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The Kids in the Hall - Season 1
The TV series of the Canadian sketch comedy troupe that, more often than not, puts bizarre, unique, and insane twists in their skits.
21 November 1968, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
1956, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
20 December 1970, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
20 December 1966, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
27 October 1954, Bari, Apulia, Italy
16 May 1961, Montréal, Québec, Canada
24 February 1978, Brampton, Ontario, Canada
June 01, 2018
It's the Kids' deliriously subversive take on middle-class manners and hypocrisy, and the way they fully inhabit their characters with subtle, laser-sharp acting, that set their comedy above the norm.
March 13, 2020
These follow the rich sketch tradition of hit-or-miss, but the Kids are notable for some of the most fascinatingly experimental misses in comedy history.
June 01, 2018
What they have done is give Home Box Office audiences in America a dark and almost dangerous weekly comedy show, one that doesn`t play-as so such American comedy increasingly does-to the lowest common denominators.
June 01, 2018
You can say this about "The Kids in the Hall:" They are sometimes funnier than the gang over at "Saturday Night Live." Then again, that is not saying a lot these days, when the late-night "SNL" players fall flat more often than not.
June 01, 2018
Do we really need an all-male, all-white quintet of flip, hip kids, making with the jokes?
June 01, 2018
The self-contained fivesome never relied on pop culture references or celebrity impressions to get a laugh. Instead they created surreal characters that seemed to inhabit some mysterious other universe.
June 01, 2018
Kids In The Hall inhabited a self-contained world built around original characters and absurdist setups, linked by wraparound sketches and short films that occasionally valued weirdness over funniness.
June 01, 2018
I became addicted, not only because of the wildly nonsensical sketch humor but also because Dave Foley, Bruce McCulloch, Kevin McDonald, Mark McKinney, and Scott Thompson were a decisively cohesive unit.
June 01, 2018
All five comics are clean-cut, boy-next-door types, which gives their off-the-wall humor an extra spin.
June 01, 2018
The canadian sketch comedy series broke far more ground at the time, relying less on pop culture or topical impersonations and more on social anxieties revolving around subjects like sexuality, gender, faith, the workplace, and family.
June 01, 2018
Their original characters, their clever lines and groundbreaking themes, and their ability to play realistic women (along with their willingness to kiss each other) surely meant they would go down in comedy history.
March 13, 2020
McKinney's hilarious head-crushing sketch remains a classic, and his portrayal of a strutting, squawking Chicken Lady is still funny years later.
