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Posted Aug 19th 2009 1:02PM by Jason Hughes
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, Pickups and Renewals, Reality-Free
Just imagine how much fun
Harper's Island could have been if it had been written by and starred The Kids in the Hall. If you live in Canada, you don't have to imagine it, because the Kids are creating just that.
Death Comes to Town is to be an eight-part comedy where the Kids (Scott Thompson, Dave Foley, Mark McKinney, Bruce McCulloch and Kevin McDonald) will each play multiple roles, possibly including some of the characters made famous on
The Kids in the Hall sketch comedy show. I'm hoping the murderer kills people by crushing their heads.
Continue reading The Kids in the Hall reunite for a murder-mystery miniseries
Posted Jul 4th 2009 6:02PM by Annie Wu
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, OpEd, Celebrities, Reality-Free
As a special
Sketch Comedy Saturday treat, I will forgo the lengthy, typed-out, text version of me humming the
Kids In The Hall theme song and get right down to business. This is one of those shows that are now considered classic sketch comedy (and Canadian comedy), so I feel silly for even having to profile them, but I am constantly surprised by the number of people whose eyes glaze over when I ask them if they've ever heard of the Kids. So ... Have you heard of the Kids?
Continue reading Sketch Comedy Saturday: The Kids In The Hall
Posted Dec 4th 2008 11:31AM by Mike Moody
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, Programming, Video, Reality-Free
The news that
The Kids in the Hall are working on a
new Canadian TV miniseries should make comedy nerds everywhere happy. I know I'm excited, even though it might be a while until it airs in the U.S. (I'm kicking myself for not moving to Canada like I said I would after the 2004 presidential election.)
Mr. Dave Foley told the Canadian Press that all the original Kids (Foley, Bruce McCullough, Mark McKinney, Scott Thompson and Kevin McDonald) are writing an eight-ep miniseries for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, the home of their original sketch comedy show. It sounds like their recent reunion tour went pretty well. The five-member troupe will star in the series, which Foley says won't be a sketch comedy, but will involve a number of comic characters.
Continue reading Kids in the Hall working on new miniseries - VIDEO
Posted Oct 29th 2007 9:21AM by Annie Wu
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, TV on DVD, OpEd
Sometimes, when it's too rainy outside to go anywhere and the air is full of a sense of doom and gloom, all you want is to just hole up indoors and watch hours and hours and hours of nonstop Canadian sketch comedy and cross-dressing. Hey, I can't possibly be the only one that feels that way, because otherwise, the
Kids in the Hall complete series megaset wouldn't have been made. I had a full rainy week to lounge around with this lovely collection and we got to know each other pretty well. It's a real sweetheart, to be sure... A real cross-dressing, head-crushing, fact-sharing, cabbage-headin' sweetheart.
Continue reading Kids in the Hall complete series megaset - DVD review
Posted Aug 25th 2007 8:01AM by Adam Finley
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, Video, Web, Celebrities
Man, how I miss this show.
Someone who attended the Kids in the Hall reunion performance at the Just for Laughs festival posted the encore on YouTube, and I've placed it below for your viewing pleasure. Some of the dialogue is difficult to make out, but fans shouldn't have any trouble figuring out what's going on. Mark McKinney reprises his role as the "headcrusher" guy, that wormy fella who loved to vanquish those he disliked by closing one eye and pretending to crush their heads between his thumb and forefinger. In the segment below, he kills off the other cast members (Scott Thompson, Bruce McCullough, Dave Foley and Kevin McDonald) for their poor career choices post- Kids in the Hall. In a final bit of inspired meta comedy, McKinney turns his wrath on himself.
Continue reading A clip from the Kids in the Hall live show - VIDEOS
Posted Jan 25th 2007 12:12PM by Julia Ward
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, ABC, Celebrities, Pickups and Renewals
The career trajectories of the former
Kids in the Hall have been fascinating to behold. Dave Foley went from a starring turn in
News Radio to a funny, but strange co-hosting gig on
Celebrity Poker Showdown. Mark McKinney appeared briefly on
SNL and now sits around the writer's room of
Studio 60 hoping Aaron Sorkin will throw him a bone and actually let him write something. Kevin McDonald turns up in bit parts everywhere and keeps a steady gig as the voice of
Lilo and Stitch's alien life form Pleakley. Scott Thompson visits Conan every once in awhile, but my favorite Bruce McCulloch's post-
Kids appearances have been few and far between. McCulloch served a brief stint as a
SNL writer and wrote and directed the forgettable film
Dog Park.
Continue reading ABC picks up pilot from Kids in the Hall alum
Posted Sep 26th 2006 9:58AM by Joel Keller
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, NBC, OpEd, Watercooler Talk, Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip
Can someone tell Aaron Sorkin that he's not a sketch writer? Because if he's going to do a series about a sketch show being rescued from the dead he might want to make the sketches that show puts on... you know... what word am I looking for? Oh yeah! "Good."
Don't get me wrong, I really liked
last night's episode of Studio 60; Sorkin needs to lay off the sanctimony, but that can be said of all his shows. However, the sketch that he wrote for the "cold open," the one that the entire episode led up to, was pretty lame.
Continue reading Was it me, or did Studio 60's "cold open" kinda suck?
Posted Jun 16th 2006 8:34AM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, TV on DVD
I really loved a lot of
Kids in the Hall, but a lot of it I didn't (that's going to happen with long-running sketch shows, from
Kids in the Hall to
SCTV to
SNL), so I'm kinda interested in
this "best of" DVD that is going to be released by A&E/NewVideo in August. I've been holding off on buying the season sets, so if this is truly a best of DVD, then it might be worth getting. But sometimes these "greatest hits" type of sets can be really disappointing.
But the price is right, around $14. The set will be released on August 29.
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