Kids In The Hall - what's your favorite sketch(es)

havent seen the show in years

I love Tammy! She is better than Britney.

The Doors skit

"excuse me, do you have the new depeche mode?" "yeah we do...but they suck"

"the gypsies had no home, the doors had no bass"

as mentioned on the Raquetball thread...THE ERADICATOR!

"Gerald!"

"Gerry!"

"Ger!"

"G!"

The one where Mark as a woman comes to teach some workers how to throw a suprise party for a co-worker and they're totally clueless.

The one with the french-canadian furriers canoeing through moder-day canada and setting traps in an office, "let that one go, he may one day be vice president", pulling up to scott thompson dave foley says "we have calvin klein, perry ellis, and many Armani"

Mark as the Serbian cab driver.

bruce mccullough - the one where he's driving and listening to the "sports score, it's so true"

and kevin mcdonald - when the car is in the driveway but it won't start - "try it now!"

"And now Bruce McCulloch with an open letter to the people who watched the guy steal his bike wheel" [spoken by Scott]

[Bruce enters, bike lowered from above] Well, you knew it wasn't his wheel! What did you think? He was coming back for the rest of his bike later? Well, why didn't you do something? Why didn't you say something? You human piece of apathy! Why didn't you say, "Hey! That's not your wheel! That could be Bruce McCulloch's wheel! We love him! And he loved that wheel!" Just eatin' brunch. Well, didn't you think I needed it? I did! Well, look at that! Feast on that act of violence! Good work, Einstein! Pus!

"That was Bruce McCulloch with an open letter to the people who watched while the guy stole his bike wheel." [spoken by Scott]

[Bumper video of Bruce walking his incomplete bike.]

Dear Guy I Clotheslined As You Went By on Your Bicycle.
You don't know me, but I'm the guy who broke your collarbone. Now I've asked myself over and over why did I clothesline that guy. Perhaps I watched too much slapstick as a kid and expected you to get up after being violently assaulted. Imagine my confusion when you did not. Although not so confused that I'd actually hang around.

In all fairness, It was pretty funny, I mean the last thing you'd expect as you were riding merrily by on your bike is that someone you didn't know at all would stick out his arm and crush your throat.

I mean, you really should have seen it, It was just like WAM! BAM! (hahaha)

ANY-WAY....

In closing, as you lay there convalescing in your hospital be, I'm forced to wonder 'What were you doing riding your bike on the sidewalk anyway, Huh, ya asshole? side-WALK!

Maybe sometimes we bring heartache upon ourselves.

Signed, the guy that collapsed your trachea.

"See Bobby, pretty soon we'll all be listening to Jazz!"

When he's a big brother and the kid tells him he got a girl pregnant.

When he's flashing back to playing games with his mom.

When he's hosting his painting show:

Now if you remember all great paintings have an element of tragedy to them. Uh for instance if you remember from *last* week, the unicorn was stuck on the aircraft carrier and couldn't get off. That was very sad. Uh and this week some of you wrote in with your suggestions. In fact Mrs. Trabinsky of Paulvale Street wrote in and suggested we give this lover [points to man in painting] a tumor in his head. So, let's begin! Now colour is especially important with a tumor. You want some red [uses brush to take some red paint and moves it to a different part of the palette], and you want some green [takes green paint on brush and mixes it with the red], and you want a little bit of blue [takes blue paint and mixes it with the others] to make it out-- There. Can you see that? That's a really nice colour for a tumor isn't it? Alright. Now, let's work with the colour we've created and add the tumor. [paints tumor on top of the head of the man] Now the thing is we don't want the tumor too big, we don't want to [points to mountains] steal focus from the mountains, okay? And what we'll do is we'll reflect the tumor in the water, down here, but we work again with the colour we've created, [paints tumor on man's reflection] we just sort of imply it because we don't want to wind up screaming, "Hey everyone look! There's a reflection of a tumor in the lake!" It's not what we want. [looking at painting] Well this is uh... quite a sad painting now I think. Perhaps this is the last time our lovers will be here together. I don't think this one will be around the next time ss-the snows settle on the gentle slopes of Mount Schwarzkopf [pointing with brush to mountain] up here.

the weird thing is I'm blanking on my favorite skit.

I'm gonna ask a question. What sort of music do you think there is in hell? You know, H-E-double hockey sticks? Well, I think it's probably hateful, free-form Jazz. And in heaven? Country and Western music. The choice is pretty obvious. It's not Jazz. It's not bop-a-dop bop-be-bop-bo Jazz. [to flutist:] What's that? A recorder or something? I'm not into it. Fuzz pedal, that's what I'm into. You know?

I really liked the one where Foley and McDonald are the French trappers hunting Yuppies for their suits in downtown Toronto. The site of them canoeing down the hall of the office building past cubicles was great.

also:

"you know for a straight man you sure know a lot about faggotry..."

and

"What time is it?"
"It's ten till four."
"No. The time is now."

Also, does anyone remember which one had the flashback of the dad firing hockey pucks at his kid?

2) "I had the pear dream again."

"We are lost..."

3) "I've got a score to settle with a kabob!"

4) "I'm just going to step out this window and see if I can't fly or whatever...."

5) the one where Kevin McDonald is new at the office and Dave Foley plays the psycho who keeps telling the boss things like Kevin pees himself, he's a satanist, etc., but they actually help Kevin with the new job.

6) I like that random one where it's that old guy walking down the street in a leisure suit accompanied by some tune, acting all cool and suave

7) Bruce as the wig shop owner! "Why would I know anything about a wig?!"

8) Running faggot!

9) God is dead!

10) Cyril the Escape Artist

jeez, it's a gold mine on that show.

Dave: MadTV (November 25, 1995)

Dave: Hi. Uhh, yeah, I'm Dave Foley, and I just wanted to talk to you, not just as a middle-rung celebrity, but also as a Canadian who has recently moved to your country.

Now I've been surprised to find how little Americans seem to know about Canada. Now granted, there are many similarities between our two nations but there are also many subtle differences that give us our unique Canadian identity. For example, in Canada everyone hates Barbara Streisand. But here she seems to be quite popular.

And there are other differences too. I mean, we don't have states; we have provinces. Umm, we use the metric system. Canadians and Americans both love football, but in Canada the game is played slightly differently. The field is a different size for one thing, The CFL field is 17 miles long and 6 feet wide. So understandably, games are a little longer. In fact, the 1949 Gray Cup game is still in progress.

Many Americans believe that our national anthem is "Oh Canada" simply because we enjoy singing it before hockey games. But in fact, our anthem is "The Night Chicago Died" by Paper Lace.

Our systems of government differ somewhat in that America is a Republic with a President, a Congress, and a Senate. In Canada we are ruled by a small boy with supernatural powers... of whom we are all very fond.

Now in the U.S. when a mommy and daddy love each other, they perform bipolar sexual intercourse and make a baby. Canadians, however, are a breed of hermaphrodites who reproduce by means of auto-insemination, thus eliminating the need for sex. This also explains why we don't really have a film industry.

And of course, how can we discuss Canada without discussing the weather. Yes, it is cold in Canada. It is very, very cold, are ya HAPPY now?? Yes, the average year-round temperature is 275 degrees below zero, but that is CELCIUS. Now can we talk about something else??

Like for example, the fact that our atmosphere is pure sulpher dioxide which is, of course, incapable of sustaining life, LIFE AS YOU KNOW IT. Or the fact that we only have gravity for 6 hours out of each day and spend the rest of our time desparately clinging to trees to avoid being spun into the endless abyss of space.

Yes, all this is true, but at least we have universal health care.

Thank you for your time.

ok I can't find it. I'll just mention these instead:

Dave Foley w/ Breasts "Danny? Do these look new? Stop Staring Danny."

Scott Thompson wants his wife Kevin to pay more attention to his nipples, she doesn't want to because he pees from them, Scott says "Honey, I pee through my penis" Kevin starts to disgustedly wash his mouth out with water.

Also, "Here's to [Bob?] and ritual murder!"

oh, yeah..

Touch Bellini!

--Buddy C0le on Vice

Dave: Sorry, no can do! Although I'd love to! [turns towards Mark] Oh sure Nina, I experimented with homosexuality in college, but then who didn't? Oh! And I drank human blood! There, I said it and I feel better for having said it!

Buddy doing the Wizard of Oz routine with Tammy and the Tammy video, that's priceless.

Segragation...in the nation...and dance

Tammy Tammy! What do you think of abortion?

um, never on the first date?

the flying pig one

girl drink drunk

bobby terence vs the devil

gavin eating the goldfish

the one where kevin leans back in his chair and is knocked unconscious...

they're all so so so so so good... roll on season 2 DVDs!!

"His wife did it."

"EEEEVILLLL!"

beautiful.

I hate the swiss.

he has!

"if I'm the air traffic controller around here, then you're grounded, mister!"

Dave: Bruce has something that he'd like to say to everyone. Go ahead, Bruce.

Bruce: Hi.

Dave: Go on, Bruce.

Bruce: Hi.

Dave: Just do it, Bruce. Come on. [The two of them argue slightly]

Bruce: OK, you asked me. . .

Dave: Well, just do it. . .

Bruce: Fine. I'll do it . . .

Dave: Just go.

Bruce: Dave Foley, ladies and gentlemen.

[applause]

Dave: No, just do it, Bruce. You're wasting a lot of time. Bruce McCulloch would like to say something.

Bruce: I'm sorry I caused all that cancer. [laughter] I didn't realize it was such a hideous disease.

[more laughter. Dave looks bewildered]

Dave: [angry] I suppose you think that makes it, OK? 'I'm sorry I caused all that cancer. . .' you don't even sound like you mean it, Bruce.

Bruce: Dave, you asked me to apologize and that's just what I did.

Dave: I'm sorry. Well, in rehearsal you sounded like you meant it, it sounded like you were actually remorseful about what you had done, but this was pretty, pretty lame, Bruce. I think you should apologize like you really mean it.

Bruce: [hurt] Fine, David. I'm sorry I caused all that throat cancer and all that bowel cancer. I was just on a roll . . .

Dave: . . . and?

Bruce: and I won't do it again.

Dave: Thank you, Bruce.

[applause]

"oh no, time to clean up the country!"

"In the darkness...in the blackness..."

i also really like the sketch where kevin is a high-school boy about to get lucky with mike as a young lass with a mouth-full of braces - only kevin gets freaked out by all the imagery in the bedroom - the picture of dad with a shotgun, jesus on the wall, a menacing dog in the corner of the room, etc, not to mention a terrible storm outside. it's all enough to make an anxious kevin pass out and then he wakes to mike screaming and the dog humping him. good family fun that one.

ARGH YES! BOUNCY BALL!

"and my 8th favorite band is the Smiths, and my 7th favorite band is the Pogues" or something, is what she says before she goes to "change into something more comfortable."

earth quaka, earth quaka, whole lotta shakin' goin' on.

son, your mother left me.

Bell biv devoe, bell beiv devoe...

- Dave:
"What's the point of what we do?"
Kevin:
"Sorry, I don't follow you."
Dave:
"Well, I mean we travel 250,000 light years across the universe, abduct humans, probe them anally, and release them."
Kevin:
"Yeah? And?"
Dave:
"Well, doesn't it seem kind of pointless?"
Kevin:
"I really don't think about it."
Dave:
"Well, don't you think you should?"
Kevin:
"No, I don't think I should. I don't think I should question the leadership of our Great Leader."
Dave:
"Oh, come on. I mean, we've been coming here for 50 years and performing anal probes and all that we have learned is that 1 in 10 doesn't really seem to mind."

bad description, but that one was hilarious.

I'm paraphrasing, but it's still a great skit.

the one where Bruce tells his son Scott a bedtime story and the son thinks he's making it up and later the mom says "so if you weren't on a picnic with the bears last friday where were you?"

and for christsakes-

Daddy drank-

How many girls called you today son? Zero?

How many girls called you yesterday son? Zero?

You know what they say, Zero plus Zero equalls FAGGOT. Add it up, you little mathematician.

Oh remember how you said you wanted a puppy son? Well on my way home from work I bought you a puppy...but then I got hungry so I ate it.

I'm just kidding son, I'd never do that. I'd never buy you a puppy.

(don't pour salt in your eye is soooo classic..)

I also like the one where Bruce is a tough-guy in a bar and he picks a fight with that big burly dude. So they step out into the alley and Bruce proceeds to get pummeled over and over and over and over again. All the while the crowd just kind of makes "ooooh" and "oh" noises before they begin telling Bruce to "stay down".

(Bruce and Kevin both go for the same guy)

"You think he's good-looking?" "Oh you know, nice smile, honest face."

the one where Mark turns on the answering machine and there's dozens of messages from people thanking him for the sex, women, men and finally his mom and at the end he opens up his pants and a bright light shines from his penis.

SNL totally wasted him.

(c'mon, somebody please know this)

Scott: Ah, so what? I hate Gay Pride Day. Everyone is so full of themselves, eh? So much attitude.

Dave: Yeah. Too many dykes.

Kevin: [indignant] With that one sentence, you just destroyed 25 years of bridge building between a gay and lesbian community.

Dave: Yeah, that's right Smitty. I just blew up the "Bridge Over The River Queer."

"the ocean, bob? you don't know anyone in the ocean."

"It's like that tree over there - [pontification about tree]. But when you put it all together: icky tree, icky icky tree, i hate that tree! It's much the same with you."

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COW CAR COW CAR COW ... CAR ...

What movie???

Not very good aside from the "Enema-bag Jones" part.

Dave was in Blast From the Past a few years back--it wasn't really that good but he, Brendan Fraser, and Christopher Walken put in some pretty good performances I thought.

Bruce: Yeah...those are all hacked...[shrugs and gestures to couple] Take care.

[The Couple leaves and a Kevin enters the store and begins looking around the record bin.]

Kevin: 'Scuse me.

Bruce: Yeah?

Kevin: Do you have the new Depeche Mode record?

Bruce: Yeah it's over there, [motions to the record bin] but it sucks.

[He continues to work on paperwork.]

Kevin: Well, do you have the latest Pixies album?

Bruce: Yeah, but it sucks. All that new stuff sucks, but it's over there.

Kevin: You know, actually I was thinking of getting into something vintage. Anyway...I don't know, maybe The Doors?

[Bruce spins around and looks at Kevin.]

Bruce: Really! Never had you figured for a Doors fan.

Kevin: I'm not really a Doors fan, but sure I'd like to get into them...

Bruce: No no no my friend! Doors fans aren't made, they're born. I think right now in Africa there's some guy madly beating on a drum. He's a Doors fan. Or an old lady sitting on the bus sucking humbugs. She's a Rider On The Storm, but she ain't never heard the sounds.

[Bruce looks at Kevin and snaps his fingers.]

Bruce: So what about you?

Kevin: Well I heard a record of theirs last night at a party...

Bruce: Yeah?

Kevin: ...and I've always liked Love Her Madly.

Bruce: Well, if you become a Doors fan, Love Her Madly is the only song you won't like.

Kevin: Oh right! [Looking through the record bin eagerly] I guess I should start with the Greatest Hits?!

Bruce: Hey! Greatest Hits are for housewives and little girls!

[He takes the record away from the Kevin and throws it across the store, and starts pushing the Kevin out of the store.]

Bruce: You're not serious! You don't want to be a Doors fan! Get out of my store! We're closed, get out!

[Bruce walks back toward the counter, clearly offended.]

Kevin: No no no no! I want you to show me the way!

Bruce: turns and looks at Kevin with disgust.

Bruce: Was that a Frampton reference in my store?!

[Kevin thinks for a second as a look of terror crosses his face.]

Kevin: No no no no! No lyrics, just words, just words...words?

Bruce: All right if you want to be a Doors fan, you cant just buy any album. It's scientific.

[Bruce goes to the record bin and picks out an album.]

Bruce: You gotta buy this...Waiting For The Sun. It's the departure point.

[Bruce kisses the album tenderly and glances at the credits on the back.]

Bruce: Listen to it around dusk every night for about a month.

[He hands the album to Kevin.]

Kevin: Sounds good! Then what...?

Bruce: Who's playing bass?

[Kevin looks frantically at the back of the record.]

Kevin: Umm duuuu baaaa.... No one?!

Bruce: No bass!

Kevin: No bass?!

Bruce: That's right! The gypsies had no homes, The Doors had no bass. But don't let that scare you, my friend let that liberate you! 'Cause when you're free flying with the Doors, man - what do you need a safety net for?

Kevin: [shouting] Viva Le Doors!

Bruce: Viva Le Doors. But listen, there's a burden that every real Doors fan has got to live with. That's the fact that the greatest rock n' roll band of all time is never going to play live again. You can't live in the past...

Kevin: No wait...there's hope. I heard once that Iggy Pop is going to front them and the Doors are going to tour again!

Bruce: Where did ya hear that?

Kevin: I heard it somewhere...

Bruce: Yeah?!? Read it in your precious Creem Magazine maybe? Well, it's not going to happen.

Kevin: Well how do you know that?

Bruce: Because somebody told me.

Kevin: Well, who told you?

Bruce: Do you wanna know who told me?

Kevin: Well, yeah...

Bruce: Jim Fuckin' Morrisson told me, that's who!!

[Vito runs into the store.]

Vito: Hey! Do you have the new Depeche Mode album?

[Kevin points at Vito and screams...]

Kevin: SUUUUCCKKSS!

[Vito runs out of the store.]

Bruce: I forgive you. Here. [Hands Kevin a copy of Morrisson Hotel] Take this, it's an 8-track tape. It's one of the last in existence. I want you to steal a car...

Kevin: I have a car...

Bruce: Steal a car!

Kevin: Steal a car!!

Bruce: I want you to get in it and drive West. Play the tape full blast. When the tape ends, get out and get into a fight, then get back into the car, come to town and meet me at the Carcas Club.

Kevin: What will you do?

Bruce: I will let you in to the most prestigious hotel of all time...

Kevin: Which is?

Bruce: [rolling his eyes] Mor'son Hotel!

Kevin: Then what?

Bruce: Then, you're gonna be a Doors fan, man.

I have that! I think it's in season 4.

I kinda wanna get the Season 4 set just for Chalet 2000 alone...

I'll eat pancakes on her grave! Forget my diet. Screw the bank I work for, screw the bank! I'll be quitting soon. Screw the bank!

Bruce: Okay. I think we get the point.

The only thing I'm actually sorta good at is referrals. You know that thing where doctors send patients to other doctors. Well, I'm the king of referrals. What I do is I call the, uh, the sick person into my office, and I stare for a long time really seriously at this blank sheet of paper. Then I say, "Hmmm. I'd like you to see someone. He's a specialist in this area." (laughs) There are specialists who have their whole career based on my referrals. I am the cornerstone of a medical empire. (sighs) Well, I really should be going. I've gotta tell the family that the patient didn't make it - hardest part of being a doctor...I think!

SANTA: "Very mature, Buddy! Verrry matuuuuure!"

Why 20!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JwK-2qgBPrk
(I think I'm in the minority in being a Foley fan.)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WyXf8SBzlfc

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2yOTTImVKk

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCSDrtCK2gA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ht55F6xTDnk

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7y7y7AEq82I

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTe_zBg1uT8

Girl Drink Drunk: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZK6RISIuPU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGk25WwW3h4

Now who wants to talk Frantics?

To whoever mentioned his spot on Scrubs--I was actually kind of disappointed. He played a grief counselor and I felt he was tremendously underused. He and Jason Bateman (also criminally underused) were part of a stint of mediocre guest star-featuring episodes early in this season.

from the classic TAMMY skit.

-- Shakey Mo Collier (audiobo...), June 2nd, 2006.

hahaha no that's Rip Taylor you're talking about!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4PGCjCy9FFY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GgQNTmMS64E

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IpriR_u_gf8

"When I walk around in this terrier town/One thing that puts me down is when people put...bandanas on their dogs."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7y7y7AEq82I&search=kids%20in%20the%20hall

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZK6RISIuPU&search=kids%20in%20the%20hall

Thanks, YouTube!

(I wonder if this is what gave us the idea for putting vodka in the ice cream floats.)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4PGCjCy9FFY

haha "All we've learned is that one in ten doesn't seem to mind."

(haha, i totally forgot about there's a fly on your face right here. and i just remembered the day my friend passed me a replica of that note in class. i had to leave the room for hysterical teenage laughing fit.)

oh wait - he's hip! he's cool! he's 45...

time to spunk a load of cash on the series 1-4 dvds, i fear.

no love for brain candy?

POREEF!

& chateau 2000

-- andrew m. (westernis...), October 31st, 2006.

the one i always think of is "ho-dee-oten-oten-day splitting up a car-rot"

-- ¨ˆ¨ˆ¨ˆ¨ˆ¨ˆ¨ˆ (chaki.tim...), June 13th, 2006.

otm!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCSDrtCK2gA

m.

the one i always think of is "ho-dee-oten-oten-day splitting up a car-rot"
-- latebloomer: none of th movies make scence but they r good. (posercore24...), Wednesday 2:50 AM.

The one *I* always think of is "ho-dee-oten-oten-day eating our diplomas"

fwiw so far the only one I own is Season 5. I dunno if I'd call that the best tho, its just the one I'm least familiar with.

The one *I* always think of is "ho-dee-oten-oten-day eating our diplomas"

The one I always think is "fattening up our taaaapewormmmms!"

Bobby: I have that album.

god, i LOVE that one.

xpost: i got that off a fansite with transcrips, dan, so i dunno.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5ruckFA5MM

butcher: $12?

gavin: no, i do not think that i will sell.

"so will I"

Kevin: Hey videos. Awright. Mahogany. I hear it's [?????]'s best movie. Could I borrow it?

Dave: [pissed but can't articulate it] I haven't seen it yet.

Kevin: Tell ya what. I'll see it tonight and bring it to ya first thing tomorrow.

Dave: Promise?

Kevin: Will do.

[Cut to next day, at the supermarket. Dean is absently applying price stickers to cans of produce.]

Dave: Did you bring my video back?

Kevin: Slipped my mind. But I feel awful about it. I tell ya what I'll do: I'll bring the video tomorrow, plus I'll buy ya one. Do ya have The Godfather?

Dave: No. So you'd really do that?

Kevin: Will do.

[Next day; Kevin is mopping the supermarket floor. Dave is getting apprehensive.]

Dave: So, did you bring my videos?

Kevin: Slipped my mind.

Dave: Should I even ask about The Godfather?

Kevin: Don't bother.

Dave: Man, this is starting to cost me money, ya know. Soon the video store is going to be on my ass and rightly so, 'cause when you rent a video, you enter into a sacred trust!

Kevin: I tell ya what. Let's have dinner tonight. Pesto's at eight. I'll bring the video, I'll bring The Godfather; you know that Paul Simon album you've been wanting me to tape? I'll tape it and bring that too, *and* dinner's on me.

Dave: [Feeling like a jerk] You don't have to bother with all that; just bring me the video.

Kevin: No, I want to. I'm just sick about the whole thing.

Dave: OK. Pesto's at eight.

Kevin: Will do.

[Cut to night; it's after 9:30, and Kevin is nowhere to be found.]

Waiter: Would you care to order, sir?

Dave: Could I have another brasket of bed please?

[yes, brasket of bed; Dave is a gallon of nerves in a quart jar. Kevin walks by the front window of Pesto's with his girlfriend.]

Diane: So, you'll bring the condoms tomorrow?

Kevin: Will do.

Dave: Hey! What up, huh! [Almost hits Kevin, but can't bring himself to] You were supposed to meet me at the restaurant at eight, where were you?!?

Kevin: Slipped my mind. But I feel horrible about the whole thing.

Dave: No! I don't want to hear it! You're the king of empty promises! What we're gonna do now, is we're gonna go to your place and get my stuff, understand?!

Kevin: I have to take my friend [the girl] home first, but I tell you what I'll do. I'll bring your Mahogany video, [Dave starts to shake his head; he's *not having it*] The Godfather video, the Paul Simon tape, a bottle of Scotch, *and* a written apology. I'll meet ya in a half hour.

[Dean stops shaking head abruptly]

Dave: OK. Sorry I had to crack the whip.

Kevin: Forget it.

[Kevin and Diane board a Greyhound.]

Diane: Shouldn't you've told him I live in Winnipeg?

Kevin: Slipped my mind.

Bruce: Why are you giving me this, cause you don't know how to communicate with me, cause my Mom is dead? [sets down the casserole] Mosquitoes live for only one day, you know, so if they skip breakfast, I guess they had a bad childhood. If death is the great teacher, then what about my science teacher Mr. Gorgenchuck? Who, when you leave the fan on, his ears whistle. So we always leave the fan on.

"you're an butt freak"

Mark: No I'm doing fine, thanks.

Bruce: okay. These guys, smoke.

Mark: They smoke.

Bruce: Yeah!

Mark: Wow.

Bruce: And there *bad*! And you know what??? They taught a dog to smoke! Do you believe that?

Mark: Sure, I believe that.

Bruce: Yeah, well it's true! And they taught him to beg for cigarettes! Door to door! So right away when this poor little devil would ring your door bell with his paws, you'd know right away what he wanted! So you'd give him a cigarette, and he'd take it back to these guys that waited by the fence to smoke, and they didn't care who saw them smoke! These guys sure smoked!

i saw them perform this sketch live in nyc at town hall, so great

we've got to clean up the country!

"you're an butt freak"

They were showing Brokeback Mountain on the On Demand service on a flight I was on recently. I kept thinking about this sketch and messing with the passenger across the aisle from me.

"let me help you with your sweater clip. ... oh, the wind"

What ever happened to Bruce? His solo films were the weirdest, most brilliant, surreal genius bits, and look at what he's been doing since.

And Dave's on Celebrity Poker and Kevin's in Epic Movie...

man, all those guys were the funniest people ever, it's really sad they aren't making really funny movies or writing books or even doing their own shows. I saw one of the episodes of News Radio that Dave wrote and it was unbelievable.

Daryll and the teenage girl that Mark plays may be my favorite characters.

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on the plus side, they seem to have learned their lesson that they work best together, cuz their recent tours have been really really great.

i went kinda nuts.

I think I'll get season 3 and 4

In the photo, McCulloch looks like Shatner's slightly younger brother.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/30/arts/30hall.html

Those Kids May Be Older, but They’re Still Fooling Around in the Hall
By PETER KEEPNEWS

MONTREAL — The return of the Kids in the Hall ranks a few notches below the Spice Girls reunion on the hype scale. But when the Kids took the stage of the 1,400-seat Théâtre Maisonneuve here on July 18 for the first of three shows at the annual Just for Laughs comedy festival, they received a boisterous response that would have made any pop group proud.

And, as they went on to demonstrate, they’re a lot funnier than the Spice Girls.

Often described as the heirs to Monty Python, in influence if not fame, the Toronto-based Kids in the Hall helped redefine sketch comedy in the late 1980s and early ’90s with a show seen in the United States on HBO and, in the late-night hours, CBS.

Their humor was as absurd as Python’s but darker and franker — darker and franker, in fact, than any other comedy on television at the time. Although they were known for surreal characters with names like Chicken Lady and Flying Pig, most of their comedy was based on families, relationships, jobs and the other fraught realities of everyday life. (They frequently performed in drag, but their female characters, unlike Python’s, were believable women rather than caricatures.)

Their series won them a fiercely loyal following. And they have continued to win new fans, first through years of reruns on Comedy Central and more recently through DVDs and YouTube.

But Kids in the Hall sightings have been rare since the series ceased production in 1994. The five-member troupe got together for the 1996 feature film “Brain Candy,” which was not successful, and for tours in 2000 and 2002, which were. Mostly, though, the members have been busy with their individual careers.

Despite the continuing demands of those careers, they recently decided it might be fun to perform together again, and also to write together, something they had not tried since their ill-fated movie.

Audiences in Montreal, where the Kids unveiled their new show after breaking it in with a few unadvertised performances in Los Angeles in May, would probably have been content with an evening of their greatest hits. They were instead treated to 90 minutes of new material; the Kids reprised none of their signature sketches and few of their familiar characters. (Scott Thompson’s acid-tongued gay-bar philosopher, Buddy Cole, and Mark McKinney’s misanthropic Head Crusher were notable exceptions.) The response was enthusiastic, and the Kids are now talking about another tour and maybe even another movie.

So how does it feel to be reunited, Kids?

“Technically it’s not a reunion, because we’ve never officially split up and we never will,” Kevin McDonald, 46 — the troupe’s most wild-eyed member, now a frequent sitcom guest and cartoon voice — said during a break from rehearsal the afternoon before the first Montreal show.

Dave Foley — at 44 still the freshest-faced Kid and probably the best known, thanks to his four years on the sitcom “NewsRadio” — observed: “I think when we did a show in 2000, that was a reunion. Because we hadn’t done anything together for five years, and we weren’t even sure we were talking to each other.”

To which Mr. McKinney, 48 — the Kid with the most extensive repertory of odd characters and the most varied acting résumé, most recently seen on “Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip” and the Canadian series “Slings and Arrows” — added, “And we had a hideous amount of ill feeling to overcome.”

Much of that ill feeling (which, their offstage camaraderie makes clear, is long gone) arose during the making of “Brain Candy,” a painful and acrimonious process marked by fights and walkouts. At least that’s the picture painted, hilariously, in “Hammy and the Kids,” the autobiographical one-man show that Mr. McDonald presented at a small Montreal theater, also as part of Just for Laughs.

The other members of the troupe all saw the show, which addresses both his career and his life with an alcoholic father, and all loyally raved about it. “Scott cried,” Mr. McDonald said, “and Dave said that Scott cried.”

Mr. Thompson, 48, who was a regular on “The Larry Sanders Show” and currently has his own one-man show, admitted that he did indeed cry when he saw “Hammy and the Kids.” He added with a broad smile that although it portrays him in particular as more than a little mad, “I thought he let us off easy.”

Bruce McCulloch, 46, is the most deadpan Kid and the most active behind the camera lately, as a director of feature films including “Superstar” and now as creator and executive producer of “Carpoolers,” a sitcom on ABC’s fall schedule. The box-office failure of “Brain Candy” dimmed hopes for what he called “a Python kind of second act”: getting together every few years, as the members of Monty Python did, to make a movie. Now those hopes have been rekindled, and script ideas are flowing.

There is also renewed excitement about going back on the road. And, the Kids say, there are offers from promoters. But a tour will have to wait until a few more episodes of “Carpoolers” are in the can and Mr. McCulloch is available.

Even “Carpoolers,” however, is turning out to be a Kids in the Hall project of sorts. Mr. McDonald is on the show’s writing staff. Mr. Thompson appears in the pilot episode and is set to play a recurring character. Appearances by the other two Kids are a possibility.

Meanwhile all five of them can (and do) take pride in the lasting impact they have had on comedy — seen, they say, not just in the current generation of sketch groups like Human Giant and the Whitest Kids U’Know, but also in everything from “South Park” to “The Daily Show.”

“I think we’re like the Replacements,” Mr. McDonald said, dropping a name sure to resonate with indie-rock aficionados. “They didn’t sell a lot of albums, but they paved the way for groups like Nirvana.”

Mr. McCulloch put it a bit differently. “I think we were about as big as we could be,” he said, “without being big.”

Copyright 2007 The New York Times Company

^_^

Did anyone watch Carpoolers??

watch what now?

Read up two posts...it was on last night but I didn't know at the time.

Oh dee-oh 'n doh-'n day, oh dee-oh 'n day-oh, oh dee-oh 'n doh-'n day, waaatching theeee carrrrpooooolerrrrs!

that said what is carpoolers?

wow, first, that was an xpost and 2nd sorry

http://www.brucio.com/writing.php?vID=24

(after looking it up on imdb)

eh I'm deeply skeptical. Brucio was always my favorite Kid, but the stuff he's written/directed/produced since is all uniformly awful (Dogpark, anyone?)

yeah, Dogpark and his SNL shorts weren't very good, but Bruce's first CD Shame-Based Man is great, one of my favorite comedy albums of all time.

what SNL shorts did he do? His movies have been really bad. I have read they've been pretty butchered at various states, but I can't imagine they started out as "My Hair!"

Bruce (and Mark) wrote for SNL for a while pre- and during the KITH tv show, and I think after the show went off the air Bruce went back to SNL for a while in the mid-90's, I recall him directing a few shorts that were pretty similiar to his later KITH sketches, dark humor but kind of boring and unsatisfying.

but yeah, no amount of editing or studio involvement or lack thereof could've made Superstar or Stealing Harvard good movies. maybe Dogpark, but I thought that was kind of likeable in a really low key way personally.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=Qe6y3KJvI2U

I watched Carpoolers last night. It was decent but I'll probably never watch it again. There was a nice Scott Thompson cameo, and you could certainly hear Bruce in a lot of the dialogue.

what's the secret password?

Both Brucio's albums fill my heart with joy, but fuck man, he directed SUPERSTAR.

life is a pretty sweet fruit

no one must know my secret

Doors fans aren't made, they're born. I think right now in Africa there's some guy madly beating on a drum. He's a Doors fan. Or an old lady sitting on the bus sucking humbugs. She's a Rider On The Storm, but she ain't never heard the sounds.

STEAL A CAR

You know that feeling you get when you dont know he it's gonna be a shit or a fart, but you let'er rip anyway?

ever since I've grown a beard I have that "THE BEARD STAYS - YOU GO" line stuck in my head

get off my back, buddy- oh the love

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shit!

http://www.youtube.com/v/ZNCUgFeIjyM&hl=en&fs=1

I got to meet all these guys, and ask them comedy nerd questions

They're coming back.

YATTA!

I'm not sure that link does what you think it does.

bruce's performance when he tries to improvise a message = A+++

^^^^my wife and I ref these songs a little too often

ever since I've grown a beard I have that "THE BEARD STAYS - YOU GO" line stuck in my head

― Shakey Mo Collier, Thursday, 25 September 2008 18:34 (6 months ago)

loooool just posted this on gay thread

I've lost my indian drum

twin gavins: http://jezebel.com/5243027/twin-savants-fixated-on-dick-clark

the similarity in diction is ... disturbing

am i going insane, or was there a KITH sketch that was about "the men with the smallest penises in the world (and they don't know it)", which includes kevin mcculloch uttering the phrase, "two inches? why, that would scare a woman!"?

you are going insane, there is no one named kevin mcculloch

that doesn't sound like a kith sketch

btw i started watching season 1 again with my gf, i'd forgotten how much classic shit is in the first few episodes. bruce has some amazing mom jeans.

i can imagine dave foley saying that line though

yeah, i couldn't find any mention of it on the transcript sites... perhaps i'm confusing it with another sketch show...

I think I do remember something about guys with small penises, but maybe I'm just mixing it up with the cabbage-head guy demonstrating his size so women will take pity on him

http://www.kithfan.org/work/transcripts/three/bheight.html

It is a very brief interlude sketch - Bruce and Kevin are standing outside an office building ogling passing women. don't remember what season its from though.

good lord that transcript site is intensive! but on the plus side, it reminded me of "What kind of restauraunt are you running that you don't understand how time works?"

i remember laughing at that but not sure why. was the joke that he just wanted an apology?

no, he wanted the apology 20 minutes ago

Bruce: Am I the only one who's listening?!?!?! Is this such a hard thing to understand?!!?! I don't want it now!!!

Mark: Allright, why don't we turn our watches back twenty minutes?

Scott: Yeah!

Mark: [To Scott] Turn your watch back.

Scott: I'm doing it.

Bruce: That won't work! Time goes forward! Don't you know that? What kind of restauraunt are you running that you don't understand how time works?

Mark: How can we satisfy you, sir?

Bruce: By giving me what I've been asking for, for three hours! An apology!

Mark: Well of course we're sorry, sir.

Scott: [leans in to Kevin] We're very sorry.

[Kevin growls and tries to bite Scott]

Scott: Jesus!

[Bruce throws money on the table and gets ready to leave]

Bruce: That's all I wanted. That wasn't so hard was it. Next time, give someone their bill when they ask for it.

[Bruce is now in a nutty bunny suit.]

Bruce: It works to your advantage. [He starts to walk out and then turns around.] I'm not unreasonable. I'm a nutty bunny.

Kevin: I never got my water.

Bruce: I don't like to complain. I like to frolic. I'm a nutty bunny. I'm a little creature.

[Dave drinks his coffee and looks like he is recovering from hearing a really funny joke.]

[Mark and Scott exchange confused looks]

aha!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jgi7QCu1qAo

somehow this sketch and the henry louis gates situation has jumbled up in my head.

you know, i think the sketch i thought i remembered might have been from a scottish sketch show called Absolutely... i don't know, though (it was VERY brief)

shakey is correct. i think the shtick was abt the fractional padding out thing people do, except here it was more like "i'm packing a whopping 1 and 5/8, not that i'm bragging" and "yeah, i gave her the whole 1 and 9/16 inches, but not all at once" and so on.

yeah, that's the one. so was it KITH? i'm pretty sure it was kevin MCDONALD (doh) who said the "an inch and a half? that would SCARE a woman!" line.

i'm o kay

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0xRAju32tc

dave foley on chocolate looks a lot like dave foley circa 2009.

yeah, that's the one. so was it KITH? i'm pretty sure it was kevin MCDONALD (doh) who said the "an inch and a half? that would SCARE a woman!" line.

it is definitely a KITH bit - its in either seasons 2, 4, or 5, and my memory is that its Kevin and Bruce.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fnyCJDYONSU

hahaha thanks to that jacket, looks like he is wearing a t-shirt that says HOOS

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-_UChElOho

i still say "It's a fact!" all the damn time.

hahaha thanks to that jacket, looks like he is wearing a t-shirt that says HOOS

― daria, actually (daria-g), Friday, July 24, 2009 1:02 PM (40 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

lol would love a screencap of that

http://img263.imageshack.us/img263/7034/hoos.jpg

ha, ditto -- "it's a fact" is one of those phrases I cannot think or say without that particular inflection coming out

thanking u

No love for Skorda, the Gentle Shark?

(also there are days when I cannot stop myself saying "Vaya con dios, Fagót," much to the consternation of friends, coworkers, neighbors, etc)

Oh man, the Gavin at the butcher sketch. There is something of the proto-ilxor about our Gavin.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Jkm6aYYdB8

i don't even have to watch that I know it so well.

<3 gavin

Is gavin same kid who adopts mr. stephenson?

i don't think so, there are some similarities though

for comparative purposes:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vNE3h7lGVsE

clearly not the same, mom calls him "corey"

I'm now convinced KITH used forced perspective or something to make him appear that way.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vKg6QLXDV4&feature=related

corey is proto-gavin.

there are so many things from kids in the hall that i "quote", or rather i just say them and have long forgotten that they came from kith or anything else.

I'm now convinced KITH used forced perspective or something to make him appear that way.

bruce is v v short. they wouldn't need to do much forcing.

the one where gavin's jailed dad gets released to attend the funeral of gavin's mom and send him off to live with his girlfriend: SAD

yo, season 2, episode 17. and the scary length is 3 3/16".

http://i203.photobucket.com/albums/aa295/slugbert/shortest.jpg

http://i203.photobucket.com/albums/aa295/slugbert/noclue.jpg

every once in a while i wonder "where is the 'it's a fact' girl today?"

thanks slugbuggy!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQqvg7OQEAo&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fquitefrankly.tumblr.com%2Fpost%2F68571203%2Fbuy-vintage-via-metaguru&feature=player_embedded

Americans. They give, and then they take.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wt_59GY6DqU

oh mark...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1NdsBpK0rE&feature=related

seeing all the great Mark skits makes it kind of depressing that he did so poorly on the 'who is your favorite KITH poll'.

here's another great skit (with mark), and the quality is kinda bad

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XAZOka8HlJM

Just remembered this one the other day. Maybe you are one of the three other people in the world who will find this endlessly hilarious.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2_QYmz-He0

I really liked their new dancing skit they did on their last tour. "This is how I danced in 9th grade..."

i always think about this one set in an office conference room and they all turn out to be aliens who eat light for food and the sketch ends with them all shining flashlights in their mouths with the lights out.

anyone know what I'm talking about???? I haven't seen it forever

I have never seen that "3 3/16" bit at all! Must've never been shown on the CBC version, same as that "Dr. Seuss Bible" thing.

Maybe my two faves: Bruce forcing his son to watch him get pathetically drunk on his 13th birthday ("Ten bucks...is ten bucks. Twenty bucks...is twenty bucks...But thirty bucks..."), and this one:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wLYMJk-UAig

OMG, Myonga, I posted those two clips specifically in another KITH thread!

Haha, so you did! Albeit with more success than me in finding the drunk dad sketch.

Some more favourite clips on that thread too: "Screw the Bank" and "My Pen"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5UqU5kjz28

love that sketch. i wonder if it was influenced by the popularity of the church lady.

delivery is so perfect... and yet its true, the preacher character is a total comedy failsafe device

also whenever anybody uses the term critic around me I instantly hear Mark's careful enenciation of "CRITICS, GIVEN TO CRITICISM"

Honestly, what is wrong with people who don't like The Kids in the Hall. I know some people have mentioned not liking them in some of these KITH threads. With quotes like that^, how can anyone be a stickler? Granted I do have a couple friends who wouldn't know comedy if it was a pez dispenser sitting on a chair at a piano recital. But what about humorous quotes? There's no excuse for not liking those quotes

If you have a humor malfunction and care to defend your anti-kids in the hall stance, please go ahead and try to explain. Also, it would help if you mentioned sketch comedy that you do find funny and how it is so much different than Kids in the Hall.

some people don't like sketch comedy

Kids in the Hall is one of my favorite shows ever, but Death Comes to Town looks terrible. :(

man, I went as cabbage head for halloween a couple years ago. I wonder if I was subconsciously inspired by this thread.

here's a better quality video of one I tried to post 4 months ago. someone uploaded a new version
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6MHhjQd5ic

My respect for Mark increased recently when I learned "Standing in the New Style" was his idea. I had always assumed Scott was behind it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SiW2_7hs13g

the Nob-a-less O-blige

I was always a Bruce guy when I was younger. I still am but I can see how Bruce would naturally appeal to the younger crowd. I can also see how Mark is finally getting his due respect now that people can re-watch all the episodes on youtube or dvd. When there was that "who is your favorite kid in the hall" poll, Mark scored lowest. The casual viewer just forgot about how great Mark was, and "who is your favorite kid in the hall" is really unfair to all the others anyways.

I'm hoping Death Comes to Town is really funny and the trailer didn't want to reveal a bunch of spoilers, or the jokes are sort of long and couldn't fit into 4 second sound bytes.

^^^ yeah I'm pulling for the latter. can't imagine a funny trailer for brain candy for ex, but that movie is fantastic.

Mark has the disadvantage, when it comes to favorites, of having played their most polarizing character, Chicken Lady. People either love her or hate her, and when they hate her, they realllly hate her. I don't hate Chicken Lady but the only sketch I like is when she goes to the rural farmhouse where she grew up & shares flashbacks of her childhood with the terrified farm couple now living there. Almost everyone I know can't stand her at all, though.

Chicken Lady trivia: Mark consulted with a movement coach when he first played the character, who told him "to move like he has a cloaca."

At the moment, my favorite repeat character is Francesca Fiore.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-CtKIo7olM

mark is my fave kid in the hall, i probably voted for him on that thread, but i don't really like chicken lady

so there goes your little THEORY

oooh you picked my main pedant word – it was, in fact, a hypothesis.

i am the antithesis of yr hypothesis

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RSgPR1bsnbw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLcmAcibp3k

the extended Francesca Fiore mini-movie sketch is so great... "Americans, always with the car chase"

x-posts

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSE82pNZQjs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkHsgATEewE

all four of those sketches are from the same episode. that is sick, man.

omg Scott looks like Linda Evans in the custody skit

I'm mostly indifferent to the chicken lady personally. I agree that the flashback/farm home one is probably the best

My favorite Buddy Cole:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZNCUgFeIjyM

Their team names are so amazing.

And his UNIFORM of course.

the one with scott mocking people in the waiting room is not like one of their best sketches or anything but it's definitely one of the ones my wife and i reference the most, along with "fuck the bank i work for ... fuck the baaaaaaaaank"

and by "reference," i mean "act out scott's weird raised eyebrow/two-fingered point gesture"

I love the waiting room one, it's my fave of the ones you posted.

i got all the box sets used on Amazon recently for less than $50 total – best investment of the year.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSv1QDZYawk

^^^the most inexplicable KITH sketch? really dunno what they were going for with this one

I laughed my ass off at that one! I also like that it is the last one of the series.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bAudf74RCEs

not that that's my favorite, but that song has been going through my head constantly.

I see I gave Mark props for Daryl above. This skit...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ptHEuL41xAs&feature=PlayList&p=772A990D37BD78E3&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=69

Daryl on a blind date and Daryl taking out his date's son are both favorites as well.

has the 'im a bad doctor' sketch been mentioned yet?

Daryl taking out his date's son are both favorites as well.

"I got a girl pregnant"

Thank God someone finally put this on youtube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5xillqqt0Y0

So, did anyone watch the new show yet?

tell me about this.

Info on Death Comes to Town here:
http://www.cbc.ca/kidsinthehall/

Haven't watched it yet but you can see it here (not sure if it works outside of Canada).

In the freebie Vancouver paper (not online as far as I know) Scott Thompson acknowledged that The League of Gentlemen was an inspiration.

If you missed hearing about this, here's more details from the Canadian Press.

More here, too: http://www.thestar.com/entertainment/television/article/747742--cbc-series-shows-kids-in-the-hall-as-audacious-as-ever

I think it's far better than it has any right to be.

Definitely The League of Gentlemen (the cross-dressing seems a lot more convincing now they're all fatter and older, especially Foley as the Mayor's wife) and a little bit Twin Peaks and Anchorman, too. Rampop has potential for massive lols, and he's not even played by any of the Kids.

Phew. That's a relief. I'm looking forward to watching this now.

gimme

eh, so-so. i was expecting more i guess. but they do seem to have laid the ground work for what could be pretty funny.

how many hours is this to run? (sorry havent had time to read links yet)

Eight half-hour episodes.

Dunno if it's going to be shown on US/UK TV, though.

Excellent, it's up on d3m0n01d. I'm looking very forward to this. Been watching the complete NewsRadio set I got for Christmas and feeling rather sad that Scott hasn't done a whole lot (that's worthy of his talent, anyway) since.

http://img691.imageshack.us/img691/5216/rampop.jpg

I got 4 episodes to catch up on.
I'm gonna go get a beer

whaaa the website says I have to be in canada to watch it

/me whimpers

I found a way to watch it on NinjaVideo
small screen but I guess that's what I have to deal with being american

woah 8 minutes in,and this is fucking awesome. I'm gonna shut up now

LONG LIVE THE KIDS IN THE HALL

woahhh I've been definitely drinking a bit but episode 1 is great, ne1 here?

want

I need some help locating a sketch. I'm not going on much here though so bear with me. It has to do with someone staying out late or cheating on their wife or something they're not supposed to be doing. The excuses given by the guy (as to what he was doing) are all absurd/surreal nonsensical shit. I think the words "wizard leaf" are mentioned. Yeah, this is going to be hard.

http://www.kithfan.org/work/transcripts/one/teddybear.html

Thanks spiderland! That's it! Awesome, now I need to find the clip. Wonder if it's on Youtube?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=voc2eYy_i1s

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I'm gonna make sure I'm drinking when I eventually watch all of "death comes to town".

I re-watched the 2nd episode when I was sober and it was a lot less funny :( But still I can tell yall that this is great stuff. I just might need a few beers to get me back in the mood when I finally can watch all of it. I'm not gonna watch anymore episodes on NinjaVideo. I'll just wait until its all done and released in better quality. And hopefully there will be a way I can purchase this miniseries so that I can watch it on tv (even if I have to burn a DVD)

Alright! You made my night Mr. Lorax thank ya! Have no idea why this sketch kills me so.

i just spent like an hour watching sketches on youtube. kathy and cathy!

in one of my high school english classes a group of us had this running joke of trying to say 'ascertain' constantly in discussion & use it in essays as often as we possibly could. i'd totally forgotten what started it. ASCERTAIN GUY

"why didn't you say something.. mr guy?" phil from the warehouse

I love the one when Cathy w/a C (Thompson) goes out to a nightclub after work.

http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a298/hot4mark/kith/carstalled5.jpg
http://www.filmdope.com/Gallery/ActorsH/8436-2166.gif

bump this thread when you see a lesbian who looks exactly like dave foley

Scott recovering from non-Hodgkins lymphoma.

http://www.thestar.com/living/article/770375--cosmic-imbalance-and-an-ailing-kid

I ask if he has done anything, karmically, to deserve this past year's illnesses, or if it's a case of bad things happening to good people.

"I'm an ---hole," he answers, giggling. "I totally deserve it."

Watched the first four episodes of Death Comes to Town, it's great.

http://img197.imageshack.us/img197/3226/kidsinthehalldeathcomes.jpg

Anyone else into Death Comes to Town? I've watched the first seven episodes and think it's great, maybe even more consistently good than the original KitH. (I may regret that statement.) It is incredibly un-PC and I do feel bad about (laughing at) some of the jokes at Ricky's expense.

I watched the first 2 episodes drunk and it was great stuff to watch while drinking. Since I'm in USA I had to watch from a bootleg site. When I watched the two episodes again sober it wasn't as good (mostly the 2nd episode) but I really want to watch all the episodes together so I'm gonna wait until there is a better way to get all the episodes... ideally I want them on DVD (and make the show a part of a small drinking party)

:)

(I realize I already typed that all upthread but I'm still excited)

(Just finished the eighth.)

I do think it's worth it. The last half of the series is really good, especially the courthouse scenes.

so far i've only watched 4 eps but they've seemed to get better and better after a slow start so i'm excited to finish them. i kinda hate watching shows on my computer, though, and am really hoping this comes out on DVD sooner than later.

World's biggest crouton = not on youtube

:(

I am enjoying Scott Thompson's podcast so far, even if it's mostly about Scott Thompson.

I think it is indescribably funny that his website is scottland.com

Ok, I seem to have made that up in my mind.

No, he definetely used to have scottland.com.

I'm two episodes into this new thing. I'm a little underwhelmed - I thought they'd do something a little higher quality like that movie/doc about them being on tour from a few years back. That was cool. This thing is very shoestring. But it's great to see them back and I'm glad they are still trying new things (kinda - owes a huge debt to the superior League of Gentlemen obviously). It's enjoyable but some of the gags are pretty poor and there's not enough of them. Kevin seems underused - he's hardly in episode 2 at all. Still looking forward to the rest of the series though.

i think i had too high hopes for this. i never made it past ep 3, i think.

Cyril St. Joh, the Escapist

the pictures of him as an old man in his straightjacket looking out at the sea are perfect

Plus all the people they interview about TV

I love STEPS too – "I've learned that talking about issues makes people angry."

Season 4 was so string

It was also, less notably, quite strong.

Oh man I have no idea how The Cincinnati Kid (v. the Toronto Kid) did not come up in this thread!

Speaking of season 4 greatness, this has the very best description of Cheers ever.
"You turn on the TV and there is Woody, with the charming Woody head. Carla with the big mouth. Norm with all his beer. And Cliff, with his secret!"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7qWq5u2yMA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fcPMDjkzeOo

good morning fellas
hand me that thing
boy this work's hard
guys break's over

de-LIN-e-ate

I ascertain your joke

been watching tons of this again lately and oh god i'd forgotten about the one with dave foley as a dying patient on the ER table pulling pranks on the hospital staff

always put salt in your eyes

the pear dream is the greatest comedy sketch ever

tamtam otm

totally

I know this is not the thread for it, but has anyone read the Danny Husk graphic novel?

belllll... bivvvvv... devoooooe.

danny husk graphic novel?? i did not even know that existed, abbott!

did scott KO his cancer?

citizen kane! it was... citizen... kane...

I would buy the Danny Husk graphic novel if I ever saw it anywhere. which I have not

i have the buddy book somewhere here...

the pear dream was one that i saw one night when i was almost asleep and i thought i dreamt it, and didn't see it for years after and was really convinced that i'd imagined it.

Scott has said in interviews that his cancer is gone.

wonderful news!! Scott is total all-time bro, love that guy

awesome!

just going to see if I can fly, or whatever

here you guys go!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZQiKriReqE

Scott really is the best.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-CtKIo7olM

this is probably one of my favorite scott sketches, esp. the very end:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkHsgATEewE

https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/_MvA0_jkrCuQ/TYtar0ou2tI/AAAAAAAAA-g/K5TDdZhC6_I/shirling1.jpghttps://lh4.googleusercontent.com/_MvA0_jkrCuQ/TYtaxeijKtI/AAAAAAAAA-k/cS4D4HvUi-8/shirling2.jpg

Speaking of season 4 greatness, this has the very best description of Cheers ever.
"You turn on the TV and there is Woody, with the charming Woody head. Carla with the big mouth. Norm with all his beer. And Cliff, with his secret!"
http://www.youtube.com/v/z7qWq5u2yMA&fs=1&hl=en

― andrew m., Tuesday, September 14, 2010 8:43 PM (8 months ago) Bookmark

haha i'd never watched the youtube in this post so i imagined it as something Bruce would say, was surprised to see it was actually Scott-as-Francesca.

got the complete series box set (which i found out on some other ILE thread was only like $35 on Amazon! incredible deal!), it's really fun to occasionally stumble upon the sketches or in some cases entire episodes that were never in rerun rotation on Comedy Central.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSE82pNZQjs

this is just gravy. i think of lines from this all the time.

the way Mark says "oh poppy poppy poppy no no no" in a Scottish accent while haggling over the price of a velvet Elvis painting has semi-unconsciously become a staple of my daily speech

TV or Movie references that only you seem to recall and quite often at that

^because I sort of wish people use this thread more often

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjRC_9UsoEE

"Let's have another hand for the Living Tableau!"

The one I mentioned five years ago upthread:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2_QYmz-He0

A lot of the bits with Bruce pontificating or fucking around by himself are among my favorites.

I think of the phrase "hateful jazz music" all the time, thanks Brucio.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nVBYhDTK0zo

ha it's "hateful freeform jazz" <3

Waaaaaaaitaminute. So I'm poking around in the KITH sketches on YouTube and I come across this, a sketch I've somehow never seen before:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zaQ5YtBVdLM

Apparently they replaced "The Dr. Seuss Bible" with this at some point?

Ha. Yes. Bruce and jazz are inexorably linked in my mind.

Waaaaaaaitaminute. So I'm poking around in the KITH sketches on YouTube and I come across this, a sketch I've somehow never seen before:

WTF?! I've never seen this either. totally bizarre.

...and there's apparently more where that came from

http://splitsider.com/2012/06/kids-in-the-hall-the-lost-sketches/

whoah!

...for the sense of power

did comedy central run those sketches/versions of the episodes? i feel like i've seen most of them (pre-youtube era).

there's a couple I've seen (Poo Guy!) but a bunch are new to me, like the Power of my Cock one lol

and I thought Aroomba was on the DVDs... maybe I discovered it from a kith thread

Aroomba is def not on the DVDs

Asshole has always been a top favorite for me

So many good ones. I can't find all of them on YouTube. The poo one is great on so many levels.

This one's good, too:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5bIW882OR8

What is the name of the KITH sketch where one of the kids (I think Dave) makes a big deal about some song they're going to play on the guitar, then when he finally starts to play it, it's just a string of flubbed notes and him saying "wait wait... wait wait..." I'm 99 percent sure this exists but I can't find it.

He smashes the guitar at the end.

I think you're conflating this Mr. Show sketch...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7tJzHCeq5s

...with the KITH sketch I don't know the name of where Dave keeps overtuning and breaking his strings and ultimately smashes his guitar.

^was just going to post that. i don't remember the KitH one!

Yes. Yes I am. Thanks.

Oh, here's the KITH sketch.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BvkyFmZCAAAuH4W.jpg

:) So good! Don't recognize the Dave Foley thing bottom left though. Something newer from reunion?

lol Shepard

the one w/Mark Gablechuck is killing me

I seriously thought that first one was Bruce McCullough until I saw the second part.

― pplains, Monday, January 28, 2013 1:40 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

amazing

Don't think I've ever heard of this show until this week. There's always been loads of American comedy shows that aren't seen much outside there but I really had no idea there was stuff like this back then.

It's Canadian

!!!! at never having heard of KITH. I figured they had international appeal. Well, I can't recommend them highly enough. Much of their stuff is very rooted in human interaction and/or absurdity, and there's very little in the way of dated cultural reference, so I feel like neither its age nor its country of origin should be much of a deterrent for a newcomer.

Also, they're still amazingly progressive (and refreshingly undidactic) even compared to comedy being made 25 years later.

it's really sad that kids in the hall aren't well known in britain. many moons ago i caught brain candy - which i found pretty disappointing - on british tv at around midnight on a weeknight, that was the only time in britain i ever saw or heard of anything kids in the hall related.

really amazing show, and, i think (as a foreigner who lives in canada), very Canadian in the best way.

Yeah, Brain Candy is okay but it's a terrible representative of the thing they did so well.

I really am genuinely a little shocked to learn that they've made so little impact in the UK. I'm hard-pressed to think of another North American sketch thing that would be as easy to shop around internationally.

Greatest American sketch comedy TV show of the late 20th century

this one
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DRXWAkuEccU

We've been referencing this one a lot lately, like when we order pizza or when the cat does something crazy and we pretend it's a practical joek on us. I hope when I'm bleeding and dying in my bed I maintain such a sense of humor.

Those poll results are OTM (inasmuch as there are basically two definitively great (North) American sketch shows and then a whole lot of wildy variable/mediocre/terrible ones).

it's basically these guys vs. Mr. Show

and these guys were on for longer

!!!! at never having heard of KITH

i know! prob my favorite sketch comedy show

I'm guessing that person is very young or very old.

KITH always falls somewhere within my ever-rotating roster of all-time top five television shows.

well huh, there are a bunch of sketches on Youtube accompanied by Dave & Kevin commentary: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL71E8DA331EA1D7B0

Huh, indeed! I'm at work and can't check, but those aren't just the commentaried sketches from the DVDs, are they? If not, I basically know what I'm doing with my evening.

I saw those recently, looking for the Armada sketches, with Dave talking about how he and Scott hated those sketches because Mark, Bruce, and Kevin would spend all their time "rehearsing" for Armada by jamming incompetently for hours.