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Rick Mercer started his career as a media critic of sorts. He broke into the national consciousness with a one man show taking on an establishment journalist, called Show Me the Button: I\'ll Push It (or Charles Lynch Must Die). He talks to Jesse about his path from angry young outsider to palling around with politicians on TV. He also talks about developing his pioneering blend of news and comedy in This Hour Has 22 Minutes and The Mercer Report, why he wouldn\\u2019t do Talking to Americans in the Youtube age, and why political satire in Canada is far friendlier than its American counterpart. 

This conversation was recorded in September, 2023

Sponsors: Oxio, The National Film Board of Canada

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