CANA 1F91 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Rick Mercer, Justin Bieber, Justin Trudeau

• School: Brock University
• Department: Canadian Studies
• Course: CANA 1F91
• Professor: Maureen Connolly

Document Summary

The rick mercer effect: comedy, the cbc and celebrity lecture 4 notes- january 31, 2016. To what degree do you agree with the idea that there is a specific brand or canadian comedy that expresses a canadian sensibility. How does humor lend itself to the message of statism. If laughter is pleasurable, can it be subversive. Both as legitimate authority and object of desire. Cbc"s comedy needs to appeal to canadians. Justin trudeau photo challenge on the rick mercer website. We are subjective to their culture all the time. State can allow and encourage others to laugh at it. To relieve the tension they might feel. Canadian humor can navigate and negotiate that empty space. American humor laughs at others while canadians are self-critical. We cast ourselves as victims or failures compared to americans. We struggle with defeat so by laughing at ourselves it acts as a defense mechanism. If canada is a harsh place, then we deploy irony.