Kids in the Hall -- a thread for your indifference if you have it (or if you don't, that's cool too)

I totally hated this show when i first saw it. It looked to me like some high school students ripping off monty python for their drama class assignment.

What do you think now?

well, not really hate but only indifference. maybe because it's the pilot that i first watched. can you recommend their best sketch so i can search it on youtube?

I dunno, I like lots of them.

Here's my 41st favorite:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OWLiGG5kM2o

sticking with that theme - here is my 14th favourite:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cFEUy8NzazE&feature=PlayList&p=55FB4ED66C90AC25&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=35

I think the pilot is the worst place to start w/any show. KITH one is lackluster.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HEXEByJVaO0

wow, that hitler sketch (and to a lesser extent the bank sketch) represents exactly what i hate about this show. that is tying-too-hard-ness. god, that hitler sketch. terribly unfunny. sorry, no offense.

don't care

that sketch is supposed to be bad! (it's part of a larger "sketches we weren't allowed to air" sketch on the final ep)

^^well, that makes sense.

Is The State still on, anywhere? If so: why?

SB

by "that", i mean the sketch.

my feelings about that statement should be fairly obvious xp

what statement? and your feelings are..?

that was directed at the quote Z_S c/ped, sorry

One of my favorite shows ever, and easily in my top three comedy series of all time (along with the UK Office and The Larry Sanders Show). There's soooo much humor to be found in utter mundanity.

And, yeah: like "Hitler (Blank)-ing A Donkey" (which, shown as a standalone clip, is wildly out of its original context), most of the sketches mentioned above that turned people away from the show are really pretty unrepresentative of what KITH did.

and the representative ones are..?

Agh the bulk of the rest ofnthem. Go do some homework. I like 'Girl Drink Drunk' and the one where Bruce McCullough apologizes for cancer & lots of others, I don't really feel like playing the game where someone goes, 'oh THAT? meh. what else do you got? Oh, seriously, THAT? was that supposed to be good?,' w/youtube links,all night long.

the citizen kane one is ok. the first sketch of theirs that made me laugh.

I mean I wld totes be happy to sit you down on my couch with a cold one and some DVDs, tho, if you ever wind up in New Mexico.

Here's a sampling. If none of these float your boat, KITH probably just isn't your thing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t685UEurB34

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWmkXRrr2YY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m68-oWBh9Ow

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MjMYQyhjiYA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mXNsdW4HyMk

I got to meet them all last year! They were drunk!

i was thinking maybe the "apologizing for cancer" might do the trick.

oh, cancer

I mean, hell: I'd advise just renting a DVD from any of the seasons and watching it straight through. As long as it's not the one with Chalet 2000 on it, that's probably as good a litmus test as any other.

There is also the possibility that you just don't like the show, which isn't the end of the world.

ya - i'm not sure how much "research" a person would really want to do on a show they're already not crazy about!

I dunno, dude. Every step of the process was pure torture, but I'm proud to say that I'm the foremost scholar on Out Of This World on the Eastern seaboard.

like this show!

feh...i was trying this approach at cajolery but i fail:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6CEJR4_vV9A

"I'm proud to say that I'm the foremost scholar on Out Of This World on the Eastern seaboard."
This sounds like a challenge...

OK, hotshot, which Out Of This World star was also in Twilight Zone: The Movie?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QeknVqdDAGA

this makes me LOSE. MY. SHIT.

I read a (fascinating) Scott Thompson interview a few months ago where he let slip that they would be doing another series together. Finally here's some more details. Sounds a bit like The League of Gentlemen (which was a bit Kids in the Hall-esque at times anyway).

yeah there was some stuff posted about that on another thread - can't wait

It sounds pretty good. How long has it been since the CBC had a half-decent comedy?

can't wait

Here's an abbreviated version of the Scott Thompson interview from earlier this year.

sounds great

KITH version of Twin Peaks sounds awesome

the KITH guys all seem like cool dudes, and a lot of the sketches are...smart? but I never understood where the lols came from

I'm actually more entertained by them when people actually describe certain bits to me instead = otm

This is one of the things I really appreciate about them, though. They never felt compelled to always bring the lols. They tried some weird shit, and sometimes it was almost like a dramatic sketch show that was incidentally funny. More sketch troupes/shows could learn a few things from this formula.

Scott Thompson: cancer :-/

http://www2.macleans.ca/2009/12/04/scott-free/?loc=interstitialskip

!!! aw fuck

first Dio, now this

at least it sounds like he's mostly through it. :/

agreed

“Did you see my puzzle?” he asks, pointing to a completed jigsaw of hockey star Saku Koivu over on his dining room table. “I know it’s embarrassing, but I’m going to mount it. We had the exact same cancer. He came back and played great hockey. I find that incredibly inspiring."

This is so sweet and sad and Canadian.

I hope Bruce apologized

http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/c78840cb55/kids-in-the-hall-death-comes-to-town

yay!