Will Ferguson: Rick Mercer

Will Ferguson Dept: Video: Will Ferguson wins Giller Prize With party leaders shunning off-the-cuff humour, amateur comedians are taking their election humour to Twitter. Funnyman Rick Mercer has joined the fray, and says Canadians have a sense of humour about the campaigns. The Canadian Press Election, according to Globe and Mail. Except, crucially, his piece just isn t particularly funny. It s wish-washy and full of outdated cultural cliches about hockey, beer and Tim Horton s doughnuts. So in this way, McCall s unusually unfunny answer to the question Is the very concept of Canadian humour an oxymoron? becomes a kind of self-fulfilling prophecy. He unwittingly proves the very thesis he kinda-sorta sets out to dismiss: that Canadians are a bunch of earnest, unoriginal hockey-, beer -and doughnut-loving dullards. When nothing, of course, could be further from the truth and video: Rick Mercer rants about his new book on Canada Will Ferguson image for CP video. CP Books Video: Twitter becomes stage for election comedy (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.