Jean-François Mercier

Jean-François Mercier (born 19 July 1967) is a comedian, screenwriter and television host from Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

Mercier's comedy features his scruffy appearance and mixes social criticism with vulgarity, curse words and expressions of anger.

Starting in 2010, he hosted his late-night talk show Un gars le soir (One guy at night) at V. In the late 1990s, he was hired as an actor in the short-lived tabloid talk show Black out, where he appeared as a common man in the audience trying to spark controversy.

[4] The Bloc Québécois MP Yves Lessard denounced Mercier's campaign as "a sad use of democracy".

[5] Mercier finished third with 11% of the vote, beating both the Liberal and Conservative candidates, though losing to NDP's Matthew Dubé.