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The Kids in the Hall is a Canadian
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formed in 1984, consisting of
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Dave Foley David Scott Foley (born January 4, 1963) is a Canadian actor, stand-up comedian, director, producer and writer. He is known as a co-founder of the comedy group The Kids in the Hall, who have appeared together in a number of television, stage and ...
,
Bruce McCulloch Bruce Ian McCulloch is a Canadian actor, comedian, writer, musician and film director. McCulloch is perhaps best known for his work as a member of the comedy troupe The Kids in the Hall, including starring in the TV series of the same name. He ...
,
Kevin McDonald Kevin Hamilton McDonald (born May 16, 1961) is a Canadian actor, voice actor and comedian. He is a member of the comedy troupe The Kids in the Hall, who have appeared together in a number of stage, television and film productions, most notably th ...
,
Mark McKinney Mark Douglas Brown McKinney (born June 26, 1959) is a Canadian actor and comedian. He is best known as a member of the sketch comedy troupe The Kids in the Hall, which includes starring in the 1989 to 1995 TV series ''The Kids in the Hall'' and 1 ...
and Scott Thompson. Their eponymous television show ran from 1989 to 1995, on CBC, in Canada. It also appeared on
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and
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, in the United States. The Kids made one film, ''
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'', which was released in 1996. They reformed for various tours and comedy festivals in 2000. They later reunited for an eight-part miniseries, '' Death Comes to Town'', in January 2010. An eight-episode revival season was released on May 13, 2022 on
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. Their name came from 1950s TV comedian
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, who would attribute a joke that did not go over well (or played worse than expected) to "the kids in the hall", referring to a group of young writers hanging around the studio.


Early history

Bruce McCulloch Bruce Ian McCulloch is a Canadian actor, comedian, writer, musician and film director. McCulloch is perhaps best known for his work as a member of the comedy troupe The Kids in the Hall, including starring in the TV series of the same name. He ...
and
Mark McKinney Mark Douglas Brown McKinney (born June 26, 1959) is a Canadian actor and comedian. He is best known as a member of the sketch comedy troupe The Kids in the Hall, which includes starring in the 1989 to 1995 TV series ''The Kids in the Hall'' and 1 ...
were working together doing
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in
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, performing in a group named "The Audience".
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, Garry Campbell and Frank Van Keeken were co-members, and later became writers on the show. At the same time,
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and
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were performing around
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(along with Luciano Casimiri) as The Kids in the Hall (KitH). In 1984, the two pairs met in Toronto, and began performing regularly as KitH, with a rotating band of members, including
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for a short time. When Scott Thompson was invited to join in January 1985, the group had its final form. The same year, McCulloch and Foley appeared in the ''
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'' series, as
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's husband (McCulloch) and a former classmate of Anne's from the fictional Queen's College (Foley). Not long afterwards, the Kids broke up for a short time when scouts for ''
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'' invited McKinney and McCulloch to New York to become writers for that show, and Foley made a poorly received movie debut with ''High Stakes'', while Thompson and McDonald worked with the Second City touring group. They were reunited in 1986. After ''SNL'''s
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saw them perform as a troupe, plans began for a TV show. In 1987, Michaels sent them to New York to what was essentially a "Comedy Boot Camp". In 1988, their pilot special aired on
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and in the United States on
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, before debuting as a series in 1989.


Television show

The series ''
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'' debuted as a one-hour
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special which aired on
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and CBC Television in 1988, and began airing as a regular weekly series on both services in 1989. The regular series premiered July 21, 1989, on HBO, and September 14 on CBC. In the United States, the first three seasons were on HBO before it moved to
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in 1993, where it stayed for two more seasons airing late Friday nights. CBC aired the show for the whole duration of its run. In March 2020, it was announced that the series would return with an eight-episode season, on
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. The series features all five members, bringing back some of the show's classic characters and skits, and is executive-produced by Lorne Michaels. The revived series is billed as "the first Canadian Amazon Original series".The Kids Are Back! Amazon Prime Video to Bring Back “The Kids in the Hall” With New Episodes
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The revival was released on May 13, 2022.


''Brain Candy''

After the show ended its run, the troupe came together to produce a movie, ''
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'', featuring a few characters from the show and many new ones. Although not a commercial success, the movie developed a cult following with their devoted fans.


Tours


2000 North American Tour

In 2000, the troupe reformed for a successful North American tour, reprising many sketches from the show. The sketch line-up for the 2000 show was: # AT & Love Reunion # Mr. Heavyfoot Finds His Seat # Buddy Cole – The Year 2000 # Cops! # Daddy's Dyin' # Head Crusher / Face Pincher # Jesus 2000! # Sir Simon Milligan & Hecubus in: The Pit of Ultimate Darkness # Gavin: Painting a chair # Comfortable # Sandwich People # Chicken Lady's Date # Power of the Suburbs # Bloody Salty Ham # Monologue by Brian on having a party when Fran and Gordon go on Vacation # Love Me # Fran: Brian's Bombshell # Jesus Christ Superstar # Encore: To Reg At some shows: # Running Faggot # The Poker Game The tour was chronicled in a documentary, ''Kids in the Hall: Same Guys, New Dresses'', which followed the next year. This was then followed by the "Tour of Duty", and a DVD based on those performances, released in 2002.


"Just for Laughs" ("Juste Pour Rire") Comedy Festival

In July 2007, the Kids reunited to perform at the 25th Annual " Just for Laughs" ("Juste Pour Rire") Comedy Festival in
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. The Just For Laughs show premiered about 90 minutes of new material. While certain characters made reappearances (Buddy Cole, Mr. Tyzik and McKinney and McCulloch's "smooth-talking" salesmen), the rest of the show revolved around entirely new material. Typically good-humored, the group poked numerous jokes at their own recent weight gain, and the state of their post-Kids acting careers. Among the sketches: * The Kids plan a new show. For the opening they decide to rape McDonald to the theme from ''
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''. * Salesmen (McCulloch and McKinney) promote a device which can siphon fat from the American gut and use it to power
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s. * "Carfuckers": a group of mechanics who share a "love for which there is no name". The sketch was produced by an internet studio called "60Frames Entertainment". * Gavin encounters
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es (one of two sketches recreated from the television show). * Foley and McDonald get drunk; Foley tells McDonald he has created a time machine with which he can "defeat last call". * Foley travels back in time to receive
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from his wife (McCulloch), who would only perform the act on his birthday. * Foley travels back in time to kill
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(Thompson) but instead accidentally inspires his
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. * Two exceptionally literate
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s (McCulloch and McKinney) look for a used futon. * Buddy Cole speculates that
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was homosexual. * Kathy (McCulloch) and Cathy (Thompson) reunite for lunch in a restaurant, where Kathy extols the virtues of "tweeking" with
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. * Foley is approached by a "fan" (Thompson) while waiting for the subway. * A McCulloch monologue about how skinny
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is. * Foley and McCulloch fight over an imaginary girlfriend. * The Chicken Lady has phone sex (one of two sketches recreated from the television show). * The relationship woes of a gay couple (Foley and Thompson) are placated with the help of another married gay couple known as Peter and the Professor (McDonald and McKinney). * Superdrunk: a
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who stops crimes by drinking (McCulloch), assisted by his trusty sidekick, the bartender (Foley). * The show finished with Mr. Tyzik (McKinney) mocking the mannerisms and careers of each member of the troupe, after which he promptly crushed their heads. The group also performed on January 26–27, 2008, at the SF Sketchfest. On January 26, there was a retrospective and Q&A with the group.


2008 North American Tour

On April 4, 2008, The Kids in the Hall embarked on their first major national tour in six years. The tour ran through early June 2008, and included more than 30 cities in the US and Canada. The tour featured some material from the 2007 "Just for Laughs" performance, along with new material. The 2008 tour closely mirrored the "Just for Laughs" performance, excluding the rat catchers, subway fan and Nicole Ritchie sketches. In their stead, Mark McKinney performed the monologue titled "The Modern Hero" from Season 1 of the show, and the entire cast performed the sketch "This Is How I Danced in Tenth Grade."


Other appearances

The cast members have reunited, in whole or in part, in numerous film and television works. Kevin McDonald guest starred alongside Dave Foley, in a 1997 episode of Foley's sitcom, ''
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.'' Dave Foley and Kevin McDonald performed with
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on their "Ships and Dip V" cruise, along with other bands and comics, on February 1–6, 2009. Each member of the Kids in the Hall provided voices in "Fibber", the 14th episode of '' Lilo & Stitch: The Series'', in which Kevin McDonald plays the regular role of
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. In 2006, three of the members (McDonald, McCulloch and McKinney) appeared in the Christmas comedy ''
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'', as The Guards in the Hall. The group appeared on the front cover of ''
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''s summer 2008 edition. The Kids performed at the 2008 Comedy Festival in
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on November 22. On August 6, 2010, all five Kids made an appearance on ''
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'' on E!, to promote their miniseries ''Death Comes to Town''. Four of the members appeared on-screen in drag (as girls), who had grown up as beauty pageant contestants (parodying ''
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''). McKinney's voice was heard off-screen as their mother. Foley was a voice actor on the 2011–2013 animated series ''
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. McDonald was a guest voice actor in one episode, "Dan Vs. Technology", in which he played technology guru Barry Ditmer (a parody of
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). In 2014, the cast reunited on Foley's sitcom ''
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'', appearing as Dave's high school goth friends who had made a suicide pact. That year, Thompson also did a week-long stint as Buddy Cole (a producer Colbert doesn't know is gay) on ''
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'', acting as the program's correspondent to the
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who covered
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. In the same year, the troupe performed a live reading of the screenplay for ''Brain Candy'' at the
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. In December 2014, McDonald, McKinney and Thompson appeared in an episode of the TVO's children's television series ''
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''. The episode was entitled "Crime at Shapely Manor". McDonald appeared as Lord Rectangle, McKinney as General Pentagon, and Thompson as Professor Square. McDonald, Foley and Thompson appeared on
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's game show ''
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'', which aired August 2, 2017 (season 4: episode 139). '' The Kids in the Hall: Comedy Punks'', a documentary film by
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, premiered at the 2022
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. The group appeared on ''
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'' on May 10, 2022. They discussed the revival of their show on Amazon Prime Video.


''Death Comes to Town''

In July 2008,
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announced that there would be a new The Kids in the Hall television series, titled '' Death Comes to Town''. Kevin McDonald stated that it would be an eight-part miniseries, airing first on CBC in Canada, and then on US television.
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took place from August 2009, in
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. Several characters from the original ''The Kids in the Hall'' series made an appearance, including the OPP Officers and Chicken Lady. The first episode of the new series aired in Canada, on
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on January 13, 2010. In the United States, the first episode aired on IFC on August 20, 2010.


Awards and honors

The group's 1988–1995 TV series won a number of awards, including the 1993
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and the
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for Best Comedy Series in 1992 and 1993. It was nominated for various other awards, including the
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in 1993, 1994 and 1995. In 2008, the group received a star on
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. The group won the
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Icon Award in
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.


References


External links

*
Interview with Foley
on the history of the group, on public radio show / podcast
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