Mais dis has bin some fun, yeah.
Ya'll sleep tight, chere!
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Mais dis has bin some fun, yeah.
Ya'll sleep tight, chere!
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Mais say hello to dem Tuscaloosa girls for me!Quote:
Originally Posted by Zeebart21
I see you live in Lafayette. To be honest I would have season tickets to football and basketball but that is it. I'm not a big baseball person but I look forward to watching the game on TV. I'm a true bandwagon fan when it comes to baseball and softball. If you don't have a degree to the university then you have no true ties to it. I have a tree at McNeese (dedicated to my family) and attended school there until I transfered to UL. I have no true ties to McNeese. I left the place on my own accord like I did the Delphi board. Zeebart mention meds in my bathroom implying I'm on medication I need to take. I simply wanted it pointed out that he did not graduate from UL. Which is more a personal attack?Quote:
Originally Posted by Choppie29
Kick boxing picture. How amusing.... you into the WWF also? What an idiot.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rebel02
That is the biggest load that I have ever heard.Quote:
Originally Posted by RCAJUN90
90, I think your logic is a bit flawed. You spoke about ignorance in some of your previous post in this thread. This my friend, is the definition of ignorance.Quote:
Originally Posted by RCAJUN90
Oh really. Most people that have a degree live with that degree their entire lives. When I go on a job interview UL is listed there because that is where I dedicated myself to earn a degree. You ever hear of the term Alma mater. I was wrong about talking to Poo Poo Broussard he is insulting and if he cared about the Cajun culture he wouldn't do this stuff. I'm speaking to Barry Ancelet as I type. The guy that is the single biggest promoter of Cajun culture for the last 30 years is insulted. Poo Poo rethink what you are doing. Zeebart keep your crude jokes to yourself.Quote:
Originally Posted by RaginCajun77
You don't have roots planted in the university. You can move and never look back. You move your loyalties and never look back. Think about it. UL will always be on my resume.Quote:
Originally Posted by Choppie29
dude you are a liar! plain and simple. liar! i asked you several times to give me barry's e-mail. you wouldn't do it. when i had you on the phone, you apologized to me because you said you only said those things about me because you wanted to make a point to Z and the guys who kicked you off the other board. i repeatedly said that has nothing to do with you calling me ignorant. YOU CRAWFISHED!!!! I asked you on the phone about barry again and you kept changing the subject! YOU WOULD NOT ANSWER MY QUESTIONS!!!! man, what a multi-tasker you are, typing a response while talking to barry! again, give me his e-mail! i want to know if you mis-represented him with your false statements. i find it odd that he would say i'm setting the cajun culture back 30 years when he hosts cajun comedy shows that do the same thing i'm doing! wouldn't that be hypocritical? or are you lying again? dude, don't you realize you told me on the phone that you realized i wasn't degrading cajuns by doing this. then just wrote it again to your moron friend, that you realized that i loved my cajun culture. that i wasn't being hurtful. then you just write in the previous post to rethink what i'm doing. DUDE, READ IT, ITS RIGHT ABOVE MINE!!!! ARE YOU SCHITZOPHRENIC?????? MAYBE Z WAS RIGHT ABOUT THE MEDS, JEEEEEEZ! SERIOUSLY MAN, GO READ ALL YOUR POSTS......COO-COO, COO-COO!!!Quote:
Originally Posted by RCAJUN90
UUHHHMMMMM, RCAJUN90, READ YOU'RE POST RIGHT ABOVE THIS.......KICKBOXING PICTURE.........WWF.Quote:
Originally Posted by RCAJUN90
KICKBOXING=KICKBOXING
WWF=WRESTLING
KICKBOXING, WRESTLING. KICKBOXING, WRESTLING. SEE HOW THEY AREN'T THE SAME? YEAH, JUST POINTING THAT OUT. GLAD YOU DON'T BREAK OUT ANY INSULTS LIKE Z DOES.....PFFFFFT, HYPOCRITE!
Keep posting your dumb videos. To this sight so I can laugh my ass off at you stupid Cajuns. I love your video of you picking your nose. Follow it up with having farting contest. As far as Barry he is a friend of my best friend and he was ____ed when he saw your videos. Since you ______ nose picking Cajuns are so proud of this crap I'm going to post links to all of our opponents for the rest of the baseball season into the football season. Poo Poo you can call me one thing I liar I'm not. That is why Zeebart and the rest of that cult board know I don't own season tickets... etc... It would be easy for me to have lied. Go ahead you inbreed slack jawed Cajun and post more of stupid videos so the whole world can laugh at the Cajuns. The point you will never get is that we are laughing at you not with you.:hot:Quote:
Originally Posted by jamesthejeweler
You are really a little two faced jerk. You were very different on the phone. Good luck but what I see is ignorance and stupidity. That is not going to get you very far.Quote:
Originally Posted by jamesthejeweler
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How a 30-second video clip about chapped lips propelled a local man to Internet stardom and taught the world to love Poo-Poo.
You can’t help but stare at his giant, yellow buckteeth. There’s some black hair on his upper lip, but it’s the teeth that are mesmerizing. Then the camera pans out, and you see the man’s entire face. He has small hazel eyes and a black goatee. His long curly hair falls out from beneath a crumpled blue cap.
He furrows his brow and speaks in a thick Cajun accent. “Man, I don’t know what it is this time of year when it gets cool like dat, if my lip is too short or my teeth is too long. But man, my lips get chapped this time of year! POOO! They chap, chap! I need some Carmex. Some Blistex or sumtin’. Some Vaseline.”
Meet Poo-Poo Broussard. If you own a computer and live in southwest Louisiana, you’ve probably met him a few times already, maybe receiving five e-mails with Poo-Poo’s video clips from five different people within a week. And each time, you probably watched the clips, even the ones you’ve already seen.
His teeth are astounding; his wisdom is confounding. “If you want to see something spectacular, watch me eat a grape popsicle,” he proclaims. His simplistic worldview has inspired local men, women, and even children to proclaim that their lips are chapped — even when they’re not — and to randomly proclaim POOO!, without reason or provocation.
Everybody has gone cuckoo for Poo-Poo.
<center><p><a href="http://www.theind.com/cover2.asp?CID=445292521" target="_blank">The rest of the story</a>
By R. Reese Fuller
The Ind
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Twenty-two-year-old Chris Deville studies marketing and film at University of Louisiana. The Carencro native also does film work for Chi Alpha Campus Ministries and his church, Crossroads Church of Lafayette. That’s also where he met James Carrier a decade ago.
Carrier is your average 34-year-old husband and father of two, an independent jeweler, born and raised in Lafayette and a graduate of Lafayette High School. His voice doesn’t even sound much like Poo-Poo’s. But when he puts on the pants with the patches, the shirt and clip-on tie, the cap with the wig, the teeth, the black penny loafers with no pennies and white athletic socks, there’s no question that he’s Poo-Poo Broussard.
Carrier laughed out loud the first time he put in his fake teeth and saw himself in the mirror. The name instantly came to him. “You can’t forget the name Poo-Poo Broussard,” he says. “People can relate to it. They’ve heard nicknames stranger than that.”
With brothers Brody and Devin Lantier, Carrier was part of a comedy troupe called the Cypress Knees — three Cajun cut-ups that performed for church functions and other social events. In December, the trio asked Deville to help them film a few skits to present at a Christmas party. The idea was to satirize the Academy Awards, as if Cajuns were running the show, with the Cypress Knees handling the emceeing of the event, as well as starring in clips parodying E.T., Jerry Maguire, Grease, and Titanic. On a cold December day, with a Canon XL1 MiniDV camcorder, the four filmed at Devin’s home in Carencro. There was no script, just a mutual understanding of each scenario, allowing each character to improvise.
At one point between takes, with Carrier dressed as Poo-Poo Broussard, Deville started filming him. “When they were putting their costumes on,” Deville says, “James put these big, honking teeth in. It was really cold when we shot it, and he said this whole thing about, ‘My lips are chapped,’ and I heard it and I think I fell out of my chair laughing so hard. I was like, ‘Dude, do it on camera.’ We did it a couple of times. I just wanted a 15-second clip to get people to my film page [on MySpace].”
“My lips really were chapped,” Carrier says. “So I went on this thing about having chapped lips.”
Deville didn’t post the clip on his MySpace page until late March. He had no idea that Poo-Poo’s face would launch a thousand clicks.
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Chris Logan, co-host of the Hot Morning Playhouse on Hot 107.9 FM, first saw Poo-Poo Broussard and his chapped lips when the video surfaced on Planet Radio 96.5’s MySpace page. “His jokes are relatable to people here in Cajun Country,” Logan says. “It was just funny to us. It was his big teeth and his chapped lips, and he said it in such a pure Cajun way. If you were looking at an old guy, a Cajun dude, that’s how he would have said it. He’s got all of that really down pat.” Logan hipped his co-host Brandon “Digital” Journet to the clip, who did some digging online, found out that Carrier was the man behind Poo-Poo, and contacted him. Since April, Poo-Poo Broussard has been calling in at least once a week to their morning radio show, updating listeners on his ongoing feud with his neighbor in the Basin, Alton Castille, and his misadventures “in town.”
Every weekday morning, the station’s phones ring off the hook for Poo-Poo. Listeners call to find out if he’s already been on the air for the day or to find out when he’s going to be on. “He’s hilarious,” Journet says. “He’s an all-around funny guy. A good hearted Cajun man. People really enjoy him because they can relate to his exaggerated Cajun ways. It just reaches out to everybody, and everybody’s Cajun in one way, shape or form.” The station is revamping its entire Web site and plans to post Poo-Poo’s calls to the station online for listeners.
Poo-Poo’s charisma reaches far beyond the reach of local radio airwaves. In the span of a week beginning Friday, June 8, Poo-Poo jumped from the 31st most viewed YouTube page for comedians to the No. 20 slot. Since posting the first Poo-Poo clip three months ago, the videos have been viewed more than 100,000 times.
Viewers’ responses to his clips don’t indicate any slack in Poo-Poo mania any time soon. One viewer comments: “Poo-Poo you are hilarious! I have [been] telling all my family and friends about you. You have potential to be on the big screen. Make more videos, you crack me up!” Another wrote: “Poo-Poo we dun watched dem all, your videos, we dun memorized all de lines, we ben sayin dem in our sleep, you be dancin in our heds like suga plum farys. whens you gonna make some more dat????”
Poo-Poo’s timing and dialect have struck a chord. While countless other efforts have disastrously tried to capture the Cajun language (think Adam Sandler’s The Waterboy), none have matched Poo-Poo’s dead-on timing, perfect-pitch dialect, and peculiar logic.
“A lot of people tell me, ‘Man, I have an uncle or somebody who talks just like that,’” Carrier says. “I doubt that anyone has any relatives that look that way, I hope not, but they can relate to some of the stories and the coonass wisdom that people use. But what’s funny is the people from out of state, that aren’t from here, still relate to it. I’m not sure how that works. I’m surprised that some of the people understand the Cajun accent. Maybe the humor transcends all that. It works. I can’t explain it, but it works.”
It’s worked so well that Carrier and Deville keep bumping into the crowd-pleaser they’ve created.
“I’ll be at school, sitting in an auditorium class and you hear two or three people quote it,” Deville says. “I keep telling them that I shot that, but they don’t believe me. So I send them to the page, and then they see my picture. Sometimes you have no idea who a person is, and they come up to you and say they saw your clip. We never expected for it to just snowball like it did.”
Requests for more clips of Poo-Poo led Deville and Carrier to post scenes from their Titanic and E.T. spoofs. Then a third round of clips followed, known as PooPooisms, where Poo-Poo pontificates while relaxing in front of a shed.
Despite all of Poo-Poo’s newfound success, Carrier has only been recognized out of costume a few times, including at a UL baseball game, where one guy asked him, “You aren’t the chapped lips guy, are you?” Last week, he was at Chick-fil-A in the mall when the young girl behind the counter recognized him as Poo-Poo Broussard.
Sometimes even when he tells people that he’s Poo-Poo, they don’t believe him. “It’s funny to be in public sometimes, and you hear people talking about it,” Carrier says. “I kind of get a kick out of that.” A teenage neighbor remarked that he had heard Poo-Poo on the radio and when Carrier said that it was him, the kid wasn’t buying it. In Church Point one afternoon, when he was dressed in the full Poo-Poo attire, one man implied he was a Poo-Poo impostor.
And although Poo-Poo’s star is shining brightly on the Internet, Carrier is intentionally trying to limit the character’s public exposure. He’s been asked to do commercials for 10 different companies (including a phone directory) but hasn’t taken up any offers yet. “This happened so fast I’m just trying to find out from people what you get paid for this,” he says. “I have no clue. I’m just winging this.”
Carrier’s playing it all by ear and trying to juggle his newfound notoriety. “This is kind of taking over my life, taking on a life of its own,” he says. “I’m kind of glad that only my close friends know that it’s me. I just like that the character is larger than life. Nobody’s seen him in person too much; it’s just on film. But yeah, it is overwhelming sometimes, but it’s fun. This is why I did it. I love making people laugh. If I say something and make people laugh, that does it for me.”
A month ago, he did make a rare appearance at a local office. A man called him to make a surprise appearance for his co-workers, who were constantly making cracks about Poo-Poo and chapped lips. “When I walked in there, it was so surreal,” Carrier says. “These guys were generally starstruck by Poo-Poo Broussard. I really felt weird. It was like I was Tom Cruise walking in there. They all wanted to take pictures.” After taking a picture, one employee pointed to a framed picture in a chair and said he had taken it off the wall to replace it with his picture with Poo-Poo. “It was a picture of him shaking hands with George Bush. He said, ‘Forget George Bush. I got a picture with Poo-Poo Broussard.’ These were oilfield-type guys. These were men’s men, so that made it even more weird.”
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The Poo-Poo appeal stretches far beyond Acadiana. Writers from Krotz Springs, New Orleans and Las Vegas have contacted Carrier and Deville offering to write material for Poo-Poo. When the duo went to try to purchase the domain name for poopoobroussard.com, they found that a California entity had already beaten them to it, and had to settle for poopoobroussard.net. “That’s when I kind of sat back and thought, wow,” Carrier says. “If somebody around here would have done it, I could have understood it. But it was someone in California. I just sat back and laughed. This thing really is nationwide.”
Carrier laughs out loud. “Poo-Poo is an international player!”
Capitalizing on his new status, Poo-Poo’s peddling his own line of T-shirts from his Web site, with sayings like “Poo-Poo is ma Homeboy.” And that’s just the beginning. “We’re going to make it into a business,” Carrier says. “We’re going to ride Poo-Poo as long as we can.” There are plans to market Poo-Poo on cozies, cell phone ring tones, a calendar, and even Mardi Gras beads. “I get people asking, ‘How can I get some Poo-Poo pants?’” Carrier says. “I’m thinking, man, I just got my sister to sew some handkerchiefs on it.”
And of course there are plans for a DVD, but details aren’t finalized. The duo are looking for funding to produce a short film for a DVD that could incorporate all of the clips that have been posted to the Internet, as well as a short film about Poo-Poo and his exploits. They also want to send spoof commercials to the ChapStick, Carmex, Vaseline and Blistex companies. And while they’re at it, they want to produce sketches to submit to Saturday Night Live, The Late Show with David Letterman and The Tonight Show with Jay Leno.
Carrier can clearly envision Poo-Poo Broussard on a national — even an international — scale. He wonders aloud what kind of legacy Poo-Poo will leave behind: “Can Poo-Poo change the world? He does have a lot of wisdom, that wise old sage. Maybe he can.”
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Worldwide Poo-Poo
In his quest to become an international player and leave the Basin behind him, Poo-Poo Broussard has set traps all over the Internet. Here’s where you can find a few:
To see all things Poo-Poo-related, visit www.poopoobroussard.net
To see Poo-Poo in action, visit www.youtube.com/poopoobroussard
To become Poo-Poo’s friend, visit www.myspace.com/poopoobroussard
To see The Independent Weekly’s tribute to Poo-Poo, visit www.theind.com/extra/poopoo
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Again this is some stupid Poo Poo and has no place on this board.:hot:Quote:
Originally Posted by NewsCopy
Newscopy posted it, so yea, it has a place on this board. The only thing that doesn't have a place on this board is you.Quote:
Originally Posted by RCAJUN90
Do you really want people from around the country to see this as "Cajun". I wished the young man well on his career although I believe he is not serving Cajuns well. As long as there are people stupid enough like yourself to laugh at someone putting his face in poo poo I guess there will be an audience.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rebel02
What a great article! Looks like Deville and Carrier better get an agent! Man, that is funny stuff!Quote:
Originally Posted by Rebel02
Z.
Its a lot more 'cajun' than the rest of the stuff that people see on movies and such. it may seem degrading to some people, but then again, if we have a short film about all of the successful cajuns that are smart and a little refined, then nobody would watch. people watch this because its funny. plus, i don't think that it would get TOO big just because i don't think a lot of people would get it. like he said in the article, 'i'm not sure if those people understand it, maybe the comedy transcends the concept'.Quote:
Originally Posted by RCAJUN90
I find it exceptionally funny, as do many others. I have shown this to numerous friends of mine, many of which are also Cajun. They all love it, and no one takes it any further than a good gut-busting laugh.Quote:
Originally Posted by RCAJUN90
I think you are missing an important point. Laughter is a path to people's souls. James has the opportunity to reach a lot of people thru humor. It is actually serving Cajuns very well. As he makes contact with people thru his humor, they endear themselves to him. His character outside of the comedy will bring the respect that completes the circle.
He has the potential to make it funny. The "Titanic Clip" was funny. Putting your face in a mess of poo poo and saying even flies like poo poo is not funny. If done right he could become the "Cajun" Jeff Foxworthy. He made Redneck funny and cool.Quote:
Originally Posted by rhineaux
Now your starting to get it... but, you must release yourself from the daily grind of being a grown man and parent, and allow your inner-juvenile to experience the dog pile skit as you would have at 8 years old. Then, the light comes on and you wet your pants "cryin you as off".Quote:
Originally Posted by RCAJUN90
Good comparision to Jeff Foxworthy, or Larry the Cable Guy. Both of these guys are smart, good people, but do redneck comedy.
He has the potential to make it funny. The "Titanic Clip" was funny. Putting your face in a mess of poo poo and saying even flies like poo poo is not funny. If done right he could become the "Cajun" Jeff Foxworthy. He made Redneck funny and cool.Quote:
Originally Posted by rhineaux
You are probably the relative that wants everyone to pull their finger. I just don't see the humor. Wouldn't this and James be better served on that private board.
Larry the Cable Guy started nearly the same way with radio spots in Orlando about 15 years ago. POOOOO!Quote:
Originally Posted by Just1More
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Originally Posted by RCAJUN90
dude its funny get a grip
To start his career, he actually called into a radio show and was talking like a redneck. The prior caller had given his profession. When the radio host asked, what do you call yourself, he came up with a name real fast "Larry the Cable Guy". Larry is his brother or brother in law. That is what came to mind. That is not his real name. The rest is history.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dad04
I hope dat James haza bag pact an some spare teet to brang wit em to Jay Lendo and dat Latterman guy.