Peterson.

Terry Fox.

My wonderful and lovely wife.

This guy's lovely wife

At the exact moment I read this and chuckled, my partner showed me a screenshot of the OG comment. They'd never seen it before!

Oh how that made me laugh! Thank you!

Nathan Fillion

Another one I didn't know was ours! Thank you!

Neil Young

I hope he'll remember

Ahaha

Tough call between Stan Rogers or Alex Trebek.

Trebek

DEAR OLD STAN

Ryan Reynolds and Ryan Gosling.

I was going to go with Ryan Reynolds.

Yep.

Norm Macdonald R.I.P.

Jessica. Because we got it on on a blanket under a warm starry night at summer camp.

You wouldn’t know her, she’s from Vancouver, eh?

Got that maple syrup flavoured pussy.

Heh. I love the standard joke too. In my case I was an adult visiting the equivalent of a “dude ranch” during Stampede in Calgary. Maybe camp was the wrong term, as people probably envision Wet Hot American Summer style camp for kids.

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Stan Rogers

Just getting into his collection. What a gem.

My fiancée

Very wholesome. (And congrats!)

Probably no one you know, but I visited a bakery in port hardy (Vancouver Island), and the gut behind the counter was super sweet and welcoming. While she was serving me she got called from her boss and she excused herself with tears in her eyes „sorry, I have to response immediately, she is gonna yell at me again“.

I still want to hug her. Still want to show her how a professional boss would treat her. Give her a nice job and get her out of this worker’s hellhole.

The breakfast was great, though.

Dave Foley.

I love all the Kids in the Hall members.

Mike from Canmore.

Joni.

There are many great Canadians. But I have to go with Bret Hart. He and his brother have been so influential to the wrestling scene. Without him, we would still only have big charismatic guys slapping each other. They brought something that wasn't seen in the mainstream before. From guys like Kurt Angle to Brian Danielson (also a great Canadian!) to Tag Teams like FTR and many, many more ... they have all been influenced by The Hitman and his technical skills.

Oh interesting, I didn't know those teo changed it so much! So were the classic guys, like Hulk Hogan not very technical wrestlers and more showmen? (I know verrrry little about wrestling.)

HH could wrestle. But he didn't need to in the US. If you watch some of his matches in Japan, it's night and day. He was surprisingly good. Here is a short video from 1983.

And yes, I know it's pretend fighting. But it still needs a lot of skill to perform on the level of Bret Hart. Pretty ironic that his career was ended by a charismatic, meaty big guy who can't wrestle.

Lights!