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Posted Jun 20th 2008 12:21PM by Brett Love
Filed under: TV Squad Polls, Celebrities, Game Show, Casting, Reality-Free
It certainly won't be the only factor, but the choices made for just who makes up the celebrity panel will go a long way in deciding the fate of this latest incarnation of the classic show. With that in mind, here is the celebrity panel from the recently taped pilot: Sarah Silverman, Norm MacDonald, Bob Einstein (Super Dave!), Scott Thompson (Kids In The Hall), Rashida Jones (The Office), and Niecy Nash (Reno 911). Andrew Daly (Crossballs) is the host.
How does that lineup grab ya? To me, it's not bad. The Reuters article asks if Sarah Silverman is the new Brett Somers or Norm MacDonald is the new Richard Dawson. In a word, no. You just can't fight that kind of nostalgia. So many of us have seen the classic episodes so many times, and have such fond memories of them, that I don't think there is anything they could possibly do to begin to live up to the original.
Continue reading The new Match Game celebrity panel
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 Oct 2nd 2007 11:28AM by Joel Keller
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, Interviews, Celebrities
When I wrapped up my interview with Bruce McCulloch -- executive producer of ABC's
Carpoolers and a member of the legendary comedy troupe Kids In The Hall -- I asked him if there was anything else he might be working on. "Yeah, I'm going to have a heart attack next March, and I wanted people to know about that," he joked. For a guy who has worn a lot of hats in his career, nothing has kept him busier than being the boss.
Carpoolers, a single-camera comedy premiering on ABC tonight at 8:30 PM ET, is about four guys who use their carpool to explore what's going on in each other's lives. The show is McCulloch's brainchild, which means he's involved with everything from the writing to how many donuts will be on the craft services table. Yet he still has time to write and perform his own surreal works, as well as perform occasionally with the Kids, who have been together for almost a quarter-century.
I got a chance to speak to McCulloch last week, and we talked about what it's like to premiere after the season's most lambasted new show (
Cavemen), what parts of himself he sees in each of his main characters, what it's like to work with
Fred Goss and Jerry O'Connell (
who spoke to our friends at AOL last week), and why the Kids have managed to stay together for so long. Highlights are after the jump, as well as an audio embed of the interview (35 minutes).
Continue reading Bruce McCulloch of Carpoolers: The TV Squad Interview - AUDIO
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 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.
Posted Jan 14th 2006 8:05PM by Annie Wu
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, Programming, Animation
Conservative groups like the American Family Association have been having a fit
over the alleged "homosexual agenda" of
The Book of Daniel. Well here's
another show for them to worry about, but this time, there's definitely no need for "alleged". Here!, the gay
lifestyle network,
has
announced that they plan on creating a cartoon based on the
Kids in the Hall character, Buddy Cole. In the
show, Buddy, the owner of a gay bar, suddenly becomes a parent when his orphaned niece shows up one day. He also comes
under the scrutiny of a conservative city councilman. Animated hilarity is expected to ensue.
Buddy brought
the funny as a few-minutes-long sketch on
Kids in the Hall, but will he be enough to create an entire series?
Well, I guess he's more material to work with than that "I'm crushing your head!" guy (who I still, to this
day, imitate at random intervals).
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