22 Minutes goes elbows up on decency with 'disgusting' Poilievre skit
For a state broadcaster facing the threat of budget cuts, is pointing knives at the potential PM going too far?
Author of the article:Joe Warmington
Published Apr 01, 2025 • Last updated 13 hours ago • 3 minute read
Halloween character Michael Myers goes elbows up -- and knives up -- on a fake Pierre Poilievre in a comedy skit.
Halloween character Michael Myers goes elbows up -- and knives up -- on Pierre Poilievre, right, played by Chris Wilson, during a This Hour Has 22 Minutes skit. Photo by This Hour Has 22 Minutes /YouTube
The knives are definitely out in this wild federal election campaign, but this a whole new low in Canadian political history.
Unless you think a slasher film killer holding kitchen knives toward a potential prime minister is funny.
Either way, having a serial killer character from the Halloween movies pointing two large blades toward a Pierre Poilievre impersonator on CBC’s This Hour Has 22 Minutes on April Fools Day is something not seen in Canadian politics before.
And it has critics sharpening their outrage.
If it was a comedic slash back at a Conservative leader who has threatened to cut the CBC budget if elected prime minister, some people on social media seemed to pick up on it.
“About as funny as cancer,” wrote Miranda Veracruz on X.
“Seems like a threat,” posted Gunther Johnson.
“Just purely disgusting,” wrote Valerie Munro. “Not funny at all.”
The CBC’s Chuck Thompson told the Toronto Sun that This Hour Has 22 Minutes “has been doing satirical comedy for over 30 years now and this season is certainly no exception.” He added “comedy is so subjective” and “with each episode of 22 Minutes, we recognize not every sketch will be to everyone’s taste. Over the years, seemingly without exception, no politician has dodged the satirical lens of 22 Minutes.”
Or in the case of the Tuesday night broadcast, not just one knife but two. Maybe it should be called “This Hour Has Two Knives.”
The legendary CBC comedy show is known for lampooning leaders – especially conservative ones like Poilievre and U.S. President Donald Trump.
In this case, actor Chris Wilson started the video doing a parody of the now-famous video that Liberal Leader Mark Carney did last week with Canadian comedy legend Mike Myers – where they pretended to be in a hockey rink wearing red Team Canada sweaters as the Liberal leader took the Wayne’s World star through a Canadian purity test with a series of questions including topics like the puppets on Mr. Dressup.
In this mocking version of the original spot, 22 Minutes cast Wilson as Poilievre in a similar venue and with the same Team Canada sweater.
“Yes, play hockey, play hockey,” he says. “Hi Canada, it’s me, Pierre. I’m at a hockey rink. Oh, look. Take that Mark Carney. It’s celebrity sweetheart Mike Myers, also at the rink to endorse me.”
This time it was not the actual Mike Myers of Austin Powers fame, but the masked psycho from the Halloween movies. In the parody “fill-in-the-blank” quiz, they make a joke about “barenaked ladies,” meant to play off the Canadian band, and when asked, “How do you stop a 2-on-1?” the silent slasher makes a throat-slitting motion.
“Killing. Yea. Wow. Yeah, that would do it,” says the jittery fake Poilievre, who is then surprised by the killer lurking behind him by asking, “Is that what that feels like?”
But when the Poilievre character offers to do the same “elbows up” that the real Mike Myers got going on his Saturday Live appearance and with Carney as well, the Halloween character raises his elbows to expose two large kitchen knives pointed directly at the fake Poilievre.
All of this was posted to X under the banner: “Pierre Poilievre gets a killer endorsement.”
Is this funny?
To some who were offended by the real Poilievre’s “biological clock” comment from a day earlier, it seems it was less offensive. For those feeling that there has been a lot of backstabbing toward the Conservative leader, there were certainly not as many laughs.
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The knives are definitely out in this wild federal election campaign, but a This Hour Has 22 Minutes skit set a whole new low.
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