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

Man, Scott as Danny Husk in the Brown Stuff sketch is so great. Always loved the character but that's really the best version.

Dave: You've been here a long time, haven't you Dan?

Scott: Yes sir.

Dave: And you know I've always kind thought of you as sort of... well, a son, really. So... So tell me.. um.. you married OR WHAT? You got a family OR WHAT?

Scott: Well um.. DAD... I have a lovely wife and two lovely children. Though I haven't seen the kids very much lately so I assume they've grown up and moved out.

Dave: Well, that must be nice for you Dan. That must be.. that must be nice.

Scott: I think it is.

I always forget that this is a thing that happened:

http://d.gr-assets.com/books/1439683120l/9269046.jpg

(I guess it's not indicated on that cover, but it's a Danny Husk adventure.)

Must read.

Always forget about the Buddy Cole autobio, too!

anyone read this?

https://www.amazon.com/This-Book-About-Kids-Hall/dp/1770413057

had no idea about it but looks interesting

Didn't know anything about that. The Scharpling blurb has sold me, though.

they seem to have done a live reading of Brain Candy in SF last weekend.

Kids def starting to look a bit like a band playing Oldchella

https://twitter.com/DennisThePerrin/status/821150683353280516

i was there! highlights included off the cuff (in character) chicken lady ridiculing buddy cole for hannibal getting cancelled while buddy cole rolled his eyes and said "yah ok 'superstore' tick tick."

Glad to see a couple of nods to the 'dipping areas' bit, which is basically perfect.

Poor Scott. I can't tell sometimes if he's old or sick again.

god bless every person who's uploaded the best of buddy cole to youtube

http://www.vulture.com/2017/02/kids-in-the-halls-scott-thompson-revisits-buddy-cole.html

I feel like identity politics has hit at a wall. It’s nonsense. We’ve got to keep stop slicing ourselves into thinner and thinner slices. It’s getting us nowhere.

good thing he's Canadian; could never be a Democrat

his politics are ... interesting. they def don't fall along conventional fault lines.

interesting that he feels he's never had a gay audience, my impression is that that's accurate

he usually brings up how he's anti-pc in interviews. think his politics are p normal, i feel like I've met a ton of liberal anti-pc baby boomer white gay dudes in my life

never really occurred to me that he's a boomer but yeah me too

I saw his appearance at the old NYC gay bookstore A Different Light in the '90s when Buddy's "autobiography" came out. I think maybe a couple dozen people showed up.

oof

I saw him play to a packed house at the Fillmore sometime in the late 90s but the audience did seem to be more "comedy nerds" than yr average SF gay crowd idk. The most memorable thing about that was right when the lights went down to start the show I lit up a joint w my friend, and then a spotlight came on us, and right behind us was Scott, naked except for a bedsheet wrapped around his shoulders. good show.

the whole idea of political correctness is a boondoggle and has a gaping hole in its logic -- the idea is a slur on people who recognize structural racism, ask people not to punch down in jokes, etc

the greatness of buddy cole is that any stereotype is delivered by buddy and immediately you're thinking "of course buddy would think that," not "scott thompson said a bad thing!"

the idea that buddy is the version of scott that society wouldn't let him be, plus this entire history of the character that checks every stereotype box... it's just such a beautiful character

i was going to describe one of my favorite moments, but here it is, transcribed with some typos:
http://www.kithfan.org/work/transcripts/five/budmont.html

the progression from I must have been all of twelve years old. His name was Mario. He was an older boy - about forty. to the end where it's buddy that gets in trouble for corruption of an imbecile kills me every time

aren't pretty much all comics 'anti-pc'

very few do it without sounding like total dicks tho

The most memorable thing about that was right when the lights went down to start the show I lit up a joint w my friend, and then a spotlight came on us, and right behind us was Scott, naked except for a bedsheet wrapped around his shoulders. good show.

This is a great story!

I've almost finished the book from last year, which has been okay, but could someone else maybe furnish the fans with a book about the show specifically? Like maybe one that doesn't wrap up discussion about the TV series halfway through its <300 page length? Much as I love the Kids, I don't need half a book about their solo careers and reunion tours.

i realized that the "boo!"/"there's a spider on your back!" books sketch was kid-friendly and so i showed it to my seven-year-old and now she has been quoting/referencing it the past few days, so please remind me of other KOTH sketches that might be family friendly. danny husk trying to get his dead car to work ("try it now!") just jumped into my head as another potential option as i was typing this out

Those are good ones. Getting a Check at a Restaurant? Flying Pig, except for maybe that last bit?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hZ56mHlKB0

Never put salt in your eye?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R15LkyO8gq8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R9d2Y1We-d0

sausages?

daddy drank

Sausages is strangely disturbing. Thought about 'Encyclopedias', but I'm guessing the premise of a door-to-door salesman selling books about things you could just Google would probably be nonsensical to a child. How about Captain Calm?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6aMCs5XVYXM

Daves I know

i can't remember if i already showed her the "nobody likes us" guys eating worms

oh duh "daves i know" of course. maybe "terriers" too. it has the sexist representations of women but they're called out as such.

I pulled up Terriers for this but had forgotten that it talks about "those mornings where you just want to watch tv, eat corn chips, and masturbate"

oh yeah oops

Ooh, how about "Can I Keep Him?"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TvFhoqN597k

yeah i was just watching that one. a little long but she'd probably like it.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=y7S4b_-urm0

probably one adults would find funnier tbh

i can imagine liking head-crushing as a 7yo

maybe avoid the one where he calls his foe a serbian bastard (or is that a different skit?)

Fur trappers?

My Pen

Mr heavyfoot

isn't there a dude who gnaws off his own leg to get out of a trap xxp

The bass player sketch is just weird

Although stupid and simple and not emblematic of the Kids at their best, this is occasionally my favorite Bruce bit and totally kid-friendly:

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

(I was only a couple years older than seven when the show started, and I'll be forever thankful for the lax parenting which allowed me to watch it years before I understood many of the more adult references.)

Yeah but is that worse than an anvil dropped on a cartoon coyotes’ head xxp