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|  | Satarists always hit the right nerve for me. Whether it's Stephen Colbert's "I am America" Jon Stewart's "Picture of Naked People," or McCrae's "Katzenjammer," I love to laugh and see the world though another's eyes. Mercer doesn't shy away from hot topics or hot buttons and his keen wit and good looks only make the pill that more easy to swallow. He is truly one of Canada's treasures and should be treated as such. This book will remain on the bestseller list for some time to come, as it should.
| | Political Satire at its Best | |
| | Mercer's latest collection of political wit and satire disarmingly takes dead aim at some big names in the Canadian establishment. To discover and then exploit those hard-to-find foibles behind the armour of a typical Canadian public figures like Rona Ambrose,Bob Rae, Paul Martin, Stephen Harper and Jack Layton, Mercer spends considerable time hobnobbing with them. These national figures get to showcase their private and more human side on their own terms, which Mercer then takes and matches with what he knows about them in public life. The result is a treasury of light-hearted, but truly wicked satirical moments emerging from the many glaring inconsistencies between the two lifestyles. In this book, a faux pas or gaff is measured by how forgetful politicians are in remembering how quick the public is pick up on the great gap between what they say and what they do. When the two sides of the human condition (private and public) are not in sync, or, in other words, we forget to walk the talk, we immediately, like the rest of those wretched politicians, fall victim to the rapier wit of that loveable yet mischievous satirist named Rick. It seems that he is gifted in finding out the deepest, dark secrets that motivate most of us to want to seek power and, once we have it, pretend that we're everyone's friend. Well worth the read just for the laugh.
| | Political Satire par excellence | |
| | Rick Mercer has shoved fun at politicians and social issues for years. Some I have watched personally on tv. Now someone has prudently spurred the genius to get all this solid bunch of verbal entertainment onto the pages of a book, The Book. The weird fling about it all, is that not only are these groupings of political satires more entertaining on paper but they seem to take on an even more realistic ambience of serious entertainment. Ones that really stimulate the mind as one reads and rereads at one's own pace, over and over, again. This is an excellent book! A MUST buy a great book of solid laughter to cherish for a life time
Some other great books: "Fluctuating Life" by Canadian, author, teacher and poet, Joshua Spencer and "Quest for a Dream - A Life Committed to Progress" by Joyce Buchanan
| | | I was sceptical at first. I love the Rick Mercer Report, and think the rants in particular are far and away the best political satire on Canadian tv. Those rants seem so spontaneous and essentially verbal that I couldn't imagine they would make great reading. But actually they work well on the page - just as funny, and at the same time the seriousness that informs them comes through even more clearly. This book is altogether a surprisingly satisfying read. And it's not all rants, either (though the bulk of them appear to have ben included. There are also excerpts from skits and interviews, new pieces updating certain topics (the material is arranged into into themed sections), blog entries and journalism, including one classic, hilarious piece called From the teleprompter of Michael Ignatieff. Lots of great photographs too.
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