This Hour Has 22 Minutes
Is the falling Canadian dollar good or bad for the economy?
Or a little bit of both?
‘Let my carbon go’
This Hour Has 22 Minutes takes on the cap-and-trade debate (such as it is).
Mulcair on 22 Minutes
Thomas Mulcair tries comedy.
Look back in laughter
This Hour Has 22 Minutes compiles its favourite moments with Jack Layton.
How our MPs live
More pressing than the crumbling nature of our democracy may be the crumbling nature of the buildings that house our democracy.
The nature of John Baird’s aggression
One fears the Transport Minister may be developing a bit of an image problem.
‘Who’s that in the back row?’
This Hour Has 22 Minutes just yesterday uploaded to YouTube its skits from this season. Which is as good an excuse as any to post this.
Prime Rib only $14.99
Gavin Crawford’s Michael Ignatieff remains a thing of true wonder.
The John Cusack of Canadian politics
Michael Ignatieff on 22 Minutes last night.
“They were giving me what they thought was helpful advice, which obviously I ignored.”
Stephanie Law has an excellent interview with writer-producer (and sometime TV Guidance commenter) Mark Farrell, showrunner of This Hour Has 22 Minutes and one of the developers of Corner Gas. He talks about the writing process, the things he looks for in a writer (on a topical show like 22 Minutes, it’s a writer who can get used to writing a lot of material that won’t get on the show) his new pilot “Dan For Mayor,” and the fact that, apparently, the CBC does not have a blacklist for writers who cross over to another network:
Hey, did you hear the one about the investment banker?
Ignore the critics — a sense of humour these days is priceless
“It’s An Ambush; We Only Get One Take”
Bill Brioux at the Canadian Press asked Mark Farrell, executive producer of This Hour Has 22 Minutes, for some words on the Geri Hall controversy. (Short summary of the controversy: Hall showed up in-character to ask a silly question of Dalton McGuinty at a press conference; the conference was about a new round of job losses in Ontario; NDP MPP Peter Kornos chewed her out for being insensitive to the situation.)