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Rick Mercer, the quintessential Canadian America-basher, who manages to cajole politicians into doing embarrassing things, has somehow got Conrad Black to be his pool boy. Now, that could have been funny in itself, but what makes Mercer ever pathetic is his deferential "Lord Black" when he addresses the soon-to-be-jailed-non-Canadian-citizen (quite a mouthful, worthy of a...) British Lord. "Connie", replies the Lord, dryly.
Mercer has hours of parody (his version, anyway) of Black, when Black was a successful, not quite that rich business man and galloping around the world giving soirées with his wife. But that all changed when Black started his bitter fight with the American justice system. That is when Mercer became his ally.
Black must be cursing the days when he has to bow down to the likes of Mercer, on a show he probably hates, in order to get the sympathy of the Canadian audience.
Too late, though. The wheel is already rolling.