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
The Kids in the Hall is coming to Prime Video soon. The revival of the Canadian sketch comedy series arrives in May, and the streaming service has released two trailers. Eight episodes were ordered for the revival. Dave Foley, Kevin McDonald, Bruce McCulloch, Mark McKinney, and Scott Thompson are all returning for the revival. Guest stars include Paul Bellini, Pete Davidson, Catherine O'Hara, Kenan Thompson, Brandon Ash-Mohammed, Will Forte, Catherine Reitman, Samantha Bee, Fred Armisen, Paul Sun-Hyung Lee, Jay Baruchel, Eddie Izzard, Tracee Ellis Ross, Mark Hamill, and Colin Mochrie.
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- 4/15/2022
- by TVSeriesFinale.com
- TVSeriesFinale.com
The “Kids in the Hall” cast — Dave Foley, Bruce McCulloch, Kevin McDonald, Mark McKinney and Scott Thompson — are unearthed from their burial plot and set loose on the world once again in the first trailer for the Prime Video revival of the beloved sketch comedy. The reboot will debut on May 13, the streamer announced on Wednesday at its Prime Video Presents Canada showcase event in Toronto.
Things are crushed from a distance, tasteless jokes are made and Queen Elizabeth spoofed in the trailer, which sees the comedians skeptical of their new streaming network, Amazon.
The upcoming season will feature eight episodes with all-new sketches and guest stars including Pete Davidson, Mark Hamill, Catherine O’Hara, Kenan Thompson, Will Forte, Paul Bellini, Brandon Ash-Mohammed, Catherine Reitman, Samantha Bee, Fred Armisen, Paul Sun-Hyung Lee, Jay Baruchel, Eddie Izzard, Tracee Ellis Ross and Colin Mochrie.
The original Emmy-nominated sketch show premiered in 1989 and become a cult comedy hit.
Things are crushed from a distance, tasteless jokes are made and Queen Elizabeth spoofed in the trailer, which sees the comedians skeptical of their new streaming network, Amazon.
The upcoming season will feature eight episodes with all-new sketches and guest stars including Pete Davidson, Mark Hamill, Catherine O’Hara, Kenan Thompson, Will Forte, Paul Bellini, Brandon Ash-Mohammed, Catherine Reitman, Samantha Bee, Fred Armisen, Paul Sun-Hyung Lee, Jay Baruchel, Eddie Izzard, Tracee Ellis Ross and Colin Mochrie.
The original Emmy-nominated sketch show premiered in 1989 and become a cult comedy hit.
- 4/13/2022
- by Sharon Knolle
- The Wrap
The focus on masculinity (and super-sizing it), the creation of Spike TV, and just about anything that demands you say "man" two octaves lower than your normal voice - it all can be traced back to 1999, with a single quote from a movie you guys probably didn't watch: We're a generation of men raised by women. It's from Fight Club. At the time of its release, the film battled nancy-boy movies like Shakespeare in Love (which won Best Picture - Fincher yet again doesn't get his due), and held onto the torch passed down from the middle-aged-oriented Home Improvement and delivered the fire of machismo to the masses. There've been dozens if not hundreds and thousands of hyper-masculine shows and films, so the web series Masculathon has quite a bit of baggage to carry from the very start. Taking "a demented look at the many issues afflicting modern men," it starts Paul Bellini (writer/actor,...
- 3/1/2011
- by Logan Rapp
- Tubefilter.com
TORONTO -- Canadian producer Breakthrough Films and Television will produce the adult-oriented cartoon, Buddy's, for U.S. gay-themed network here!. Toronto-based Breakthrough said Friday its animation division will produce 26 half-hours of the animated comedy series, aimed at an 18-45 demo (HR 1/12). The cartoon series, created by Scott Thompson, Paul Bellini and Luciano Casmiri, is based on the Buddy Cole character first performed by Thompson on The Kids in the Hall, a 1990s sketch comedy series on the Canadian Broadcasting Corp. The here! cartoon will revolve around Buddy Cole and his "family" working and living around a downtown gay bar. Breakthrough has retained worldwide distribution rights to Buddy's and will seek pre-sales from international broadcasters at NATPE. Breakthrough formed its cartoon division, Breakthrough Animation Inc., in 2003 in partnership with Kevin Gillis, and is best known for Atomic Betty, which airs in 120 markets worldwide.
- 1/23/2006
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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