The creators of Quebec-based humorous video website Têtes à claques are being criticized over a comedy skit some organizations are calling racist.

The video The Cannibal, featuring bobblehead puppets and computer animation, shows two white people in a pot of boiling water while a black "cannibal" prepares to eat them.

Québec pluriel, a group that promotes diversity, says the clip is derogatory toward black people.

The group has called on the creators of the site to take it down and said it will take the issue to the Quebec Human Rights Tribunal.

The black character has a huge bottom lip and a slow, childish way of speaking.

The white woman refers to him as Kunta Kinte, the same name given a black slave whose life was chronicled in Alex Haley's Roots: The Saga of an American Family.

The video is insulting, degrading and irresponsible, said Québec pluriel.

But Michel Beaudet, one of the creators of the site, said the skit is popular and he doesn't plan to remove it.

The people who are criticizing it don't have a sense of humour, he told CBC Radio.

In 2000, Toronto Mayor Mel Lastman had to apologize over remarks he made about being put in a pot and boiled when he was scheduled to travel to Africa to promote Toronto's bid for the Olympic Games.