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"This Hour Has 22 Minutes is a satirical examination of daily events. Some viewers may not share this sense of humour." 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.— Opening Announcement "What kind of show is this anyway?" — Peter Fonda "We're 22 Minutes. We're like the news, but drunk." The show is mostly sketch comedy revolving around current political issues, and is pretty much evenly split between the 'news anchors' interviewing fictitious people, monologues or dialogues from various recurring characters and actual interviews with real people, mostly politicians.Very popular in its early run, made a national star out of Rick Mercer (who later struck out on his own with The Rick Mercer Report), and to a lesser extent Mary Walsh. At times, its influence on the Canadian political scene could be compared to the current influence of The Daily Show and The Colbert Report 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.— Bas Mac Laren "At this time, we need to look to Canada's poets for inspiration. And when we think Canada, when we think poets, we all think... Trooper!" [Cut to montage of Canadian politicians singing along to "Raise A Little Hell"] 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 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 Media Scrum, may have something to do with this.Compare with The Daily Show and The Colbert Report."Well, that's the way we saw the world this week." — Rick Mercer This show provides examples of:
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