Talking to Americans

Name: Talking to Americans
Genre: Comedy
Released: 2001-03-30
Duration: 46 min
Rating: 8.7
Cast: Rick Mercer, Louie Anderson, George W. Bush

TV Special
20012001
46m

IMDb RATING

8.7/10

488

YOUR RATING

Comedy

Comedian Rick Mercer shows up Americans' near complete ignorance of Canada.Comedian Rick Mercer shows up Americans' near complete ignorance of Canada.Comedian Rick Mercer shows up Americans' near complete ignorance of Canada.

IMDb RATING

8.7/10

488

YOUR RATING

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Trivia
This TV special attracted 2.7 million Canadian viewers making it the highest rated comedy special in the history of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.

Quotes
Rick Mercer, American: Oh, Canada / A great big empty land / We look to America / For a helping hand / With bannock bread / and caribou eggs / The True North big and cold Brrrr / Oh Canada / we are on top / We're close to / The North Pole / Fermez la bouche / Mangez poutine / Ca-Na-Da / A lovely winter dream / Oh Canada / La / La / Laaa! Hello Canada!

Connections
Edited from This Hour Has 22 Minutes (1992)

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Review

Featured review

Silliness that caught on

A little harmless fun. Some segment are hilarious. I want to see all the outtakes, though. The only real danger here is assuming that this program has a point. Consider how it started:

Rick Mercer: Talking to Americans -- the segment --came about like Cornflakes. It was an accident that happened in the lab. We were down in Washington, D.C. We were shooting and I had kind of run out of things to do. We'd gone to the White House and goofed around at the Canadian Embassy. We just had some time to kill.

There were other news people there asking questions about important matters of the day. So I just started doing the same thing. I started talking to them about the Benmergui Clinton Summit. Should it be called the Benmergui Clinton Summit, or the Clinton Benmergui Summit?

I didn't know if the piece would have legs or not, but it sure did. The response has been phenomenal.

(from radio.cbc.ca)

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josh-302
Apr 27, 2004

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