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

I love Tammy! She is better than Britney.

The Doors skit

"excuse me, do you have the new depeche mode?" "yeah we do...but they suck"

"the gypsies had no home, the doors had no bass"

as mentioned on the Raquetball thread...THE ERADICATOR!

"Gerald!"

"Gerry!"

"Ger!"

"G!"

The one where Mark as a woman comes to teach some workers how to throw a suprise party for a co-worker and they're totally clueless.

The one with the french-canadian furriers canoeing through moder-day canada and setting traps in an office, "let that one go, he may one day be vice president", pulling up to scott thompson dave foley says "we have calvin klein, perry ellis, and many Armani"

Mark as the Serbian cab driver.

bruce mccullough - the one where he's driving and listening to the "sports score, it's so true"

and kevin mcdonald - when the car is in the driveway but it won't start - "try it now!"

"And now Bruce McCulloch with an open letter to the people who watched the guy steal his bike wheel" [spoken by Scott]

[Bruce enters, bike lowered from above] Well, you knew it wasn't his wheel! What did you think? He was coming back for the rest of his bike later? Well, why didn't you do something? Why didn't you say something? You human piece of apathy! Why didn't you say, "Hey! That's not your wheel! That could be Bruce McCulloch's wheel! We love him! And he loved that wheel!" Just eatin' brunch. Well, didn't you think I needed it? I did! Well, look at that! Feast on that act of violence! Good work, Einstein! Pus!

"That was Bruce McCulloch with an open letter to the people who watched while the guy stole his bike wheel." [spoken by Scott]

[Bumper video of Bruce walking his incomplete bike.]

Dear Guy I Clotheslined As You Went By on Your Bicycle.
You don't know me, but I'm the guy who broke your collarbone. Now I've asked myself over and over why did I clothesline that guy. Perhaps I watched too much slapstick as a kid and expected you to get up after being violently assaulted. Imagine my confusion when you did not. Although not so confused that I'd actually hang around.

In all fairness, It was pretty funny, I mean the last thing you'd expect as you were riding merrily by on your bike is that someone you didn't know at all would stick out his arm and crush your throat.

I mean, you really should have seen it, It was just like WAM! BAM! (hahaha)

ANY-WAY....

In closing, as you lay there convalescing in your hospital be, I'm forced to wonder 'What were you doing riding your bike on the sidewalk anyway, Huh, ya asshole? side-WALK!

Maybe sometimes we bring heartache upon ourselves.

Signed, the guy that collapsed your trachea.

"See Bobby, pretty soon we'll all be listening to Jazz!"

When he's a big brother and the kid tells him he got a girl pregnant.

When he's flashing back to playing games with his mom.

When he's hosting his painting show:

Now if you remember all great paintings have an element of tragedy to them. Uh for instance if you remember from *last* week, the unicorn was stuck on the aircraft carrier and couldn't get off. That was very sad. Uh and this week some of you wrote in with your suggestions. In fact Mrs. Trabinsky of Paulvale Street wrote in and suggested we give this lover [points to man in painting] a tumor in his head. So, let's begin! Now colour is especially important with a tumor. You want some red [uses brush to take some red paint and moves it to a different part of the palette], and you want some green [takes green paint on brush and mixes it with the red], and you want a little bit of blue [takes blue paint and mixes it with the others] to make it out-- There. Can you see that? That's a really nice colour for a tumor isn't it? Alright. Now, let's work with the colour we've created and add the tumor. [paints tumor on top of the head of the man] Now the thing is we don't want the tumor too big, we don't want to [points to mountains] steal focus from the mountains, okay? And what we'll do is we'll reflect the tumor in the water, down here, but we work again with the colour we've created, [paints tumor on man's reflection] we just sort of imply it because we don't want to wind up screaming, "Hey everyone look! There's a reflection of a tumor in the lake!" It's not what we want. [looking at painting] Well this is uh... quite a sad painting now I think. Perhaps this is the last time our lovers will be here together. I don't think this one will be around the next time ss-the snows settle on the gentle slopes of Mount Schwarzkopf [pointing with brush to mountain] up here.

the weird thing is I'm blanking on my favorite skit.

I'm gonna ask a question. What sort of music do you think there is in hell? You know, H-E-double hockey sticks? Well, I think it's probably hateful, free-form Jazz. And in heaven? Country and Western music. The choice is pretty obvious. It's not Jazz. It's not bop-a-dop bop-be-bop-bo Jazz. [to flutist:] What's that? A recorder or something? I'm not into it. Fuzz pedal, that's what I'm into. You know?

I really liked the one where Foley and McDonald are the French trappers hunting Yuppies for their suits in downtown Toronto. The site of them canoeing down the hall of the office building past cubicles was great.

also:

"you know for a straight man you sure know a lot about faggotry..."

and

"What time is it?"
"It's ten till four."
"No. The time is now."

anyone remember "with bob and david" on netflix?

yes and they were p good to great

oh happy day

what was not so good was the last KITH miniseries, which lost my interest about halfway through

you can't go home again, Gavin

ie these guys are almost the age Bob Hope was when he went to Vietnam

Dave Foley has a super creepy MRA vibe around him now, it’s made him hard to stomach.

he *really* hates his ex-wife (wives?)

I'm of two minds here, inasmuch as I'm happy they're doing their thing again but I've also engaged with very little that they've done since Brain Candy. Kinda unsure whether that early spark of brilliance can ever be recaptured tbh. But that's okay, the OG show is in my all-time top two and it's one of my all-time favorite cultural products period, so they can do whatever they want and I will feel happiness for them.

Oh yeah that death comes to town or whatever was bad

so they can do whatever they want

except for that celebrity poker show

Ha, shut your mouth. Dave Foley as a celebrity burnout cashing a check was great.

he *really* hates his ex-wife (wives?)

I vaguely remember from some podcast (maybe Maron) that it was a super messed-up situation, involving serious mental illness and getting married really young? Idk, I have no idea what he's said since.

He claims his child support was several times his income (I assume being based on his income during their marriage in the 90s and not taking in to consideration where his career ended up?) and he would be arrested for not paying if he returned to Canada on Maron

A family court conservatives maybe?

That's basically what I remember and I will admit that I just don't ever believe celebrities/rich guys who hate their ex-wives and have those sob stories.

Alimony based on how much he was making as the star of newsradio. When his career wasn’t at such heights he tried to adjust it but was denied and now can’t go back to Canada or something. I saw he had a special streaming a few years back and tried to watch it and it was terrible and depressing. Mostly telling the story of that situation and complaining about his ex. I don’t remember it even being funny. This is the guy who would do the most amazing monologues, just smart and surreal and hilarious. It was depressing.

I always loved that about them. All the bits where it’s just one of them standing there. I’m a bad doctor. Fuck my Bank. Buddy. The one where mark is sitting there losing the feeling in his leg because he stubbed his toe and don’t treat it.

i don't know why but out of the millions of kith sketches i've watched the one line that repeats in my head unwarranted multiple times a day is scott thompson's i'm not roy orbison! i work in colorization, but i don't agree with it

I have the "shortest tubes in north york (and they don't even know)" pop in my head every time I see some pathetic misogynist on Twitter, which is invariably

"Your Honor... I am not an experienced cannibal."

KITH is (mostly) up on Amazon and I've been rewatching the available seasons. Watching it on Prime via Roku, it is extremely confusingly set up (some seasons are free, some require an AMC+ sub, some are pay-per-episode and some are all three) btw.

F**kin'good ham.

Fine ham abounds, mum.

And they taught a dog to smoke!

It's not the funniest thing they ever did but I really appreciate how thorough they were with the Feelyat! sketch, right down to the audience of extremely pale European people with East German looking glasses.

Also good use of Darryl, a character whose value was almost completely gone at that point.

Woah, even the Eradicator's coming back
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zm2rAjmH_JQ

So often in circumstances like this going back to the well with all the same old characters can be lame, but with all these KITH characters it almost adds an extra layer of funny, seeing all these sad weirdos like the head crusher and the eradicator still doing the same shit 30 years later as old men. Really excited for this.

Death Comes to Town was very underrated. And on their recent tours they still have good new material.

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