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Presented by the Stephen Leacock Associates, the award annually recognizes the best in Canadian humorous writing. The winner will be revealed on June 22.
Rick Mercer is among the 11 authors longlisted for the 2024 Stephen Leacock Medal for Humour. Other longlisted authors include Patrick deWitt, Deborah Willis and William Ping. The short list will be announced on May 21 and the winner will be revealed on June 22.
Indians on Vacation was inspired by his travelling experiences with his partner. He wanted to use the idea of travel as a gateway to discussing more serious issues. "These were people who had left their homes and had very little other than what they were carrying. To have to walk through that — those hundreds of people who had been displaced and didn't know where they were going to go or how they were going to get there — with your little suitcases and your little happy shirts and khaki pants was pretty awful," he told Shelagh Rogers on "You want to stop and help if you can. That's the ...