I just can't express enough how much I love that he played along with the bit. Like, this is 1000× funnier because it isn't some lookalike in a costume, it's the prime minister who's being satirized playing himself.
"Remember, it's not about how much you can give. It's about how much the politician should be able to receive." - Stephen Harper. This is something Washington has yet to figure out, and when Stephen fucking Harper looks sane next to you...
What happened to Harper in the last ten years?... he actually appears somewhat likable here. I don't recall that ever happening. It's like this skit was filmed in a parallel universe.
Well, I hate to break it to you, but the way Canadian history has been, There is a good chance (not saying it will happen) that the Liberals will be in for 20 years.
The gag with Harper shaking his kids’ hands and then hugging Mercer is still hilarious. Easy joke at the time, but they delayed it until the end of the bit and paid it off.
Stephen Harper is an Absolute Beauty, and charming gentleman, here. What a masterpiece of political comedy. I love the Rachel, Ben, and Rick (Harper) outro, as well as the fantastic hospitality Mr. Harper offers. The sandwich, the accommodation, great conservative hilarity 😃
I saw an interview with Rick, and you know in this video, when Steve's making a sandwich? The Rick Mercer Report has about 15 minutes of tape of Stephen Harper asking "Could I do it again?"
There's something about Harper, its as if he's not quite present. Its like he's got half his attention in the convo and the other half thinking about how he'd like the help to give him a good tickling before tucking him in at bedtime.
I'm always fascinated to come back and look at this video. He was still only 8-9 months into the PM job at this point and clearly already had a reputation for keeping his entire party on a leash, but still seemed more than comfortable projecting a sense of personality on a comedy show like this. I wonder if he not only saw no benefit to things like this, but almost saw it as counterproductive to projecting a "dull but effective" personality.
kodiak Your comment sure makes a lot of assumptions.I vote based on principles and policies not whatever it is that you are implying. I am also neither stupid nor uneducated and my gender does not invalidate my opinion.
"We need to reduce pollution and greenhouse gasses in this country." Wow, Harper's colours have really come out in the past 8 years. This video was pretty funny though.
He was a very competent PM but people just like a change now and then. The first Trudeau only just squeaked by in his first election in the early 1970's after becoming PM. Harper was also not comfortable in the limelight. I suspect he is an introvert. He is happier closeted with his cabinet than in front of cameras, so he did not come across as an easy going guy. Shame, because I think that Canadians are going to understand eventually that he was way more dedicated to his job than Trudeau, who spends too much time with his family or on vacations somewhere. The top job is very demanding.
He's introverted and doesn't like to deal with people. As such he's extremely reserved and closed off to the world. People interpret this as undemocratic which he didn't help by introducing omni bus bills to parliament, and avoiding the press.
-›Ethan Ngai: if we’re going to be hyper-critical, they also should have changed his shirt … he’s wearing the same shirt he wore `yesterday`? But it was a good bit, face it: it was funny! It worked. I liked it. He’s got a good fall-back career for when the politics thing doesn’t work out for him. I’m not getting into politics in this comment, but, it’s nice to see his human side now and then. It reminds one that he actually might just _be_ one of us. A real, live, human being, a guy with a wife, and a couple of kids to worry about. This most definitely was scripted, but compare this to Harper (or the others) in Parliament (which you’d better believe is scripted). That’s probably _why_ we perceive politicians as `stiff`, they have their talking points, they have their lines, and you can have a cow literally walk through the middle of the building, and they’ll still stick to their talking points, cow, or no cow. It’s what they do, it’s what they’re paid to do, and it’s maddening. When’s the last time you laughed at Harper in Parliament? I know Parliament isn’t a comedy club, but still, sometimes it’s just torture.
@TornTech Well, the Harpers often show their kids in backpacks for image purposes. My guess it's like the magical hummingbird that foretold of Kim Jong Il.
This was funny. Political donations should be limited including financial benefits to family members suvh ad spouses, children, siblings or parents. This should be law at all levels of governments from municipal, provincal and federal levels. Doug Ford or his daughter invited developers to his daughters wedding and most if those same developers received inside information and land removed from protection. Wish Rock Mercer was still doing the show to call Doug Ford out. Harper would of been better if he had not brought in income splitting for wealthy people, cut funding to veterans, favored corporations, lied about our decifit. At least he lived in the house provided without demanding millions in upgrades, millions in rwnovations to a cottage at tax payor expence line Trudeau has, Harper was tougher in crime and didnot offer race credits to offender's especially those found guilty of violent crimes, sex crimes and child abuse. Trudeau favors Quebec ovet all other provinces.
part of the joke is that harper was always accused of dodging tough questions
I just can't express enough how much I love that he played along with the bit. Like, this is 1000× funnier because it isn't some lookalike in a costume, it's the prime minister who's being satirized playing himself.
Now Trudeau has surpassed him by a BIG margin
“Accused of”
Rick: "Are you a control freak?"
Harper: "Oh, I don't think so, what about cheese?"
Yes cheese is good
I am surprised that Harper let Rick come into his house😂😂😂
Well its actually the official residence of the prime minister of canada so yeha
I gotta say, this is way funnier than I'd expected from Harper.
"You know when I can't sleep, I count ridings" LOL Harper seems like a decent guy here
My Dad met both of these gentlemen, I was actually jealous. Harper was getting salsa for his chips with his guard.
Still hilarious all these years later
Right? Years later🤣🤣🇨🇦🇨🇦🤣🤣🤣😁❤🤣🤣🤣🤣
I can't believe Harper was actually okay with doing this, hahaha
3:55 "YOU'RE NOT THE BOSS OF ME!!"
And then quickly fled
An oldie but a goodie!
I love the handshakes at the end.
PM Harper: you kids keep it down there
Rick Mercer: Your not the boss of me 🤣🤣🤣
If you look carefully when harper is reading his platform has a bedtime story you will notice he is holding the book upside down.
An excellent point. Very perceptive of you.
Wow! Very observant!
well they are double sided, one side french, one english
Appreciating this now ! 2023 the dumb ages
Didn't realize Harper had a sense of humor
Very funny bit Rick ...well done ...Stephen looks cool ...calm, & cool - Harper
Don't forget to do an updated version when Trudeau moves in
+Matt Amaral traditionally they won't let him in until the Libs start going down in the polls. See the Paul Martin video ;-)
+Matt Amaral That would be a good idea! Once he spends 200 million of our tax dollars to build his new pad that is.
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Somewhere there is a circus missing a clown!
Definatly
"Remember, it's not about how much you can give. It's about how much the politician should be able to receive."
- Stephen Harper. This is something Washington has yet to figure out, and when Stephen fucking Harper looks sane next to you...
AMEN!
What happened to Harper in the last ten years?... he actually appears somewhat likable here. I don't recall that ever happening. It's like this skit was filmed in a parallel universe.
+Jacob Russell correct. out of 27 countries we came in 27th on environmental action.
+Jacob Russell He used to be a really funny guy. Not sure what happened. It's a shame, really.
+Jacob Russell Being the top guy is very stressful. Look at how much Obama's aged. We're going to see Justin Trudeau age 20 years in 10.
God!!! I hope he is not PM in ten years!!
Well, I hate to break it to you, but the way Canadian history has been, There is a good chance (not saying it will happen) that the Liberals will be in for 20 years.
Harper was a decent guy. An adult in charge of the country.
I think people miss him now considering how much Trudeau fucked this country.
"outside of North Korea." Hysterical
Harper, I miss you. Harper is very professional compared to Trudope.
😂🤣😂😂🤣😂😂😂🤣🤣😂🤭
@@David-ng7cr Trudeau d rider
I forgot what a smart PM sounded like now that we have the airhead.
John gatti I'd rather the airhead than the man who wanted to turn Canada into a 2nd America.
dont worry justin will make us like sweden, high taxes, un vetted immigration, spikes in rape cases and a stagnant economy
Joseph America 2 is better than socialist hell scape
Exactly
@uh wot Me too! Then wake up screaming.
Man, do I ever miss that guy.
You mean Rick? Right. Harper is trash 🗑
Me too.
Me too!
i love how we as Canadians can have fun with the leader of our country!
How Canada has fallen.
Canada is fine in the hand of the conservatives and liberals
That was pure talent.
When he says, "Leader of a minority government," I think, "If only he knew..."
He is totally awesome! LOL! Please hurry with your next installment. Big fan here!
Canadas best prime minister where back then there was order
Not
The gag with Harper shaking his kids’ hands and then hugging Mercer is still hilarious. Easy joke at the time, but they delayed it until the end of the bit and paid it off.
Bahahahahah did harper just say... He'd like to reduce polution.... that's comedic gold... hahah priceless.
+Tim Sunderland How should we cut our 1.85% of the worlds pollution?
+greatest prime minister ever Sounds interesting...
Iveri PlaysRoblox You will never get a straight answer from that one
I think he meant pollution regulation.
Stephen Harper is an Absolute Beauty, and charming gentleman, here. What a masterpiece of political comedy. I love the Rachel, Ben, and Rick (Harper) outro, as well as the fantastic hospitality Mr. Harper offers. The sandwich, the accommodation, great conservative hilarity 😃
This was brilliant!
I saw an interview with Rick, and you know in this video, when Steve's making a sandwich? The Rick Mercer Report has about 15 minutes of tape of Stephen Harper asking "Could I do it again?"
hi, would you mind direct me to that video?
Harper was great compared to JT!
LMFAO this is brilliantly done!
Wish he was still the Prime Minister.
new season coming September 21 i believe can't wait!
I miss them both.
RMR's back!! :) I've been waiting for so long for updates. Even if this is just a re-upload.
Hooray from Germany!
Does anyone else remember the last time our Prime Minister could read? Ah the good ol days
Did anyone else notice Stephen Harper was holding the book upside down??? Or was it just me?
Rick rocks! How were you able to request to do this video?! Harper seemed like a nice person actually and the media made him a monster.
He is a monster.
@@David-ng7cr he’s not, you just believed all of the leftist garbage.
@@David-ng7cr And he is our monster.
RIck you gotta go stay visit Justin now!.
SgtMays Trudeau would probably hold him down and force him to read the Communist Manifesto aloud.
My favourite RM Report!
I bet Harper makes good pancakes.
Probably a little dry, but nothing a little butter n syrup can't fix.
Ok. hehehehehehehe............!
DetroitLives313
And I bet that Obama makes even better, when he comes to Detroit....mind your own President and leave out PM to us...
@chalupaking4 english and french, they always flip it so you dont have to start reading from the center of the book
Very Funny. Well done!
SO funny... love Canada and our Prime Minister Stephen Harper.
There's something about Harper, its as if he's not quite present. Its like he's got half his attention in the convo and the other half thinking about how he'd like the help to give him a good tickling before tucking him in at bedtime.
Glitchy video - anyone else?
Harper warned us in debates against Trudeau about what Trudeau really is in 2015 before Trudeau won the election
Lol my two favourite Canadian personalities
Best show everrrrrrrrr.........
I'm always fascinated to come back and look at this video. He was still only 8-9 months into the PM job at this point and clearly already had a reputation for keeping his entire party on a leash, but still seemed more than comfortable projecting a sense of personality on a comedy show like this. I wonder if he not only saw no benefit to things like this, but almost saw it as counterproductive to projecting a "dull but effective" personality.
The Iceman melts a little.
Stephen Harper: "When dealing with an urgent issue with climate change and the environment you have to delay by thirty or more years".
I hate harper as much as the next NDP supporter but this video was hilarious. It puts a funny spin on how harper avoids all media questions.
kodiak Your comment sure makes a lot of assumptions.I vote based on principles and policies not whatever it is that you are implying. I am also neither stupid nor uneducated and my gender does not invalidate my opinion.
I don't care if your comment is a year old but your a dumbass because Harper is Conservative not NDP.
***** I said I was an NDP supporter NOT that Harper was.
Then you should learn how to word your sentences first before you comment.
***** This is CZcams not an essay writing contest. Relax. Besides apparently most people understood it.
Who else saw the cat behind Stephen's left arm at 2:34?
who wishes that rick was in harper's position. and someone else was interviewing him.
"We need to reduce pollution and greenhouse gasses in this country." Wow, Harper's colours have really come out in the past 8 years. This video was pretty funny though.
Mr. Harper is a nice guy, why wasn't he re-elected as PM?
+Drive Gaming Everyone just suddenly got really pissed off at him. I'm not even exactly sure why.
Blahsheep I think it was the anti-Niqab thing.
He was a very competent PM but people just like a change now and then. The first Trudeau only just squeaked by in his first election in the early 1970's after becoming PM. Harper was also not comfortable in the limelight. I suspect he is an introvert. He is happier closeted with his cabinet than in front of cameras, so he did not come across as an easy going guy. Shame, because I think that Canadians are going to understand eventually that he was way more dedicated to his job than Trudeau, who spends too much time with his family or on vacations somewhere. The top job is very demanding.
He's introverted and doesn't like to deal with people. As such he's extremely reserved and closed off to the world. People interpret this as undemocratic which he didn't help by introducing omni bus bills to parliament, and avoiding the press.
he was a great PM, its just that lots of dumb people elected a gay, cute looking guy that has an iq of 20
@TheCanadianWhite it's one of the bilingual books that have the French section upside down to the English section.
Great stuff
damn funny vid
And guess who got his Conservative Majority Government? Stephen Harper.
Although I didn't agree with Harper it was better than Pierre T. swimming pool fiasco.
Harper Rules
you'd never see Obama doing this haha... I love Canadian politics
.. yeah you do he’s done it several times
Harpers goal to reduce pollution,..2050! Rick says, Yah, well that's 11 consecutive terms!? LOL! Bye Bye Harper!
I so want to do that!
This never gets old.
EVER.
THE RMR.
🤣❤🇨🇦🤣🤣😁🇨🇦🤣🤣🤣🤣🕊🖖
AXE THE TAX !!!!!!
They couldn't do this sort of thing in the states because it would be a "threat to national security", lol
so funny good job Rick
Between Cretien and Harper, both great prime ministers
-›Ethan Ngai: if we’re going to be hyper-critical, they also should have changed his shirt … he’s wearing the same shirt he wore `yesterday`?
But it was a good bit, face it: it was funny! It worked. I liked it. He’s got a good fall-back career for when the politics thing doesn’t work out for him.
I’m not getting into politics in this comment, but, it’s nice to see his human side now and then. It reminds one that he actually might just _be_ one of us. A real, live, human being, a guy with a wife, and a couple of kids to worry about.
This most definitely was scripted, but compare this to Harper (or the others) in Parliament (which you’d better believe is scripted). That’s probably _why_ we perceive politicians as `stiff`, they have their talking points, they have their lines, and you can have a cow literally walk through the middle of the building, and they’ll still stick to their talking points, cow, or no cow.
It’s what they do, it’s what they’re paid to do, and it’s maddening.
When’s the last time you laughed at Harper in Parliament? I know Parliament isn’t a comedy club, but still, sometimes it’s just torture.
@TornTech Well, the Harpers often show their kids in backpacks for image purposes.
My guess it's like the magical hummingbird that foretold of Kim Jong Il.
The last of the educated, reasonable, conservatives. Miss him.
@TheSunHunter The sign of a true politician.
He is indeed
Remember responsible dog owners to clean up after your pet when they take a big Stephen Harper or a little Stevie on your neighbours lawn.
4:28 Hes holding the book upside down
thumps up if rick mercer is awsome?
3 people are NDP's Canada's Official Opposition
4:22 OMG! The book was upside down. xD
@TheGrahams good point
4:30 the book is upside down lol
Jon Stewart would never be able to do this in the White House. Awesome!
Bye Felicia.
omg hahahahahahaha
@TheSunHunter You know this was entirely staged, right? Harper clearly isn't speaking off the cuff
he was getting attacked for how much politicians can get in donations from special interest groups?
Is the book upside-down?
@TheSunHunter thats all harper does
😂😂😂😂😂😂
My only reaction to this video, who are you? what did you do with the real Stephen Harper? was he ever good as prime minister?
I'd say he's average, hit and miss. He's not the be all worst PM we've ever had but he's far from our greatest
That's the joke.
Question for Stephen Harper. "From your riding, who would you recommend as leader of, 1) The Liberal Party, and 2)The NDP?"
This was funny. Political donations should be limited including financial benefits to family members suvh ad spouses, children, siblings or parents. This should be law at all levels of governments from municipal, provincal and federal levels. Doug Ford or his daughter invited developers to his daughters wedding and most if those same developers received inside information and land removed from protection. Wish Rock Mercer was still doing the show to call Doug Ford out. Harper would of been better if he had not brought in income splitting for wealthy people, cut funding to veterans, favored corporations, lied about our decifit. At least he lived in the house provided without demanding millions in upgrades, millions in rwnovations to a cottage at tax payor expence line Trudeau has, Harper was tougher in crime and didnot offer race credits to offender's especially those found guilty of violent crimes, sex crimes and child abuse. Trudeau favors Quebec ovet all other provinces.