This Hour Has 22 Minutes
1993
📺 33 Seasons
🎬 494 Episodes
📅 Returning Series
🌐 EN
⏱️ 22 min/episode
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This Hour Has 22 Minutes is a weekly Canadian television comedy that airs on CBC Television. Launched in 1993 during Canada's 35th general election, the show focuses on Canadian politics, combining news parody, sketch comedy and satirical editorials. Originally featuring Cathy Jones, Rick Mercer, Greg Thomey and Mary Walsh, the series featured satirical sketches of the weekly news and Canadian political events. The show's format is a mock news program, intercut with comic sketches, parody commercials and humorous interviews of public figures. The on-location segments are frequently filmed with slanted camera angles.
Seasons
Season 1
Season 3
Segments include: - Spoiled referendum ballots - .6% beer - Jerry Boyle on separation - Dakey Dunn with an open letter to Lucien Bouchard - Streeter: Close Enough For Ya? - The Quinlan Quints in Montreal - The two solitudes: French and English Canada
Season 4
Season 7
Segments include: - The Airline, The Man, The Money, and the Case of the Missing Cheque - ""The Blair Witch Project: The Series"" - Babe Bennett - Everybody in Plaid (Gap commercial) - Streeter - Connie Bloor - Thre new CBC series: ""Da Vinci's Conquests,"" ""Da Vinci's Requests,"" and ""Da Vinci's Bequests"" - Mrs. Enid and Eulalia
Season 8
Season 9
Season 10
Season 11
Segments Include:
Tucker T. Bartlett's tour of the California gubernatorial campaign trail.
A parody of the most recent Viagra commercial warning about the potential for embarassment when used excessivly. (You have to see this segment to appreciate it. It is among the most over-the-top segments the show has ever done!!!)
A parody of COPS, with East Coast cops engaging in flagrant racial profiling. (If you consider yourself politically correct, you won't know which part of this segment to correct first!)
Sexual affairs correspondent Babe Bennett on the same-sex marriage debate.
Dakie Dunn on what Schwarzennegger's election means to the feminist movement (You've come a long way baby, and now you're going back)
A look inside Canada's minimum security prisons with ""OZ: Canada""
Season 12
Segments Include:
- A new ""60 Minutes"" style opening to boost credibility. - Adrienne Clarkson visits Vancouver's dark side. - Footage of Ralph Klein being his in the face with a pie. - Raj Bhinder at the Canadian Open. - ""Just 4 Laughs Gags"" - CNN coverage of Ronald Reagan cotinuing to be dead. - CRTC-SVU - A George W. Bush attack ad against John Kerry ""Would John Kerry's America eat kittens?"" - ""Frontiers in Science"" looks at hurricanes.
Season 13
Season 14
Season 15
In the first episode News Correspondent Raj Binder files a special report. Guest Geri Hall.
Season 16
Election fever is running high! Geri Hall ends up in handcuffs compliments of the Harper government and then chats with Stéphane Dion. Finally the real Elizabeth May demands to be part of the 22 Minutes sketch.
Season 17
In the premiere show we get to know the real Stephen Harper, take a look at an obscure religious practice and help people prepare for the H1N1 virus. Special guest: Kathleen Phillips
Season 18
Geri Hall gets up close and personal with "Talk Sex With Sue Johanson" about why baby boomers are having more sex. Mark Critch and Gavin Crawford go door-to-door conducting a Conservative Party version of the census.
Season 19
22 Minutes returns for its 19th season with Mark Critch giving career advice to one of Canada's most recognizable faces, Lloyd Robertson.
Season 20
Join the 22 Minutes cast for holiday fun wtih guest appearances from original cast members, Mary Walsh and Greg Thomey.
Season 21
22 Minutes launches its 21st season with a few choice words about the Senate scandal, a PEI Witness News report from the Island's film festival 'red' carpet, a farewell tribute to the Kingston Penitentiary, and a Heritage Minute with Body Break's Hal and Joanne.
Season 22
Season 23
NDP Leader Tom Mulcair squares off with…himself, and a truck-lovin’ man finds a new kind of romance.
Season 24
Federal Minister of National Defence Harjit Sajjan guest stars when This Hour Has 22 Minutes returns for its 24th season. The premiere also features a field report from the most-watched U.S. presidential debate ever, a look at the Liberal government’s spending habits, and Things get Stranger.
Season 25
On the Season 25 premiere Mark Critch joins Prime Minister Justin Trudeau for a song at the Come From Away forum in St. John’s, Newfoundland. This week also features Shaun Majumder interviewing NDP Leadership hopeful Jagmeet Singh in Ottawa, and a new adaptation of Aqua’s hit song “Barbie Girl” featuring “Catherine MacKenna.”
Season 26
Season 27
The federal election had officially launched and 22 Minutes is back for another year of razor-sharp political commentary and biting satire.
Season 28
A global pandemic, a looming US election, and a slew of government scandals and leadership changes here at home - 22 Minutes is back to tackle it all! Season 28 starts here.
Season 29
In the season premiere, Canada’s satirical variety sketch show tries to make sense of the federal election, with special appearances by Justin Trudeau and Jagmeet Singh. 22 Minutes is back to tackle it all! Season 29 starts here.
Season 30
Canada’s longest-running TV comedy series is back, celebrating 30 years of political satire, and an unrelenting skewering of the weekly news. Don’t miss the season premiere!
Season 31
Canada’s longest-running TV comedy series is back, celebrating its 31st season of political satire, and an unrelenting skewering of the weekly news, this year welcoming fan favorite Chris Wilson as a full-time cast member, now on deck with Aba Amuquandoh, Stacey McGunnigle, Trent McClellan, and 22 Minutes veteran Mark Critch.
Season 32
Canada’s longest-running TV comedy series begins its 32nd season of political satire and an unrelenting skewering of the weekly news. With a US election on the horizon, what could go wrong? Starring Aba Amuquandoh, Stacey McGunnigle, Trent McClellan, Chris Wilson, and 22 Minutes veteran Mark Critch.
Season 33
Mark McKinney guest-stars on the season premiere of Canada’s longest-running TV comedy series.
Network
CBC Television