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Johns, newfoundland, on a blustery october 17, 1969, a tiny little imp known as richard vincent rick mercer was born. Bob is played by rick moranis and doug is played by dave thomas. Canadians may be too nice, too passionless to be funny. A canadian actor of indian descent, russell peters talks about both of these countries in his standup performances.
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