Do you want some chairs?” Rick Mercer points to the studio floor, then looks at me expectantly with that famously arched eyebrow. After this week, they have to go.” On Tuesday, after 15 seasons and 277 episodes, the perma-smirking host of the Rick Mercer Report will give his final, indignant rant before signing off. But the dynamic on Rick Mercer Report is markedly different. It was about celebration.” I remind Mercer, a little uncomfortably, that in a 2014 review of what turned out to be a dismal CBC lineup, I suggested that they cancel the Rick Mercer Report. This will be his 263rd rant, for which some statistician has figured he has walked 42 kilometres.

Source: thestar April 07, 2018 11:33 UTC