Kids in the Hall

OK ~ I watched it ~ and I liked it!!  **I am squishing your head***  My sister still does that to me every once in awhile.

Not all the sketches were five star but more often than not they were hilarious. Great cast and wicked writing. I think the "Buddy" (Scott Thompson) character wore out his welcome pretty fast. He was great as the Queen though. Cabbage Head, Flying Pig, were dumb. Chicken Lady was bizarrely funny. The movie which was done quite a bit later than the t.v. series was not as good as the original shows. The two cops were always funny too. I still have some video tapes with the shows on it and they never fail to make me laugh. I can fast forward through the "misses".

The truth is the kids are not monty python. they portrayed their woman truly and did not try to get a laugh through drag. Python is something completely different. The kids in the hall is a masterpiece of sketch comedy. It takes surreal and dark ideas and makes them funny, sometimes very weird, but very original as well. They would learn not to rely on recurring characters or modern events of the time, which is what makes them so ageless. The characters that got the most fame are far from their greatest sketches. Just watch the sketch "King of Empty Promises" "Monique, the Pyromaniac" "God is Dead" and you'd see the wide range of humor that they covered. This show is brilliant and if you don't find it at all funny, then you obviously can't learn to laugh at life. Long live KITH.

my daughter loved this show

"The Kids In The Hall" and "In Living Color" rejuvenated sketch comedy in the U.S. in my opinion. "Saturday Night Live" had gotten too safe and irrelevant by the late 80's and early 90's; however, these two series were edgier and took many more chances. As for "Kids", this show was created by "SNL" producer Lorene Michael, which suggests that he was looking for a fresh take but wasn't willing to pull the trigger on the flagship franchise yet. The Kids fit the bill, and Dave Foley and company were almost always funny and quirky enough to appeal to the then new generation. Nevertheless, as I consider "The Kids In The Hall" more of a 90's series, I'm going with only a single star for this list.

Like most sketch comedy shows, this one was sometimes very funny, sometimes very stupid. Usually it was more funny than mind-numbingly stupid.

A great comic ensemble, better by a mile than both SNL in the last 20 years and SCTV. They were imaginative, witty, weird and saucy. They avoided an over reliance on familiar old characters like most of their TV contemporaries, using a few sparingly. They players have gone on to make decent contributions, if not hitting the mega success levels of some of the SNL players or Jim Carey.

This was a 90's TV show, but whatever. It's the 2nd best TV show of all time after Arrested Development.

Funny as hell sometimes, stupid others.

Very weird and funny. I loved the Head Pincher skitches the best.

This show was not even remotely funny. You people have to be kidding me.

Monty Python wan'a bes that could not carry the Pythons jock straps. I never found it funny at all. They seemed to be very feminine even when they are not in drag, must be why the show was so popular with gay men.

This show was sketch comedy at it's wittiest. A real winner!

Didn't like this show.

very funny

I grew up on Monty Python and never thought the show could be surpassed. I think KITH it more consistently funny, with none of those useless cartoons. One difference I did notice that KITH had that Python didn't was that they had skits about regular things we all could relate to, such as going out and having too much to drink.

don't you talk about my dave foley

Very unique and out there. This show had the most daring skits of pretty much all the skit-comedy shows. They did skits that SNL would have shuttered at the thought of. Although it had the same executive producer (Lorne Michaels), this troupe got away with a hell of a lot more then any cast of SNL would have, and it made them all the better.

Isn't it technically a 90's show? Well, nonetheless, I love this show. I unfortunately was not introduced to the beauty of these wonderful Canadians (god I love Canadians) until 2000 because I never had cable. But I am a huge fan now. I wish that I could've seen them when they were on tour, but money kept that from happening.

Very daring!

Callmetootie is a complete idiot. Dave Foley was hilarious in Kids. This show let the comedians be as crazy as they wanted to be. Many shows make comedians look less funny, because they are stuck with lousy scripts...this show did not concentrate on elaborate plots, but all they did was try to be funny.

It was weird at times, but it was a very funny show. It had pre-NewsRadio Dave Foley on it.

I've been watching this a little bit lately, and I have to say it's pretty funny. These guys are willing to do just about anything for a laugh, and they come up with some crazy stuff. Saturday Night Live isn't as edgy as this is.

Funny, Funny, Funny!

Note the ratings breakdown on this show... terrible or great. Exactly. Either you get the brilliance and yes, compassion that the cast members had for humanity or...ya don't. Makes me sad to think of its passing. Unsurpassed, really. Though the live show is oddly, just a parroting of the main show without much new material. "I won't spread for no roses."

An unfunny SNL rip-off. Dave Foley was totally wasted in this series, and so were all of the others.

This show is so hysterical! I love the bizarre humor. The guys are really funny too.

Okay, I know this is being picayune, but the Kids In The Hall is barely 80's... More in the 90's I would think. That being said and put aside, they were great! I would put them right behind Monty Python and certain seasons of Saturday Nite Live, but ahead of most seasons of SNL and SCTV (though their members have had much better and longer careers). They were brilliant, irreverant, and willing to take on any subject no matter how taboo. Two words to describe their humor would be the title of their movie: Brain Candy. Good stuff!

My favorite show for a long time (what a disappointment the five players have failed to do much of consequence since disbanding in 1994). Though Saturday Night Live has rebounded in the last couple years, it went through a horrible extended period where every skit was a parody of a TV show. KITH was a refreshing anecdote as their skits were virtually always set in real life, about real people... quirky people, sure, but their humor always made you think and usually the sketches ended, off of the punch line, in a manner that made you think. Looking back now, the highlights come to mind are the real off-the-wall characters (the Chicken Lady; the guy who crushes peoples heads; Hecubus and Satan; etc.) but I know that I took the most pleasure in the stuff that was just a bit twisted, but still real. I remember Gerard Cosloy (he of Matador Records) writing very eloquently, in an old Prodigy newsgroup of about ten years ago, about how KITH was the only reason he paid the cable bill. G... Read more

Probably the closest North America ever got to Python. Well done with a good mix of slapstick and astute satire.