22 Minutes casts Nicki Minaj as White House press secretary

A pair of press-briefing spoofs accompanies an unusually large day for the Canadian comedy show's channel.

Channel: 22 Minutes Story of October 23, 2026Trari Newsroom

Why this story? The whole channel is running at 4,455,059 views a day, 27 times a normal day (166,321).

The White House press office is having a busy fictional week on 22 Minutes. One sketch gives Katie Zacharia a first briefing that its title promises will also be her last. Another imagines Nicki Minaj taking the press secretary job, with the description offering a decidedly nonstandard response to reporters: would they rather hear a song?

These are comedy sketches, not real White House announcements. They arrive as the CBC satire show's channel draws about 4.5 million views in a day, roughly twenty-seven times its usual daily pace.

The Zacharia sketch, posted Monday, has already joined the channel's most-watched regular videos, a list that also includes its Trump-and-Zelenskyy card-game parody and longstanding cannabis sketches. The Minaj upload gives the same week's White House material a pop-star variation.

The show's Canadian subjects haven't disappeared amid the American spoofs. Its other uploads include a parody message from Alberta Premier Danielle Smith with a Slytherin joke in the description, plus a sketch imagining separatist leader Jeffrey Rath addressing his supporters.

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The numbers

Daily channel views are far above their usual pace. The total covers the channel as a whole, not just its White House sketches.

views per day, whole channel

typical day

166,321

now

4,455,059

subscribers

366,000

▲ 6,000 in the last 7 days

total views

118,974,346

views per day

4,455,059

typical day: 166,321

subscribers: this channel and similar channels

Lorraine

371,000

22 Minutes

366,000

Sunrise

366,000

The Late Late Show

365,000

Would I Lie To You?

317,000

Have I Got News For You US

306,000

As of October 23, 2026 · Data source: Trari Social News, Trari Traffic Trends and Ranking Platform, Google YouTube

Subscriber, view, like and comment counts are YouTube's. Rates, usual days, rankings, comparisons and categories are Trari's own calculations.