Bluebottle wrote:John, you dink, that radio show i linked you to co-stars Mark Mckinney... did you ever listen to it?
John-Locke wrote:I fucking love Kids in the Hall
Fried Gold wrote:http://www.chortle.co.uk/news/2008/12/02/7905/kids_are_back_in_the_hall
Kids In The Hall are returning with an eight episode new series next year.
notverycool wrote:Strange. I smell a bit of sadness in this. They were ridiculous and fun when they were first on. They were hit or miss for me, but their energy and stupid playfulness was enough to get through the rough patches. Foley is the only one who broke into prime time (Thompson is a more minor breakout but is too weird for the mainstream). So it's sort of sad to see a non-reunion reunion. The article says it's not sketch. It's an eight episode narrative. Okay. They play all the characters. Okay. I'll watch. I'll probably appreciate it much like I appreciated Brain Candy. But is an eight episode narrative not a feature film broken up by commercials. Not a perfect comparison, but close. I loved Foley on Newsradio. Loved. It. And I know that Foley and Hartman were the brains behind it - rumors of on set re-writes while Andy Dick was... Andy DIcking. I have high hopes. And Canadian Comedy will always pave the way, even if it's a tired re-hash of something that was just funny enough 15 years ago. Or am I just crushing my own head?
Fried Gold wrote:http://www.chortle.co.uk/news/2008/12/02/7905/kids_are_back_in_the_hall
Kids In The Hall are returning with an eight episode new series next year.
ONeillSG1 wrote:Fried Gold wrote:http://www.chortle.co.uk/news/2008/12/02/7905/kids_are_back_in_the_hall
Kids In The Hall are returning with an eight episode new series next year.
But they aren't Kids anymore.
John-Locke wrote:Trailer for Kids In The Hall, Death Comes To Town
Looks a bit like The League of Gentlemen but seeing how that was certainly influenced by Kids I guess it's fair game.
Tyrone_Shoelaces wrote:On a more somber note, Scott Thompson of Kids in the Hall talks to Maclean’s about having cancer.
Fievel wrote:Tyrone_Shoelaces wrote:On a more somber note, Scott Thompson of Kids in the Hall talks to Maclean’s about having cancer.
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He looks so sick in those pictures. Give him a light green makeup application and he'd be right out of Romero's Dawn of the Dead. Gotta appreciate the use of humor from him.
And that bit about the school shooting!?!?Holy shit!
Here's hoping the best for him.....
Joe DeLessio wrote:The Kids in the Hall haven’t regularly appeared together on American airwaves since their cult-favorite sketch show signed off in 1994. But at 10 p.m. tonight on IFC, they return with the first two episodes of a new eight-part miniseries, Death Comes to Town. It’s a comic murder-mystery very much in the classic Kids in the Hall style: Each of the five troupe members plays multiple characters — many of them, of course, female — in the Canadian town of Shuckton, Ontario, where the grim reaper has set up shop. Vulture spoke with three fifths of the troupe — Mark McKinney, Dave Foley, and Scott Thompson — about why they returned to television, how they’ve matured (or not matured) over the years, and about the two members of the troupe not present to defend themselves.
Carli Velocci wrote:Brace yourselves, Buddy Cole fans. The Kids in the Hall cofounder Kevin McDonald says the Canadian sketch comedy troupe may be making a return to television for the first time in nearly a decade.
“You’re the first guy to know this,” McDonald told News-Press.com. “Last night, before I got on the plane, we got a Kids in the Hall group message to all of us. Lorne Michaels wants us to do what ‘Mr. Show’ did, and do like six episodes of sketches for something like Netflix.”
McDonald was referring to “W/ Bob & David” a 2015 Netflix sketch comedy miniseries created by Bob Odenkirk and David Cross. While it wasn’t billed as as a revival of the duo’s influential 1990s HBO series “Mr. Show,” it featured much of the earlier show’s cast, writers, and subject matter.
McDonald emphasized that the talks are in very early stages, since it’s tough to get all five members together at once. “It’s so at the beginning, we’re not able to even get conference calls together. There’s always one or two of us that are kind of busy. And because we are who we are, there’s always one of us against it,” he said.
“But,” McDonald said, “I think, right now, there’s no one against it… And I’ll try to get it going, because I’m the one who’s supposed to get it going… It’s super exciting!”
Broadway Video, Michaels’ production company, didn’t respond to requests for comment.
Founded in 1984 by Dave Foley, Mark McKinney, Bruce McCullough, Scott Thompson, and McDonald, The Kids in the Hall became known through their self-titled TV show that ran from 1989-1995 and was produced by Lorne Michaels. The group has reunited several times over the years, first with the 1996 cult film “Brain Candy,” and most recently with the 2010 eight-part miniseries “Death Comes to Town.”
The group is best known for characters like the “head crusher,” “Buddy Cole,” and the “Chicken Lady,” as well as topical humor about issues like stalking, and LGBT rights.
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