Name: French Canadian's have an Inferiority Complex - The Adam Friedland Show
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'French Canadian's have an Inferiority Complex - The Adam Friedland Show' from TAFS Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2024-02-17. Transcript available.

So, Robby, you're from Canada, right?
Yeah, I grew up in Montreal.
Do you have an O-1?
No, I'm a dual citizen.
I'm born in New York.
My mother is from Montreal, and so I was born a dual citizen.
Montreal.
Yeah, Montreal.
I was hating the way they said it there.
How do you say it?
Well, they have to make it, like, stinkier just because of French.
Stinky French.
Why?
How do they say it?
They say Montreal.
Montreal.
I asked a French friend of mine from Paris what it sounds like to him, and he
said it sounds
like shit, the way you guys speak French.
What do you want from me?
He said it sounds like a...
My mother was divorced.
She was beaten to a pulp for 13 years.
I'm not saying...
I grew up without a father.
We went there.
I'm not saying it has nothing to do with your...
Okay.
I share with my sisters.
We had some cat for the mice.
I don't know what to tell you.
What I'm saying is the accent to them sounds like it's from the 1800s.
Well, it was very bad.
We didn't have French, and we were forced to learn French last minute.
You can't pick up a language.
How's your French?
It's good now, but it was really hard when you're suddenly going to French
immersion
school.
You're learning math in French.
Did you have to learn other things like menage a trois and stuff and having an
affair and...
We did do that in sex ed.
Smoking cigs.
Yeah.
I smoked a cig in high school.
Yeah.
You learned like more of a French culture.
Yeah.
But it was, you know, French...
Montreal French culture is just disgusting.
It's like redneck speaking French.
It's kind of nice.
There's a real big rift.
Don't they like not have a word for like car?
Auto?
Yeah, because it's like...
Well, that's English.
No.
They say auto.
It's a cognate.
An auto?
What's the word then?
They have word for car.
I pulled my stitches again.
No.
Oh, you pulled it?
Yeah.
It was like fucked up.
He's playing hurt right now.
No.
Do we have ice?
What should we be doing for this?
I'm fine.
But aren't they like missing words?
Because like the French was imported like 200 years ago.
So they didn't...
The French is so dirty there.
It's very like...
I'm biased because when you grow up an Anglophone there, and it's such...
They're so mad at you that you're not learning French fast enough.
Like, A, you learn French, but my accent isn't good.
Like, it's a second language.
You know, it's not...
It's actually a third language for me.
So it's like, I'm doing the best, and it's not good enough for them.
It's like, you know, I remember then I finally knew French.
I'm working now in Montreal, one of my first jobs.
And we go out after work, I sank a set, five to seven.
You're an accountant?
Yeah.
And we go out, and the waiter comes.
And I'm speaking French with all my colleagues, whatever.
The waiter comes, I order in English.
They say, why'd you order in English?
You know how much it's a surprise.
I say, I prefer to speak English.
And I told it to my friend, and it's like, they're insulted.
It's like, I actually don't love speaking French.
I prefer to speak English.
It's not...
They take it so personally.
It's like, it's nothing to just take it personally.
I also don't like playing soccer.
It's not...
Should I lie to you and say, oh, I love...
And they all speak English, too.
They speak English, but they make it a point...
It's the same in Paris, too.
They're rude about it.
Yeah, it's like rude about it.
It's like, bitch, I learned this shit.
It's not going to be perfect.
You don't speak fuck all.
Your English accent sounds like trash.
Yeah.
I asked a French friend of mine recently to do like...
You know how we do like a stereotypical Chinese accent in English?
I'm like, what does that sound like, the French version?
To do a real stereotypical...
And I asked Chinese, and he did it, and I'm like, that just sounds like French
to me.
And I was like, can you do like an African accent?
And to me, to my ear, I was like, that just sounds like French.
And then he did Belgian, and it was like...
And it was like so insulting.
And I could tell, I was like, oh, they look down on these people and think that
they're the absolute biggest losers in the entire world.
Montreal has such a...
The French there, just in Quebec, they have such an inferiority complex.
Like, they think, like, they...
You know, I grew up, like, hating Toronto.
Like, you were supposed to hate Toronto.
I moved to Toronto, they embraced me with open arms.
Yeah, but those people are fruits.
Okay, no, they embraced me.
It was great.
I loved it.
But it's like, Toronto's not talking about Montreal that way.
Toronto's like, Montreal's a fun place.
Like, we go, we go for a weekend, we drink, whatever.
It's like in Montreal, ah, they hate the rest of Canada.
It's like, they're insecure about something.
That said, it is a better hometown to have than most.