Rick Mercer Fired As Anchorman On His Own Show

The Rick Mercer Report announced today that they are replacing Rick Mercer as the anchor man on the popular CBC show.  One of the show's producer who wished to remain anonymous said that news portion of the show was so weak that it was having an adverse effect on the ratings.

Mercer to be replaced on "weak" news show.

Wishing to only to be referred as "R", he said, "The news portion was so bad that we had to make new and brighter "Laugh" signs so that the audience could properly clue in. They even got a nasty electric shock if they didn't laugh. Even the laugh track was confused, often giggling in the wrong places as well as being stone silent where the punchlines appeared."  "R" goes on to complain that the set, which the CBC bought on sale from "Star Trek: The Next Generation", did not help the mood in receiving the badly written news material.  " I think it was a mistake that the CBC bought that set from Star Trek.  It looks like a Klingon might appear any minute in the middle of Mercer's news cast. I think the news might have been saved if Mercer ended his report with a hearty "Qapla!!!" followed by him eating live wormy Klingon food."

Mercer as expected, could not be reached for comment although it was rumoured that he may be incorporating his angered response into his popular weekly walking rant. It is not clear when the new anchorman would brought in to replace Mercer.  It was also unclear whether the replacement would then have his or her name shared with Mercer on the show's title.