This Hour Has 22 Minutes - Season 11
This Hour Has 22 Minutes - Season 11 - News TV Shows 22:30. story about 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.
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- 2. Episode 2152003-10-17
- 3. Episode 2162003-10-24
- 4. Epsiode 2172003-10-31
- 5. Episode 2182003-11-07
- 6. Episode 2192003-11-14
- 7. Episode 2202003-11-28
- 8. Episode 2212003-12-05
- 9. Episode 2222004-01-09
- 10. Episode 2232004-01-16
- 11. Episode 2242004-01-23
- 12. Episode 2252004-01-30
- 13. Episode 2262004-02-06
- 14. Episode 2272004-02-13
- 15. Episode 2282004-03-05
- 16. Episode 2292004-03-19
- 17. Episode 2302004-03-26
- 18. Episode 2312004-04-02