After 400 years of waking up to a smack in the face, Newfoundlanders have developed a sense of humour like nobody else. In a place so harsh, so bleak, and so beautiful, it's either laugh or seek therapy. In this 1992 rant for the CBC-TV program Newsmagazine, playwright and actor Rick Mercer paces the snowy streets of St. John's to explain what humour means when you live on the side of a cliff.