"Week after week, Mercer continues to delight with his alternately giddy and cutting political humour." -The Canadian Press "Mercer embodies Canada, but without the smugness." - The Globe and Mail "Canada's most pointed political satirist for a quarter century." - Toronto Star Longlisted for the 2019 Stephen Leacock Medal for Humour And in three brilliant new essays that include a love letter to Parliament Buildings, how Doug Ford became Ontario premier (hint: it had nothing to do with talent) and how he managed not to freak out in the year after the RMR wrapped, Rick, a recipient of a 2019 Governor General's Performing Arts Lifetime Artistic Achievement Award, reveals himself as a comic writer and entertainer at the very top of his game. Final Report includes blisteringly good rants from the final five seasons and some of the very best rants from the show's early years. As this book reminds us, he quit while he was way, way ahead. Rick Mercer startled the nation when in 2017 he announced that the 15th season of Canada's most-watched and beloved comedy show the Rick Mercer Report would be the last. Rick Mercer April 10, us on Facebook and follow us on Twitter.Canada's pre-eminent satirical commentator brings down the curtain on his hugely successful show in this instant #1 national bestseller. Tonight 8:00 on CBC TV (8:30 NL) #bestjobEver #setyourPVR /OmG0cUrKoD Everything I love about my job is represented. I am so proud of this show & this special. That’s it Folks – Tonight we wrap up the Rick Mercer Report with our very last show. Mercer’s last show will air Tuesday at 5 p.m. He got a private tour of 24 Sussex Drive from former prime minister Paul Martin, interviewed infamous business mogul Conrad Black, and had the Barenaked Ladies appear bare and naked in a segment for a Calgary relief benefit concert for the victims of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami. Throughout his years on the public broadcast network, Mercer had unparalleled access to the echelons of the Canadian political and TV worlds.
Viewers were drawn to “Rick’s Rants” as Mercer ranted about anything and everything on his mind while pacing up and down the Graffiti Alley he showcased in Toronto. Mercer abandoned the concept after 9/11, and switched over to the Rick Mercer Report in 2004. On 22 Minutes, which debuted in 1993, Mercer was famous for his Talking to Americans segment in which he would quiz everyday Americans on topical Canadian news and mock them for knowing little about their northern neighbours. Rick Mercer, best known for hosting This Hour Has 22 Minutes and The Rick Mercer Report on CBC, spent more than a quarter century lambasting everyone from Justin Trudeau to Donald Trump to the late Toronto mayor Rob Ford. A much beloved Canadian TV commentator will give his last rant Tuesday night.
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