Comments on: Ah, the girls. The grilled cheese.

Ah, the girls. The grilled cheese.

jimmythefish — Fri, 22 Oct 2010 06:40:11 -0800

Gordon Pinsent reads Bieber. (slyt)

By: ashtabula to opelika

ashtabula to opelika — Fri, 22 Oct 2010 06:51:24 -0800

As a clueless American, I'm not sure who this Gordon Pinsent is, but I like him.

By: DreamerFi

DreamerFi — Fri, 22 Oct 2010 07:02:46 -0800

As a clueless Dutch guy, I'm not sure who this Gordon Pinsent is, but I like him.

By: KokuRyu

KokuRyu — Fri, 22 Oct 2010 07:06:29 -0800

The great thing about the Rick Mercer show is that there is always a laugh track, so you never need to figure out if he is trying to be funny or not.

By: hermitosis

hermitosis — Fri, 22 Oct 2010 07:09:00 -0800

I really love how all these teen star memoirs and bios all try to reinforce in a hundred ways that the star loves girls. Really just is crazy about girls! Loves 'em. They even got Michael Jackson on the Dating Game in '72. They're just drop-kicking these kids into a vacuum chamber of blind, histrionic gender conformity before they even know what's what. I'm not saying Justin doesn't like girls, I just think it must do something weird to you to have to announce it constantly, before an audience of gajillions, and to inevitably begin to dread what it would mean if you didn't.

By: Room 101

Room 101 — Fri, 22 Oct 2010 07:20:15 -0800

I just think it must do something weird to you to have to announce it constantly It becomes less weird when you accept that the way to make money in this business is to sell sex to girls just entering puberty, veiling it behind a mask of purity and wholesomeness (cf. Every teen icon ever). Though surely the ad nauseum repetition of the heteronormative narrative always at play here, you're overthinking their motivations.

By: Menomena

Menomena — Fri, 22 Oct 2010 07:25:33 -0800

A bit of context for the non-Canadians: Gordon Pinsent used to host The Late Show (no, not that one) on CBC Radio. Except instead of eating weird things and throwing objects at people, Pinsent talked about the lives of deceased Canadians whom the producers found "interesting."

By: aramaic

aramaic — Fri, 22 Oct 2010 07:30:02 -0800

Everything is better with Pinsent.

By: rocket88

rocket88 — Fri, 22 Oct 2010 07:31:54 -0800

You may also know him as Hap Shaughnessy on The Red Green Show. (Non-Canadians got The Red Green Show, didn't they?)

By: l33tpolicywonk

l33tpolicywonk — Fri, 22 Oct 2010 07:33:34 -0800

This is super great. rocket88: "You may also know him as Hap Shaughnessy on The Red Green Show." Yes, I do. Even more awesome.

By: maryr

maryr — Fri, 22 Oct 2010 07:42:33 -0800

Menomena: Thank you. rocket88: Only if we lived close enough to the border to get CBC, I think.

By: pracowity

pracowity — Fri, 22 Oct 2010 07:43:23 -0800

Gordon Pinsent? He was in Blackula!

By: Joe Beese

Joe Beese — Fri, 22 Oct 2010 07:45:46 -0800

It's been done.

By: Shepherd

Shepherd — Fri, 22 Oct 2010 08:00:43 -0800

A bit of context for the non-Canadians: Gordon Pinsent used to host The Late Show (no, not that one) on CBC Radio. Except instead of eating weird things and throwing objects at people, Pinsent talked about the lives of deceased Canadians whom the producers found "interesting." While this is accurate, it's a bit like saying that Orson Welles "was known as the voice of Unicron in Transformers: The Movie."

By: ricochet biscuit

ricochet biscuit — Fri, 22 Oct 2010 08:32:58 -0800

While this is accurate, it's a bit like saying that Orson Welles "was known as the voice of Unicron in Transformers: The Movie." You must mean overlooking the "we will sell no wine before its time." Got it.

By: Menomena

Menomena — Fri, 22 Oct 2010 08:38:37 -0800

Haha fair enough Shepherd. I figured the connection was worth mentioning since he's reading memoirs. It's possible the 22 Minutes producers were inspired by the CBC series to make this skit. Okay, fine, maybe a stretch, but it sounded a lot more linky linked in my head.

By: Johnny Assay

Johnny Assay — Fri, 22 Oct 2010 09:01:34 -0800

For those of you who remember Due South, Gordon Pinsent also played (the ghost of) the Mountie's father.

By: Alvy Ampersand

Alvy Ampersand — Fri, 22 Oct 2010 09:28:45 -0800

Gordon Pinsent? He was in Blackula! 8O

By: orange swan

orange swan — Fri, 22 Oct 2010 10:42:18 -0800

This reminds me of the video of Bea Arthur giving a reading from Pamela Anderson's novel. How can a combination that seems so wrong in theory feel so right in practice?

By: caution live frogs

caution live frogs — Fri, 22 Oct 2010 11:12:25 -0800

I have worked damn hard to NOT know what the hell a "bieber" is but based on the humor he shows here, this Gordon Pinsent fellow looks like the kind of guy I ought to be more familiar with.

By: jonmc

jonmc — Fri, 22 Oct 2010 13:36:20 -0800

I'd rather watch Bieber try to read Buber.

By: evilcolonel

evilcolonel — Fri, 22 Oct 2010 15:38:40 -0800

This is far more awesome than I expected. But I must warn the honourable member for Moose Falls of the fate that befell Pierre Berton* barely a month after this skit on the Rick Mercer Report. * - died peacefully of old age

By: GuyZero

GuyZero — Fri, 22 Oct 2010 17:12:58 -0800

Gordon Pinset is like a Canadian Lorne Greene.

By: Astro Zombie

Astro Zombie — Fri, 22 Oct 2010 17:26:29 -0800

Except he never hot his nipple bitten off by an alligator. Oh yes. That happened to Lorne Green.

By: delmoi

delmoi — Fri, 22 Oct 2010 17:35:57 -0800

They're just drop-kicking these kids into a vacuum chamber of blind, histrionic gender conformity before they even know what's what. I'm not saying Justin doesn't like girls, I just think it must do something weird to you to have to announce it constantly, before an audience of gajillions, and to inevitably begin to dread what it would mean if you didn't.

I dunno, most teenage guys aren't exactly shy about their love of girls.

By: Hildegarde

Hildegarde — Fri, 22 Oct 2010 19:16:02 -0800

As a Canadian, I have met Gordon Pinsent, and he is a lovely (and very short) man. And this made me laugh.

By: booksherpa

booksherpa — Fri, 22 Oct 2010 19:25:12 -0800

I know Gordon Pinsent, loved him in Due South and Red Green, but... who's this Bieber guy? Seriously, my husband just randomly surprised me a few weeks ago with Due South (all of it!) on DVD and made me squee in delight.

By: maudlin

maudlin — Fri, 22 Oct 2010 20:10:59 -0800

But I must warn the honourable member for Moose Falls of the fate that befell Pierre Berton* barely a month after this skit on the Rick Mercer Report. But I must warn anyone with even a smidgen of empathy of the fate that befell Pierre Berton barely a minute into this Cuisinart cooking demo on 90 Minutes Live with Peter Gzowski* (which I still think was the true inspiration for this several months later). * I saw this live. The horror, the horror.

By: orange swan

orange swan — Sat, 23 Oct 2010 06:12:37 -0800

If you really want to love Gordon Pinsent, see Away from Her.

By: evilcolonel

evilcolonel — Sat, 23 Oct 2010 08:27:32 -0800

I saw this live. The horror, the horror. I heard some people watched 90 Minutes Live, but I never thought I'd meet one.