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-one 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-one 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-one 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-one 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-one years ago)

i thought the state was pretty damn funny, too!

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

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

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

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

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

does anyone remember "almost live"?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

What "issues" did Scott sadly have?

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

"show us...far"

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

I am?

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

oh, don't be so coy.

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

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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 (fifteen years ago)

!!! aw fuck

first Dio, now this

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

agreed

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

I hope Bruce apologized

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

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

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

yay!

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

awesome

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

lol @ Bruce in fatsuit

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

Old Gavin looks disturbing.

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

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