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Oct 22, 2019 | ISBN 9780385692496
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Canada’s pre-eminent satirical commentator brings down the curtain on his hugely successful show in this instant #1 national bestseller.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. As this book reminds us, he quit while he was way, way ahead. Final Report includes blisteringly good rants from the final five seasons and some of the very best rants from the show’s early years. 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.
Canada’s pre-eminent satirical commentator brings down the curtain on his hugely successful show in this instant #1 national bestseller.Rick Mercer can always be relied on to provoke a strong reaction–but what he said one fall day in 2017 truly shocked the nation. In a rant posted on social media, the great Canadian satirist announced loud and clear that the current, 15th season of the Rick Mercer Report–the nation’s best-watched and best-loved comedy show–would be the last. After more than 250 episodes, 250 rants and countless miles spent travelling the length and breadth of Canada to do everything from bungee jumping with Rick Hansen to whale watching with Measha Brueggergosman, it was time to move on. What he will do next is still unknown, and Canada eagerly awaits future developments. But meanwhile, we have this book to keep us going.This volume brings together never-before-published rants from the last five seasons of the show, plus a selection of the very best rants from earlier years. And throughout the book, in a series of brilliant new essays, Rick shares his hilarious, moving and at times hair-raising memories from the past fifteen years. Remember when he and Jann Arden travelled by helicopter to a terrifying bat cave in a mountain? No–because that trip went so horribly wrong it never made it to the screen. Pierre Berton–what was really in that joint he rolled? (It wasn’t oregano.) What catastrophe took place in Norman Jewison’s bathroom? And can the show still go on when your director in charge is delirious from an allergic reaction? (Yes.) All this and more is revealed by Rick in some of his sharpest and funniest writing yet.
Rick Mercer is Canada’s sharpest and funniest political satirist. He first came to fame with Show Me the Button I’ll Push It, or Charles Lynch Must Die, a one-man show that toured across Canada. He co-created and was a resident… More about Rick Mercer
#1 National BestsellerLonglisted for the 2019 Stephen Leacock Medal for HumourA Hill Times Best Book of 2018Praise for Rick Mercer“Canada’s most pointed political satirist for a quarter century.” —Toronto Star“Mercer embodies Canada, but without the smugness.” —The Globe and Mail“Week after week, Mercer continues to delight with his alternately giddy and cutting political humour.” —The Canadian Press“The comedian of choice for viewers who read.” —Toronto Life“[A Nation Worth Ranting About] will make you laugh out loud repeatedly.” —The Chronicle Herald“Canada’s leading political satirist.” —The New York Times“The most fun I’ve had in bed for a long time.” —Shelagh Rogers, CBC, on Rick Mercer Report: The Book
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