History Series / ThisHourHas22Minutes

* BackhandedApology: Anthony St. George's "Apology to America", a circa 2002 bit in which Colin Mochrie walks around Washington D.C. and passive-aggressively apologies on behalf of Canada for calling UsefulNotes/GeorgeWBush a moron, cheaper lumber prices, Olympic hockey victories, reluctance for joining in the [[TheWarOnTerror Iraq War]], burning down TheWhiteHouse during the UsefulNotes/WarOf1812, various terrible Canadian celebrities and music inflicted on the U.S. over the decades, the state of American beer, and, finally, for [[ShapedLikeItself "apologizing for things in a passive-aggressive way which is really a thinly-veiled criticism]], because we've seen what you do to countries you get upset with."

Even the ambush reporting done by "Marg: Princess Warrior" and other personas of the four cast members is popular, and few politicians have tried to escape or failed to bear up with good grace. The fact they are also on other networks at the time, as most ambushes are done during a MediaScrum, may have something to do with this.

* CanadianAccents: Specifically, heavy Maritime or Newfoundland accents; the production company is in Halifax, and the original four were all from Newfoundland.

Very popular in its early run, made a national star out of Rick Mercer (who later struck out on his own with ''Series/TheRickMercerReport''), and to a lesser extent Mary Walsh. At times, its influence on the Canadian political scene could be compared to the current influence of ''Series/TheDailyShow'' and ''Series/TheColbertReport'' on the American scene: as an example, there was a period when the Canadian Alliance (the then-right wing of the Canadian political landscape) was advocating a California-style referendum system, in which a petition signed by three percent of the population would cause a referendum to be held on the petition's subject. Rick Mercer picked up on this, announcing his plan to submit a petition for legislation to force Stockwell Day, the then-leader of the party, to change his first name to Doris. This resulted in well over three percent of the population "signing" on the show's web site by the next morning. It is arguable that this single event crushed Day's hopes for ever gaining the Prime Minister's office, although he later joined the government front bench. What is inarguable is that referendum idea was quickly and quietly dropped from the party's platform immediately and never brought up by them again.

''This Hour Has 22 Minutes'' is a [[LongRunner long running]] political satire show on Creator/{{CBC}} set up as a a fake news show. The title comes from a famous and controversial weekly Canadian news show from TheSixties called ''This Hour has Seven Days'' (whose impact was widely felt enough that they could make a reference to it in 1993 and people would still get the joke). 22 Minutes is a half-hour show, and subtracting commercials they have about 22 minutes of actual content each episode.

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Very popular in its early run, made a national star out of Rick Mercer (who later struck out on his own with ''Series/TheRickMercerReport''), and to a lesser extent Mary Walsh. At times, its influence on the Canadian political scene could be compared to the current influence of ''Series/TheDailyShow'' and ''Series/TheColbertReport'' on the American scene: as an example, there was a period when the Canadian Alliance (the then-right wing of the Canadian political landscape) was advocating a California-style referendum system, in which a petition signed by three percent of the population would cause a referendum to be held on the petition's subject. Rick Mercer picked up on this, announcing his plan to submit a petition for legislation to force Stockwell Day, the then-leader of the party, to change his first name to Doris. This resulted in well over three percent of the population "signing" on the show's web site by the next morning. It is arguable that this single event crushed Day's hopes for ever gaining the Prime Minister's office, although he later joined the government front bench.

''This Hour Has 22 Minutes'' is a [[LongRunner long running]] political satire show on Creator/{{CBC}} set up as a a fake news show. The title comes from a controversial weekly Canadian news show called "This Hour has Seven Days". 22 Minutes is a half-hour show, and subtracting commercials they have about 22 minutes of actual content each episode.

Very popular in its early run, made a national star out of Rick Mercer (who later struck out on his own with ''TheRickMercerReport''), and to a lesser extent Mary Walsh. At times, its influence on the Canadian political scene could be compared to the current influence of ''Series/TheDailyShow'' and ''Series/TheColbertReport'' on the American scene: as an example, there was a period when the Canadian Alliance (the then-right wing of the Canadian political landscape) was advocating a California-style referendum system, in which a petition signed by three percent of the population would cause a referendum to be held on the petition's subject. Rick Mercer picked up on this, announcing his plan to submit a petition for legislation to force Stockwell Day, the then-leader of the party, to change his first name to Doris. This resulted in well over three percent of the population "signing" on the show's web site by the next morning. It is arguable that this single event crushed Day's hopes for ever gaining the Prime Minister's office, although he later joined the government front bench.

* RefugeInAudacity: Interviewing politicians in a XenaWarriorPrincess-knockoff costume. If that's not audacity...

Compare with ''TheDailyShow'' and ''TheColbertReport''.

Very popular in its early run, made a national star out of Rick Mercer (who later struck out on his own with ''TheRickMercerReport''), and to a lesser extent Mary Walsh. At times, its influence on the Canadian political scene could be compared to the current influence of TheDailyShow and TheColbertReport on the American scene: as an example, there was a period when the Canadian Alliance (the then-right wing of the Canadian political landscape) was advocating a California-style referendum system, in which a petition signed by three percent of the population would cause a referendum to be held on the petition's subject. Rick Mercer picked up on this, announcing his plan to submit a petition for legislation to force Stockwell Day, the then-leader of the party, to change his first name to Doris. This resulted in well over three percent of the population "signing" on the show's web site by the next morning. It is arguable that this single event crushed Day's hopes for ever gaining the Prime Minister's office, although he later joined the government front bench.

Very popular in its early run, made a national star out of Rick Mercer (who later struck out on his own with ''TheRickMercerReport''), and to a lesser extent Mary Walsh. At times, its influence on the Canadian political scene could be compared to the current influence of TheDailyShow and TheColbertReport on the American scene: as an example, at a period when the Canadian Alliance (the then-right wing of the Canadian political landscape) was advocating a California-style referendum system, in which a petition signed by three percent of the population would cause a referendum to be held on the petition's subject, Rick Mercer's segment in which he announced his plan to submit a petition for legislation to force Stockwell Day, the then-leader of the party, to change his first name to Doris resulted in well over three percent of the population "signing" on the show's web site by the next morning. It is arguable that this single event crushed Day's hopes for ever gaining the Prime Minister's office, although he later joined the government front bench.

''This Hour Has 22 Minutes'' is a political satire show set up as a a fake news show. The title comes from a controversial weekly Canadian news show called "This Hour has Seven Days". 22 Minutes is a half-hour show, and subtracting commercials they have about 22 minutes of actual content each episode.

* InsaneProprietor: The finance minister as Crazy Jim Flaherty, selling off {{CBC}} shows.

* TongueOnTheFlagpole: In one segment, an eco-terrorist who was responsible for blowing up a pipeline in British Columbia offers some advice to other terrorists. He insists the media was wrong about no one being hurt, since he licked the pipeline not knowing his tongue would get stuck. Things got progressively worse when the bear showed up.

* AttackOfThePoliticalAd: Parodied several times. For example, a series of ads from the Conservative party mocked Stephane Dion, the leader of the Liberals at the time, by calling him a nerd and claiming his name was not masculine enough.

* {{Schemer}}s: Recurring characters the Quinlan Quints ([[WritersCannotDoMath though there were only four of them]]).

The show is mostly sketch comedy revolving around current political issues, and is pretty much evenly split between the 'news anchors' interviewing fictitious people, monologs or dialogs from various recurring characters and actual interviews with real people, mostly politicians.

''This Hour Has 22 Minutes'' is a political satire show set up as a a fake news show. The title comes from a controversial weekly Canadian news show called "This Hour has Seven Days". 22 Minutes is a half-hour show, and subtracting comercials they have about 22 minutes of actual content each episode.