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22 Minutes: Mitt Romney Grilled By Comedian Mark Critch At South Carolina Republican Primary (VIDEO)

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Mitt Romney lost the Republican primary in South Carolina last weekend to Newt Gingrich and Canadian comedy show "This Hour Has 22 Minutes" saw it coming.

The show's Mark Critch traveled down south to meet with the GOP hopefuls and quiz them on their Canadian connections.

In the clip above, Critch poses as a reporter from Grand Bend, Ontario, a cottage community where Romney spent time as a youth.

The ploy works like a charm, luring the Republican front-runner in so Critch can fire off questions about Romney's mastery of the French language, his stance on the Keystone pipeline and whether anything can be done about Randy Quaid.

Critch then watches Romney give a rousing speech, but worries that the giant sign reading "concession" might be a bit of a bad omen. Looks like he was right.

This Hour Has 22 Minutes airs Tuesdays at 8:30 pm on CBC TV. Catch more clips of the show on Facebook and Twitter.

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08:37 AM on 01/27/2012

Grilled?
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God bless 22 Minutes and Air Farce and all the other wonderful Canadian shows that knew/know how to make our pompous politicians look like human beings again — and Marge, you really should take another whack (so to speak) at Mayor Ford. The first encounter was priceless.

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10:39 AM on 01/25/2012

I love the "Canadian" accent Mark Critch uses to talk to the Americans haha.

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02:01 AM on 01/25/2012

If Critch worked in the States he would have his choice of three networks , scrubbing toilets at CBS.NBC or ABC

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08:43 PM on 01/24/2012

I await SUNTV, and the first knob on there who will get all Chuck Todd over this...no doubt they'll now demand to see Mark Critch's tax returns.

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No sense of humour down there.
If you speak a second laguage ,it is used against you.
America {a lot of them} needs to loosen up.
Bush leagers ya.
22M rules.

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As an old and very cynical retired English lawyer, it must have been very difficult to decide who the real comedian is, I hope Mitt had the protection from his special Mormon Underwear, he sure needs all the help he can get.

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One of my favourite shows. Love Mark Critch! But did you see how Romney tried to control the conversation?

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That was the warmest most sincere reaction by Romney that I've seen yet.

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"And so are you for Keystone Pipeline and do you promise to take Randy Quaid back?"

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done so many times.............get over it

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