Mark McKinney, a veteran of both The Kids in the Hall and Saturday Night Live, gets his brows darked for Tuesday nights episode of This Hour Has 22 Minutes (8 p.m. ET on CBC and streaming on CBCGem).
At least he doesn’t have to sit and get tarted up with orange tan spray the way Mark Critch has to do every time he plays US president Donald Trump. Critch has been killing it lately as the mad tariff fiend, nailing The Donald’s high and low voices and all 45 words in his vocabulary.
McKinney taped his sketch Monday night in Halifax. With wall-to-wall NHL Stanley Cup playoff coverage around the corner, CBC’s Sportsnet invasion will soon knock almost everything off the public broadcaster’s prime time schedule.
For example, tonight’s episode of the series that follows 22 Minutes, Son of a Critch, will be the fourth season ender. Young Mark (Benjamin Evan Ainsworth) and his comedy partner get their big break — the chance to perform two sketches on the radio. Trouble is, the recording runs smack up against the wedding of the mother of Mark’s girlfriend Fox (Sophia Powers). What’s a showbiz-mad lad to do?
22 Minutes will air their 32nd season ender next Tuesday night, and then return in a pre-election special on Thursday, April 24th. No confirmed word yet as to whether McKinney will be back as Carney for that one. In the interest of equal time, 22 Minutes‘ Chris Wilson will be doing his best Pierre Poilievre.
Note: the date of the 22 Minutes pre-election special has been updated after it was originally posted here in error.
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