Favorite Canadian? (pop culture edition)

[Bossy Monkey]

Eventually this will be a poll, but there are just too fucking many of them. Here's a few, in alphabetical order, far as I can tell:

Dan Aykroyd
Bryan Adams
Pamela Anderson
BTO
The Band except for Levon
Barenaked Ladies
Raymond Burr
John Candy
Jim Carrey
Leonard Cohen
David Cronenberg
Celine Dion (hey, somebody must like her)
James Doohan
Michael J. Fox
the late great John Kenneth Galbraith
William Gibson
Lorne Greene
Wayne Gretzky
The Guess Who
Phil Hartman
Peter Jennings
Diana Krall
k.d. lang
Avril Lavigne
Gordon Lightfoot
Guy Lombardo
Robert MacNeil
Loreena McKennitt
Sarah McLachlan
Mike Myers
Lorne Michaels
Joni Mitchell
Rick Moranis
Alanis Morissette
Steve Nash
Matthew Perry
Oscar Peterson
Keanu Reeves
Rush
Paul Shaffer
William Shatner
Donald Sutherland
Alex Trebek
Neil Young

For more, you can go to http://probability.ca/jeff/canadians.html and get the ones I was too snooty to cut and paste, such as Monty Hall, Howie Mandel or James Cameron.

[RedCloud]

1. here's a vote for Joni Mitchell!

:loveya:

[GCP]

2. Michael J. Fox n/t

[xmas74]

3. Gotta go w/ Shatner.

He's made a living out of unintentional camp.

[Orsino]

27. Uh-huh. Others on the list might be technically better...

...at one thing or another, but Shatner has become something else altogether--an elemental force of hamminess, an ego matched only by its self-deprecating humor.

No one gets hit by a pain ray like Shatner.

[terrya]

4. Out of that list...k.d. lang is my favorite.

Love k.d. :-)

You could also add Eric McCormack to that list. If he was anyone's favorite, that is. He is Canadian.

[KamaAina]

5. What, no Marshall McLuhan?

This is, after all, the pop culture edition...

edit: forgot to type "is". How Clintonesque.

[devilgrrl]

6. Where the hell is Margaret Atwood!

:grr:

[Sanity Claws]

14. I thought her of too!

[devilgrrl]

7. Or Sandra Oh!

[devilgrrl]

8. My favorite Canadiens...

[Flaxbee]

9. from that list, in no particular order,

I'll say the late great John Kenneth Galbraith, k.d. lang, Sarah McLachlan, (k.d. and Sarah have two of the loveliest voices I've ever heard) William Shatner, Neil Young for his current album, Leonard Cohen, Donald Sutherland, Dan Ackroyd and William Shatner.

If Sandra Oh is Canadian, she's cool, too.

[sarge43]

10. You forgot my grandfather (Humph)

Other fave Canadian - David Cronenberg

[Tikki]

11. Gerry "Useless" Hannah......n/t

[Canadian Socialist]

12. Can't have Donald Sutherland

without his son, Keifer!

[Bossy Monkey]

13. I dunno, I thought Donald had gone Hollywood by the time Kiefer was born

so was figuring the latter probably grew up in California. If I'm mistaken, I'll be happy to add Kiefer to the someday-poll.

[Canadian Socialist]

17. Keifer lived with his mum

after Donald and Shirley divorced. I believe in Toronto. His grandfather, Tommy Douglas, was the father of our universal health care plan. He (Tommy) was recently voted the Greatest Canadian (on a CBC show).

[Brigid]

15. You left out Victor Garber.

He plays the totally hot Jack Bristow on "Alias," and he's the only reason I still watch the show.

[uppityperson]

16. Leslie Nielsen needs to be on the list too

Decisions decisions. William Shatner or Keanu Reeves?

[DanCa]

18. Brett Hart followed by Shatner and than Akryod. (nt)

[KitchenWitch]

19. Gordon Lightfoot

Rush
Paul Shaffer
Loreena McKennitt
k.d. lang


Not one of my favorite but missing from your list is Shania Twain.

[LSdemocrat]

20. I'll go with the all too soon departed Phil Hartman

[arwalden]

21. Rich Little

[tuvor]

24. Ewww. He's a Republican. (Or might as well be.)

Thanks a lot for bringing up his country of origin!

[arwalden]

25. I've Always Enjoyed His Act...

... I really looked forward to seeing him perfom on Johnny Carson's Tonight Show.

[Telly Savalas]

22. Julian, Ricky, and Bubbles

The ultimate Canadian pop culture icons!

[ScreamingMeemie]

23. Stevie Yzerman...I tried to hate him for a very long time, but he is

so damned likable. :ih:

[tuvor]

26. What, no Paul Anka?

[nutsnberries]

28. The best is last.

Neil Young :)

[CBHagman]

29. Where's the actress Kate Nelligan?

How quickly they forget! She's had quite a career in theater, film, and television.



And then there's Walter Pidgeon. What would Greer Garson have done without Walter Pidgeon?



And don't forget the guys of the Band (well, except for Levon Helm, of course; he's from this side of the border) and Blue Rodeo. :woohoo:

[fudge stripe cookays]

30. reprehensor!

I know...not very poppy, but he hangs out here, so he more culture than lots of people! :D And he IS my favorite Canadian. By far. :loveya:

[u4ic]

31. Nobody said me

:cry:

[Lautremont]

32. Definitely David Cronenberg.

About two dozen come in a close second, Neil Young included.

[DBoon]

33. Skinny Puppy?

have you no taste for industrial music?

[sakabatou]

34. Colin Mochrie

[enigmatic]

35. Dead/Alive

Dead:

Tommy Douglas:



Alive:

Leonard Cohen, if only for this book:

[AussieDave]

36. Trailer Park Boys - all of them

what an ensemble......


(btw - whoever told Alanis Morrisette she could sing lied - a cat farts with more rhythm)

[CanuckAmok]

37. A-hem.

...

[CanuckAmok]

38. Don't forget "Peter North"

.......

[ghostsofgiants]

39. Rick Mercer, George Stroumboulopoulos, the boys from Alexisonfire...

:thumbsup:

[applegrove]

40. John Candy was a great comedian. Loved his Oscar presentation

during the writer's strike where he got his daughter to write his speech.

[Robeson]

41. Cowboy Junkies.

[Jazz2006]

42. Canadians rock, collectively, so "all of the above" should be

an option ;)