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

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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