Comedy in times of crises: This Hour Has 22 Minutes’ creators on making light of politics in a polarized world

Mark Critch and team talk Trump, Trudeau, and the time they tried crashing a Poilievre rally.

Mark Critch portrays Donald Trump on screen for This Hour Has 22 Minutes.Photograph courtesy of This Hour Has 22 Minutes

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BY RIDDHI KACHHELA

February 6, 2025

U.S. President Donald Trump’s return to the White House may have thrown the world in a turmoil, but it has given satirists in Canada and elsewhere renewed fuel to strike back with wit.

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