Name: Canada vs America, with Wayne Gretzky
Uploaded: 2023-11-22T17:29:26.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Canada vs America, with Wayne Gretzky' from Theo Von Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2023-11-22. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Canada vs America, with Wayne Gretzky' from Theo Von Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2023-11-22. Transcript available.

yeah i think we just miss being in the southern part of the u.s we miss all of
the lacrosse
we miss all of the you know the sports really the the the uh whatever it's
called the difference
of sports just changes over you know as you go down south but you know um i was
talking earlier
about how popular hockey is and it's definitely huge in our country but if you
were to go around
anywhere and interview people outside of canada and say what is the national
sport of canada they'd
all say ice hockey or 90 of them but it's lacrosse but it's actually lacrosse
lacrosse was invented in
six nations reserve which is just outside of my hometown of branford so a
couple things we're very
proud of alexander grain bell made his first phone call from branford my
hometown did he really yes who
did he call he called somebody in paris ontario which was like a 15 minutes
away 15 miles away
probably a chick i bet that was who you're gonna call if you get your first
call you're gonna call
probably some woman you or you know some lady you might want to say you know so
they actually have
the telephone i don't in in in branford oh yeah and uh the other thing is we're
very proud of was that
lacrosse was invented in in canada it was a great sport yeah dude i didn't even
know about can i mean
i didn't even when i was growing up we didn't even really believe in canada
listen i i will tell you
this in canada and i don't mean this to be controversial we learned growing up
the geography
of pretty much the world but a lot of canada in the united states where
american kids kind of grow up
they didn't learn a whole lot about canada that there's provinces like a lot of
canadian kids can
name every state and every capital but there's only a handful of people i know
that can name all the
provinces oh probably 70 people in america i'm not even joking i remember in
our school we learned
about america right yeah some kids and you should do that but then above it on
the map they had a
picture of a it was like a wolf chasing a boy you know and that was and we're
like what is that and
they're like that's that you know that's canada one of the one of the first
things i learned
was the capital of louisiana baton rouge oh yeah i always remember that i don't
know why i remember
that but i did it's a pretty good place they had a hockey team for a little
while didn't do well but
you know i grew up in the south there's a lot of like i don't know if there's
still as much but
especially when i was growing up there was like more racial disparity down
there you know because
there's a lot of history of like black and white racism down there and um and
when i was in canada
i don't feel that energy i i don't everybody seems the same it's like i often
say that to people that
we just we don't seem to have racism in our country people all seem to get
along yeah you
know and it's that's why people always come up to me and they say you're from
canada right and i
just say yeah you're like canadians are all so nice and i go yeah i think they
are and i said but
you know i got five american kids five american grandchildren and they're all
nice kids too so
yeah you can meet a lot of nice people in the united states right yeah i think
in the south well
the south is also kind of religious there's more religion there you know and
the only person we've
ever seen even kind of or the only person that people believe like behaves like
or gets wild on
water is the jesus really so i think the second you see a guy saying hey look
what i'm gonna do
out here on this frozen lake i think it makes you wonder what's going on here
well in canada we call
our arenas churches oh yeah yeah because you know canada it's hockey and
religion those are the two
biggest things right so you can be you know sports is very popular in our
country football canadian
football baseball the blue jays do well the raptors have done really well so it's
kind of canada's team
the raptors and the blue jays yeah but hockey is everywhere right so you can be
driving in your car in
july and if you're listening to talk radio it's still 90 hockey that they're
talking about july and august
because you can still do it and it's so popular right oh yeah people love it
people i think it's
unbelievable yeah it's you know like down down in the us i always encourage
parents to tell their kids
play every sport tennis baseball football basketball soccer uh field lacrosse
and they're all so big
and if you sat down here you'd say okay baseball is probably the most popular
sport or no it's
basketball is the biggest sport yeah and then you're like well football's
pretty big but in canada
there's no definition it's one it's one it's ice hockey that's it i always see
when guys get
traded up there more basketball than baseball and guys well i don't want to
play in canada i want to
stay in my own country but the guys who go there will tell you they get treated
phenomenally it's
a great city to live in it's a great country and people are nice okay people's
always so nice in
canada even if somebody was angry they may i bet they would they'd come across
the street and they'd
just say hey i'm angry but but i'm sorry yeah you know there's a lot of stories
up there yeah they're
just too kind i remember i went to florida so i was in florida right i've been
on a cruise ship and
i had to go to edmonton to perform right at the comedy club there oh yeah it
was like one of the
first time i've been in there oh yeah and uh at the mall of america right or
mall of of canada yeah
they built that one before the one in minnesota well that one first of all you
guys has a gun range
in it which isn't crazy you know and we got a we got a lake with waves we got a
hockey rink in there
it's pretty much everything in there yeah yeah there's like four american eagles
in there and then
there actually there was an actual american eagle in there last time we were in
there yeah and it was
hatching it was doing like a um i think it had had a couple of chicklings or
whatever near pay less
shoes yeah i i've never been a hunter you know hunting duck hunting big in your
country yeah it's
big in alberta big in saskatchewan we went hunting one time i went one time in
my life went with three
teammates we were 19 years old we didn't know what we were doing and uh we're
two hours in we were duck
hunting and we couldn't figure out where the ducks were and this guy come over
he said you guys got
a goose call that's how bad our hunting was and we're standing there going oh
no we just thought
there was no ducks yeah you look over just tony syragoose is there you got the
wrong you got the
wrong uh horn or whatever i'm like okay that was my last time i had to go to
this store it was five
dollars to get a permit i never even fired the gun it was the last time i ever
went never shot a got gun
since i'm trying to think of the first concert i ever went to it might have
been like smashing
pumpkins or something well our big ones up there are pink floyd and oh yeah the
hit and tragically hip
tragically hip yeah brian adams oh dude i met brian adams in south africa at a
breakfast buffet
um and uh he's a wonderful guy and of course celine dion oh yeah she was uh burton
cummings was big in
canada burton cummings yeah they were in a band called the guess who it's funny
because my friends
and i'll laugh at me because every time somebody comes on whether it's a singer
or an actor or whatever
i'll go you know he's canadian like there's so many people that you don't know
that are canadian that i
know yeah i go he's canadian you know there's so many greats jim carrey um howie
mandel yeah and
there's a lot of really good canadians canada doesn't revere celebrity it's
different right than
in america oh they do they're listen canadians are very proud of their country
right no oh yeah no doubt
but if yeah there's something they like the story bet like my canadian friends
love stories like yeah
bizzle my tour manager is canadian and he loves like the there's always like
yeah but this guy you
know like they love the uh well right now probably drake's probably our biggest
canadian right now oh
yeah he's probably he's probably the he's the closest thing right now to to taylor
swift i would
imagine drake or santa no drake's pretty big i got to meet drake last weekend
actually yeah at a concert
no it was um i was hanging out with this guy david gruttman he's like uh okay
he's a restaurateur
i was hanging out with this restaurant tour guy i was in miami okay and drake
had had some uh was
having like a little get together in a bar that he'd rented out a small bar and
he knew it so we went by
and he and i had had messaged each other what's that what city were you in uh
miami florida okay
he and i messaged all right he had a concert there last week yeah a bunch of
our friends drove down
for the concert from where from canada no no we live in jupiter oh you do fort
lauderdale area oh
it's pretty over there yeah yeah see i i got to florida once and i just stayed
it's nice i'm telling you
i couldn't get there as a kid but now i live there people are on to it brother
yeah yeah
Thank you.