Seems Doug Benson is feeling the backlash already, the asshole was dumped from a spot at The Comic Strip in Edmonton. Too bad, he should have came, there's a base in Edmonton, he could have got a view of what people feel about him, maybe even the punch in the face he deserves. I hope all his Canadian gigs are canceled and he never makes another dollar playing a show on Canadian soil again.
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An American comic slated to play in Edmonton has been dumped after slagging Canadian soldiers on a Fox News talk show.
Doug Benson was set to appear at The Comic Strip in West Edmonton Mall April 2 to 5, according to his Myspace page.
He was one of the guests on Fox News' Red Eye talk show that took aim at the Canadian military for talk of taking a one-year break after leaving Afghanistan.
An employee at the Comic Strip said that the show has been nixed.
She said both Benson and the club decided to cancel.
In the recently-aired segment, Benson said: "I didn't even know they were in the war. I thought that's where you want to go if you don't want to fight."
Four Canadian soldiers killed Friday. The death toll for Canadian soldiers killed in the fighting is now 116.
The show aired after Gen. Andrew Leslie, the Canadian Forces Chief of Land Staff, told a Senate committee the military would need a one-year break from operations after the mission in Afghanistan winds down in 2011.
"The Canadian military wants to take a breather to do some yoga, paint landscapes, run on the beach in gorgeous white capri pants," Gutfeld said with a sneer.
The segment was posted online (YouTube - How to lose friends and alienate countries) under the title, “How to Lose Friends and Alienate Countries.”
By Monday afternoon, more than 7,800 people had posted responses to the clip, which also makes fun of RCMP officers and their traditional red uniforms.
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