It’s been 30 years since the Kids in the Hall came together, and 20 since original episodes of the Canadian comedy troupe’s cult sketch show last aired. But rewatching the quintet’s old sketches — in advance of their first North American tour in seven years — it’s striking how ageless the material feels. The Head Crusher, who loosed terror on yuppies via the magic of visual perspective, or Buddy Cole, the king of the queens, to name just two examples, would feel adventurous even in the age of Tim and Eric. The Kids were one of the rare sketch groups who took a form typically considered a disposable means to a more lucrative end (a sitcom, a movie deal) and made it into a platform for lasting genius.In advance of the reunion dates, I spoke with Mark McKinney and Bruce McCulloch, the first two members of the group to...
- 5/1/2015
- by Alex Yablon
- Vulture
Here is last week’s caption pic winner. This week’s caption pic is at the bottom of the page.
“Proof Shia LeBeouf can’t act his way out of a paper bag.”
Thanks to David for this week’s winning caption!
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Weekend Birthdays! Christopher Atkins (above) is 53, Mary Chapin Carpenter is 56, Jennifer Love Hewitt is 35, Drew Barrymore is 39, Clinton Kelly is 45, Jeri Ryan is 46, Ellen page is 27, Tyne Daly is 68, and Howard Jones is 59. Here’s his greatest song.
So who’s getting married in Chicago?
The custody of Justin Bieber has been decided once and for all. (Hockey spoiler at the link)
Homophobic People Die Earlier.
Why Brian Boitano Would Do It All Over Again
Michael Sam signs autograph deals.
Even though the first two films were huge, embarrassing flops, they are actually going ahead with part three of Atlas Shrugged, starring Rob Morrow?, and Kristoffer Polaha as John Galt.
“Proof Shia LeBeouf can’t act his way out of a paper bag.”
Thanks to David for this week’s winning caption!
(source)
Weekend Birthdays! Christopher Atkins (above) is 53, Mary Chapin Carpenter is 56, Jennifer Love Hewitt is 35, Drew Barrymore is 39, Clinton Kelly is 45, Jeri Ryan is 46, Ellen page is 27, Tyne Daly is 68, and Howard Jones is 59. Here’s his greatest song.
So who’s getting married in Chicago?
The custody of Justin Bieber has been decided once and for all. (Hockey spoiler at the link)
Homophobic People Die Earlier.
Why Brian Boitano Would Do It All Over Again
Michael Sam signs autograph deals.
Even though the first two films were huge, embarrassing flops, they are actually going ahead with part three of Atlas Shrugged, starring Rob Morrow?, and Kristoffer Polaha as John Galt.
- 2/21/2014
- by snicks
- The Backlot
Buddy Cole is on a mission to get to the bottom — or the top — of Sochi’s gay threat. “Just to get the story, I bit the bullet…and some other stuff,” “The Colbert Report” correspondent told Stephen Colbert on Thursday’s show. “I managed to penetrate Sochi’s gay underground.” Also read: Olympics: Medalists Honor Sarah Burke by Pointing to the Sky Russian leader Vladimir Putin attracted controversy earlier this year after he passed a series of stringent anti-gay laws that criminalize certain forms of gay protests. But Cole discovered that those legal measures might not have gone far enough to stop the gays.
- 2/21/2014
- by Brent Lang
- The Wrap
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Birthday shoutouts go to Henry Rollins (above), who is 53, Stockard Channing is 70, Robbie Williams is 40, Carol Lynley is 72, and Peter Gabriel is 64. Here’s his greatest song that wasn’t featured in Say Anything.
The CW Gives Early Renewals To Arrow, The Vampire Diaries, Supernatural, The Originals and Reign. The first four were expected, but Reign is a surprise. No word on bubble shows The Tomorrow People and Carrie Diaries
Jim Parsons will host Saturday Night Live on March 1st, with musical guest Beck. Beck? You mean 90′s Beck?
How Sports Illustrated Botched The Michael Sam Story.
Mother Scrawls Antigay Declination to 7-Year-Old’s Birthday Party. I hate to say this, but the first thing I thought was “Is this another hoax?”
Some enterprising game developers from the Netherlands have created “Putin Gay Dress Up,” in which you can adorn Vlad and share your creation in a gallery and on social media.
Birthday shoutouts go to Henry Rollins (above), who is 53, Stockard Channing is 70, Robbie Williams is 40, Carol Lynley is 72, and Peter Gabriel is 64. Here’s his greatest song that wasn’t featured in Say Anything.
The CW Gives Early Renewals To Arrow, The Vampire Diaries, Supernatural, The Originals and Reign. The first four were expected, but Reign is a surprise. No word on bubble shows The Tomorrow People and Carrie Diaries
Jim Parsons will host Saturday Night Live on March 1st, with musical guest Beck. Beck? You mean 90′s Beck?
How Sports Illustrated Botched The Michael Sam Story.
Mother Scrawls Antigay Declination to 7-Year-Old’s Birthday Party. I hate to say this, but the first thing I thought was “Is this another hoax?”
Some enterprising game developers from the Netherlands have created “Putin Gay Dress Up,” in which you can adorn Vlad and share your creation in a gallery and on social media.
- 2/13/2014
- by snicks
- The Backlot
This week, The Walking Dead celebrated its return by playing a zombie prank on unsuspecting New Yorkers, and Stephen Colbert sent Buddy Cole to investigate anti-gay laws at the Sochi Olympics. Courtney Love launched her own web series, and Rainn Wilson's Soul Pancake YouTube channel premiered a TV-length sitcom. Also, Kevin Hart and Ellen DeGeneres played a game of "Giant Jenga." Check out those clips and more in our weekly roundup of the best online videos:
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- 2/13/2014
- by TV Guide Network News
- TVGuide - Breaking News
The Colbert Report
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If you've only been watching the 2014 Winter Olympics coverage on NBC, you've really been missing out. "The Colbert Report" has started its own coverage this week, led by Scott Thompson as his gay socialite "Kids in the Hall" character Buddy Cole and it is awesome.
Above, Buddy meets with U.S. Ambassador Dan Baer, who helps explain the anti-gay propaganda laws in Russia that have been gaining particular attention with the Olympics taking place there.
"The so-called gay propaganda law makes it illegal to talk about non-traditional sexual relationships in a way that would either make them seem good or equal to other relationships," says Baer.
Buddy wonders how exactly he could be dressed that would get him arrested for being gay:
"But seriously Dan, don't you think wearing a rainbow shirt should get you arrested? Why not just...
Get More: Colbert Report Full Episodes,Video Archive
If you've only been watching the 2014 Winter Olympics coverage on NBC, you've really been missing out. "The Colbert Report" has started its own coverage this week, led by Scott Thompson as his gay socialite "Kids in the Hall" character Buddy Cole and it is awesome.
Above, Buddy meets with U.S. Ambassador Dan Baer, who helps explain the anti-gay propaganda laws in Russia that have been gaining particular attention with the Olympics taking place there.
"The so-called gay propaganda law makes it illegal to talk about non-traditional sexual relationships in a way that would either make them seem good or equal to other relationships," says Baer.
Buddy wonders how exactly he could be dressed that would get him arrested for being gay:
"But seriously Dan, don't you think wearing a rainbow shirt should get you arrested? Why not just...
- 2/12/2014
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Pop2it
The highly spoof-able Sochi Olympics will get their due ribbing via “The Daily Show with Jon Stewart” and “The Colbert Report” beginning Monday night. Jon Stewart will host “Jason Jones Live from Sochi-Ish” reports from “The Daily Show” correspondent in Moscow. See photos: Sochi Olympics: Stray Dog, Ring Fail Bring Awkward to the Opening Ceremony Stephen Colbert will kick-off his Sochi 2014 Sport Report coverage in “From Russia with Love, (But No Gay Stuff),” with longtime producer and old friend from theater camp, Buddy Cole. Both shows will provide continuing coverage with the taped segments to air throughout the weeks of Feb.
- 2/10/2014
- by Tony Maglio
- The Wrap
This week Bryan Fuller‘s weekly jaw-drop exercise Hannibal wraps up its first unexpectedly stellar season. But of course you wouldn’t know that, because you’re too chicken to actually watch it, right? It’s okay – you can admit it. We’re among friends here. You know – the kinds of friends who would love to have you for dinner.
Okay, okay – so maybe you’re not scared, and you just don’t have the appetite for this brand of bloody buffet. But Hannibal transcends standard hack-and-slash genre television in a number of ways – which is probably why it’s already been renewed for a second season of ghastly, envelope-pushing intrigue.
Here’s a quick rundown of reasons you really should be watching.
1. Carnage, psychosis and existential despair have never looked so good
Hannibal is the most ghoulishly gorgeous show on television. The super-saturated colors and dramatic production design, the...
Okay, okay – so maybe you’re not scared, and you just don’t have the appetite for this brand of bloody buffet. But Hannibal transcends standard hack-and-slash genre television in a number of ways – which is probably why it’s already been renewed for a second season of ghastly, envelope-pushing intrigue.
Here’s a quick rundown of reasons you really should be watching.
1. Carnage, psychosis and existential despair have never looked so good
Hannibal is the most ghoulishly gorgeous show on television. The super-saturated colors and dramatic production design, the...
- 6/19/2013
- by Brian Juergens
- The Backlot
On NBC’s Silence of The Lambs prequel Hannibal, which airs Thursdays at 10 p.m., Scott Thompson plays a forensic investigator who says creepy things like “supplication is the most common form of prayer,” while standing over a gutted cadaver. Thompson is best known, of course, as a troupe member of the Canadian cult sketch-comedy show The Kids in the Hall, which ran on HBO from 1989 to 1995. Portraying characters like Buddy Cole, the lisping gay bar owner, Thompson wasn’t just the only gay guy in the village, he was one of the first gay men out on television, period. And what a cool gay he was. Vulture met Thompson for a coffee and spoke to him about Anthony Hopkins’s Hannibal, Kids memories, and why being a gay man today is sort of boring.With Anthony Hopkins’s Lecter, you could imagine him being a psychiatrist one would go to.
- 5/16/2013
- by William Van Meter
- Vulture
I know when I started this series I promised once a week…and that was well over a month ago! So in an effort to not lie to you, I won’t promise once a week. I will promise as often as I can! I’m thinking I can definitely commit to once a month. In all honesty, who wants this to get stale? I sure as hell don’t! Sam Raimi is my hero and I want to make your course in Sam Raimi and His Films 101 as fun as it has been for me to learn all of this over the past nearly 16 years since he has been my hero! Let’s get into this!
The Gift is crafted from a screenplay by Tom Epperson and Billy Bob Thornton, who Raimi worked with on 1998′s A Simple Plan. It tells the tale of Annie Wilson (Cate Blanchett), a...
The Gift is crafted from a screenplay by Tom Epperson and Billy Bob Thornton, who Raimi worked with on 1998′s A Simple Plan. It tells the tale of Annie Wilson (Cate Blanchett), a...
- 1/11/2012
- by Kristy
- The Liberal Dead
By Christopher Stipp
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Check out my other column, This Week In Trailers, at SlashFilm.com and follow me on Twitter under the name: Stipp
The Kids In The Hall: The Complete Series - DVD Review
Over the course of a couple of weeks I made it my mission to go through the entire Kids In The Hall series in this slimmer version of the series that was recently released a few years ago. It’s been a while since I sat down with the modern progenitors of sketch comedy. Yeah, Monty Python blah blah blah I’ve heard it before and I am in complete agreement.
However, if Monty Python was the pater noster of this religion of sharp and incisive comedy then it was the Kids In The Hall who were born of that great legacy and thrust it into a modern sensibility. Through...
The Archives, Right Here
Check out my other column, This Week In Trailers, at SlashFilm.com and follow me on Twitter under the name: Stipp
The Kids In The Hall: The Complete Series - DVD Review
Over the course of a couple of weeks I made it my mission to go through the entire Kids In The Hall series in this slimmer version of the series that was recently released a few years ago. It’s been a while since I sat down with the modern progenitors of sketch comedy. Yeah, Monty Python blah blah blah I’ve heard it before and I am in complete agreement.
However, if Monty Python was the pater noster of this religion of sharp and incisive comedy then it was the Kids In The Hall who were born of that great legacy and thrust it into a modern sensibility. Through...
- 6/10/2011
- by Christopher Stipp
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
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
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
Before there was Will and Jack on Will & Grace or David and Keith on Six Feet Under or pretty much everyone on Queer as Folk, there was Buddy on Kids in the Hall. And before Neil Patrick Harris or T.R. Knight or Lance Bass came out, there was actor/comedian Scott Thompson who not only played Buddy on Kids in the Hall, but also played gay assistant Brian on The Larry Sanders Show, and who was out personally and professionally long before it was easy to do so.
Scott Thompson
But then Thompson has never done much that was easy. He came out in the 80s during the height of the AIDS epidemic. He did stand-up comedy in an era where homophobia wasn’t just rampant, it was expected and particularly vicious. Then there is the matter of his latest project, Kids in the Hall: Death Comes to Town, a...
Scott Thompson
But then Thompson has never done much that was easy. He came out in the 80s during the height of the AIDS epidemic. He did stand-up comedy in an era where homophobia wasn’t just rampant, it was expected and particularly vicious. Then there is the matter of his latest project, Kids in the Hall: Death Comes to Town, a...
- 8/18/2010
- by dennis
- The Backlot
July 1st is Canada Day, and we thought we'd take a moment to honor our friends to the north. Canada has always seemed like a friendlier version of the U.S., and is far ahead of us when it comes to marriage-equality. Plus they've given us such fabulous pop culture treasures as Sctv, The Kids In The Hall, Degrassi, Bumper Stumpers, You Can't Do That On Television and Ryan Reynolds.
Most importantly, they taught as that no one, no one! can take away our right to fight and to never surrender.
Canada can also be proud of their contributions to gay visibility, and we're spotlighting some of those men here. This is just a smattering of the out Canadians we admire, and feel free to add your own favorites.
Btw, we haven't forgotten about Canadian lesbian icons k.d. Lang and Tegan & Sara, but this list is just about dudes.
Most importantly, they taught as that no one, no one! can take away our right to fight and to never surrender.
Canada can also be proud of their contributions to gay visibility, and we're spotlighting some of those men here. This is just a smattering of the out Canadians we admire, and feel free to add your own favorites.
Btw, we haven't forgotten about Canadian lesbian icons k.d. Lang and Tegan & Sara, but this list is just about dudes.
- 7/1/2010
- by snicks
- The Backlot
In 1939, Columbia Records hired a young graphic designer, Alex Steinweiss, to create marketing materials for its burgeoning popular recording department. At the age of 23, he proposed to his bosses that instead of the basic brown paper covers that record albums were sold in, Columbia should use some of his art to interpret the music instead. Steinweiss had talent as well as business acumen: within months Columbia saw its record sales increase by over 800%. The rest is contemporary music history.
For the next 15 years, Steinweiss was the sole designer for all Columbia's records and later also worked for Decca, a legendary label known as much for its musicians as its artwork. He estimates he designed about 2500 albums. Taschen has recently released the massive retrospective of his work, Alex Steinweiss, The Inventor of the Modern Album Cover, which, appropriately, evokes the size and format of a bound LP book (and at 422 pages,...
For the next 15 years, Steinweiss was the sole designer for all Columbia's records and later also worked for Decca, a legendary label known as much for its musicians as its artwork. He estimates he designed about 2500 albums. Taschen has recently released the massive retrospective of his work, Alex Steinweiss, The Inventor of the Modern Album Cover, which, appropriately, evokes the size and format of a bound LP book (and at 422 pages,...
- 12/23/2009
- by Alissa Walker
- Fast Company
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
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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