An Impossible Choice: Kids In the Hall

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Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

Bruce lovers

dirty, beastly, sexy, hunky Bruce lovers! God I hate you I hate you I hate you!!

I voted Bruce but Mark is great. Why no Mark fans? He has some of the weirdest characters.

I'm a big Bruce fan, but I voted for Mark. He's got the broadest comedic range. Rewatching the show I'm impressed by what a good actor he is, I wish he was in more stuff.

-- n/a, Wednesday, February 27, 2008 4:54 PM (1 week ago) Bookmark Link

That's like a total inversion of their greatness.

I still own the Bruce McCullough album.

on my itunes at work. i somehow wound up with two copies of it, i think one is my ex's.

Bruce had multiple comedy albums of his sheer weirdness/brilliance. It's not for everyone.

I have discovered irritating people are really easy to handle if you pretend they are Gavin.

http://img.youtube.com/vi/uA_3MnVen08/0.jpg

kinda sad story about Foley here: http://www.thestar.com/entertainment/television/article/952260--comedian-dave-foley-fears-arrest-owes-500-000-in-child-support?bn=1

wow

I kinda just feel sorry for everybody in that scenario

god, that is gutwrenching. keep ya head up, dave.

The whole KITH series on DVD is $34.99 right now on Amazon. I just ordered one. Maybe Dave will see a little of that $$...

that's crazy depreciation. a few years ago they were going for that much per season

Yeah, I think it was marked down from $99.00 or so...and free shipping.

yeah fuck -- i might buy that and give away the season 1 and 2 sets i already got

those poll results looked familiar...
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Interview w/ Scott on his new graphic novel and the role it played in his cancer treatment:

http://www.maximumfun.org/sound-young-america/scott-thompson-actor-and-comedian-kids-hall-interview-sound-young-america

Has anyone read the Husk comic?

Just re-watching KITH these days.

This is funny, because the list represents my favourite Kid to my 'least favourite'. I gather Bruce is a lot of people's favourite here because he was the musician and brought a lot of the music aspects to KITH.

And like the OP said, there are weaknesses in all of them. I always wondered why I enjoyed Bruce's sketches so much when he himself said he was no longer enjoying doing them (around season 3, I believe?).

Dave seems to be the one that was consistently good, however.

bruce is a lot of ppl's favorite because he was fucking hilarious

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aww. i would totally sign his guestbook.

So happy to have my beautiful boys back.

Don't even care that they're playing all the hits - Buddy Cole, Kathy with a K, Erradicator, etc. - they're still great and the new stuff is on the same level, the post apocalyptic classic rock DJ is one of the bleakest sketches I've seen.

Plus they're the ultimate champs of mocking corporate culture and that has only further swallowed the world up since they were last around.

Also get ready for a lot of full frontal male nudity!

come on, surely I'm not the only ILXor left who loves KITH?

Stoked to see this. I binged the original show when it was on... netflix? I've never seen the movie or the other series.

Love Bruce McCulloch's Shame Based Man album.

Came across this by accident, I barely ever check Amazon Prime video and I feel like news of a KITH reunion has hardly been circulated! Anyway, fully satisfying so far, very much "the thing I remember" without feeling like a rehash. Amazed that in 2022 there was still a funny "Zoom meeting" sketch to be written.

loved bruce in that zoom sketch. two eps in bc i'm trying to make it last, enjoying it so far. loving all the gratuitous nudity.

The full frontal thing is def a new twist! I don’t think they leaned too heavy on the old characters and they didn’t hold back making fun of themselves a lot too. The eradicator sketch really had me laughing. There was a few guest appearances from some other old school Canadian comics that made me smile too.

I will say the "friends of kith" bits were uniformly unfunny and felt very un-KITH as well, but thankfully they were very short.

Same quality at the original series I’d say too. Not everything lands, but overall there’s some great stuff

agreed. so far imho theyre threading the needle just right as far as acknowledging the reality that theyre old dinosaurs without making every sketch be about that. and im happy with the balance of familiar stuff vs new material, across their various projects & tours over the years theyve never seemed to have trouble writing new stuff.

4 eps in and it feels like one of the most successful of these reboots. Agreed with the criticisms above but it’s easy to forget things sometimes landed weird on the original as well.

Awww, glad to hear this is good, I really want to see it at some point but don't have Amazon.

I’ve been out of the country but will start watching tonight!

I eagerly cued up the original series for a rewatch on Amazon to prep for the new episodes and the very first episode featured a blackface sketch

i assume that's mark mckinney as mississippi gary (the blues singer). they do another version of that sketch later where he breaks character and talks about how it doesn't make any sense for him to be playing that character (and he longer appears to be in blackface). but i'm not saying it absolves them for including the character (or doing blackface obviously)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_2ao-QAb5E

just to complete my thought, i guess it's interesting bc the later sketch is basically mark mckinney indicating that he knows he probably shouldn't be doing the character, and he tries to brush it off with self-deprecation and suggesting it comes from a place of love, but then he just goes back to doing it anyways. that probably just makes it worse in a way.

It very quickly became obvious that the blackface was completely tangential to the core of the joke and the follow up does show that they were thinking very subversively about it, so I actually think it does absolve them!

isn't there another sketch later on in the series with Scott Thompson in blackface as a guy meeting his white girlfriend's disapproving parents for the first time, and the gag at the end is that the parents don't want their daughter dating a guy who wears blackface i.e. it's diegetic blackface

Thompson also plays a south asian character in the sketches with Raj and Christine where the blacking/browning up is seems almost entirely superfluous, you could filmed those sketches with him playing a white guy and it wouldn't really change it that much afiact, which makes you wonder why they bothered making him south asian in the first place? I guess maybe there's something implied about the backgrounds of the two characters and that being reflected in how Christine dominates and bullies Raj without really thinking about it - she's from a rich and privileged and family and is part of the counter-culture by choice whereas he is gay and from an immigrant, possibly conservative family, and is part of the counter-culture through necessity? I don't know if they ever reveal much about Raj's background, maybe he's from a fancy background as well for all I know.

xp there's one where scott in in brown(at least)face and brought home by his gf (dave), who warns him that her parents are awful racists

but the parents turn out to be super lovely, thwarting the gf's desire to transgress

but maybe there's another one later that goes a level deeper?

been re-watching the first season

i was always a dave guy but upon reflection i might be turning into a bruce guy

Funny, I’ve always rated them Mark, Dave/Scott, Kevin/Bruce. But I’m thinking I might have Marge Simpson syndrome (whereby I loved Homer as a teenager and now love Marge above everyone else) and might come around to Bruce

I’m not watching the new season til I finish my rewatch of the originals

Idk Bruce is so one-note to me (and tbh it’s a great note). Mark is amazing. The sketch where she’s flunking the dance prodigy in favour of Kevin and then says “obviously I’m totally kidding!” I just died it was so good

They’re all good but I admit the cult of Bruce is sort of beyond me

The sketch where she’s flunking the dance prodigy in favour of Kevin and then says “obviously I’m totally kidding!

lol i actually just tried to look up the dance prodigy to see if she'd done more acting! she was solid

with mark, for me, it might mainly be that the headcrusher was worthy of one skit only but it just kept going

scott is beyond rankings tho. rank the others however you want but scott will always be at worst 1a