Video (because it's been a while) -- The Kids in the Hall Return to CBC In a Comic Miniseries
But it is not about the birth of the modern brassiere. Not to worry.
As I said on Denis McGrath's blog Dead Things on Sticks, "I am kvelling." I spend a lot of time kvelling. Thinking about buying the domain name kvelling.com and doing something with it, actually.
From Jam! Showbiz, Dave Foley tells them:
"It'll be an eight-episode arc with a narrative running through it and we will play all the characters but it won't be sketch, it'll be a single narrative miniseries. Probably the closest thing to it will probably be something like (the defunct cult British series) 'League of Gentlemen,' which I think was brilliant. So I hope it will be close to that."
The project is tentatively titled, "Death Comes to Town," and would serve as a long-awaited return by the Toronto-based group to the CBC.
That was where the improv troupe shot to fame in the late '80s and early '90s with their sketch comedy show, "The Kids In the Hall," winning a dedicated fanbase that spilled into the U.S. when the series, produced by "Saturday Night Live"'s Lorne Michaels, aired on CBS.
Well, it aired first on HBO, then on CBS, then Comedy Central. I would hope that HBO will consider picking this up for its US run. I'm really tired of all the f**ks and sh**s being bleeped. It's pointless.
Also, Foley's five-year-old daughter is amassing quite a collection of credits in US and Canadian media. Proud poppa relates in the article that daughter Alina is shooting a Jackie Chan movie and has completed a web series and is up for a Fox pilot.
Nice.
Classic Kids sketches after the jump. There are so many on YouTube it's hard to choose. I'm going with the outstanding Francesca Fiore movie sendup Spy Models starring Scott Thompson and Foley and then the sketch that fans will know as the Dipping Areas sketch.
