The Kids in the Hall

Name: The Kids in the Hall
Genre: Comedy, Variety Shows
Released: October 24, 1989
Rating: 83
Cast: Dave Foley, Scott Thompson, Kevin McDonald, Mark McKinney, Bruce McCulloch

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Series Details & Credits

CBS | HBO | CBC | Release Date: October 24, 1989

Starring: Dave Foley, Scott Thompson, Kevin McDonald, Mark McKinney, Bruce McCulloch

Summary: Get ready for sketch comedy...Canadian style!

The Kids In The Hall are a hilarious sketch comedy troupe. They got their name from a comedian named Jack Benny, who would often end a joke by saying: "I got this from the kids in the hall", referring to the amateur comedians who would hang around outside his office. KITH was formed in 1984Get ready for sketch comedy...Canadian style!

The Kids In The Hall are a hilarious sketch comedy troupe. They got their name from a comedian named Jack Benny, who would often end a joke by saying: "I got this from the kids in the hall", referring to the amateur comedians who would hang around outside his office. KITH was formed in 1984 when McCulloch and McKinney, who had worked together in Calgary as part of a group named the Audience, teamed up with Foley and McDonald's Toronto-based group, KITH. Thompson officially joined in January 1985.
That same year, McCulloch and McKinney were hired as writers for NBC's Saturday Night Live after a talent scout saw KITH in performance. Significantly, SNL had also been created by Michaels, himself an ex-patriate Canadian living and producing in New York. Still in 1985, Foley appeared in the film High Stakes, and Thompson and McDonald toured with Second City. In 1986, KITH were reunited in Toronto and Michaels finally saw them perform. He immediately envisaged a television project around them. In 1987, he moved KITH to New York and, paying each member $150 per week, had them perform in comedy clubs, write new material, and rehearse sketches. In 1988, Michaels produced their HBO special. The regular series followed. The TV show lasted between 1989-1994 for 5 seasons on the CBC in Canada and on HBO and CBS in the U.S. After the TV show, the Kids went on to different projects, one movie, and 2 tours. One in 2000, and one in 2002.

Awards
Won the 1993 Golden Rose Award at the Rose d'Or Light Entertainment Festival, 1993.

1993 Emmy Nomination: Outstanding Individual Achievement in Writing in a Variety or Music Program.
1994 Emmy Nomination: Outstanding Individual Achievement in Writing in a Variety or Music Program.
1994 CableACE Nomination: Best Comedy Series
1995 Emmy Nomination: Outstanding Individual Achievement in Writing in a Variety or Music Program.

The show currently airs on Comedy Central. You can see it every other week late at night on Tuesday nights/Wednesday mornings, 2AM-4AM (EST)… Expand

Genre(s): Comedy, Variety Shows

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John J. O'Connor

Sep 18, 2013

Season 1 Review: Here is some of the freshest and most disarming material the comedy scene has been able to claim in a long while. Read full review

Rick Kogan

Sep 18, 2013

Season 1 Review: They are disarming in the most pleasant extreme...It is fresh, hip and frank. It could prove - especially given the stars' proclivity to perform in drag - America's "Monty Python." [21 July 1989, p.1]

John Haslett

Sep 18, 2013

Season 1 Review: A gifted, wickedly witty ensemble that writes and performs with tasteless abandon. In a wonderfully varied series of skits first broadcast on HBO, these comically vicious brats express unrestrained glee in sending up homosexuals and homophobes, welfare-mother bingo addicts, religious nuts ("naked for Jesus"), beer commercials and May-December romances. [29 Nov 1988]

Michael Fleming

Sep 18, 2013

Season 1 Review: If the first two episodes are indicative of the kind of inspired lunacy these guys will produce over the next 20 weeks, the Kids may well be the successors to Monty Python, SNL and SCTV. [21 July 1989, p.5]

Robert P. Laurence

Sep 18, 2013

Season 1 Review: Some of their humor is bizarre, and some is even more bizarre. [21 July 1989, p.E-3]

Don Shirley

Sep 18, 2013

Season 1 Review: It turns out, though, that these guys are funny...The whiteness of the group is more problematic. Racial and gay/straight stereotypes are the target of a monologue by Scott Thompson, portraying an effeminate gay character. The script intends to skewer those stereotypes, but the blunt language and the fact that the group is white may lead some observers to question whether the sketch doesn't reinforce them. [21 July 1989, p.C6]

Eric Mink

Sep 18, 2013

Season 1 Review: The quality of the material, all of which is written by the performers themselves, is spotty, to be sure. But when it hits, it has that "on the edge" feeling that makes you squirm as much as it makes you laugh. [21 July 1989, p.9E]

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  Air Date: October 6, 1993
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  Air Date: September 25, 1990
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  Air Date: October 24, 1989