Rick Mercer
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What does it actually mean to be Canadian? This humorous documentary, featuring interviews with a who's-who of famous Canadians, hopes to find the answer.
A 12-year-old cartographer secretly leaves his family's ranch in Montana where he lives with his cowboy father and scientist mother and travels across the country on board a freight train to receive an award at the Smithsonian Institute.
This Hour Has 22 Minutes is a weekly Canadian television comedy that airs on CBC Television. Launched in 1993 during Canada's 35th general election, the show focuses on Canadian politics, combining news parody, sketch comedy and satirical editorials. Originally featuring Cathy Jones, Rick Mercer, Greg Thomey and Mary Walsh, the series featured satirical sketches of the weekly news and Canadian political events. The show's format is a mock news program, intercut with comic sketches, parody commercials and humorous interviews of public figures. The on-location segments are frequently filmed with slanted camera angles. Its full name is a parody of This Hour Has Seven Days, a CBC newsmagazine from the 1960s; the "22 Minutes" refers to the fact that a half-hour television program in Canada and the U.S. is typically 22 minutes long with eight minutes of commercials. Jones and Walsh had previously worked together on the sketch comedy series CODCO, on which Thomey sometimes appeared as a guest. Mercer had been a notable young writer and performer on his own, touring several successful one-man shows of comedic political commentary.
When the body of the executive of hockey Benoit Brisset is found on the billboard of the border of Quebec and Ontario, the jurisdiction of the crime is shared between the two police forces and detectives David Bouchard from Montreal and Martin Ward from Toronto are assigned to work together. With totally different styles, attitudes and languages.
A weekly helping of topical satire, funny takes on the week's top stories and Canada-wide adventures.
Made in Canada is a Canadian television situation comedy which aired on CBC Television from 1998 to 2003. Rick Mercer co-created the program and starred as mercenary TV producer Richard Strong. In the United States, France, Australia and Latin America, the show was syndicated as The Industry. It was produced using a single camera setup.
A graduate history student returns to her native Newfoundland, searching for proof of a conspiracy surrounding the referendum that saw Newfoundland join Canada.
For mild-mannered drama teacher Justin Trudeau, every day was a no-brainer; playing a millilion roles and going nowhere in life until, on the eve of the next election, nerd-emperor Stephen Harper has just been cucked to death and the charter stolen by A shadowy organization intent on taxing the country into oblivion. Now, with some help from the ghost of his father (played by the great Colm feore), our dim-witted but lovable hero must use his dressing-up powers to solve the mystery, return the charter, elbow the damsel in distress, battle Bigfoot. and ogopogo, sneak through the city of Midian, wrestle a native man, Fall down the staircase, vanquish the forces of chairman Pooh bear, discover his Cuban heritage, Save Canada and unleash all of his most memorable Characters from sctv, including chief bull-sitter, Kentucky joe, Ali the genie, Henry bellefonte, Lethbridge hamish hamshire, and Il Scorpio. A perfect treat for the whole family!
