I don't think that you have to be Canadian to get the humor.

I first saw the show years ago on a trip to Montreal when both of my kids were...well...kids...they're basically all growed up now. My wife wasn't with us while we watched the show but when she returned from her business engagement we were all, "...you won't believe the cool show that we saw on TV...why don't they run this show back in America? It is so funny."

Thanks to PBS (because no USA TV network in its right mind would ever run anything like The Red Green Show...they're too busy coming up with stuff like America's Funniest Home Videos) we finally got to see Red Green.

The real life joke for me is that the during exterior shots of RG you always hear a chain saw running somewhere in the background; I live in the frickin' CITY and whenever I go out in my back yard I always hear some loony with a chain saw going at it....life imitates art!

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