Man, I haven’t been so proud of my city since the 20th Francofolies, last August. And then the Francofolies before, in 2007; as well as the 25th anniversary of the International Jazz Festival, in 2004. And of course, let’s not forget our 1993 Stanley Cup win -and the riot that ensued-.

In case you wonder, the Francofolies are a 10-days-long Francophone (kind of) music festival. And the International Jazz Festival is pretty self-explanatory, I think. Basically, Montreal is the world’s capital of huge motherfucking festivals, which is something to be proud of because our festivals ROCK, and if you don’t believe me, come and check it out for yourself next July.

And I’d like to add that I was also pretty damn proud of my city after our last federal election, which happened three weeks ago and got totally upstaged by the American election, even here in Canada. But I’m proud to say that Montreal did not elect one single conservative MP, so up yours Stephen Harper. (And for its credit, neither did Toronto, although I hate to admit it.)

Speaking of conservatives, wanna know what made me, once again, so proud to be a Montrealer?

The fact that two other Montrealers NAILED Palin, my friend!!!

Well, not literally, but they did have phone sex.

Just kidding. Gotcha!

This Saturday, November 1st, les Justiciers Masqués (the Masked Avengers, aka Marc-Antoine Audette et Sébastien Trudel) a pair of DJs/comedians from the Montreal radio station CKOI, made a more than successful prank call to Sarah Palin. Six minutes, and one does wonder if it couldn’t have gone along quite a bit longer, given that the woman thanked the fake Sarkozy for his complimenting the “documentary about her life, “Nailin’ Palin”.

But some things shouldn’t be narrated, they should just be listened to. And I suggest you do just that, right here below.

Enjoy, and I’ll meet you after thejump.

So, how awesome was this, huh? Fucking “Gotcha” alright!!!

I am still laughing, personally. This is a moment I shall cherish until at least, I so freaking hope, tomorrow, when, I so freaking hope, Obama wins.

But since I don’t want to jinx him, I’ll just move on and keep on keeping all my crossable extremities (fingers, toes, and I will eagerly read any suggestions that you may want to leave in the comments box below thank you very much) crossed.

Back to this orgasmic fountain of “lolz” that this call was, I would like, for the sake of our non-French-speaking friends, to add a few explanations and/or translations here and there, so that you can all enjoy the full scope of this comedic masterpiece.

1.04: When “Sarko” is referring to his “special American advisor”, he names Johnny Hallyday; Hallyday is a legendary French rocker.

2.05: They are talking about going hunting together, when “Sarko” suggests: “On pourrait tuer des bébés phoques aussi”.

FYI, fellow Americans (and British, Scottish, Irish, Australian, well, basically, Anglophones), that means: “We could also kill baby seals.”

2.53: “Sarko” refers to Canada’s Prime Minister as Stef Carse. It is embarrassing to even admit that Canada bred Stef Carse, but since this is all for a good cause, know that Stef Carse is the kind of guy who only wishes he could be categorized as “an extremely cheesy wannabe country singer”.

OK, I’ll spill it all. He’s the guy who translated “Achy Breaky Heart” in French, under the title of “Achy Breaky Danse” and inexplicably got a hit out of it. Pathetic, I know.

That said, not quite as pathetic as Palin, who obviously has NO idea who the fuck our PM is. Hello, your closest neighbours had an election like, three weeks ago?!

You’d think that if she can see Russia from her house, she’d invest in a good pair of binoculars and also keep an eye on us pesky Canadians who might all of sudden see an influx of population, should McCain win in a few hours.

Anyway, moving along. If I start to comment on Palin’s über-idiotic and airheady answers, giggles and winks ( I know it’s an audio clip, but I betcha she was winking during the whole phone conversation), I’ll be here until the recount.

3.04: Palin says “pundiNts” instead of “pundits”. Anything to criticize the crazy bitch. Even if it turns out that “pundints” is an actual word. I’m a Francophone, after all, give me a break.

3.12: “Sarko” refers to Québec’s PM as Richard Z Sirois, who is in fact a Montreal comedian and DJ on CKOI, the radio station whose ass Palin would probably happily sue, could she find a way around it.

4.04: “Sarko” is talking about the song his wife wrote for Sarah Palin, called “Du rouge à lèvres sur une cochonne” (lipstick on a -female- pig); he then proceeds to rip off “Joe le taxi”, one the most successful French music exports ever. So successful that the singer married Johnny Depp, the lucky bitch.

As I said, I will take a pass on commenting on Palin’s supreme ditziness and complete absence of reaction to things like “Canada’s PM, Stef Carse”; as someone who could be America’s VP tomorrow, or worse, she really should fucking know shit like that, and the fact that she doesn’t is so beyond words that I’ll stop here. But it felt good just mentioning it.

I hope you enjoyed this as much as I did. Montreal rocks, doesn’t it?

One last thing before I upload this shit and retire though:

Un gros crisse de BRAVO à Marc-Antoine Audette et Sébastien Trudel de CKOI; c’était génial, les gars, merci beaucoup! Vous devriez venir me parler de ça à CIBL un de ces jours.

Alrighty then, I’m outta here. And for the love of Pete, please vote Obama tomorrow.

Please?

Good luck America. And if you have a last minute doubt as you’re about to cast your vote, replay the conversation posted above in your head before you do.

On that, as Alfred Hitchcock used to say, good nite. Mwahahaha!

You can download the audio clip above HERE

Les Justiciers Masques, a Quebec comedy duo notorious for prank calls to celebrities and heads of state, has reached Sarah Palin, convincing the Republican vice-presidential nominee she was speaking with French President Nicolas Sarkozy.

Les Justiciers Masqués, waarover we lang geleden al eens schreven toen ze Canada’s premier Stephen Harper en George Bush in een  Brokeback Mountain parodie lieten optreden, hebben weer toegeslagen.

Mocht je nog niet gehoord hebben hoe een giechelende Sarah Palin zich laat beetnemen door de fake Sarkozy, hier is het nog eens:

Niets zo dankbaar voor Québécois als lachen met Engelstaligen, hun Canadese landgenoten of Amerikanen, het is hun al gelijk.  Een tijd geleden kwamen we onderstaand filmpje tegen dat we jullie niet willen onthouden: een protest tegen terugdringen van cultuursubsidies, waarvan vooral de Franstalige cultuur het slachtoffer zou zijn:

Well, we’re still waiting for the Oslo (Norway)-based Web site African Press International to release the tapes of a phone call that it claimed was made by Michelle Obama, wife of Democratic Presidential nominee Barack Obama.

Instead, on yesterday’s Neptune station, a French-Canadian deejay released a tape that shows how he “punked” Sarah Palin by calling up the GOP vice-presidential nominee and pretending to be French President Nicolas Sarkozy.

Evidently, Palin didn’t think it was strange that Sarkozy was talking to her about having sex with his famous wife, model/singer Carla Bruni.

Shortly after Palin was selected by Republican Presidential nominee John McCain, I speculated that some revealing videos might surface as Neptune moves over her Aquarius stellium of Sun/Mars/Saturn. In that post, I noted that porn videos hadn’t hurt Bruni’s popularity. But instead of video that showcases Palin’s physical attributes, we’ve gotten a sexy radio spoof that exposes her intellectual shortcomings. Merde!

Everyone in the U.S. knows most of our comedians hail from the Great White North. Jim Carrey, Mike Myers, and Dan Akroyd are probably the most famous, but there are others. Here’s an extensive list of Canadian comedians. I think Marc-Antoine Audette may have a great future in the U.S. based on his recent stunt.

Wait a minute. It turns out the reliable Montreal Gazette is reporting that Audette’s partner, Sébastien Trudel, was the one on the phone with Palin. The pair is known as Justiciers Masques (the “Masked Avengers”). You can hear their phone call with Palin here.

All rise for the Canadian national anthem. Let’s hoist a Labatt’s Blue to Audette, Trudel, and the other Canadians who make us laugh. It’s a great country, eh? I bet you can even see Russia from there.

Here’s the report from the AP:

Sarah Palin unwittingly took a prank call Saturday from a Canadian comedian posing as French President Nicolas Sarkozy and telling her she would make a good president someday.

“Maybe in eight years,” replies a laughing Palin.

The Republican vice presidential nominee discusses politics, the perils of hunting with Vice President Dick Cheney, and Sarkozy’s “beautiful wife,” in a recording of the six-minute call released Saturday and set to air Monday on a Quebec radio station.

Palin campaign spokeswoman Tracey Schmitt confirmed she had received the prank call. Click here to read the rest of the article.

Can it get any worse for the “McCalin” campaign (I guess we’ll find out on Nov 4…lol)

Montreal is the host of the internationally known Just for Laughs festival. What a lot of people from around the world don’t know is that Montreal is also host to many insane people with fun senses of humor who pull of the most fun and as well as the funniest of pranks, including Les Justiciers Masqués (loosely translated: the Masked Avengers).

Les Justiciers Masqués are radio show hosts who have pulled many pranks in the past (pranking the likes of Nicolas Sarkozy (oh, the irony), Tiger Woods, Bill Gates and Britney Spears), but this latest one is probably the one that will boost their popularity like nothing else has managed to do before. As of November 2^nd, at 10AM, there are over 2’300 news articles around the world about the prank.

Somehow, they managed to get their hands on Sarah Palin’s phone number – or the phone number of her campaign offices – and pretended to be Nicolas Sarkozy calling her to lend his support before the big day.

Funny moments include the initial caller’s name (Frank l’Ouvrier, which translates into Frank the Worker), the name of Nicolas Sarkozy’s special advisor (Johnny Hallyday, a French pop star and icon), a reference to the Canadian Prime Minister as ‘Steph Carse’, and the title of a song by Cecilia Bruni (Nicolas Sarkozy’s wife) ‘du rouge à lèvre sur une cochonne’ (which translates into lipstick on a pig).

While Sarah Palin claims to have been mildly amused by the prank, the end of the phone call, quite abrupt, leads me to believe otherwise – she seemed anything but amused. It’s probably because of the stress of the elections; so, hopefully she will be able to listen to the entire conversation again after they are over and have a good laugh at what is a great prank.

Two DJ’s from a Montreal radio station prank called Vice President Sarah Palin pretending they were French president Sarkozy. Well she totally fell for it until even after they mentionned “Nailin’ Paylin”!

Here’s the vid, enjoy!

Oh yeah, and vote Obama. That was one more reason to do so.

There are those who describe Sarah Palin as just another cheap, corrupt political punk.

And then there are the Canadian pranksters from Quebec, known as the Justiciers Masques (Masked Avengers), who had Palin thinking they were French President Nicholas Sarkozy during an “interview.”  The interview aired on the radio.

For the blow-by-blow, I refer you to mudflats:

http://mudflats.wordpress.com/2008/11/01/palin-gets-pranked-by-canadian-radio-station/

guffaw, guffaw, guffaw.

Wonder what’s on John McCain’s mind about this?  Obama, true to his self, probably will laugh in private but not say a thing in public.  Obama needs to at least shake his head disapprovingly in public.  This is too damn good to pass up.

Here’s six minutes of the pranksters playing with Sarah Palin, pretending to be the French President Sarkozy!  Excellent!  So funny.

A Quebec comedy duo notorious for prank calls to celebrities and heads of state has reached Sarah Palin, convincing the Republican vice-presidential nominee she was speaking with French President Nicolas Sarkozy.

“On pourrait tuer des bébés phoques aussi!” – Nicholas Sarkozy

Denise Bombardier et André Boisclair

André Boisclair a participé a un sketch des Justiciers masqués. Denise Bombardier, sur les ondes de TVA, demande la démission d’André Boisclair.

Mettons que ce sketch n’était pas la trouvaille de l’année pour un politicien. André Boisclair aurait dû s’abstenir. Je pense qu’il a bien compris. Mais de demander sa tête pour cela, je crois que Denise Bombardier y va fort un peu. Pas mal beaucoup même. Que dire de la tête de personnes qui ont réellement volé les citoyens comme Sylvain Toutant de la SAQ? D’un ministre des finances fédéral qui change rétroactivement des lois fiscales pour avantager sa compagnie de bateaux Canadian Steamship Lines? D’un ministre fédéral qui avait une piquerie dans sa cave pour éviter que son garçon n’aille se geler avec les personnes toxicomanes du Centre-Ville? D’un député fédéral qui battait des prostituées lors de ses visites à Québec? Des ministres, députés et premier ministre qui ont été pris en délit pour alcool au volant…? Il faudrait exiger leurs têtes et tous les décapiter. Il ne resterait plus grand monde. J’oubliais. Il resterait vous Madame Bombardier. Nous en serions rendu à vous demander Mme Bombardier de vous présenter en politique.