Not true. That's where the funny story is. Rick Mercer on the bittersweet memories of filing his Final Report. Mercer has hosted a ton of things, and got behind a mic and made people laugh, but it’s usually scripted.
The funnyman, who wasn’t amused to have his face and words turned into a fake political endorsement, appealed to Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer to put a stop to it. I find it hard when people seem to relish those kind of things instead of bemoaning the fact that that’s on the horizon.”. The federal election that is on the horizon, some people seem to relish in speculating that this could be the nastiest election in Canadian history. Take 20 minutes out of your day and do what young people all around the world are dying to do. All fake. It ended quite badly, and those are the stories that are fun to tell. That wasn’t actually very hard. “I don’t know if this is just me because I stepped outside the bubble, but I feel like the vitriol that is getting thrown around now is so intense that I honestly don’t miss bathing in that. But it's difficult when things are tough and when you're stuck on a tarmac for seven hours, that can be tough.

And I tell stories about different things that happen on the road, which is also the theme of the book. Comments on this story are moderated according to our Submission Guidelines. Vote.”, In the now-deleted meme posted by the association, the final part of the quote was changed from “Vote” to “Vote Conservative.”, When asked on Twitter if he was really endorsing the Tory party in the Oct. 21 federal election, Mercer said the quote wasn’t real and “just a straight-up fake by the candidate, I guess.”.

During the recent Alberta election, Mercer’s funny but angry rant about now-Premier Jason Kenney’s take on gay-straight alliances in Alberta schools from 2017 again made the social media rounds. The comedian and political commentator famously ranted for 25 years, first on This Hour Has 22 Minutes and later on The Rick Mercer Report. Sometimes I see the setup and I have the punchline but there’s nowhere to deliver that punchline.”. There was never a rant where I manufactured outrage, it was always an honest reaction to what was happening at that time in Canada.

I sometimes switch it up depending on where I am because certain stories resonate with certain communities because they might be stories about their communities for example. Please note that CBC does not endorse the opinions expressed in comments. Not surprisingly, Rick Mercer still gets the itch to rant every now and then.

This interview originally aired on Nov. 5, 2018. Your election was extremely vitriolic and the Ontario election was extremely vitriolic. He collected his rants and wrote essays for a new book, Rick Mercer’s Final Report, and began criss-crossing the country with his tour, Canada: From Coast to Coast to Coast, which hits Calgary on Sunday at MacEwan Hall as a fundraiser for the Jewish Family Service Calgary.
"But I quickly realized that was a ridiculous notion, because there's always something to rant about. That’s been a bit of a pet project of mine for the last 15 years so I talk about that. “For a lot of Canadians, they had it up to their eyes with the SNC-Lavalin affair but they didn’t really know what the hell it was all about. On the other hand, the native Newfoundlander admits there are other times when he is more than happy to be out of the fray. Because there is just so much information coming at you from all sorts of sources. On Monday, the Burnaby North-Seymour Conservative Association, who is backing candidate Heather Leung, posted a photo of the comedian on Facebook with a quote taken from a “ Rick’s Rant ” segment that aired on his CBC show the Mercer Report in 2011. The comedian talks about the end of his CBC show and why he wrote a book about it. Postmedia News has reached out to the Burnaby North-Seymour Conservative Association and Leung for comment. Initially, some producers urged him to stick to the big cities as a way to punch up his viewership. “I certainly learned that it’s really easy to focus on the differences as you travel, because there is so many,” he says. When I had the show, I was fully immersed. It’s not a very pleasant world right now. Conservative Party spokesman Simon Jefferies told Postmedia that the meme was shared by someone who was “not involved on the local campaign.”. Governor General’s Performing Arts Awards last week. Comments are welcome while open.

Rick Mercer lashes out at B.C. His latest book, Final Report, which was longlisted for the 2019 Leacock Medal for humour, is a carefully curated look at never-before-published rants from the last five seasons of the show, along a collection of the very best rants from earlier years. “When I started, the mandate was to celebrate the country and I think we did that very well. We reserve the right to close comments at any time. "I really loved writing these reflections.