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sk8er_tor Oct 5, 2012 at 12:24 pm
Meh.
Kevin Michaluk Oct 5, 2012 at 12:25 pm
Rick Mercer is funny, but not that smart. Otherwise he would have known that voice still works fine during an "outàge".... BB signal strength is always pretty stellar I find compared to the competition.
Trini-34 Oct 5, 2012 at 12:27 pm
Not really funny! More stupid than anything...
Thank you for sharing...
RubberChicken76 Oct 5, 2012 at 12:48 pm
Would you see an American comedian make fun of Apple's similar iCloud outage the week before? Nope.
That's the Canadian way
mssca Oct 5, 2012 at 1:05 pm
+1
scottaco Oct 5, 2012 at 12:53 pm
psst....*Thorsten
Another 'Kick 'em before they are back on top' piece. Sigh.
GeneralHerzog Oct 5, 2012 at 12:56 pm
lol.
I'm hoping to see him do a 'Report' on the impending Tarje' move into Canada. (That's Target for our Maricaan brethren)
Bold_until_Hybrid_Comes Oct 5, 2012 at 1:01 pm
I still have yet to figure out who the driving force is behind all of the negative blackberry comedy on these shows. I dont understand how it helps the agenda of the group of people running the media so it baffles me.
OniPod Oct 5, 2012 at 2:08 pm
Sometimes a joke is just a joke.
shebmiller Oct 5, 2012 at 4:04 pm
+1
rcheung135 Oct 5, 2012 at 1:17 pm
Canadian self-deprecating humour! I LOVE IT!
Andrew4life Oct 5, 2012 at 1:37 pm
Rick Mercer is awesome, though this was definitely not one of his better bits.
Like someone above said, signal is always impecable compared to everyone else. Love having 1-2 bars when someone else has only no signal. :D
sir.dangerfield Oct 5, 2012 at 1:41 pm
Could have been funny if it teased on something other than BB's known strong point. Maybe BBM... Where did all my friends go?, but reception, really...? It's like making fun of how slow a Lamborghini is because you have happen to have seen one broke down once.
MrFuts Oct 5, 2012 at 2:00 pm
Should do one on the iPhone 5 'Apple Maps'
That has way more potential for funny, like ending up in the middle of a lake, or getting to no where you wanted to...literally. Plenty of videos proving this too already...
feldmen01 Oct 5, 2012 at 3:12 pm
Rick Mercer needs to go away. The only thing worthwhile that he has done was his talking with American's bit... unfortunately he hasn't done that for years.
Zipper Oct 5, 2012 at 3:42 pm
Ooohh burn.....:P
YorkieRay Oct 5, 2012 at 3:49 pm
The RIM outage that affected Vodafone customers received a lot of coverage in the mass media at the time.
This was not the case with the iCloud email outage 2 weeks before that hit about 4m Apple users, nor the iMessage outage that occured in the same week as the RIM problems. Apple even issued a written apology for the iCloud shutdown. I guess that this was just too close to the iPhone 5 launch for most media outlets.
Bobert_123 Oct 5, 2012 at 3:54 pm
Holy crap who is this guy, this is some funny shiz!!!
maddie1128 Oct 5, 2012 at 3:58 pm
Go ahead.....laugh now! For he who laughs last, laughs best!!!!!!
shebmiller Oct 5, 2012 at 4:06 pm
you know he probably got approval from RIM to use the names and logos... nothing wrong with this other than it could have been funnier
undone Oct 5, 2012 at 4:48 pm
eh... could have been at least funny...like getting BBMs/emails 'late' at the 'wrong moment' scenarios, but you know...that would require some work...
carey965 Oct 5, 2012 at 4:57 pm
whats even funnier is that he still uses a BB
so he can make jokes all he wants, i laughed at it and i love BB
im3arl Oct 5, 2012 at 5:03 pm
BB is DA BOMB!
jakie55 Oct 5, 2012 at 6:12 pm
Good Canadian HumoUr
up488 Oct 5, 2012 at 7:46 pm
Just not and never was a fan of Rick Mercer!
reeneebob Oct 5, 2012 at 10:05 pm
Good lord, some of you people need to lighten up and just freakin' laugh. It's a joke.
As has been often pointed out - Rick Mercer is a BB user. He likes BB. He was poking fun. And yes, the phone part works in an outage, but BB is world famous for email.
What doesn't work in an outage?
What still works during an iCloud outage?
Remove the sticks and just laugh. Good lord - it's a CELL PHONE not your mother.
Rootbrian Oct 9, 2012 at 4:28 pm
11++
Vic_Franklyn Oct 5, 2012 at 10:42 pm
-1
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