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Media Beat: April 03, 2020

Today's column is a series of mostly unconnected videos about life, people, the infamous and people who just choose to make us laugh.

Media Beat: April 03, 2020

By David Farrell

Today's column is a series of mostly unconnected videos about life, people, the infamous and people who just choose to make us laugh. It is a column that consciously or unconsciously tries to avoid the pandemic of news alerts, the torrent of updates, and bullhorn warnings about life in Q1, 2020. It is a collection of videos that I suppose reflect my own reaction to being penned up, cloistered, cut off from social engagement and threatened with quarantine.


It is a column that mostly makes light of our situation and challenges the myth that this is the worst thing to ever happen. As my 96-year-old mother likes to tell me, 'I lived through the war, I have seen and heard this all before and lived through it'.

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Today, against better judgement, I will take the TTC to visit her in her confined solitude, cook up a breakfast, converse with her and try to be strong as even she becomes increasingly concerned about her sons and daughters as the TV blasts out a punchbag of troubling stories about these dark months we live through as winter ebbs and the days grow longer and the sunshine brings life back to the frozen earth.

Maybe it is time for newscasts and media in general to take a pause and look on the bright side of life.

Hope -- Klaatu

Mike Myers salutes Sean Connery in a kilt

Dr. Evil gets fired from the Trump cabinet

Donald Trump: The making of a President

Tim Minchin: Some People Have It Worse Than I

Tom Lehrer - We Will All Go Together When We Go

James Cordon and Eric Idle look on the bright side of …

Phil Ochs - There But For Fortune

Admiral McRaven on how to change the world

Fuck All The Perfect People - Chip'Taylor & The New Ukrainians

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Chart Beat

Les Cowboys Fringants Debut ‘Merci ben!’ on the Billboard Canada AC Airplay Chart

The track from the Quebec band enters at No. 30 over a year after its release, picking up steam on the radio airwaves. Ariane Moffatt's “Jouer” also reaches a new peak, marking the second consecutive week with two charting French songs.

French-language music makes its mark on the Canadian charts this week.

Les Cowboys Fringants have made their latest Billboard debut with their song “Merci ben!” which arrives at No. 30 on the Canada AC chart for May 10. The country-folk track finds the band thanking its fans while reminiscing on its beginnings and milestones, from playing small bars to sold-out arenas. The track’s title is Quebec jargon for “Thank you very much!”

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