If you’re wondering about the ungainly title of the new comedy film premiering on Peacock, then you’re probably not a sketch comedy aficionado or regular Saturday Night Live viewer. The first part of Please Don’t Destroy: The Treasure of Foggy Mountain refers to the comedy group consisting of 20-somethings Ben Marshall, John Higgins and Martin Herlihy, whose absurdist videos have been a regular feature on SNL for the past couple of years. The second part of the title calls to mind the sort of old-fashioned adventure movies geared toward kids that have inspired this ramshackle spoof reminding you that sketch comedy is best appreciated in small doses. For proof, look no further than such misfires as Kids in the Hall: Brain Candy, It’s Pat, MacGruber and, well, you get the idea.
Written by the trio, directed by SNL veteran Paul Briganti and produced by Judd Apatow, Foggy Mountain...
Written by the trio, directed by SNL veteran Paul Briganti and produced by Judd Apatow, Foggy Mountain...
- 11/17/2023
- by Frank Scheck
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
On October 6, 2023, A24 released “Dicks: The Musical” based on the off-broadway musical “F***ing Identical Twins” by Josh Sharp and Aaron Jackson. The writers star in the film as Craig and Trevor, a pair of business rivals who discover they’re identical twins and decide to swap places in an attempt to trick their divorced parents to get back together.
The movie made its premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival last month, winning the People’s Choice Award for Midnight Madness. It currently holds fresh at 79% on Rotten Tomatoes, with the critics consensus reading, “From its eyebrow-raising title to its gleefully provocative humor, talented cast, and catchy songs, ‘Dicks: The Musical’ is a cult movie in the making.” The star-studded ensemble includes Nathan Lane, Megan Mullally, Bowen Yang and Megan Thee Stallion. Read our full review round-up below.
See ‘The Zone of Interest’ may continue the streak of international...
The movie made its premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival last month, winning the People’s Choice Award for Midnight Madness. It currently holds fresh at 79% on Rotten Tomatoes, with the critics consensus reading, “From its eyebrow-raising title to its gleefully provocative humor, talented cast, and catchy songs, ‘Dicks: The Musical’ is a cult movie in the making.” The star-studded ensemble includes Nathan Lane, Megan Mullally, Bowen Yang and Megan Thee Stallion. Read our full review round-up below.
See ‘The Zone of Interest’ may continue the streak of international...
- 10/6/2023
- by Vincent Mandile
- Gold Derby
What are the odds that two openly gay cut-ups doing a raunchy half-hour musical comedy routine in a Gristedes grocery store would somehow convince “Borat” director Larry Charles to turn their show, “Fucking Identical Twins,” into a feature-length A24 movie? You’d stand a better chance playing the lottery than predicting the path “Dicks: The Musical” took to reach the big screen — which is exactly why this twisted cross between “The Parent Trap” and “Kids in the Hall: Brain Candy” seems destined for cult status.
The absurdist brainchild of Aaron Jackson and Josh Sharp, “Dicks” is an unapologetically puerile, hard-r novelty that’s just lo-fi enough to maintain its underground cred. If any other distributor were backing it, “Dicks” might shrivel into home-video obscurity. Considering A24’s bizart-house cachet, however, the hipster boutique should be able to leverage the buzz from the movie’s opening (mid)night berth at the...
The absurdist brainchild of Aaron Jackson and Josh Sharp, “Dicks” is an unapologetically puerile, hard-r novelty that’s just lo-fi enough to maintain its underground cred. If any other distributor were backing it, “Dicks” might shrivel into home-video obscurity. Considering A24’s bizart-house cachet, however, the hipster boutique should be able to leverage the buzz from the movie’s opening (mid)night berth at the...
- 9/8/2023
- by Peter Debruge
- Variety Film + TV
Though an enormous number of beloved, bygone TV shows have been revived for the streaming era, there isn’t a whole lot of precedent for this kind of revival in the area of sketch comedy. It makes sense: There are fewer hit sketch comedy shows than straight sitcoms or dramas, and many of the most famous lineups would now be incomplete (like “Sctv” or “Monty Python’s Flying Circus”), or have featured too many incarnations to reunite properly (like the many casts of “Saturday Night Live”).
There’s also the matter of how sketch comedy is often fueled by youthful vitality. “The Carol Burnett Show,” for example, was a huge 11-season hit in the ’60s and ’70s, but a 1991 revival quickly floundered despite arriving just 13 years after its original finale—about the same amount of time that’s elapsed since Canadian comedy troupe the Kids in the Hall last appeared on television.
There’s also the matter of how sketch comedy is often fueled by youthful vitality. “The Carol Burnett Show,” for example, was a huge 11-season hit in the ’60s and ’70s, but a 1991 revival quickly floundered despite arriving just 13 years after its original finale—about the same amount of time that’s elapsed since Canadian comedy troupe the Kids in the Hall last appeared on television.
- 5/11/2022
- by Jesse Hassenger
- The Wrap
Viewers before them had first-generation “Saturday Night Live” and “Sctv.” But five Canadian lads turned out to be “kind of the only comedy group that reflected Gen X,” as fan Fred Armisen puts it in “The Kids in the Hall: Comedy Punks.” Reg Harkema’s documentary is a breezy, worthy overview of a collective career now approaching its 40th anniversary.
While best enjoyed by the already converted, it provides enough showbiz insight and interpersonal drama to entertain newbies. It will provide both camps with an appetizer for the Kids’ limited-run reboot of their original sketch series, which new episodes (featuring an array of name guest stars) launch May 13 on Amazon Prime, followed by this doc a week later (on May 20).
While all in their early twenties, Mark McKinney and Bruce McCulloch met in 1981 via a Calgary comedy-improv group, as did Dave Foley and Kevin McDonald in Toronto the next year.
While best enjoyed by the already converted, it provides enough showbiz insight and interpersonal drama to entertain newbies. It will provide both camps with an appetizer for the Kids’ limited-run reboot of their original sketch series, which new episodes (featuring an array of name guest stars) launch May 13 on Amazon Prime, followed by this doc a week later (on May 20).
While all in their early twenties, Mark McKinney and Bruce McCulloch met in 1981 via a Calgary comedy-improv group, as did Dave Foley and Kevin McDonald in Toronto the next year.
- 4/30/2022
- by Dennis Harvey
- Variety Film + TV
It’s not as well known as it was in Canada, but during the ’80s and ’90s, “The Kids In The Hall” was one of the most beloved sketch comedies up North, the heir apparent of Sctv. Consisting of comedians Dave Foley, Bruce McCulloch, Kevin McDonald, Mark McKinney, and Scott Thompson, “The Kids In The Hall” aired for five seasons from 1988 to 1995, then there was the 1996 movie, “Kids in the Hall: Brain Candy.” But besides reunion tours, one-offs, and the 2010 “Death Comes to Town” mini-series, that was basically the extent of the ‘Kids.’ Members found success in Hollywood and scattered around to different projects (Dave Foley was notably the first breakout star who had a long run on the American sitcom “NewsRadio”).
Continue reading ‘Kids In the Hall’ Trailer: The Canadian Kings of Comedy Are Back May 13 On Prime Video at The Playlist.
Continue reading ‘Kids In the Hall’ Trailer: The Canadian Kings of Comedy Are Back May 13 On Prime Video at The Playlist.
- 4/14/2022
- by Edward Davis
- The Playlist
It's been almost 30 years since "The Kids In The Hall" TV series went off the air and Dave Foley, Bruce McCulloch, Kevin McDonald, Mark McKinney, and Scott Thompson went off to fulfill solo careers. They may not be kids anymore, but the Canadian kings of sketch comedy are back. In the years following the end of their eponymous show, they put out the film "Brain Candy," have reunited a handful of times for tours and comedy festivals, and in 2010 released the eight-part miniseries, "Death Comes to Town." But now, The Kids are back for a full-blown, eight-episode revival season...
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The post The Kids In The Hall Trailer: The Sketch Comedy Revival Arrives in May appeared first on /Film.
- 4/13/2022
- by BJ Colangelo
- Slash Film
After nearly 30 years, a beloved Canadian sketch comedy institution is coming back to TV next month. “The Kids in the Hall,” a new streaming revival of the classic sketch comedy show of the same name, will premiere on Prime Video May 13.
The news was accompanied by a teaser trailer that shows the members of “The Kids in the Hall” sketch group –– Dave Foley, Bruce McCulloch, Kevin McDonald, Mark McKinney and Scott Thompson –– waking up in a grave marked “The Kids in the Hall TV Show,” along with 1989 to 1995, the dates the original series aired on CBC and HBO. The teaser also features glimpses at sketches in the upcoming season, including an extended meta bit in which two of the group members play executives in charge of a “Kids in the Hall” reboot.
“Do you know what Amazon wants from ‘Kids in the Hall?'” McCulloch asks in the trailer. “Yes Don,...
The news was accompanied by a teaser trailer that shows the members of “The Kids in the Hall” sketch group –– Dave Foley, Bruce McCulloch, Kevin McDonald, Mark McKinney and Scott Thompson –– waking up in a grave marked “The Kids in the Hall TV Show,” along with 1989 to 1995, the dates the original series aired on CBC and HBO. The teaser also features glimpses at sketches in the upcoming season, including an extended meta bit in which two of the group members play executives in charge of a “Kids in the Hall” reboot.
“Do you know what Amazon wants from ‘Kids in the Hall?'” McCulloch asks in the trailer. “Yes Don,...
- 4/13/2022
- by Wilson Chapman
- Variety Film + TV
“We were all very much trying to prove to our dads that we were men… by dressing up as women!”
So says Scott Thompson of The Kids In The Hall, the Canadian comedy troupe that’s the subject of a new documentary.
Screening at SXSW before showing on Amazon Prime Video in two parts, The Kids In The Hall: Comedy Punks is an enjoyable insight into the life and work of five alternative comedians who took their show from stage to screen – with a few bumps along the way.
Director Reg Harkema combines archive footage and clips with modern day interviews, speaking to Dave Foley, Bruce McCulloch, Kevin McDonald, Mark McKinney and Scott Thompson separately as well as in a group. And if anyone can deliver pithy soundbites, it’s a bunch of successful comedy writers. Their comments often reflect the rebellious punk attitude of the title. “We used homosexuality...
So says Scott Thompson of The Kids In The Hall, the Canadian comedy troupe that’s the subject of a new documentary.
Screening at SXSW before showing on Amazon Prime Video in two parts, The Kids In The Hall: Comedy Punks is an enjoyable insight into the life and work of five alternative comedians who took their show from stage to screen – with a few bumps along the way.
Director Reg Harkema combines archive footage and clips with modern day interviews, speaking to Dave Foley, Bruce McCulloch, Kevin McDonald, Mark McKinney and Scott Thompson separately as well as in a group. And if anyone can deliver pithy soundbites, it’s a bunch of successful comedy writers. Their comments often reflect the rebellious punk attitude of the title. “We used homosexuality...
- 3/17/2022
- by Anna Smith
- Deadline Film + TV
The five members of the sketch comedy show The Kids in the Hall will reunite onscreen for the first time in a decade in an upcoming Amazon Prime Video series.
Thirty-two years after the series first premiered on Canada’s CBC, Dave Foley, Mark McKinney, Scott Thompson, Kevin McDonald and Bruce McCulloch will come together for eight new episodes on the streaming service, with The Kids in the Hall bringing back beloved characters as well as showcasing new ones.
Like the original series, which ran from 1988 to 1993, the revival will...
Thirty-two years after the series first premiered on Canada’s CBC, Dave Foley, Mark McKinney, Scott Thompson, Kevin McDonald and Bruce McCulloch will come together for eight new episodes on the streaming service, with The Kids in the Hall bringing back beloved characters as well as showcasing new ones.
Like the original series, which ran from 1988 to 1993, the revival will...
- 3/5/2020
- by Daniel Kreps
- Rollingstone.com
Amazon is bringing back the classic Canadian sketch comedy series “The Kids in the Hall.” This will mark Amazon’s first Canadian original series.
The streamer has ordered a new eight-episode season of the series, with original cast members Dave Foley, Kevin McDonald, Bruce McCulloch, Mark McKinney and Scott Thompson returning. The cast will bring back some of their classic characters in the new episodes along with some new ones. The series will be executive produced by “Saturday Night Live” creator Lorne Michaels.
“Even after 30 years, ‘The Kids in the Hall’ has retained its brilliance and originality,” said executive producer, Lorne Michaels. “We are happy to be bringing back all of the original ‘Kids’ for the new series.”
The original “Kids in the Hall” debuted in 1989 on CBC and ran for over 100 episodes. It was subsequently broadcast in the U.S. on multiple networks. The core group also released the...
The streamer has ordered a new eight-episode season of the series, with original cast members Dave Foley, Kevin McDonald, Bruce McCulloch, Mark McKinney and Scott Thompson returning. The cast will bring back some of their classic characters in the new episodes along with some new ones. The series will be executive produced by “Saturday Night Live” creator Lorne Michaels.
“Even after 30 years, ‘The Kids in the Hall’ has retained its brilliance and originality,” said executive producer, Lorne Michaels. “We are happy to be bringing back all of the original ‘Kids’ for the new series.”
The original “Kids in the Hall” debuted in 1989 on CBC and ran for over 100 episodes. It was subsequently broadcast in the U.S. on multiple networks. The core group also released the...
- 3/5/2020
- by Joe Otterson
- Variety Film + TV
Here at Et, we're obsessed with a lot of things -- and for the week of June 19 to June 25, this is what we're most excited about:
Why We're Obsessed With 'Boy Band'
While NBC's America's Got Talent has been bringing us solid rounds of auditions, ABC is about to launch their own singing competition with Boy Band. That's right, the twist: Male vocalists battle it out for one of 18 spots in three boy bands to be the next music-group sensation. We have high hopes for this show with Rita Ora as the host, and former Spice Girl Emma Bunton, Backstreet Boys star Nick Carter and rapper Timbaland making up the judging panel. The 10-episode show, created by the team behind Lip Sync Battle, will commence with Carter and Bunton mixing contestants around while viewers will be able to vote to find the best vocal combinations .
News: Rita Ora, Nick Carter and Spice...
Why We're Obsessed With 'Boy Band'
While NBC's America's Got Talent has been bringing us solid rounds of auditions, ABC is about to launch their own singing competition with Boy Band. That's right, the twist: Male vocalists battle it out for one of 18 spots in three boy bands to be the next music-group sensation. We have high hopes for this show with Rita Ora as the host, and former Spice Girl Emma Bunton, Backstreet Boys star Nick Carter and rapper Timbaland making up the judging panel. The 10-episode show, created by the team behind Lip Sync Battle, will commence with Carter and Bunton mixing contestants around while viewers will be able to vote to find the best vocal combinations .
News: Rita Ora, Nick Carter and Spice...
- 6/22/2017
- Entertainment Tonight
We all know that “in space, no one can hear you scream,” but what we don’t know—or what hasn’t been all that accurately depicted on film—is how someone would actually die were they just to float off into space. We caught up with Adam Savage at a recent Brain Candy Live! show to investigate just that. While the former Mythbuster says some movies have done a decent job of depicting what could happen if you were just jettisoned into deep space, others have gone totally wrong. The realities, he suggests, are far creepier than most movies have even thought to show. Boiling eyeballs, anyone?...
- 3/11/2017
- by Marah Eakin
- avclub.com
Sf Sketchfest has just unleashed its massive, 17-day schedule of podcasts, stand-up shows, and live comedy events onto the world. Normally, we’d spend some time up top here talking about how the festival—scheduled for January 12 through January 29, 2017—is one of America’s longest-running and biggest comedy festivals, but honestly, this thing is huge, so we should probably just jump right into the events.
Topping the bill: the Kids In The Hall, who’ll be performing a live-read of Brain Candy, a movie that’s either a secret cult success, or at least part of the reason the troupe ultimately collapsed. (Probably both.) Also offering up a live read: the cast of King Of The Hill, with Mike Judge, Pamela Adlon, David Herman, Toby Huss, Kathy Najimy, and Stephen Root all taking the stage to celebrate the show’s 20th anniversary.
That’s not the only ...
Topping the bill: the Kids In The Hall, who’ll be performing a live-read of Brain Candy, a movie that’s either a secret cult success, or at least part of the reason the troupe ultimately collapsed. (Probably both.) Also offering up a live read: the cast of King Of The Hill, with Mike Judge, Pamela Adlon, David Herman, Toby Huss, Kathy Najimy, and Stephen Root all taking the stage to celebrate the show’s 20th anniversary.
That’s not the only ...
- 11/18/2016
- by William Hughes
- avclub.com
This week, Entourage fans get to watch the boys bring their brand of Hollywood bro-ishness to the big screen, nearly four years after the TV series aired its final episode. Of course, it's far from the first cinematic adaptation of a TV series, but in this age of reboot upon reboot, it's notable that this one has migrated to the silver screen intact – it's a movie "sequel" featuring the same actors and characters as the original TV show.
Here's a short history of the many other TV shows that have continued their stories in the form of theatrical films.
Dragnet...
Here's a short history of the many other TV shows that have continued their stories in the form of theatrical films.
Dragnet...
- 6/1/2015
- by Drew Mackie, @drewgmackie
- People.com - TV Watch
While genre fans from near and far are getting their cinematic fill at Fantastic Fest this week, there are still plenty of options for those of us not attending the festival. The Austin Film Society has a full weekend planned at the Marchesa with screenings of The Mercenary (in 35mm tonight and Sunday), It Felt Like Love (with director Eliza Hittman in attendance on Saturday) and Paradise: Faith (the second film in the Paradise trilogy plays on Sunday evening). Looking ahead to Thursday night, Elia Kazan's Baby Doll is playing in 35mm as part of the new Essential Cinema series "A Darkened Screen: Films That Were Banned."
When it comes to the Alamo Drafthouse, Joe Swanberg's Drinking Buddies is moving down to the Slaughter Lane location for its second week of screenings, and there's a special Sunday evening presentation of Kids In The Hall: Brain Candy at the...
- 9/20/2013
- by Matt Shiverdecker
- Slackerwood
There's a certain magical quality to modern day drugs. The tiniest prescribed pill can cure a multitude of medical problems, whilst the tiniest illegally-purchased pill can create the illusion you have cured a multitude of non-medical problems. So it's no wonder Hollywood loves injecting cool ideas about what sorts of human ailments — both physical and spiritual — fictional drugs might be able to treat.
In "Dredd 3D," the latest redux of comic book hero and one-man-justice-system, Judge Dredd, a narcotic named Slo-Mo has hit the streets, allowing its users to experience reality in slow motion (in the future, drug names are very literal). And this got us jonesing for a list of our favorite movie pharmaceuticals we dare you to "just say no" to.
Nzt-48 in 'Limitless' (2011)
This pricey and rare drug for the one-percenters allows the imbiber to utilize 100 percent of their brain power — in other words, it's akin to drinking three Red Bulls.
In "Dredd 3D," the latest redux of comic book hero and one-man-justice-system, Judge Dredd, a narcotic named Slo-Mo has hit the streets, allowing its users to experience reality in slow motion (in the future, drug names are very literal). And this got us jonesing for a list of our favorite movie pharmaceuticals we dare you to "just say no" to.
Nzt-48 in 'Limitless' (2011)
This pricey and rare drug for the one-percenters allows the imbiber to utilize 100 percent of their brain power — in other words, it's akin to drinking three Red Bulls.
- 9/24/2012
- by Ben Freiburger
- NextMovie
When a television show makes a leap to the silver screen it has both advantages and disadvantages in terms of its probable success. Going in its favor is the film’s built-in fanbase transferring over from the show, and going against it is the task of the writers to adapt their typical 20-minute format to a feature-length run-time. In the case of turning Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job into Tim & Eric’s Billion Dollar Movie, they had a few rather successful trailblazers that went ahead of them in bringing sketch comedy to film: Monty Python and, to a lesser extent, Kids in the Hall (only because Brain Candy was a mixed bag of absurdist skittles). Clearly it’s possible; unfortunately, Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim didn’t have the comedic chops to make it work.
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- 5/12/2012
- by Lex Walker
- JustPressPlay.net
There are a lot of fathers who birthed Father’s Day, the first collaboration between U.S. exploitation production company/distributor Troma Entertainment and Canadian filmmaking collective Astron-6, of which there are five members: Adam Brooks, Jeremy Gillespie, Conor Sweeney, Matt Kennedy and Steven Kostanski. And, yes, Lloyd Kaufman makes an amusing cameo in the film.
Overall, it’s a good marriage as Astron-6 knows precisely what to deliver to keep Troma audiences happy: Over-the-top gore, maniacal and non-sensical plot twists, bad jokes, lots of naked women and, especially, extreme mutilation of male genitals. One particular extended scene of self-mutilation of one character’s organ towards the end of the film crosses over from being a quick, gross-out gag to a “We dare you to watch this through to the end” act of visual sadism towards the audience.
All of the Astron-6 members pull down double, triple and sometimes quadruple...
Overall, it’s a good marriage as Astron-6 knows precisely what to deliver to keep Troma audiences happy: Over-the-top gore, maniacal and non-sensical plot twists, bad jokes, lots of naked women and, especially, extreme mutilation of male genitals. One particular extended scene of self-mutilation of one character’s organ towards the end of the film crosses over from being a quick, gross-out gag to a “We dare you to watch this through to the end” act of visual sadism towards the audience.
All of the Astron-6 members pull down double, triple and sometimes quadruple...
- 4/5/2012
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
by Nick Schager
[This week's "Retro Active" pick is inspired by the TV sketch-comedy-goes-full-feature (sorta) Tim & Eric's Billion Dollar Movie.]
The perils of transporting cult TV comedy to the big screen has few case studies more glaring than Run Ronnie Run, Bob Odenkirk and David Cross' sole, failed attempt to cross their '90s sketch-comedy sensation Mr. Show over to theaters. Plagued by studio interference and conflict with director Troy Miller, Odenkirk and Cross' film—a satire about fame and the burgeoning reality-tv craze focused on redneck idiot Ronnie Dobbs (Cross)—met an ignominious fate, with its release shuttled altogether in favor of a direct-to-dvd fate that, it turned out, was a deserving outcome for a work that even its makers eventually admitted wasn't very good. That subversive small-screen comedians floundered in transposing free-flowing comedic insanity to a more structured three-act movie isn't a particularly unique development (see also: The Kids in the Hall's Brain Candy). Yet more frustrating about Run Ronnie Run isn't that...
[This week's "Retro Active" pick is inspired by the TV sketch-comedy-goes-full-feature (sorta) Tim & Eric's Billion Dollar Movie.]
The perils of transporting cult TV comedy to the big screen has few case studies more glaring than Run Ronnie Run, Bob Odenkirk and David Cross' sole, failed attempt to cross their '90s sketch-comedy sensation Mr. Show over to theaters. Plagued by studio interference and conflict with director Troy Miller, Odenkirk and Cross' film—a satire about fame and the burgeoning reality-tv craze focused on redneck idiot Ronnie Dobbs (Cross)—met an ignominious fate, with its release shuttled altogether in favor of a direct-to-dvd fate that, it turned out, was a deserving outcome for a work that even its makers eventually admitted wasn't very good. That subversive small-screen comedians floundered in transposing free-flowing comedic insanity to a more structured three-act movie isn't a particularly unique development (see also: The Kids in the Hall's Brain Candy). Yet more frustrating about Run Ronnie Run isn't that...
- 3/2/2012
- GreenCine Daily
Chicago – I’ve long, long said that any conversation about the best sketch comedy series of all time that doesn’t include “The Kids in the Hall” is totally worthless. Sure, “Saturday Night Live” has longevity and “Mr. Show” was an amazing program, but the recently-released box set of the entire output of “The Kids in the Hall” certainly makes a strong case that they should be not just on the list but arguably at the top. There’s So much greatness in this box set that it’s nearly overwhelming (and the 2010 comeback series “The Kids in the Hall: Death Comes to Town” has also been included).
DVD Rating: 5.0/5.0
With over 45 hours of incredible entertainment accompanied by hours of special features, “The Kids in the Hall: The Complete Series” is easily the best TV on DVD release of the year to date. It’s a beauty, the kind...
DVD Rating: 5.0/5.0
With over 45 hours of incredible entertainment accompanied by hours of special features, “The Kids in the Hall: The Complete Series” is easily the best TV on DVD release of the year to date. It’s a beauty, the kind...
- 5/25/2011
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
Mad Man star, John Hamm is a comedy nerd? Yeah, that’s exactly the thing with this report, it’s shocking!
Unless, of course, you already know that Hamm is one funny guy (if you’re familiar with Saturday Night Live and 30 Rock then you definitely know what we’re talking about).
One thing is for sure – soon, very soon, we’re all going to enjoy in Hamm’s comedy gift because director Paul Feig “is working on a new project to capitalize on Hamm’s comic gifts.”
Here’s what Feig had to say about the above mentioned, in an interview with 24 Frames:
“Hamm is such a comedy nerd. He will quote lines from Kids in the Hall: Brain Candy. You’re quoting something even I can’t quote! He’s always wanted to do comedy. One of the next things I’m developing a project for him to star in.
Unless, of course, you already know that Hamm is one funny guy (if you’re familiar with Saturday Night Live and 30 Rock then you definitely know what we’re talking about).
One thing is for sure – soon, very soon, we’re all going to enjoy in Hamm’s comedy gift because director Paul Feig “is working on a new project to capitalize on Hamm’s comic gifts.”
Here’s what Feig had to say about the above mentioned, in an interview with 24 Frames:
“Hamm is such a comedy nerd. He will quote lines from Kids in the Hall: Brain Candy. You’re quoting something even I can’t quote! He’s always wanted to do comedy. One of the next things I’m developing a project for him to star in.
- 3/17/2011
- by Fiona
- Filmofilia
"Mad Men" star Jon Hamm has a small role in the upcoming comedy "Bridesmaids". "Freaks and Geeks" creator and filmmaker Paul Feig, the director of "Bridesmaids", tells The Los Angeles Times that he and Hamm are likely to team up again shortly on a new comedy.
“He’s always wanted to do comedy. One of the next things I’m developing a project for him to star in. I think he’s so funny. He’s like Cary Grant to me” says Feig.
Feig is a fan of Hamm's comedy skills in the likes of "30 Rock" and SNL, and calls the actor a comedy nerd who "will quote lines from ‘Kids in the Hall: Brain Candy.’ You’re quoting something even I can’t quote!”...
“He’s always wanted to do comedy. One of the next things I’m developing a project for him to star in. I think he’s so funny. He’s like Cary Grant to me” says Feig.
Feig is a fan of Hamm's comedy skills in the likes of "30 Rock" and SNL, and calls the actor a comedy nerd who "will quote lines from ‘Kids in the Hall: Brain Candy.’ You’re quoting something even I can’t quote!”...
- 3/16/2011
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Canadian comedian, actor and writer, Scott Thompson was member of the comedy group ‘The Kids in the Hall’. Along with attracting fans as a member of Canada’s famed sketch comedy troupe as well as for his stint on HBO’s The Larry Sanders Show, Scott Thompson also made his comic presence felt in the movies. He appeared in several movies throughout the years with the ‘Kids’, including the science fiction film Millennium (1989) and the horror comedy Popcorn (1990), but Thompson and his cohorts really became TV stars when their series The Kids in the Hall began broadcasting in 1989. He was famous for his monologues and playing such characters as Queen Elizabeth, Danny Husk, and the controversially bitchy gay bar owner/philosopher Buddy Cole. After the show ended in 1994, Thompson appeared in the pseudo-documentary about a porn actor/director, Super 8 1/2 (1994), and joined the other Kids for the troupe’s feature...
- 2/25/2011
- by Ricky
- SoundOnSight
Those brilliant engineers in the USA Network Show Laboratory have invented an airtight formula for TV escapism. First, cast a talented actor with a checkered TV past — Matthew Bomer, Jeffrey Donovan, and Mark Feuerstein had all starred in their fair share of failed TV series pre-White Collar, Burn Notice, and Royal Pains. Second, give the actor a vintage TV profession — cop, lawyer, doctor, spy — but sprinkle in some cable-ready eccentricity. Finally, send them to a glossy locale populated almost entirely by attractive people and wisecracking sidekicks, and voila: Brain candy! At first blush, the new legal dramedy Fairly Legal...
- 1/21/2011
- by Darren Franich
- EW.com - PopWatch
The Kids in the Hall are back! Death Comes to Town, the Canadian goofballs’ first full project together since 1996′s Brain Candy, debuted its first two episodes on IFC last night. (The eight-part miniseries already aired up North earlier this year.) Death Comes to Town is structured as a murder mystery, featuring the five Kids in multiple roles, in and out of drag, as the residents of backwater Shuckton, Ontario. So how was it?
The first two episodes introduced a handful of very funny characters, most notably Mark McKinney as a paunchy, codpieced, bicycle-riding Grim Reaper, Bruce McCulloch as Shuckton’s preening,...
The first two episodes introduced a handful of very funny characters, most notably Mark McKinney as a paunchy, codpieced, bicycle-riding Grim Reaper, Bruce McCulloch as Shuckton’s preening,...
- 8/21/2010
- by Simon Vozick-Levinson
- EW.com - PopWatch
Filed under: TV Previews
When 'Death Comes to Town' debuts tonight on IFC, it will mark the first time in 15 years the Kids in the Hall have been together on TV. All five kids - Bruce McCulloch, Dave Foley, Kevin McDonald, Mark McKinney, and Scott Thompson - went their separate ways after their feature film 'Brain Candy,' in 1996.
But they weren't able to stay away from each other for long, reuniting for tours in 2000, 2002, and 2008. The last tour happened to coincide with the writers' strike, which helped get the Kids writing together again. They were looser than ever on that tour, and obviously enjoyed each other's company. They even made a short film or two for the tour, and started thinking about working together on camera again.
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When 'Death Comes to Town' debuts tonight on IFC, it will mark the first time in 15 years the Kids in the Hall have been together on TV. All five kids - Bruce McCulloch, Dave Foley, Kevin McDonald, Mark McKinney, and Scott Thompson - went their separate ways after their feature film 'Brain Candy,' in 1996.
But they weren't able to stay away from each other for long, reuniting for tours in 2000, 2002, and 2008. The last tour happened to coincide with the writers' strike, which helped get the Kids writing together again. They were looser than ever on that tour, and obviously enjoyed each other's company. They even made a short film or two for the tour, and started thinking about working together on camera again.
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- 8/20/2010
- by Nick Zaino
- Aol TV.
Everyone’s favorite Canadian cross-dressing comedy troupe is back with tonight’s premiere of their eight-part murder-mystery miniseries The Kids in the Hall: Death Comes to Town (IFC, 10 p.m. Et). It’s got everything fans of Mark McKinney, Bruce McCulloch, Kevin McDonald, Dave Foley, and Scott Thompson want, as evidenced by the photo above. They each play multiple characters, but that’s McKinney as Death, who arrives in Shuckton, Ontario on a Greyhound bus and rides around on a bone-covered Mustang bike; McCulloch as Ricky, a 600 lb. shamed ex-hockey star who has been in his house since he lost...
- 8/20/2010
- by Mandi Bierly
- EW.com - PopWatch
The last time The Kids in the Hall performed for the cameras was their 1996 feature, Brain Candy.
Before that, this supremely funny Canadian-born quintet starred in their sketch-comedy series on HBO and CBS.
Though the members have dispersed to pursue individual projects, they returned for more Kid stuff in the form of live comedy tours, most recently in 2008.
Now they're back on TV screens in "The Kids in the Hall: Death Comes to Town," a four-hour miniseries on IFC, previously on the CBC in Canada.
All five "Kids" - Dave Foley, Bruce McCulloch, Kevin McDonald, Mark McKinney and Scott Thompson - star in this twisted murder mystery, tackling all the major roles (male and, in masterful drag, female, too). The tale, set in bucolic but bizarre Shuckton, Ontario, begins with the arrival of the Grim Reaper on a Greyhound bus, followed by a murder that leaves nearly everyone in the community a possible suspect.
Before that, this supremely funny Canadian-born quintet starred in their sketch-comedy series on HBO and CBS.
Though the members have dispersed to pursue individual projects, they returned for more Kid stuff in the form of live comedy tours, most recently in 2008.
Now they're back on TV screens in "The Kids in the Hall: Death Comes to Town," a four-hour miniseries on IFC, previously on the CBC in Canada.
All five "Kids" - Dave Foley, Bruce McCulloch, Kevin McDonald, Mark McKinney and Scott Thompson - star in this twisted murder mystery, tackling all the major roles (male and, in masterful drag, female, too). The tale, set in bucolic but bizarre Shuckton, Ontario, begins with the arrival of the Grim Reaper on a Greyhound bus, followed by a murder that leaves nearly everyone in the community a possible suspect.
- 8/19/2010
- by Associated Press and Cineplex Staff
- Cineplex
There are extremely few motion pictures produced by sketch comedy troupes that are actually worth the time and effort it takes to track them down. “Run Ronnie Run”, for example, was completely disowned by “Mr. Show” masterminds David Cross and Bob Odenkirk, guys I consider to be comedic geniuses. “Kids in the Hall: Brain Candy” may not be completely unbearable, but it never rises to the level of brilliance found in the first few seasons of their wildly hilarious television series. The Whitest Kids U Know, meanwhile, might be funny in bite-sized pieces, but endearing these goofballs in a feature-length movie is akin to snorting baking soda off the decaying backside of a dead squirrel. The less said about the unwatchable abomination known as “Miss March”, the better. Derrick Comedy’s surprisingly solid 2009 endeavor “Mystery Team” is the sort of film that reminds me why, precisely, I waste so much...
- 6/2/2010
- by Todd
- Beyond Hollywood
Movies from sketch comedy groups can be dicey propositions. The formats aren't really conducive to each other. Sketch comedy can be hilarious one moment, then the next moment it's crickets chirping. If the group is good, they can move on quickly and forget about things. But movies are a whole other monster to tame. what could sustain three to five minutes can be awkward in this new format. Some groups can pull it off, and you get great films like Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Brain Candy, or at least Super Troopers. Mess it up, and you're stuck with Miss March.
And there's not a lot on this earth that's worse, cinematically speaking, than Miss March.
Now we have Derrick Comedy, an internet sensation full of gentlemen whose names all begin with a "D". Though curiously, none named Derrick. Whether you find this clever or stupid will help determine...
And there's not a lot on this earth that's worse, cinematically speaking, than Miss March.
Now we have Derrick Comedy, an internet sensation full of gentlemen whose names all begin with a "D". Though curiously, none named Derrick. Whether you find this clever or stupid will help determine...
- 5/28/2010
- MoviesOnline.ca
When we quiet and polite Canadians first began planning our non-violent take-over of Pajiba I breezily volunteered to do a Famous Canadians list. How difficult could it be to pick 10 Canadians who were famous for being more than just incredibly polite motherfuckers? Seventeen hours and eleventy billion Google hits later it became apparent that it was much more difficult than you bitches think. We've managed to smuggle, I mean introduce, a helluva lot of Canadians into the Us over the years and while some of them stick out like wearing a toque on a hot summer day, others have managed to blend in so well even I was surprised to discover they were one of us. So, in order to whittle my list down to 10 I decided to only include people who were universally recognized as Canadians.
And yeah, I realize there are famous Canadians out there other than actors (hello Frank Gehry!
And yeah, I realize there are famous Canadians out there other than actors (hello Frank Gehry!
- 2/18/2010
- by Dustin Rowles
Broken Lizard is basically a boy band with one commercial hit that you really liked, but as they release progressively worse albums, you keep trying to convince yourself that they're still good. Super Troopers was pretty funny, but since then, they've steadily been shitting the bed with the follow-ups. They're like alumni at frat house parties. Yeah, it's cool you could do eternal kegstands when you were 20. But now you're 40; lay off. Most of their comedy revolves around weed or booze references, peppered with the occasional slur or crudity. The Slammin' Salmon is like a stoner comedy that they forgot to put drug references in. The plot tries to stretch a bad sitcom premise over hand colored pencil sketches of characters with humor watered down like drinks at a Methodist wedding. It's like someone started to tell a joke and then drifted off halfway through and never got to the punchline,...
- 1/21/2010
- by Brian Prisco
Actor Dave Foley realized something recently while shooting "Death Comes to Town," a new eight-part miniseries premiering Jan. 12 on the CBC with his comedy troupe, the Kids in the Hall. "We've been working together for 25 years this year," says Foley, who also starred in "NewsRadio" and "A Bug's Life." "It's disturbing to me that Monty Python only started 15 years before us." Foley jokes that the secret to the Canadian troupe's longevity is that its members find one another more funny than annoying. The last time Foley, Bruce McCulloch, Kevin McDonald, Mark McKinney, and Scott Thompson appeared onscreen together was for 1996's "Brain Candy," which Foley calls a "horrible experience." Foley says the troupe, along with "Brain Candy" director Kelly Makin, learned one major lesson before embarking on this new venture: "You shouldn't go into production at a time when you all hate each other. That was a bad decision on our part with 'Brain Candy.
- 12/8/2009
- backstage.com
Hello interweb, you bright shining bastion of sexy. I’m Matt Cohen… And you’re my everything.
It’s been a while. Without going into detail, I had some errands that needed taken care of. Space errands. “How’s space,” you might ask? Cold, lonely, shitty TV reception - but surprisingly good bagels. Enough of that, though. You can read the mission report from Nasa. That’s not why I’m here. “Why is he here,” you might be asking yourself? (I totally set you up for that). What could possibly pull me back from the outer reaches of the heavens to join you here, once again, in the written form?
Movies. Movies, movies, movies. What in the heck are movies? Scholars maintain that they were first discovered in the early fourteenth century, when a small Latvian boy named Unter Vander-Wool stumbled and accidentally fell into a pile of celluloid...
It’s been a while. Without going into detail, I had some errands that needed taken care of. Space errands. “How’s space,” you might ask? Cold, lonely, shitty TV reception - but surprisingly good bagels. Enough of that, though. You can read the mission report from Nasa. That’s not why I’m here. “Why is he here,” you might be asking yourself? (I totally set you up for that). What could possibly pull me back from the outer reaches of the heavens to join you here, once again, in the written form?
Movies. Movies, movies, movies. What in the heck are movies? Scholars maintain that they were first discovered in the early fourteenth century, when a small Latvian boy named Unter Vander-Wool stumbled and accidentally fell into a pile of celluloid...
- 12/4/2009
- by mattcohen
By Christopher Stipp
The Archives, Right Here
I was able to sit down for a couple of years and pump out a book. It’s got little to do with movies. Download and read “Thank You, Goodnight” right Here for free.
Check out my new column, This Week In Trailers, at SlashFilm.com and follow me on Twitter under the name: Stipp
Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame Live DVD - Review
One of the things that hits you about the midway point when watching this set is that this has to be one of the greatest live “Best Of” compilations ever put to DVD. The luminaries of rock and roll that appear within this presentation is enough to make it a worthwhile purchase for yourself but certainly is something that ought to be considered a solid gift for anyone who appreciates a wide spectrum of music.
The interesting thing...
The Archives, Right Here
I was able to sit down for a couple of years and pump out a book. It’s got little to do with movies. Download and read “Thank You, Goodnight” right Here for free.
Check out my new column, This Week In Trailers, at SlashFilm.com and follow me on Twitter under the name: Stipp
Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame Live DVD - Review
One of the things that hits you about the midway point when watching this set is that this has to be one of the greatest live “Best Of” compilations ever put to DVD. The luminaries of rock and roll that appear within this presentation is enough to make it a worthwhile purchase for yourself but certainly is something that ought to be considered a solid gift for anyone who appreciates a wide spectrum of music.
The interesting thing...
- 10/30/2009
- by Christopher Stipp
The Kids in the Hall have reunited for the eight-part murder mystery series Death Comes to Town, currently shooting in Canada and scheduled to premiere on the CBC in January (and, if there is a comedy god, on a Us cable station shortly thereafter). We phoned Bruce McCulloch, who also serves as exec producer, for the scoop on who'll be in drag (Dave Foley, Mark McKinney, Scott Thompson, and Kevin McDonald), who'll be wearing a codpiece (McKinney), and who'll be donning a fat suit (McCulloch)... Entertainment Weekly: You came up with the original concept: Death steps off a Greyhound bus. What was the inspiration? Bruce McCulloch: Anyone who's ever watched Mark mistreat a sommelier sees him as Death. No. All the things I've done, I've started with an image. Carpoolers started with an image of someone having a breakdown in the carpool lane, and this was literally the image...
- 9/8/2009
- by Mandi Bierly
- EW.com - PopWatch
Throughout most of the 1990’s, there were two places to go for stand-out comedy on basic cable. One place was The State, which only made it to 3 seasons, and the other was Kids in the Hall, which lasted 5 (Thank Lorne Michaels). Since then, both troupes have branched off and done plenty of other, more successful things, but it’s always nice when we hear about them getting together again.
According to Variety, the team will be returning for an 8-part murder-mystery-comedy that will air in January on Canada’s CBC.
Five members of the gender-bending comedy outfit, whose eponymous sketch comedy show ran on CBS and HBO in the first half of the 1990s, star in “Death Comes to Town.”
The eight-part series was conceived by Bruce McCulloch and co-written by McCulloch, Dave Foley, Kevin McDonald, Mark McKinney and Scott Thompson. Directed by Kelly Makin, who helmed the original “Kids...
According to Variety, the team will be returning for an 8-part murder-mystery-comedy that will air in January on Canada’s CBC.
Five members of the gender-bending comedy outfit, whose eponymous sketch comedy show ran on CBS and HBO in the first half of the 1990s, star in “Death Comes to Town.”
The eight-part series was conceived by Bruce McCulloch and co-written by McCulloch, Dave Foley, Kevin McDonald, Mark McKinney and Scott Thompson. Directed by Kelly Makin, who helmed the original “Kids...
- 8/21/2009
- by Sebastian Suchecki
- The Flickcast
[Updated with the official press release announcing the start of photography]
They’re local legends for a reason and they’re back ...
Kids in the Hall reunite for Accent Entertainment¹s Death Comes To Town
Principal Photography underway in North Bay, Ontario
August 20th, 2009, Toronto Accent Entertainment in association with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation are thrilled to announce that principal photography began today in North Bay, Ontario on Death Comes to Town created by and starring the Kids in the Hall.
A departure from sketch comedy, Death Comes to Town is an eight-part comic murder mystery. When Death gets off the Greyhound bus in small town Shuckton, Ontario, the entire town is drawn in when one of its most distinguished citizens is found murdered. As a suspect is arrested and the trial plays out, the entire town is affected and its dark secrets are unraveled and exposed.
Though not the sketch comedy that made the Kids famous around the world, Death Comes to Town...
They’re local legends for a reason and they’re back ...
Kids in the Hall reunite for Accent Entertainment¹s Death Comes To Town
Principal Photography underway in North Bay, Ontario
August 20th, 2009, Toronto Accent Entertainment in association with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation are thrilled to announce that principal photography began today in North Bay, Ontario on Death Comes to Town created by and starring the Kids in the Hall.
A departure from sketch comedy, Death Comes to Town is an eight-part comic murder mystery. When Death gets off the Greyhound bus in small town Shuckton, Ontario, the entire town is drawn in when one of its most distinguished citizens is found murdered. As a suspect is arrested and the trial plays out, the entire town is affected and its dark secrets are unraveled and exposed.
Though not the sketch comedy that made the Kids famous around the world, Death Comes to Town...
- 8/21/2009
- by Todd Brown
- Screen Anarchy
We've said it before, and we'll say it again: In a world of endless, needless reunions, there's one that always makes us happy: The Kids in the Hall. Dave Foley, Bruce McCulloch, Mark McKinney, Scott Thompson, and Kevin McDonald have teamed up for an eight-part murder mystery series called Death Comes to Town. As of now, the show, about a murder in a small town and the revealing trial that follows, is only set to air in January in Canada, where it's filming. Unacceptable. Update! Especially now that we've established that the guys will all play multiple characters, men and women. "It is possible, though unconfirmed, that a special appearance or two by characters from the original series may be made," the release reads. "Original characters include the small town Mayor and his alcoholic wife, a germ gel sniffing town criminal, a pizza delivery woman with Alzheimer’s, a 600lb ex-hockey star,...
- 8/21/2009
- by Mandi Bierly
- EW.com - PopWatch
We don't normally report on TV comedy, but as I'm a Huge fan of Kids In the Hall, we had to report on this. That's right folks, Kids in the Hall is coming back with a 8 episode mini-series done by the CBC which is supposed to start shooting either August 10th or August 17th (I've seen two conflicting reports) and end shooting around September 4th. And yes, the entire cast is returning!
Dave Foley had this to say:
"It'll be an eight-episode arc with a narrative running through it. We will play all the characters but it won't be sketch, it'll be a single narrative mini-series. Probably the closest thing to it would be something like The League of Gentlemen, which I think was brilliant. So I hope it will be close to that."
Inspired by The League of Gentlemen? I've never seen any of their stuff, can anyone provide further details?...
Dave Foley had this to say:
"It'll be an eight-episode arc with a narrative running through it. We will play all the characters but it won't be sketch, it'll be a single narrative mini-series. Probably the closest thing to it would be something like The League of Gentlemen, which I think was brilliant. So I hope it will be close to that."
Inspired by The League of Gentlemen? I've never seen any of their stuff, can anyone provide further details?...
- 8/7/2009
- QuietEarth.us
A founding member of sketch comedy group Kids in the Hall, Kevin McDonald has gone on to forge an impressive movie career on his own. He chats with AMC News about what went wrong with Kids in the Hall's Brain Candy, what went right with Epic Movie, and his appearance in the recent Cannes selection, Year of the Carnivore. Q: There's certainly been a lot written and said about...
- 6/3/2009
- AMC News Interviews
Welcome to another edition of Movies That Deserve a Second Life. If you need a refresher on what I’m referring to by “second life,” check out the Action/Adventure Edition. If you’re caught up, read on to see what funny flics I felt were unfairly ignored/disliked upon its release or have been forgotten in the years since its release.
Comedy is almost certainly the most subjective of all genres. What makes one person laugh is guaranteed to make another yawn or wrinkle his/her brow. Some find juvenilia in poor taste while others bust a gut. Everyone claims to have a sense of humor, but almost no one enjoys every type of humor there is, from dry wit and pungent satire to bodily fluid gags and intentionally groan-worthy puns. Therefore, I think it’s safe to say that no one (besides myself) will be satisfied with every choice.
Comedy is almost certainly the most subjective of all genres. What makes one person laugh is guaranteed to make another yawn or wrinkle his/her brow. Some find juvenilia in poor taste while others bust a gut. Everyone claims to have a sense of humor, but almost no one enjoys every type of humor there is, from dry wit and pungent satire to bodily fluid gags and intentionally groan-worthy puns. Therefore, I think it’s safe to say that no one (besides myself) will be satisfied with every choice.
- 4/6/2009
- by Matt Medlock
- JustPressPlay.net
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