What he stated in this rather dark comic vision was so relevant and touched a lot of familiar bases to anything and everything Canadian, it instantly grabbed my attention. He envisioned what Canada and Canadian society would be like in a futuristic dystopian-type world. That all changed when it came to a fast-paced monologue he did before the show’s intermission. One of the things I noticed before the show started was that the majority of the sold out audience present at the theatre were expatriate Newfoundlanders or Maritimers, and I was one of the few audience members who resided west of Atlantic Canada.Īs soon as the young Mercer bounded onto the stage, he had the audience laughing uproariously with his biting, satirical material however, unfortunately, I was wasn’t laughing along with them, because that material was basically geared toward things and issues that related to Newfoundland and the Maritimes. The show was called “I’ve Killed Before and I’ll Kill Again”, which was written and performed by an actor/comedian from Newfoundland named Rick Mercer. The Saturday night before the ceremony, which coincided on the same night the Blue Jays won their very first World Series championship, I was in downtown Toronto to catch a one-man show by an up-and-coming Canadian comedian.

In October of 1992, I spent a weekend in Toronto to attend an unveiling ceremony for one of my aunts, who passed away that summer.

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