This Hour Has 22 Minutes - Season 17 Episode 9 : Episode 9
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.
- Eps. 1 : Episode 12009-09-28
- Eps. 2 : Episode 22009-10-02
- Eps. 3 : Episode 32009-10-13
- Eps. 4 : Episode 42009-10-20
- Eps. 5 : Episode 52009-10-27
- Eps. 6 : Episode 62009-11-03
- Eps. 7 : Episode 72009-11-17
- Eps. 8 : Episode 82009-11-24
- Eps. 9 : Episode 92009-12-01
- Eps. 10 : Episode 102010-01-12
- Eps. 11 : Episode 112010-01-19
- Eps. 12 : Episode 122010-01-26
- Eps. 13 : Episode 132010-02-02
- Eps. 14 : Episode 142010-02-09