Rick Mercer Report
2004
📺 15 Seasons
🎬 187 Episodes
📅 Returning Series
🌐 EN
⏱️ 21 min/episode
DocumentaryNewsComedy
A weekly helping of topical satire, funny takes on the week's top stories and Canada-wide adventures.
Seasons
Season 1
Bush sets America's sights on the moon, Celebrity Winter Advice with Shirley Douglas, Canadian Troops: Greetings from Kabul, Border Crossing, Ontario Teacher's Pension Plan, Lord Black showing $33 million London property
Season 2
Season 3
Watch to see Rick get pushed out of an airplane, and Stephen Harper in a more natural state.
Season 4
Rick returns to season 4 of RMR at CBC. You need to watch to find out what is in store for us this year.
Season 5
Rick returns after a restful summer. He hopes you're ready for the ride, because it's going to be a long wild one.
Season 6
Rick catches up with Canada's athletes at the paralympics in Beijing, and delivers all the election coverage you need.
Season 7
Rick starts the season with a trip to Whistler, BC where he bungee jumps with Rick Hansen. This year marks the 25th anniversary of Hansen's 'Man in Motion' marathon wheelchair tour. Also, CHarmony - the online dating site for Conservatives, outtakes from Michael Ignatieff's ads and Rick Rants about the bloodsport of Canadian elections. Plus, Rick kicks off this year's Spread the Net Challenge.
Season 8
Rick’s in Shanghai to visit Expo 2010 and the Canadian Pavilion. He gets a city tour with Dashan AKA Mark Rowswell, the most famous Canadian in China. He’s a comic who’s fluent in Mandarin.
Season 9
The new season starts with Rick and Jann Arden taking a hands-free 'EdgeWalk' outside on the top of Toronto's 533 metre high CN tower. Rick also goes snorkeling with salmon in Campbell River, BC.
Season 10
Rick experiences thrilling water adventures Flyboarding in Sylvan Lake, Alberta and later visits Science World in Vancouver
Season 15
Rick goes to Ottawa and trains with part of Team Canada headed for the Invictus Games in Toronto.
User Reviews
We found this show by accident many years ago. I had figured out a way to purchase a Canadian satellite tv in order for us to be able to watch a British show that didn’t run in the U.S. (Coronation Street) So we watched some of the Canadian programming and decided we really like Rick Mercer’s weekly look at news and events.
There is a lot of humor. A portion is through mockingly reporting current news items, and there are also fake advertisements. But the built of the show features events or programs going on in Canada. Mercer travels all over to report on them in person. He doesn’t mock people oenthe events, but rather he is polite and respectful while being funny. He aims most of the humor at himself as he tries to take on tasks that he has no experience doing. He also has a daily rant about some current topic.
Sometimes we are uninformed about the issues and people in Canada that he refers to, but we usually catch the gist of things and see the humor. We lost sight of the show when eventually gave up the satellite coverage, but I recently found some old episodes for us to watch for old times sake.
September 27, 2020
Network
CBC Television