Kids in the Hall -- a thread for your indifference if you have it (or if you don't, that's cool too)

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I'm starting this one since the other thread is more specific. ;-) I sometimes feel very alone in my KITH nonfascination -- not hate, I should say. But I don't know, I've known about them/seen bits since 1987 or so and outside of one or two instances -- I'm thinking of the 'how to summon up powers of darkness with baking soda' moment in particular -- they really never connected. I'm actually more entertained by them when people actually describe certain bits to me instead, so maybe like Bob Dylan they just need interpreters. But am I alone?

Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet, however, did provide one hell of a great theme song.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 2 April 2004 00:25 (twenty-two years ago)

ned... im only going to say this once..sung in old black bluesman voice..

SMOKIN ON A NIGHT TRAIN! CHEWIN ON A JELLY ROLLL!!!

― Pablo Cruise (chaki), Friday, 2 April 2004 00:52 (twenty-two years ago)

Wow....didn't expect Ned to be the one to start this thread. I must confess my undying love for the Kids in the Hall. It's the State, Mad TV and the last few casts of SNL I don't get at all.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 2 April 2004 00:53 (twenty-two years ago)

Is The State still on, anywhere? If so: why?

KITH was purely hit and miss, to me. Best when I was around 13-15. After that, it got sucked from late night TV, so I never got a chance to get bored with it. Guess tis the cult status that keeps people at the shrine, Ned.

― Nichole Graham (Nichole Graham), Friday, 2 April 2004 00:59 (twenty-two years ago)

ned... im only going to say this once..sung in old black bluesman voice..

Yeah, but see, YOU doing it would be absolutely fucking hilarious!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 2 April 2004 01:04 (twenty-two years ago)

i thought the state was pretty damn funny, too!

― mandee, Friday, 2 April 2004 01:05 (twenty-two years ago)

Kids In The Hall stands out for me as the shocking moment when I there were suddenly gay people on talked about on my tv. The 8 yr old me had his socks knocked off by this.

As for the show itself, meh...its never panned out to be something I want to watch. It was always funnier in college talking about Hitler f*cking a donkey than actually watching the skit.

As for The State...its never been something that really got at all. People tell me its funny, but I've just had to trust them.

― Silas Beauford (Silas Beauford), Friday, 2 April 2004 01:20 (twenty-two years ago)

Totally with you on this Ned. Plus, something about the show gives me the willies.

― oops (Oops), Friday, 2 April 2004 01:23 (twenty-two years ago)

wait I know what it is: it's Canadian.

― oops (Oops), Friday, 2 April 2004 01:23 (twenty-two years ago)

i've only seen one episode, i think. so my indifference is based on ignorance. (though there was something related to a gay vampire in that episode that had me spitting with laughter, more or less literally.)

― Maria (Maria), Friday, 2 April 2004 01:27 (twenty-two years ago)

oh my point with that post was is it on currently, rerunning anyway?

― Maria (Maria), Friday, 2 April 2004 01:27 (twenty-two years ago)

it's funnier than mad tv (but so is friends, haha), but otherwise i'm with ned on this one. all the sketches seem to last too long, it's never that funny (unless you're one of those flaky extrovert assholes who equate 'wackiness' with humor), and the acting is sub-SNL at best.

― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Friday, 2 April 2004 02:10 (twenty-two years ago)

I went to a wedding a year or two ago, and one of the bartenders was a b-list member of The State (the red-haired guy). That made me sorta sad. I took a beer from him and tipped heavily, despite his show sucking a large one.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 2 April 2004 02:25 (twenty-two years ago)

The show, edited-for-CC, has its ups and downs, but I've never laughed as hard as I did at their first reunion tour. The wackiness and extroversion can be over the top, but then you have something as perfect as drunken Hecubus to balance it all out.

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Friday, 2 April 2004 02:27 (twenty-two years ago)

I can express supreme indifference, cuz... Ive never seen it. Its never been shown in Australia. I know nothing about this show at all.

― Trayce (trayce), Friday, 2 April 2004 03:06 (twenty-two years ago)

I saw a band last night that I was convinced -- for most of their set-- was some new incarnation of the Shadowy Men. They weren't, in the end, and I'm glad I didn't make an ass of myself by drunkenly yelling "Kids in the Hall!"

― fields of salmon (fieldsofsalmon), Friday, 2 April 2004 03:13 (twenty-two years ago)

I've been downloading and watching a few episodes (even before the other thread started) and to a certain extent, Silas OTM: One of the exciting things about this show, nearly 15 years ago, was how in your face the gay stuff was. Now, alas, it mostly looks like Scott had a lot of issues he needed to work through.

Also, the thing that's really sticking out is that even though most of their sketches have at least one really great idea in them, they are so terrible with ending sketches that it's, well, it's not almost funny, but it's reminiscent of things that are almost funny. Combine that with the "it's the end of the scene and so suddenly, for no clear reason, the audience will start bursting with applause"... A lot of it comes off as clunky.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 2 April 2004 03:47 (twenty-two years ago)

does anyone remember "almost live"?

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Friday, 2 April 2004 05:56 (twenty-two years ago)

unfortunately, yes. Let's never speak of it again

― Donna Brown (Donna Brown), Friday, 2 April 2004 06:00 (twenty-two years ago)

Vaguely. I think I remember the ads for it more.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 2 April 2004 06:02 (twenty-two years ago)

From this side of the Atlantic, I confess to finding this show mind-numbingly unfunny - as in possibly one of the least funny things I've ever seen. It's Canadian, right? Ah.

― Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 2 April 2004 08:09 (twenty-two years ago)

Kids in the Hall has brought me so many smiles over the years I can forgive its shortcomings, like its hit or miss quality, or the fact that the sketches often end rather abruptly. When the Kids were funny, they were FUNNY.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Friday, 2 April 2004 08:14 (twenty-two years ago)

i think its the smartest, funniest sketch comedy team of all time.

― Pablo Cruise (chaki), Friday, 2 April 2004 08:22 (twenty-two years ago)

OK, at the risk of sounding snobbishly Anglocentric, it struck me as an attempt at British style humour by some Canadians - therefore, almost by definition, doomed from the outset, especially if the Canadians involved are just totally unfunny people.

― Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 2 April 2004 08:24 (twenty-two years ago)

Ha ha, this a rerun of Ned's buffy thread.

― El Diablo Robotico (Nicole), Friday, 2 April 2004 16:35 (twenty-two years ago)

well, except buffy got a lot more love than The Kids are getting :(

― Daniel_Rf (Daniel_Rf), Friday, 2 April 2004 16:39 (twenty-two years ago)

Which is unfortunate, but oh well. I still think they are grand.

― El Diablo Robotico (Nicole), Friday, 2 April 2004 16:41 (twenty-two years ago)

Ha ha, this a rerun of Ned's buffy thread.

I'm nowhere near as passionate on the matter! More bemused.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 2 April 2004 16:43 (twenty-two years ago)

I haven't watched KitH for awhile, but that other thread really made me remember how many of those skits are just classic.

As for the State, I think it was more patchy, but these are the things that justify its existence in my mind:

--"Doug, do you even know who Bob Dylan is?"

"Yeah, he's some guy who died of drugs."

"He's not dead. I produced his last three albums."

"Oh. You mean uncle Robert?"

(haha, when I googled this to quote it, the first result was an ILX post)

--the dancing hormones sketch!!

--Wet Hot American Summer

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 2 April 2004 16:43 (twenty-two years ago)

What "issues" did Scott sadly have?

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Friday, 2 April 2004 16:45 (twenty-two years ago)

the state had one skit that cracked me up, the one about eating muppets.

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Friday, 2 April 2004 17:20 (twenty-two years ago)

"show us...far"

― g--ff (gcannon), Friday, 2 April 2004 17:21 (twenty-two years ago)

haha, that is the only thing I remember about the State, it was just about the funniest sketch I've ever seen.

KitH: wanted to like it more than I ever did. I mean it's no Mr. Show.

― anthony kyle monday (akmonday), Friday, 2 April 2004 17:55 (twenty-two years ago)

Also, I saw brain candy again for the second time a few weeks ago and boy is that a painfully unfunny piece of cinema.

― anthony kyle monday (akmonday), Friday, 2 April 2004 17:56 (twenty-two years ago)

Kids in the Hall is hit or miss, but whats-his-face in the new outkast video is the only thing good about it.

― bill stevens (bscrubbins), Friday, 2 April 2004 17:57 (twenty-two years ago)

individually everyone on that show is pretty funny, actually. I would rather watch Newsradio, certainly.

― anthony kyle monday (akmonday), Friday, 2 April 2004 17:58 (twenty-two years ago)

You are correct that the State had one funny skit, but you have misidentified it; the correct answer is "$240 Worth of Pudding."

― Colin Meeder (Mert), Friday, 2 April 2004 18:02 (twenty-two years ago)

i never liked the state or mad tv very much, but a friend of mine had a mad tv season's best-of tape that was an hour of pure hilarity. i remember a spoof of the rudolf the red-nosed reindeer claymation christmas special that was comic gold - turned it into a goodfellas/godfather spoof.

― lauren (laurenp), Friday, 2 April 2004 18:30 (twenty-two years ago)

the only MadTV skit I liked was the OJ Simpsons video bloopers tape, where he flubs a line and says "cut" while making the hand accross the neck gesture and starts cracking up, then says if I was the killer how come this glove doesnt fit, but it does, then he's like, cut!

I downloaded a bunch of kids skits yesterday, and think you are all nuts. Sure it could be uneven, not every moment of 5 years or so is going to be golden, but in general, it was more risque, more hip, more insightful and just more smart then most other skit shows have been.

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Friday, 2 April 2004 18:45 (twenty-two years ago)

I don't think it's nuts to dislike the show, but I don't see why a thread has to be started up announcing it.

― El Diablo Robotico (Nicole), Friday, 2 April 2004 18:54 (twenty-two years ago)

@drock: How many Scott skecthes were there (and I'm not a deep enough fan to really know who wrote what) that weren't about being gay (or about being superstraight and not gay at all)? There was a sketch towards the end of the run (I think) where Scott brings the other Kids in to tell them that he isn't gay anymore. Dave (or someone) says "Let me understand this, first you were gay, then you were really gay, then you were annoyingly gay, and now you're not gay anymore?" It was as if he couldn't get past it. (Although admittedly maybe it was just a known laugh-getter and he didn't feel the need to diversify his material.)

― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 2 April 2004 19:01 (twenty-two years ago)

true, although they all had personas to a degree: kevin was ignored (but they love him in france!), dave was smarmy, mark was the handsome one, and bruce was... bruce.

― lauren (laurenp), Friday, 2 April 2004 19:05 (twenty-two years ago)

He did do plenty of characters that were not gay-related, they were less obtrusive because they weren't "Scott sketches", I think. Anyway, it was part of their thing as a whole (the cross-dressing, being edgy for the time, etc.) as well as his chosen schtick.

The Buddy Cole bits did get really old, admittedly.

(x-post, agreed)

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 2 April 2004 19:07 (twenty-two years ago)

Scott Thompsons greatest moment is when he's retelling that story about when he coached a female softball team.

STRIKE ONE: I wasnt paying attention
STRIKE TWO: It had attitude

― bill stevens (bscrubbins), Friday, 2 April 2004 19:42 (twenty-two years ago)

how about when Scott builds the robot of himself and it sexually assaults Mark?

Ha ha, Ned, your thread has become ANOTHER let's quote the Kids in the Hall thread!

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Friday, 2 April 2004 21:01 (twenty-two years ago)

and it turns out that scott built the robot because he's tired after his european vacation: "everything is at the top of a hill!"

― lauren (laurenp), Friday, 2 April 2004 21:08 (twenty-two years ago)

'so maybe like Bob Dylan they just need interpreters'

well you know you're going to hell so....

― de, Friday, 2 April 2004 21:15 (twenty-two years ago)

I am?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 3 April 2004 00:05 (twenty-two years ago)

oh, don't be so coy.

― lauren (laurenp), Saturday, 3 April 2004 00:07 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.vanosdol.com/fire.gif

I command me to BURN. (In bad photoshop style.)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 3 April 2004 00:10 (twenty-two years ago)

one year passes...

http://www.livejournal.com/userpic/39789012/38777

― ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, Tuesday, 28 February 2006 18:30 (twenty years ago)

i think this might be my favorite show ever

― latebloomer: where dignity goes to die (latebloomer), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 18:32 (twenty years ago)

its great

can you believe theres no dedicated newsradio thread?!?!

― ,,,,,,,,, Tuesday, 28 February 2006 18:35 (twenty years ago)

The Phil Hartman thread I started has a slew of NewsRadio winners courtesy of Ally.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 18:42 (twenty years ago)

So very good, even if there were occasional slow spots. Has anyone else ever heard the story about how the movie got little promotion because they refused to take out Cancer Boy? I guess they realized how dumb it was to stick to the point after release, but by then they'd figured out that creating a movie when most of the group isn't there at the same time wasn't the best idea anyway.

I jumped a little when watching the first season on dvd after reading the ILX thread about trick-or-treaters in blackface. The old bluesman sketch was right there at the beginning!

― mike h. (mike h.), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 18:43 (twenty years ago)

I love News Radio, but when it was on heavy syndication they only seemed to show the same five episodes over and over and over again.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 18:45 (twenty years ago)

two years pass...

n3nshat1 (4 weeks ago)

i've never seen this show, but i can tell you it's horrible, cause of the laughing crowd in the backround.

FUCK you Kids in the Hall, The whitest kids you know are way better.

electronicbrainpan (3 weeks ago)

Yeah, the laughter in the background ruins their sketches for me. I wouldn't call KITH horrible, but I personally don't find them very funny. I agree about WKUK being way better, but they often get compared to KITH.

― and what, Monday, 18 August 2008 21:26 (seventeen years ago)

ok no

― HI DERE, Monday, 18 August 2008 21:27 (seventeen years ago)

(sorry wkuk, you're not bad but you are no kith)

― HI DERE, Monday, 18 August 2008 21:27 (seventeen years ago)

what's with starting threads just to say "i don't really feel strongly abotu the subject one way or another"

― s1ocki, Monday, 18 August 2008 21:28 (seventeen years ago)

KITH is my favorite ever. Crummy movie they made, but the show is fucking golden.

Buddy Cole is the only thing that gets old, tho. Buddy Cole : KITH :: Terry Gilliam animations : Monty Python. Insofar as they're repetitive and uninteresting and make me glad for 'skip chapters' feature of DVDs.

― Abbott, Monday, 18 August 2008 21:34 (seventeen years ago)

Neutral Vice President: Your Neutralness, it's a beige alert.
Neutral President: If I don't survive, tell my wife "Hello."

― and what, Monday, 18 August 2008 21:35 (seventeen years ago)

The only sketch I never totally dug was 'Love & Sausages,' tho I appreciate...the effort?

― Abbott, Monday, 18 August 2008 21:36 (seventeen years ago)

A really good Buddy Cole is when he's talking about how the gay bar's totally full of dinosaurs now.

"I was drinking out on the balcony, and a pterodactyl swooped down..."

― Abbott, Monday, 18 August 2008 21:37 (seventeen years ago)

yeah the Buddy stuff is all a bit too... topical? Although his correspondence with the Queen = comedy gold

― Shakey Mo Collier, Monday, 18 August 2008 21:42 (seventeen years ago)

Dear Budderick...

― Shakey Mo Collier, Monday, 18 August 2008 21:42 (seventeen years ago)

Anyone who doesn't "get" KITH should watch the pilot episode. That's probably their best episode ever. If you don't like or care for most of that, then KITH are just not your thing.

― Mackro Mackro, Monday, 18 August 2008 21:45 (seventeen years ago)

But comparing Kids to Mad TV is a fucking crime. I'd shoot to defend Hee Haw if it were compared to Mad TV. Mad TV is like sub-magma level of unfunniness.

― Mackro Mackro, Monday, 18 August 2008 21:46 (seventeen years ago)

Scott played the Queen very well!

― Abbott, Monday, 18 August 2008 21:46 (seventeen years ago)

I used to absolutely nuts about Kids In The Hall. Haven't thought about it in a long time, but then I don't watch TV anymore. Seems to me the quality dropped though, as time went on. That one thing about the chicken lady or whatever really wasn't that funny. Was there always a laughing track in the background or did they start to add that later?

― Bimble, Monday, 18 August 2008 21:55 (seventeen years ago)

i never noticed the background laughing

― Jordan, Monday, 18 August 2008 21:57 (seventeen years ago)

"The banker doesn't like us."
"Nobody. Likes. Us."

― Abbott, Monday, 18 August 2008 22:03 (seventeen years ago)

ten months pass...

I totally hated this show when i first saw it. It looked to me like some high school students ripping off monty python for their drama class assignment.

― dan138zig (Durrr Durrr Durrrrrr), Monday, 6 July 2009 23:36 (sixteen years ago)

What do you think now?

― Your heartbeat soun like sasquatch feet (polyphonic), Monday, 6 July 2009 23:37 (sixteen years ago)

well, not really hate but only indifference. maybe because it's the pilot that i first watched. can you recommend their best sketch so i can search it on youtube?

― dan138zig (Durrr Durrr Durrrrrr), Monday, 6 July 2009 23:51 (sixteen years ago)

I dunno, I like lots of them.

Here's my 41st favorite:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OWLiGG5kM2o

― Your heartbeat soun like sasquatch feet (polyphonic), Monday, 6 July 2009 23:59 (sixteen years ago)

sticking with that theme - here is my 14th favourite:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cFEUy8NzazE&feature=PlayList&p=55FB4ED66C90AC25&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=35

― The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall, Tuesday, 7 July 2009 00:13 (sixteen years ago)

I think the pilot is the worst place to start w/any show. KITH one is lackluster.

― kind-hearted, sensitive keytar player (Abbott), Tuesday, 7 July 2009 00:14 (sixteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HEXEByJVaO0

― enbba champions (omar little), Tuesday, 7 July 2009 00:20 (sixteen years ago)

wow, that hitler sketch (and to a lesser extent the bank sketch) represents exactly what i hate about this show. that is tying-too-hard-ness. god, that hitler sketch. terribly unfunny. sorry, no offense.

― dan138zig (Durrr Durrr Durrrrrr), Tuesday, 7 July 2009 00:30 (sixteen years ago)

don't care

― enbba champions (omar little), Tuesday, 7 July 2009 00:30 (sixteen years ago)

that sketch is supposed to be bad! (it's part of a larger "sketches we weren't allowed to air" sketch on the final ep)

― spaghetti and fried bumblebees (donna rouge), Tuesday, 7 July 2009 00:34 (sixteen years ago)

^^well, that makes sense.

― dan138zig (Durrr Durrr Durrrrrr), Tuesday, 7 July 2009 00:42 (sixteen years ago)

Is The State still on, anywhere? If so: why?

― timelord of the internet (Z S), Tuesday, 7 July 2009 00:42 (sixteen years ago)

by "that", i mean the sketch.

― dan138zig (Durrr Durrr Durrrrrr), Tuesday, 7 July 2009 00:42 (sixteen years ago)

my feelings about that statement should be fairly obvious xp

― spaghetti and fried bumblebees (donna rouge), Tuesday, 7 July 2009 00:44 (sixteen years ago)

what statement? and your feelings are..?

― dan138zig (Durrr Durrr Durrrrrr), Tuesday, 7 July 2009 00:47 (sixteen years ago)

that was directed at the quote Z_S c/ped, sorry

― spaghetti and fried bumblebees (donna rouge), Tuesday, 7 July 2009 00:49 (sixteen years ago)

One of my favorite shows ever, and easily in my top three comedy series of all time (along with the UK Office and The Larry Sanders Show). There's soooo much humor to be found in utter mundanity.

And, yeah: like "Hitler (Blank)-ing A Donkey" (which, shown as a standalone clip, is wildly out of its original context), most of the sketches mentioned above that turned people away from the show are really pretty unrepresentative of what KITH did.

― A Leg Made Footless From Pot (Deric W. Haircare), Tuesday, 7 July 2009 00:50 (sixteen years ago)

and the representative ones are..?

― dan138zig (Durrr Durrr Durrrrrr), Tuesday, 7 July 2009 00:53 (sixteen years ago)

Agh the bulk of the rest ofnthem. Go do some homework. I like 'Girl Drink Drunk' and the one where Bruce McCullough apologizes for cancer & lots of others, I don't really feel like playing the game where someone goes, 'oh THAT? meh. what else do you got? Oh, seriously, THAT? was that supposed to be good?,' w/youtube links,all night long.

― kind-hearted, sensitive keytar player (Abbott), Tuesday, 7 July 2009 00:57 (sixteen years ago)

the citizen kane one is ok. the first sketch of theirs that made me laugh.

― dan138zig (Durrr Durrr Durrrrrr), Tuesday, 7 July 2009 01:00 (sixteen years ago)

I mean I wld totes be happy to sit you down on my couch with a cold one and some DVDs, tho, if you ever wind up in New Mexico.

― kind-hearted, sensitive keytar player (Abbott), Tuesday, 7 July 2009 01:00 (sixteen years ago)

Here's a sampling. If none of these float your boat, KITH probably just isn't your thing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t685UEurB34

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWmkXRrr2YY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m68-oWBh9Ow

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mXNsdW4HyMk

― A Leg Made Footless From Pot (Deric W. Haircare), Tuesday, 7 July 2009 01:05 (sixteen years ago)

I got to meet them all last year! They were drunk!

― kingfish, Tuesday, 7 July 2009 01:07 (sixteen years ago)

i was thinking maybe the "apologizing for cancer" might do the trick.

― The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall, Tuesday, 7 July 2009 01:10 (sixteen years ago)

oh, cancer

― mookieproof, Tuesday, 7 July 2009 01:19 (sixteen years ago)

I mean, hell: I'd advise just renting a DVD from any of the seasons and watching it straight through. As long as it's not the one with Chalet 2000 on it, that's probably as good a litmus test as any other.

― A Leg Made Footless From Pot (Deric W. Haircare), Tuesday, 7 July 2009 01:23 (sixteen years ago)

There is also the possibility that you just don't like the show, which isn't the end of the world.

― Your heartbeat soun like sasquatch feet (polyphonic), Tuesday, 7 July 2009 01:27 (sixteen years ago)

ya - i'm not sure how much "research" a person would really want to do on a show they're already not crazy about!

― The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall, Tuesday, 7 July 2009 01:48 (sixteen years ago)

I dunno, dude. Every step of the process was pure torture, but I'm proud to say that I'm the foremost scholar on Out Of This World on the Eastern seaboard.

― A Leg Made Footless From Pot (Deric W. Haircare), Tuesday, 7 July 2009 02:20 (sixteen years ago)

like this show!

― slugbuggy, Tuesday, 7 July 2009 02:27 (sixteen years ago)

feh...i was trying this approach at cajolery but i fail:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6CEJR4_vV9A

― slugbuggy, Wednesday, 8 July 2009 22:57 (sixteen years ago)

"I'm proud to say that I'm the foremost scholar on Out Of This World on the Eastern seaboard."
This sounds like a challenge...

OK, hotshot, which Out Of This World star was also in Twilight Zone: The Movie?

― Philip Nunez, Wednesday, 8 July 2009 23:05 (sixteen years ago)

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

this makes me LOSE. MY. SHIT.

― ello. ow are oo? (bug), Wednesday, 8 July 2009 23:07 (sixteen years ago)

one month passes...

I read a (fascinating) Scott Thompson interview a few months ago where he let slip that they would be doing another series together. Finally here's some more details. Sounds a bit like The League of Gentlemen (which was a bit Kids in the Hall-esque at times anyway).

― everything, Tuesday, 18 August 2009 16:46 (sixteen years ago)

yeah there was some stuff posted about that on another thread - can't wait

― go Nick go! Scrub that paint! Scrub it!! Yeah!! (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 18 August 2009 16:47 (sixteen years ago)

It sounds pretty good. How long has it been since the CBC had a half-decent comedy?

― everything, Tuesday, 18 August 2009 16:48 (sixteen years ago)

can't wait

― Ømår Littel (Jordan), Tuesday, 18 August 2009 16:54 (sixteen years ago)

Here's an abbreviated version of the Scott Thompson interview from earlier this year.

― everything, Tuesday, 18 August 2009 17:02 (sixteen years ago)

sounds great

― congratulations (n/a), Tuesday, 18 August 2009 17:03 (sixteen years ago)

KITH version of Twin Peaks sounds awesome

― i have the new brutal truth if you want it (latebloomer), Tuesday, 18 August 2009 17:04 (sixteen years ago)

the KITH guys all seem like cool dudes, and a lot of the sketches are...smart? but I never understood where the lols came from

I'm actually more entertained by them when people actually describe certain bits to me instead = otm

― iatee, Tuesday, 18 August 2009 17:25 (sixteen years ago)

This is one of the things I really appreciate about them, though. They never felt compelled to always bring the lols. They tried some weird shit, and sometimes it was almost like a dramatic sketch show that was incidentally funny. More sketch troupes/shows could learn a few things from this formula.

― A Foul Night-Weird (Deric W. Haircare), Tuesday, 18 August 2009 17:54 (sixteen years ago)

three months pass...

Scott Thompson: cancer :-/

http://www2.macleans.ca/2009/12/04/scott-free/?loc=interstitialskip

― StanM, Monday, 7 December 2009 17:06 (sixteen years ago)

!!! aw fuck

first Dio, now this

― unobtaintium (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 7 December 2009 17:12 (sixteen years ago)

at least it sounds like he's mostly through it. :/

― hey trader joe's! i've got the new steely dan. (Jordan), Monday, 7 December 2009 17:13 (sixteen years ago)

agreed

― unobtaintium (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 7 December 2009 17:15 (sixteen years ago)

“Did you see my puzzle?” he asks, pointing to a completed jigsaw of hockey star Saku Koivu over on his dining room table. “I know it’s embarrassing, but I’m going to mount it. We had the exact same cancer. He came back and played great hockey. I find that incredibly inspiring."

This is so sweet and sad and Canadian.

― mascara and ties (Abbott), Monday, 7 December 2009 17:41 (sixteen years ago)

I hope Bruce apologized

― unobtaintium (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 7 December 2009 18:25 (sixteen years ago)

http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/c78840cb55/kids-in-the-hall-death-comes-to-town

― omar little, Monday, 7 December 2009 19:08 (sixteen years ago)

yay!

― I'm losing my Vitamin C (CaptainLorax), Monday, 7 December 2009 19:14 (sixteen years ago)

awesome

― unobtaintium (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 7 December 2009 19:15 (sixteen years ago)

Not enough Kevin and Dave in that trailer! Looks like it could maybe be a little lame, but I'm still looking hella forward to it.

Much love to Scott and I hope he continues to recover. I'm sure I've said as much somewhere upthread, but the Kids are one of my favorite groups of entertainers ever. Much, much love.

― Pooping And Crying (Deric W. Haircare), Monday, 7 December 2009 19:15 (sixteen years ago)

lol @ Bruce in fatsuit

― unobtaintium (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 7 December 2009 19:21 (sixteen years ago)

http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/c78840cb55/kids-in-the-hall-death-comes-to-town
― omar little, Monday, 7 December 2009 19:08 (7 minutes ago)

I am ready for this.

― retrovaporized nebulizer (╓abies), Monday, 7 December 2009 20:02 (sixteen years ago)

I hope Bruce apologized

― unobtaintium (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, December 7, 2009 1:25 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

http://blogs.smh.com.au/mashup/images/applause.gif

― radric in manehattan (some dude), Monday, 7 December 2009 21:09 (sixteen years ago)

CAR FUCKERS!

http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/41f325e282/new-never-before-seen-kids-in-the-hall-car-fuckers-from-kids-in-the-hall?rel=auto_related&rel_pos=3

― unobtaintium (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 8 December 2009 16:35 (sixteen years ago)

seven months pass...

Danny Husk graphic novel in the works! Written by Scott.

― could be a bad day for (Abbott), Thursday, 15 July 2010 17:03 (fifteen years ago)

Whaaaaaat? That's amazing (hopefully)!

― SNEEZED GOING DOWN STEPS, PAIN WHEN PUTTING SOCKS ON (Deric W. Haircare), Thursday, 15 July 2010 17:18 (fifteen years ago)

Husk Musk

― could be a bad day for (Abbott), Thursday, 15 July 2010 17:19 (fifteen years ago)

one month passes...

Great, long interview with Kevin, about most everything he's every done ---> "If you’re a comedy nerd these are interesting stories, I think."

― full of country goodness and green pea-ness (Abbbottt), Saturday, 21 August 2010 05:53 (fifteen years ago)

i love how he's kinda like his awkward characters IRL

― ('_') (omar little), Saturday, 21 August 2010 05:57 (fifteen years ago)

The first 2 episodes of Death Comes to Town aired last night on IFC. I just happened to see it there when browsing the 500 channels on my Direct TV. I don't know if they will repeat the first two episodes but I have the rest of them set to tape on my series manager

― you doesn't hasta call me johnson (CaptainLorax), Saturday, 21 August 2010 21:59 (fifteen years ago)

I was regretting not having IFC until I read Eric H's pan of it.

(but then, him and comedy)

― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 21 August 2010 23:10 (fifteen years ago)

two weeks pass...

watched the first 2 eps of Death Comes to Town - pretty good, but not a lotta lols. seems like mostly set-up...? altho Bruce-as-hockey-player ass-fucking the french prostitute on the ice while jumping up and down holding bricks in his hands was funny

― Dr. Lol Evans (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 7 September 2010 18:25 (fifteen years ago)

ten years pass...

I guess Bezos and his billions have put a few bucks into the Canadian economy.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E2VPR7dWYAUTIDp?format=jpg&name=large

Who cares about James Bond when you got Buddy and the gang.

Kind of curious and hopeful to see how it turns out.

― earlnash, Thursday, 27 May 2021 12:42 (four years ago)

THE SHOW YOUR GRANDPARENTS WOULDN’T LET YOUR PARENTS WATCH IS BACK!
Filming has begun on The Kids in the Hall’s 8-episode Amazon Original series in Toronto. Below is photographic proof that we can still occupy the same physical space. #wereback #kidsinthehall @PrimeVideoCA pic.twitter.com/2eFFYYnzQ0
— Dave Foley (@DaveSFoley) May 26, 2021

― earlnash, Thursday, 27 May 2021 12:42 (four years ago)

Yeah, so stoked, since the live shows "Death Comes to Town" have been really good.

― Van Halen dot Senate dot flashlight (Boring, Maryland), Thursday, 27 May 2021 15:04 (four years ago)

live shows *and*

― Van Halen dot Senate dot flashlight (Boring, Maryland), Thursday, 27 May 2021 15:04 (four years ago)

Dang, wish this wasn't on Amazon

― change display name (Jordan), Thursday, 27 May 2021 15:09 (four years ago)

http://www.thewayofthepirates.com/images/thewayofthepirates/picture-of-flag-of-pirate-jack-rackham.jpg

― Joe Bombin (milo z), Thursday, 27 May 2021 15:16 (four years ago)

Was not crazy about Death Comes to town.

― FRAUDULENT STEAKS (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Thursday, 27 May 2021 15:21 (four years ago)

Wow had no idea about this. Seeing them live in 2014 was a treat, I could see this being good

― Vinnie, Thursday, 27 May 2021 15:32 (four years ago)

I cannot reconcile KITH Mark McKinney with goofy dork Glenn Sturgis Mark McKinney in Superstore. How are they the same person!

― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Friday, 28 May 2021 06:10 (four years ago)

I'm optimistic about this because they still have tons of ideas in them. Saw solo shows by Kevin, Scott and Bruce over the past 4 or 5 years and they were all fresh as ever. Scott and Bruce did scripted monologues of course but Kevin's show was nuts - surreal, improvised sketches with a bunch of young comedians he only met that day. There is no need for someone of his experience and reputation go out on a limb like that but he still obviously enjoys performing on the edge.

― everything, Friday, 28 May 2021 06:45 (four years ago)

I cannot reconcile KITH Mark McKinney with goofy dork Glenn Sturgis Mark McKinney in Superstore. How are they the same person!

we binged about three seasons before catching on that it’s him!

― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Friday, 28 May 2021 11:18 (four years ago)

It is kind of amazing that he so often played the alpha male CEO type characters on KITH. But have you all seen Slings & Arrows? I feel like his character on that show is a bridge between KITH and Glenn (also it's just a good show). There is something genuinely abject about Glenn, especially in the earlier seasons, that reminds me of KITH though

― rob, Friday, 28 May 2021 12:52 (four years ago)

mckinney was always the best "actor" of the troupe imo

― na (NA), Friday, 28 May 2021 13:38 (four years ago)

Dave Foley is great in his two cameos in 'It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia' as the principal that hires Charlie.

― earlnash, Friday, 28 May 2021 13:48 (four years ago)

I think the world has moved on enough, that just revisiting some of the characters in 2021 should be good. C'mon I'm sure Buddy has a whole heck of a lot to say alone. The board room sketches "but first the hookers"... The Kathys...

― earlnash, Friday, 28 May 2021 13:50 (four years ago)

ERADICATOR

― burnt hombre (stevie), Tuesday, 1 June 2021 08:40 (four years ago)

BOBBY TERRENCE

― burnt hombre (stevie), Tuesday, 1 June 2021 08:40 (four years ago)

ROD TORFULSON'S ARMADA FEATURING HERMAN MENDERCHUK

― Jerome Percival Jesus (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 1 June 2021 11:00 (four years ago)

ten months pass...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zm2rAjmH_JQ

― FRAUDULENT STEAKS (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Thursday, 14 April 2022 04:53 (four years ago)

Old Gavin looks disturbing.

― Chris L, Thursday, 14 April 2022 07:34 (four years ago)

They were pretty great at the live show I saw some time back. Not expecting heyday-level quality for these new episodes but I'm still excited

― Vinnie, Thursday, 14 April 2022 11:42 (four years ago)

love the gag of them still being in the grave from 1995

― nobody like my rap (One Eye Open), Thursday, 14 April 2022 12:33 (four years ago)

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