Talk:Just for Laughs

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Assessment

I have assessed this as Start Class, as it contains more detail and organization than would be expected of a Stub, and as mid importance, as it plays a strong, but not vital, role in Canadian culture. Cheers, CP 20:37, 7 September 2007 (UTC)

Name of Comedian?

If anyone could help me with this, I would be so greatful! I was watching Just for Laughs Quebec (not the gags one...the one with actual stand-up comedians) today (Sept. 14, 2007) on CBC at 9:00pm eastern, and there was this young comedian who was playing a guitar. He had brown hair and was wearing a white shirt that said "person" on it, and was the one making jokes about "B batteries" and the "40,000 piece puzzle" that said "go outside" when completed. I didn't quite catch his name, but he was so funny I want to look into him more! If anyone could give me his name, that would be great! Thanks! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.95.18.108 (talk) 03:27, 15 September 2007 (UTC)

Better a late answer than never, I suppose. You're definitely talking about Demetri Martin. '''atomicRED''' (talk) 00:28, 22 July 2008 (UTC)

Fair use rationale for Image:JFLlogo.gif

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Hidden camera show

Isn't there also a Candid Camera-style hidden camera TV show on CBC and ABC called Just for Laughs? Badagnani 06:51, 7 October 2007 (UTC)

3-and-a-half years late. See Just for Laughs Gags. Simply south...... 22:24, 20 March 2011 (UTC)

Alex Randolph

Does anybody know about the "Just for laughs" Video where this kid named Alex Randolph died in a mailbox, while doing a joke ?... Fake or not, it's very popular in the internet. (for example: Youtube...Just type in "Just for laughs gone wrong") —Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.71.52.5 (talk) 20:46, 20 March 2011 (UTC)

That wasn't real, it was a TV ad. NotDaveth (talk) 03:47, 25 March 2022 (UTC)

The Nasty Show

I was looking for a list of former participants (but did not find one anywhere). However, some citable bits of the history in:

• Brownstein, Bill (10 July 2012). "Bobby Slayton's back hosting the rudely honest Nasty Show". Montreal Gazette. Retrieved 5 August 2012.

Probably not much, but possibly info in:

• Brownstein, Bill (11 July 2012). "Nasty Show delivers the raunch". Montreal Gazette. Retrieved 5 August 2012.

There's very little else that I could find, WP:RS-wise.

Also, it isn't (but should be) mentioned in Blue comedy. [Info for me, for later. Or someone else, if I forget.] -- Quiddity (talk) 05:18, 5 August 2012 (UTC)

Merge Victor (mascot) ?

Whoever added merge tags to this article and Victor (mascot) failed to open a discussion about it, so I'm doing so on their behalf. I support the suggestion - the article on Victor is pretty short and can be incorporated into this article pretty easily. PKT(alk) 13:19, 21 February 2020 (UTC)

• Support Vaselineeeeeeee^★★★ 16:11, 21 February 2020 (UTC)

MOS:LEADLANG

@Apple2gs: You noticed you have been mass removing LEADLANG from articles without any discussion. Just for Laughs is a comedy festival started in, and still features shows in French, located in a francophone city in Canada. While I understand you personally have very strong feelings towards the status of the French language in Quebec, this is the textbook definition of being closely associated with a non-English language. Now, if it was lengthy or impairs readability, it should be removed, but this is clearly not the case. Northern Moonlight 19:07, 9 March 2024 (UTC)

Before I address any editing issues, I do not appreciate your use of slander towards me. You have stated that I: "personally have very strong feeling towards....the French language in Quebec". Which implies I am bigoted or hateful towards French-born or speaking persons, and I even have some agenda at play here based on past edits. To be clear, I am against the intolerant, hateful and xenophobic laws that targets minorities in this province, which in the link you provided, I stated even the United Nations has issue with. More so, those laws are in breach of the Canadian Charter of Rights Freedoms, which Quebec has shown contempt for in overriding it, misusing a loophole called the Notwithstanding Clause. But that has nothing to do with neither here nor there however.

We follow the common name guideline on Wikipedia, and when I see French being added simply for political reasons I remove it (to those unfamiliar, English has literally been outlawed and made illegal in this province of Canada, or if allowed in a very small number of circumstances, must have a French descriptor beside it). For example, in the article Montreal Planetarium, several time you reverted my removing "Planétarium Dow" when we have "Dow Planetarium". Do we need such redundancy as to repeat the literal same name twice, just to add an accented "é"? The common name, in English, is "Dow Planetarium". Not ""Planétarium Dow", nor even its short termed rename of "Montreal Planetarium". Repeatedly pushing it is political. And it is unnecessarily adding clutter to the opening sentence. In fact, MOS:LEADLANG, which you cited above, states just that:

Do not include foreign equivalents in the text of the lead sentence for alternative names [snip], as this clutters the lead sentence and impairs readability. [snip] Foreign-language names should be moved to a footnote or elsewhere in the article if they would otherwise clutter the first sentence.

In this particular case, I removed "French: Juste pour rire" because there is (or was?) a separate French organization and festival using this name in Quebec, not directly related to Just for Laughs. It causes confusion. Additionally, internationally, and even locally in Quebec among English speakers and media (newspapers, magazines, television news), the name "Just for Laughs" is used, it is the common name. I know of absolutely no one outside French-speaking Quebecers who reference the festival as "Juste pour rire". I have no objection here to leaving it, as it is unique compared to its English counterpart. However, you should know if there's a subject matter in Wikipedia with two official names, in two different languages, the common name guideline states we must use the English naming/spelling. That is not a political or personal view, it is how the rules are set up to keep reading clear (too much unnecessary wording can cause clutter or even confusion; something I've even been at fault for in the past, and tried to correct in my contributions here). On a side note, ironically, we're debating about language, and that is likely what has killed the Montreal Just for Laughs festival. No one wants to invest in business here any longer, not with all the uncertainty and restrictive and discriminatory laws in this province. It's unfortunate, because decades ago there was harmony and acceptance between the two languages and people, it's just those in political office have caused contention these past 50 years. And as a result, stirred up certain factions of people, as identity politics typically do. At any rate, I digress. Perhaps you misunderstood my motives. I am fine with disagreements, and do feel free to constructively challenge any of my future edits, but please do not slander or make broad assumptions as you did.--Apple2gs (talk) 11:17, 11 March 2024 (UTC)

First of all, thanks for taking the time to respond.

I referred to your old rev as a reminder that your personal political opinion (especially a controversial one like that) should not influence your editorial decision on Wikipedia, and it’s inappropriate to put it in edit summaries, so imagine my surprise when you replied me with another page of your political opinions.

Now, speaking of MOS: WP:COMMONNAME is a policy only on article titles (which I fully agree with), and does not apply to the lede. We are not renaming this page to Just for Laughs / Juste pour rire. Article titles and the subject in lede can and do differ (e.g. Twitter), and it’s very common to lay down the full name with all the context in lede. As another example, the article King of Saudi Arabia has the lede The King of Saudi Arabia, officially the King of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (Arabic: ملك المملكة العربية السعودية), even though no ordinary English speaker will use its Arabic name.

MOS:LEADLANG requires us to omit foreign equivalents for alternative names and particularly lengthy names. You are already familiar with particularly lengthy names so I’d spare you the explanation. Alternative names mean a nickname, an abbreviation or another common way to call the subject, and does not extend to translations or the term in the original language (otherwise there will be no need for LEADLANG at all!) As an example, you can see my rev here for Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing, which had three LEADLANG ("香港交易及結算所有限公司, also 香港交易所 or 港交所"), the last two being abbreviations. This is an example of too much LEADLANG.

Northern Moonlight 23:51, 11 March 2024 (UTC)