"Rock et belles oreilles", aka R.B.O., is the French Canadian ("Quebecois") comic equivalent of the British Monty Python, the English Canadian Kids in the Hall or the French Guignol.
They were very popular in the essentially French-speaking Canadian province of Quebec during the 1980s. Its name was borrowed from the famous Hanna Barbera character Huckleberry Hound ("Roquet Belles Oreilles" in French). The group featured sarcastic humor on various social themes, usually from a mildly Leftist/Quebec separatist point of view. The most controversial humor sketches of R.B.O. featured Quebec separatists as Fourth Reich officers oppressing English-language Canadians, and accusations of Israel committing genocide against Palestinians with a "anti-acnea" formula for ethnic cleansing. The group separated in the late 1990s.
Team member Guy A. Lepage became in the early 2000s a media mogul and TV series director, very popular with the Left-wing nomenklatura of the Quebec entertainment scene, with popular series such as the sitcom "Un gars, une fille" ("A guy, a gal") and the liberal talk-show "Tout le monde en parle " ("Everybody speaks about it"), based on a popular French broadcasting show. Most other members were stand-up comics or talk-show hosts in the early 2000s.
