This Hour Has 22 Minutes (1993– )

Rick Mercer: J.B. Dickson, Various, Self

Quotes 

• Rick Mercer : [on Canada and the US]  We're bigger, and we're on top. If this was prison, they would be our bitch.

• Rick Mercer : The US is our neighbour, our ally, our trading partner, and our friend, and sometimes we'd like to give them *such* a smack.

• J.B. Dixon : Jackie Biskupski is running for a seat in the Utah Legislature, and she's attracting a lot of attention because she's a lesbian. Her Republican opponent, Dan Alderson, is a staunch Mormon, and is running a negative ad campaign calling her lifestyle abnormal and deviant. His six wives agree.

• Rick Mercer : Here's to democracy. May we get the government we deserve.

• Rick Mercer : [at end of show]  Well, that's the way we saw the world this week.

• J.B. Dixon : At this time, we need to look to Canada's poets for inspiration. And when we think Canada, when we think poets, we all think... Trooper!

  [followed by footage of Canadian politicians singing along to "Raise A Little Hell"]