History Series / ThisHourHas22Minutes

** The show was unrelenting towards Stephen Harper while he was in power and the cast's barbs had none of the backhanded affection[=/=]respect that they showed to other politicians across the political spectrum[[note]]Harper was more than happy play along, and would apparently badger the cast to be featured, as he was consolidating power among Canadian conservatives. When he became Prime Minister, he suddenly decided that he didn't want to be associated with the show and became more hostile towards the cast, angering them as they felt that they'd been used[[/note]].

* PissTakeRap: [[http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0CCAQtwIwAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DVXzJCL0_xmM&ei=HD7jVLjoH4zooATvt4LIBA&usg=AFQjCNFlDOzM77nA3nuUHcaHFIHy4W3qow&sig2=0i1i0QXozm_BncO-RZoK7w&bvm=bv.85970519,d.cGU "Will the Real Rahim Jaffer Please Stand Up?]]", an Music/{{Eminem}} parody.

* HollywoodNerd: Mark Jackson (Gavin Crawford), the teen correspondent, looks and acts like the stereotypical Type 1 nerd.

* {{Buttmonkey}}: The show was unrelenting towards Stephen Harper while he was in power and the cast's barbs had none of the backhanded affection[=/=]respect that they showed to other politicians across the political spectrum[[note]]Harper was more than happy play along, and would apparently badger the cast to be featured, as he was consolidating power among Canadian conservatives. When he became Prime Minister, he suddenly decided that he didn't want to be associated with the show and became more hostile towards the cast, angering them as they felt that they'd been used[[/note]].

* ActuallyPrettyFunny: Many of the politicians the show goes after find the antics and jokes to be funny and laugh along. Some even are quick-witted enough to build on the humor while pushing back.

''This Hour Has 22 Minutes'' (more commonly ''22 Minutes'' recently) 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.

* AlterEgoActing: The cast originally played characters all the time, even when in the anchor chair. This was eventually dropped around 2006 with the cast reverting to using their real names while anchoring in the studio.

* NewsParody

* MilestoneCelebration: To commemorate 22 years, the show aired a ''This Hour Has 22 Years'' special and also staged a reunion panel featuring almost every current and past cast member.

* MilestoneEpisode: To commemorate 22 years, the show aired a ''This Hour Has 22 Years'' special and also staged a reunion panel featuring almost every current and past cast member.

Despite the irreverant and sometimes viciously cynical attitude towards all sides of Canadian politics that the show displays, Canadian politicians are remarkably willing to do guest spots and interviews on the show.

Even the ambush reporting done by "Marg: Princess Warrior" and other personas of the four cast members is popular, and few politicians[[note]]except Rob Ford[[/note]] 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.

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[[caption-width-right:350:The cast, from 2018 to 2020: ''(from left to right)'' Mark Critch, Cathy Jones, Susan Kent, Trent [=McClellan=]]]

** After the episode mentioned above, Stockwell Day was asked about the poll attempting to force him to change his first name to Doris. His reply: "que sera sera".

[[caption-width-right:350:The cast, as of 2018: ''(from left to right)'' Mark Critch, Cathy Jones, Susan Kent, Trent [=McClellan=]]]

* MediaScrum

* 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."

[[caption-width-right:350:The main cast, as of 2018: ''(from left to right)'' Mark Critch, Cathy Jones, Susan Kent, Trent [=McClellan=]]]

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'' 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.

* {{Buttmonkey}}: The show was unrelenting towards Stephen Harper while he was in power and the cast's barbs had none of the backhanded affection[=/=]respect that they showed to other politicians across the political spectrum.