This Hour Has 22 Minutes
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.Its full name is a parody of This Hour Has Seven Days, a CBC newsmagazine from the 1960s; the "22 Minutes" refers to the fact that a half-hour television program in Canada and the U.S. is typically 22 minutes long with eight minutes of commercials.Jones and Walsh had previously worked together on the sketch comedy series CODCO, on which Thomey sometimes appeared as a guest. Mercer had been a notable young writer and performer on his own, touring several successful one-man shows of comedic political commentary. This Hour Has 22 Minutes featuring Cathy Jones and Colin Mochrie is not currently available to stream, rent, or buy but you can track it for updates. It's a comedy show with 275 episodes over 19 seasons. This Hour Has 22 Minutes is still airing with no announced date for the next episode or season. It has a better than average IMDb audience rating of 7.0 (947 votes).
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Sep 18, 2012Season 20 of This Hour Has 22 Minutes has 22 episodes that are not available to stream or rent on any services. Track the series to get notified when an episode becomes available on your services.
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S20 E21March 26, 2013
Mar 26, 2013Bob Rae sings his goodbyes, Don Cherry refuses to have his kisses denied and we predict the summer news in...
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S20 E20 March 19, 2013
Mar 19, 201322 Minutes reacts to the new federal budget, makes a housecall to Thomas Mulcair at Stornoway, and enlists the help...
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S20 E19 March 12, 2013
Mar 12, 2013Mark Critch hits it out of the park at the Blue Jays spring training camp; surprise home visits by EI...
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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.Its full name is a parody of This Hour Has Seven Days, a CBC newsmagazine from the 1960s; the "22 Minutes" refers to the fact that a half-hour television program in Canada and the U.S. is typically 22 minutes long with eight minutes of commercials.Jones and Walsh had previously worked together on the sketch comedy series CODCO, on which Thomey sometimes appeared as a guest. Mercer had been a notable young writer and performer on his own, touring several successful one-man shows of comedic political commentary.