The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Comedy doesn’t have a Human Resources department, so leave it to The Comic’s Comic to dole out honors and/or discipline accordingly. Our Employees of the Month for May 2022 are The Kids In The Hall. Congrats Dave, Bruce, Kevin, Mark and Scott! NOTE: This is a feature I introduced on my Substack, …
How poetically full circle must Kevin McDonald feel this week, performing a new solo show across the street from the Hell’s Kitchen venue where Kids in the Hall first introduced themselves to live American audiences 32 years ago. McDonald’s career remains alive and kicking, taken even more literally when he’s …
Kevin McDonald from The Kids in the Hall will mount his first-ever one-man Off-Broadway show: Kevin McDonald ALIVE on 42nd Street. It’ll run for only eight performances, Aug. 25-31, 2019, at Theatre Row NYC’s Studio Theatre. “I’m very excited to be doing an Off-Broadway show though technically it’s on Broadway,” …
Lorne Michaels brought The Kids in the Hall to television in the late 1980s via HBO and the CBC, and three decades later, he wants to bring them back to whatever you’re calling TV today. You already can still see the five members separately on TV and together in live …
Jake Thomas, nephew of SCTV star Dave Thomas, sustained a massive spinal cord injury this January that has left him paralyzed from the waist down. To help not only Jake and his family, but also help fund research and other patients at Spinal Cord Injury Ontario, Dave Thomas has organized …
Kevin McDonald is one of the original founders of The Kids in the Hall, the legendary sketch comedy troupe that started in Toronto, then became internationally famous over five seasons in the late 1980s and early 1990s thanks to HBO and later CBS. McDonald’s recurring characters included The King of …
Everybody loves a comedy festival. And in this year of 2016, it doesn’t just feel as though every city has its own comedy festival, because not only do they, but oftentimes, several cities have recruited all-star comedy lineups to their region on the same weekend. And New York City can …
The Kids In The Hall wrapped up a 2015 tour of new sketches for their classic comedy characters with a performance on the all-star Festival Supreme last weekend in Los Angeles. And The Hollywood Reporter managed to wrangle all five members of KITH — Dave Foley, Bruce McCulloch, Kevin McDonald, …
Don’t call it a comeback. The Kids in the Hall have been here for years. Just not onstage. All together. In almost six years. But tanned, “Rusty & Ready,” they blazed a new trail through Texas over the weekend, ready to be our comedy brides once more (their opening number …
This is candy for my brain, how about yours? All five members of Kids in the Hall are reuniting this year — yes, you knew that — but also, they’re going to present a live staged reading of their 1996 film, Kids in the Hall: Brain Candy, at the 9th …
