Inuit Mittatin

Inuit Mittatin is Inuktitut for “That’s Funny” and is also the name of my favorite television show. Airing Thursday nights here in Canada on the Aboriginal Peoples Television Network or APTN, Inuit Mittatin’s official description reads "This program sets out to find the funniest, quirkiest Inuit in the communities of Nunavut. What is so distinct about Inuit humour? What role does humour play in Inuit life?".

If I had to write the blurb it would read “This program is a lunatic Inuit woman running all over the barren north making up songs and inviting us along as she sinks deeper and deeper into dementia”.

If you get APTN, watch this show. If you don’t, I’ve done my best to furnish you with some clips. I had to point my digital camera at my TV so it’s not as HD as possible, but the audio is good. These are all 2-6MB WMV.

The theme.
Trip to hotel. In this clip she travels to a hotel and visits the Queen Elizabeth Suite. The creep showing her around claims the queen stayed here, I’m not so sure. I swear the edit from an offer to see where the Queen drank tea to a shot of the toilet was how it aired.
Stand up comedy. Here we see the ultimate joke, it is both a lawyer joke AND a Newfie joke.
Oh Canada. This lesser sung version of Oh Canada is followed by a brief God Bless America and then what I think was a request for a new chair from the Canadian government.
Cracking eggs. Cracking eggs in front of some kind of studio audience.
Dream sequence. It’s not all fun and games on Inuit Mittatin, they finish every episode with a short soap opera called “As Nunavut Turns For The Passionate and Devious”. We see our host turn thespian in dream sequence featuring bingo and closing doors with feet.

Comments

[Cardur]

Yo this is a sweet tivi show

[Rob S.]

Oh man. The dream sequence ended just as it was getting to the good bits.

[Nakoda&Vicki]

LOL this show is so funny! omg we laughed so much! WE LOVE REBECCA VEEVEE!!!! also same with Tiqik..

[silasie veevee]

that's my mother i miss her so much i don't even know when the last time i seen her or talk to her ,i hope she still doing good she so funny sometimes i get embrassed sometime's but well that's my mother with big heart!

[Hannah Sutherland]

Rebecca, I am cree, and living in Cochrane, ont. at present. I love your cooking show and your jolly laughter. You remind me of me as I enjoy chatting and laughing, whether it's at home, work or wherever. Most of all I love you tiny green kitchen. I had the privilege of tasting seal meat back in Moose Factory, ont. A 94 yr. old elderly lady whose name was Hannah from up north offered it. I think if i was offered it now I would have enjoyed it. My sense of taste back then was too young and did'nt appreciate good food. If you get this e-mail you are welcome to e-mail me back. meequetch. HANNAH