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Some Weekend Fun: Rick Mercer

Rick Mercer always cracks me up.
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Farewell to the Urban Peasant

It’s been so long ago that I can’t even remember what US channel I first saw him on… was it an earlier incarnation of TLC?
James Barber was a quirky presence on television, in that era before Food Network remade the television cooking show into the slickly produced 22-minute food orgasm, for good and ill. He [...]

Rick Mercer on Rick Mercer, Stephen Harper, etc.

Rick Mercer is alternately very annoying and very funny. In other words, he’s a political satirist… and he’s one of the CBC’s brightest talents - host of The Rick Mercer Report, which began its latest season this week.
Check out this excellent interview in the Canadian gay magazine fab. It touches on the gay stuff (Mercer [...]

CBC’s Rabinovitch: More Support, Broader Vision needed

od Maffin has posted the full text of a speech that CBC President Robert Rabinovitch delivered in Toronto today.The speech gives a good sense of where the CBC is right now, but I think it’s particularly frank about the issues facing CBC English Television.
CBC’s English Television receives a little more than a quarter of the [...]