This is a memoir about Rich Mercer. It discusses what Rich Mercer is doing now since he retired from his highly successful TV show after 15 seasons. Since he is highly visible on social media, people have become aware quite quickly that he got a new role as a stand-up comedian, playing for sold-out audiences whenever he went.
Then COVID-19 struck. His legions of fans began asking again: What is Rick Mercer going to do now? Well, he has been writing a comic masterpiece. For the first time, this most private of public figures has turned the spotlight on himself in this revealing memoir.
Mercer's memoir is hilarious and poignant. Rick charts his rise from unpromising schoolboy to the heights of TV fame. Along the way came an amazing break when, not long after his teens, his one-man show became an overnight success.
This book contains a story of how little Rick helped himself to a tree from the neighbors' garden that's set to become a new Christmas classic. There's Rick the aspiring actor, braving "the scariest thing he had ever done in his life" b performing with the Newfoundland Shakespeare Company.
Then there are the memorable scenes with politicians of every stripe, from Jean Cretien to George W. Bush to Stockwell Day, and a wealth of other behind-the-scenes revelations about the origins and making of Rick Mercer.
This was a very different memoir. It was funny and sometimes sad too. But mostly he shows that regardless of where we are in life, we can make a lucrative life.
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