bruno ponce-jones
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 27 February 2008 17:00 (sixteen years ago) link
what has mark been doing, aside from his brief stint on SNL and 'saddest music'?
― n/a, Wednesday, 27 February 2008 17:00 (sixteen years ago) link
BRUCIO
― Shakey Mo Collier, Wednesday, 27 February 2008 17:00 (sixteen years ago) link
poll of impossibility
― rrrobyn, Wednesday, 27 February 2008 17:03 (sixteen years ago) link
bellini
― latebloomer, Wednesday, 27 February 2008 17:05 (sixteen years ago) link
Kevin is my pity vote.
― Nicole, Wednesday, 27 February 2008 17:06 (sixteen years ago) link
i read some really depressing article about kevin mcdonald a couple years ago...after some article had come out about dave calling him "the straight man" of KiTH...he just kept pointing out that he was dating a WOMAN because he's NOT GAY and talking about his lack of popularity, and you could picture him saying it in the typical self-deprecating way that was funny sometimes during the show, but also sometimes a little sad. but now it just seems totally sad. poor kevin :(
― bell_labs, Wednesday, 27 February 2008 17:06 (sixteen years ago) link
aw
― Jordan, Wednesday, 27 February 2008 17:07 (sixteen years ago) link
kevin first (no pity either, dude was fucking funny), mark second for me
― impudent harlot, Wednesday, 27 February 2008 17:07 (sixteen years ago) link
Another impossible poll would be who was the best woman?
I always loved Scott's women, especially his older ones (e.g. the queen, the old lady who's mugged).
― G00blar, Wednesday, 27 February 2008 17:08 (sixteen years ago) link
people have said i look like kevin!
i voted scott
― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 27 February 2008 17:08 (sixteen years ago) link
all the other Kids consistently defer to Kevin as "the funniest". He's definitely willing to go to exceptional lengths to humiliate himself for the sake of comedy.
I can see their point, but Bruce is still my favorite.
― Shakey Mo Collier, Wednesday, 27 February 2008 17:12 (sixteen years ago) link
the sizzler sisters!
― impudent harlot, Wednesday, 27 February 2008 17:12 (sixteen years ago) link
Scott's had the best post-career, I think. his standup show was really funny.
― Shakey Mo Collier, Wednesday, 27 February 2008 17:13 (sixteen years ago) link
there should def. be a best woman poll! with pictures! Dave was the "cutest" girl.
Well, the Kevin pity comes from him having that sad sack persona and also that I only ever see him doing cartoon voices now. He was probably my favorite on the show as well, although it's just too hard to choose.
― Nicole, Wednesday, 27 February 2008 17:14 (sixteen years ago) link
buddy
― gff, Wednesday, 27 February 2008 17:14 (sixteen years ago) link
actually wait: sizzler sisters vs. francesca fiore vs. the hotel la rut whores vs....
― impudent harlot, Wednesday, 27 February 2008 17:15 (sixteen years ago) link
scott did the best old/middle-aged women
― latebloomer, Wednesday, 27 February 2008 17:16 (sixteen years ago) link
Btw I saw Carpoolers for the first time last night. Not the greatest thing ever, but way funnier that I thought it would be.
-- Jordan, Wednesday, February 27, 2008 11:49 AM (23 minutes ago) Bookmark Link
last night's was probably the funniest episode so far, and also the first time I caught Bruce cannibalizing a KITH line in it ("who knows where I could be this time tomorrow, I could be in Chicago, eating bacon and eggs with gangsters"). generally a pretty weak show with occasional bright spots.
― Alex in Baltimore, Wednesday, 27 February 2008 17:16 (sixteen years ago) link
bruce as kathy with a k <3<3<3
― bell_labs, Wednesday, 27 February 2008 17:17 (sixteen years ago) link
i'm talking about mark too much but his old lady who complains about how you can't use the word 'fisting' anymore is gold
― n/a, Wednesday, 27 February 2008 17:17 (sixteen years ago) link
i like the scott-as-old-woman monologue sketches
― impudent harlot, Wednesday, 27 February 2008 17:17 (sixteen years ago) link
Scott was busy...he did Larry Sanders quite successfully.
I'll probably vote Bruce. Saw one ep. of Carpoolers finally a week or two ago. Mostly pretty low-budget sitcom stuff with sudden bursts of oddness, funniness and the occasional "this feels like a bruce skit" line. Still, it's no MY PEN!
― dan selzer, Wednesday, 27 February 2008 17:18 (sixteen years ago) link
my fave women were the office Kathys
xpost!
― Dr Morbius, Wednesday, 27 February 2008 17:18 (sixteen years ago) link
I remember an old Conan where Dave Foley and Isabella Rossellini were both on. Foley put a black wig on and the similarity was frightening.
― Pleasant Plains, Wednesday, 27 February 2008 17:18 (sixteen years ago) link
They're all pretty much uniquely great though, and they can all pull off an amazing solo performance.
Mark sitting in a chair while his toe goes gang-green and he sticks a fork in his leg...
― dan selzer, Wednesday, 27 February 2008 17:19 (sixteen years ago) link
awesome interview with ST on the pre-stewart daily show, craig kilborn gets increasingly exasperated and 'phobed out with him, asks "what exactly is the difference between you and buddy?" and scott without blinking shoots back "buddy's uncircumcised"
― gff, Wednesday, 27 February 2008 17:19 (sixteen years ago) link
TEMP!
xpost
― impudent harlot, Wednesday, 27 February 2008 17:19 (sixteen years ago) link
that is true re: scott as middle-aged woman esp the "i'd wear sausages in a link around my neck and rub cherries on my lips to feel pretty" character
― rrrobyn, Wednesday, 27 February 2008 17:19 (sixteen years ago) link
uglification (in multiple ways) of Canadian comedy: KITH ---> Rogen & Co
― Dr Morbius, Wednesday, 27 February 2008 17:20 (sixteen years ago) link
Haha, I caught that Carpoolers line too.
Dave's women are great, esp. the ditzy secretary in the Danny Husk sketches and the boss.
― Jordan, Wednesday, 27 February 2008 17:21 (sixteen years ago) link
i love when scott plays the really goofy super-canadian hockey fan guy
― bell_labs, Wednesday, 27 February 2008 17:22 (sixteen years ago) link
wait i just remembered TAMMY! bruce might win best female on that alone
― impudent harlot, Wednesday, 27 February 2008 17:22 (sixteen years ago) link
i'm voting for bruce because he has a cabbage for a head.
― chicago kevin, Wednesday, 27 February 2008 17:23 (sixteen years ago) link
Ok, I just tried to look up Scott Thompson + Daily Show on youtube, and got a page about "evil, lying jews" on Fox news.
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=SCOTT+THOMPSON+DAILY+SHOW&search_type=
― Jordan, Wednesday, 27 February 2008 17:24 (sixteen years ago) link
bruce as gavin, esp. in that "those kids sure smoked" sketch.
― chicago kevin, Wednesday, 27 February 2008 17:24 (sixteen years ago) link
Bruce as rock n' roll teenager
― Jordan, Wednesday, 27 February 2008 17:25 (sixteen years ago) link
lolz Kilborn's such a douchebag... when/where is this Carpoolers thing on? I've heard of it but never seen it.
― Shakey Mo Collier, Wednesday, 27 February 2008 17:26 (sixteen years ago) link
-- bell_labs, Wednesday, February 27, 2008 12:22 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Link
HEY...DIDN'T YOU TAKE ME TO A LEAFS GAME? YOU OWE ME FIFTY BUCKS, YOU FAUX-FRENCH FAG!
― Alex in Baltimore, Wednesday, 27 February 2008 17:27 (sixteen years ago) link
dear god jordan that is fucked
― gff, Wednesday, 27 February 2008 17:27 (sixteen years ago) link
i can hardly stand kevin.
my vote is for bruce for his teenager and dad characters.
scott is a close close second.
― sunny successor, Wednesday, 27 February 2008 17:27 (sixteen years ago) link
Carpoolers is on ABC Tuesdays...I think it's on 9:30, used to be on 8:30 (might do better now that it's lead-in isn't Cavemen).
― Alex in Baltimore, Wednesday, 27 February 2008 17:28 (sixteen years ago) link
whenever I see a car chase in a movie now all i can think of is Bruno Pontz-Jones snickering ("Americans, always with the car chase, eh. And the happy ending, with the puppy licking the face")
― Shakey Mo Collier, Wednesday, 27 February 2008 17:29 (sixteen years ago) link
when i was 12 and obsessed with KITH i was in love with david foley now that i am older when i watch the show i definitely get more big laughs from bruce. BRUCE ALL THE WAY.
― homosexual II, Wednesday, 27 February 2008 17:30 (sixteen years ago) link
bruce in a walk, excepting his post-KITH career
― remy bean, Wednesday, 27 February 2008 17:31 (sixteen years ago) link
"fucking good ham. oops, i mean, fine ham abounds mom."
― chicago kevin, Wednesday, 27 February 2008 17:32 (sixteen years ago) link
not.... jazz!
― Shakey Mo Collier, Wednesday, 27 February 2008 17:34 (sixteen years ago) link
They were all great women, but Mark could be eerily authentic sometimes. He gets my vote just for playing the temp in the Kathy skits alone. ("Mondays, huh? Ugh!")
― Eric H., Wednesday, 27 February 2008 17:36 (sixteen years ago) link
"The cute as a species don't age well"
― Shakey Mo Collier, Wednesday, 27 February 2008 17:37 (sixteen years ago) link
every line of dialogue has some sort of hilarious content embedded in it
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Tuesday, 17 May 2022 15:23 (two years ago) link
any indication if they are doing another new season? the cliffhanger jokes made me think another one might be coming, but then the way they ended it made it seem like they are done with new episodes.
― FRAUDULENT STEAKS (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Tuesday, 17 May 2022 15:55 (two years ago) link
god i love these guys so much.
One great low-key joke in the new series: Mark’s dumb cop instructing Kevin and Dave to “Put your hands on your own head”.
― DAMAGED by Black Flat (Boring, Maryland), Tuesday, 17 May 2022 16:03 (two years ago) link
yeah that slayed me. exactly the kind of pointless tossed-in joke i come to KITH for.
― nobody like my rap (One Eye Open), Tuesday, 17 May 2022 16:20 (two years ago) link
That went right over my (own) head.
― FRAUDULENT STEAKS (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Tuesday, 17 May 2022 16:28 (two years ago) link
KitH was my favorite show as far back as middle school (comedy central reruns also) because it was goofy and funnier than everything else I'd ever seen, don't really get the "theoretically funny" part because nearly every joke is still executed with maximum goof
― ✖, Tuesday, 17 May 2022 16:34 (two years ago) link
Like I didn't "get" the the God Is Dead sketch but the visual of mark holding god's dead body and saying "and he's really light!" was the funniest thing in the world to me
― ✖, Tuesday, 17 May 2022 16:35 (two years ago) link
For me it's about the small, unique turns of phrases and the line readings. So many are permanently etched in my head, and when they come out now no one knows what I'm talking about. :)
― change display name (Jordan), Tuesday, 17 May 2022 16:42 (two years ago) link
"I'll eat pancakes on your grave" is something i will never stop saying whenever i get the chance, regardless of the odds no one will have any idea what i'm quoting.
― FRAUDULENT STEAKS (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Tuesday, 17 May 2022 17:41 (two years ago) link
fuck the bank i work for, fuck the baaaaaaaaank
― na (NA), Tuesday, 17 May 2022 18:01 (two years ago) link
really enjoyed the new episodes, including a few that seemed slight but popped back in my head a day later
they have this ability to concoct an utterly absurd premise, roll with it through an entire sketch, only to end it with someone saying something that's obvious or common sense followed by "oh, of course!"
the main thing that differentiates KITH from something like SNL at a basic level is that 90% of SNL has winking at the audience -- hey, we're your featured players doing these characters to get some laughs -- where KITH starts from the premise "we really are two ladies working in an office reminiscing about fax machines" and you can forget that they're acting
― mh, Tuesday, 17 May 2022 18:18 (two years ago) link
Started rewatching from the first season and got to the blackface skit. It was pretty weird because the blackface half of the skit is awkward and cringe but whenever it switches to Kathy the same skit is solid gold. The notion that THIS is the devil woman that the old bluesman is forever cursing is hilarious.
― Cow_Art, Tuesday, 17 May 2022 19:55 (two years ago) link
That first ep is pretty amazing - Kathy, Headcrusher and Eradicator all make an appearence iirc.
mh I def think SNL is trash and KITH gold but I think the thing you highlight is more about format than comedic sensibility; the "live" aspect means the frisson that anything could go wrong at any second is built into SNL and so a higher amount of meta and mugging kinda comes with the territory
― Daniel_Rf, Tuesday, 17 May 2022 20:42 (two years ago) link
I think my point-of-view on Kids in the Hall was shaped by the context of contemporary Canadian TV comedy. At the time there were a lot of (not very hip) Canadian sketch comedies like "Smith and Smith Comedy Mill" and "Royal Canadian Air Farce" from which, I'm sure, the Kids wanted to distance themselves. So it seemed to me that their ethos was "avoid being corny" more than "be funny".
― Halfway there but for you, Wednesday, 18 May 2022 03:03 (two years ago) link
where they have a great idea and it's not really an obvious/easy laugh. not so much a joke that doesn't land – but a joke that isn't intended to land.
...ending up at the infinitely unpopular Point C
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8uSSobogtHQ
― andrew m., Wednesday, 18 May 2022 13:55 (two years ago) link
Checked out the new Prime documentary, weirdly split into two episodes. Mostly the fluffy lovefest you'd expect, but they do get pretty real about the bad vibes circa Brain Candy. Mae Martin talks a lot about how much it meant to her as a queer person, incl being attracted to Dave Foley's woman characters (nice to know that's not just a straight guy thing). Kind of deflates the comeback a little to see how many times they'd reunited before lol, but I appreciate the doc doesn't pretend they didn't. Overall would recommend.
― Daniel_Rf, Friday, 20 May 2022 18:27 (two years ago) link
Only a whore weighs herself
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Monday, 23 May 2022 15:19 (two years ago) link
Ep 4 was one great sketch after another: Super Drunk, french people who don't want to leave the couch, a Kevin McDonald sketch. The new season has been really enjoyable so far
― Vinnie, Wednesday, 25 May 2022 00:37 (two years ago) link
finished it and the whole thing was pretty much a home run for me. feel like kevin was the all star for me in this season, particularly loved "hot-hot water" guy. if that had been in the original 90s run i can easily see myself having spent the last 20 years annoying my friends & family by complaining that things are not hot-hot.
― nobody like my rap (One Eye Open), Wednesday, 25 May 2022 15:03 (two years ago) link
the hot-hot thing killed me
― mh, Wednesday, 25 May 2022 18:51 (two years ago) link
“friends of mark” had me dying
― donna rouge, Wednesday, 25 May 2022 18:53 (two years ago) link
Between that one and AssAssin and a couple more I've forgetting, Mark has led some truly weird (and great) sketches this season
― Vinnie, Thursday, 26 May 2022 23:26 (two years ago) link
he's come a long way since being voted the worst kid by ilxor.com users 14 years ago
― ✖, Friday, 27 May 2022 03:14 (two years ago) link
Not worst, least best.
― Halfway there but for you, Friday, 27 May 2022 03:17 (two years ago) link
Kevin and the cats omg
― maf you one two (maffew12), Saturday, 28 May 2022 00:37 (two years ago) link