The year 2008 brought us quite a few comebacks from the late-80’s/early-90’s era, and while most of them were completely unwarranted and unnecessary, (New Kids on the Block, “90210,” tight-rolled jeans) it also brought us the triumphant return of The Kids in the Hall. In the months following their highly successful “Live As We’ll Ever Be” tour — which featured almost entirely new material and marked the troupe’s first collaboration in six years — there have been rumblings of either a feature length or serial project. However, much like the possibility of an “Arrested Development” movie, the rumors have consisted of little more than hearsay and a partially filled-out IMDB page, and weren’t quite worth getting our hopes up for.
But now, Dave Foley has confirmed that all five members are in fact getting set to write the tentatively titled “Death Comes to Town,” which is definitely going to be in the form of a miniseries for the CBC. According to Foley, the series will be an “eight-episode arc with a narrative running through it [in which they] will play all the characters.” He goes on to say that comparatively, the series is hoped to resemble the British series “League of Gentlemen.”
Just going by how downright fucking fantastic the tour was, the news of a new scripted series fills me with so much unrestrained giddiness I could explode. For most of these guys pushing 50, they still put on one hell of a live show — and I’m absolutely titillated to see what they can do with this kind of endeavor. In the meantime, us die-hard KITH fans will just have to rely on DVDs and YouTube to get our fix. From their recent tour, here is “Dance Like This”:
Posted by: Amelia Bedelia at December 4, 2008 10:06 AM
I think where you wrote heresy, you might've actually meant "hearsay."
Or you could've actually meant "heresy." I'm not a mind-reader. But if so, you'll have to explain that to me.
Posted by: Jerce at December 4, 2008 10:16 AM
FUCK. YES.
I shall now break into song.
Ruuuuunning faggot running freeee! he stopped the carnage by gettin' folks a talkin', 'stead of just a sqawkin', sqawkin' and a-gawkin', mockin' and a-rockin', running faggot running freeeeeee!
I've never seen Kids in the Hall. You may commence with the beatings.
Posted by: Julie at December 4, 2008 10:17 AM
Strange. I was thinking of Mississippi Gary and Kathy with a K in the shower just this morning.
And you all doubt my connection to the Force.
Pah!
Julie, I'd say just dive in, get a Season 1 Disc 1 at Netflix or your local peer to peer or what have you. They hit the ground running and you'd know in about ten minutes whether you love it or not.
No physical ramifications, Julie, but I will silently judge you.
Posted by: firedmyass at December 4, 2008 10:22 AM
They've been in my queue for quite a while Jay...it may be time to bump them.
I think I saw a skit where they hang themselves in someone's yard at the end? I don't know. I'm catching up on "comedy that I've missed and am judged for," I'm finally down with the Izzard, so this is the logical next step.
Posted by: Julie at December 4, 2008 10:26 AM
You all need to go right now and watch "The League of Gentlemen". Then you will understand why his announcement is even more bonerrific than if they just were coming back. I'd find a clip for you or something, but my brains just exploded with awesome.
Posted by: insertclevernamehere at December 4, 2008 10:30 AM
Nothing is better than Cancer Boy, and I will fight anyone that says different to the death.
Posted by: Snath at December 4, 2008 10:30 AM
You all need to go right now and watch "The League of Gentlemen". Then you will understand why his announcement is even more bonerrific than if they just were coming back. I'd find a clip for you or something, but my brains just exploded with awesome.
Posted by: insertclevernamehere at December 4, 2008 10:30 AM
Julie, doll, I'm a mother-effing Canadian and I haven't seen them either! My very Catholic mother wouldn't let me watch it when I lived at home.
Posted by: meaux at December 4, 2008 10:32 AM
Julie, BUMP THEM!
Seriously, every wasted moment is one where you deprive yourself of comedy GOLD.
I would marry KITH without hesitation, if only it were legal to wed sketch comedy troupes in the US...
Posted by: PaleoLithchick at December 4, 2008 10:32 AM
Whee! I still have a crush on Dave even though he's starting to look like an older woman (in the face). But no one beats Steven Weber in that category.
Julie! You have yet to live.
Posted by: Cindy at December 4, 2008 10:39 AM
KITH were one of the first things my husband and I ever bonded over, when we first started dating. You know you've found your soulmate when, at a candlelit restaurant, he leans back, squints, puts up finger claws and squeals "I'M SQUEESHING YER HEAAAAD." My heart wept. That was it, I was marrying him. I didn't care if he made $900 a month at the time, I didn't care if he lived in a roach motel, it was true love.
(Well, it was that and his large junk, but whatever.)
Posted by: Anastasia Beaverhausen at December 4, 2008 10:41 AM
PaleoLithchick, now you've got me thinking in great detail about an Anastasia-Kids in the Hall free for all sex sandwich and that's not nice when I have a meeting to go to in two minutes.
Sigh.
Posted by: Anastasia Beaverhausen at December 4, 2008 10:43 AM
I'm bumping! I'm BUMPING. :sobs:
Posted by: Julie at December 4, 2008 10:48 AM
Hey, like I've said, Dave Foley is my favorite tranny. He's cute! Must be something about the eyes that really captures me.
Did you raise your thumb back to him, Ms. Beaverhausen? Or would the love explosion have been too dangerous?
You know I did, Jay. Then we quoted KITH to each other for the next thirty minutes before we started quoting "The Young Ones." If ANYTHING is hotter than KITH it's The Young Ones. (Sorry, but it's true. Vyvyan: ROWR.)
Later: my Volkswagon Rabbit with a broken odometer and a hole in the radiator: great geeky love in the FRONT seat. But you didn't want to know that.
Been married 17 years this month. Our teenagers would die if they read this.
Posted by: Anastasia Beaverhausen at December 4, 2008 10:52 AM
The fact that I loved KITH reruns on Comedy Central did not make me a cool kid in Middle School, but it did teach me how to get oout of paying rent.
*cover up your friend with thumb* "Nobody's home!"
Posted by: Kayanne at December 4, 2008 10:53 AM
Yeah, there's not just many occasions where you can shout "SEE WHAT YOU'VE DONE, THATCHER?!?!" and "It's a poltergoost!" are there?
Julie--a caveat: go slowly with it. KITH is not something to be rushed. I bought the first few seasons on DVD a while back and tried to watch them all in a huge back to back marathon (because I hadn't seen them in so long)and it's like rushing anything else--ultimately a bit unsatisfying.
Sip, don't gulp. They're better that way. (You can gulp Scott Thompson, though, he's yummy.)
Posted by: Anastasia Beaverhausen at December 4, 2008 10:56 AM
When I was working on a Habitat for Humanity house, I used "SOME OF THESE BRICKS EXPLODE!" and no one appreciated it much.
I've also used "darling fascist bully boy" but you know, people just don't KNOW The Young Ones anymore. It's a shame. This current generation, some of them are douchenozzles.
Posted by: Anastasia Beaverhausen at December 4, 2008 11:00 AM
TRUST FALL!
Posted by: Kayanne at December 4, 2008 11:03 AM
Ahh... The Young Ones. The only relevant thing MTV has done in the last 20 years is broadcast that show.
Posted by: wsapnin at December 4, 2008 11:06 AM
So many warm fuzzy memories.
The Chicken Lady was one of my favorites, and I always wanted to touch Belini.
meaux I'll check The Charter of Rights and Freedoms but I think we may have to revoke your citizenship.
Posted by: admin at December 4, 2008 11:07 AM
psst, wsapnin: The State...
Posted by: Cherry Pie at December 4, 2008 11:14 AM
Um ... y'all are saying these guys are funny? And I thought men in drag was everything that's wrong with British humour (see what I did there?).
Posted by: bucdaddy at December 4, 2008 11:15 AM
Ooops, sorry, I read that as "BBC." Canada's different. Lots of funny fucks running aboot in Canada, eh? (See what I did there?)
Posted by: bucdaddy at December 4, 2008 11:21 AM
Loved the KITH. I still recall fondly the Dr. Seuss version of the Crucifixion.
"I'm crushing your head?"
"I'm pinching your face!"
Posted by: The Wanderer at December 4, 2008 11:21 AM
(You can gulp Scott Thompson, though, he's yummy.)
I want to be his hag.
*Readding to queue. It's been too long.*
Posted by: lizzieborden at December 4, 2008 11:30 AM
lizzie, I'm sure you're a really nice gal despite what you did to your parents and all, but I called hag dibs on Scott Thompson WAY back in 1984. And I barely understood the concept.
Although I could be his Queen Hag and you could be his Princess Hag. Wait, I want to be a Princess Hag. With names like Anastasia Beaverhausen and Lizzie Borden, HOW could he deny us?
Posted by: Anastasia Beaverhausen at December 4, 2008 11:40 AM
One of the episodes of Testees had the guys testing pheromones that were supposed to attract women. The pheremones ended up only attracting old, ugly women (you guys really need to start watching this show). One of the women was in the KITH skit where Kevin keeps dreaming about having an affair with the maid (she was the maid). I always wondered if it was really her bare ass in the shower scene.
Posted by: Three-nineteen at December 4, 2008 11:45 AM
3-19, you are not alone with the Testees love. It bounces between satisfyingly predictable and It's Always Sunny-levels of complete insanity.
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Posted by: jim at December 4, 2008 12:02 PM
FACT! Brain Candy is probably the best comedies ever put on film.
"I need...the room.."
Posted by: BarbadoSlim at December 4, 2008 12:02 PM
I am more excited than words can describe.
Is it being broadcast in the US at all? (Not that it matters to me, I'm Canadian and therefore have an unfunny amount of access to the CBC. I'd just like to take an opportunity to gloat at American readers who are, for once, at a disadvantage entertainment-wise.)
Posted by: Ling at December 4, 2008 12:03 PM
*best comedy
Posted by: BarbadoSlim at December 4, 2008 12:03 PM
Although I could be his Queen Hag and you could be his Princess Hag. Wait, I want to be a Princess Hag. With names like Anastasia Beaverhausen and Lizzie Borden, HOW could he deny us?
You can be Princess Hag. Can I be Faerie Hag? I don't see how he could possibly deny us, especially once he's actually agreed to lift the restraining order and meet us!
Also? I was acquitted. Goddamn bloody-minded nursery rhymes.
Posted by: lizzieborden at December 4, 2008 12:24 PM
Hey, my wife took a nap on your couch, lizzieborden! Your house is cool, except for all the death.
Posted by: Snath at December 4, 2008 12:32 PM
Thanks, Snath! I quite like it. And I think the death gives it... I don't know, a certain ambiance that was really missing before the tragic and untimely deaths of my mother and step-dad.
Posted by: lizzieborden at December 4, 2008 12:42 PM
this will reunify my country!
well, the good parts of my country.
Posted by: celery at December 4, 2008 12:48 PM
Which parts are the good parts celery? the dangley parts? The lady parts? Which parts? I have to know!
Posted by: admin at December 4, 2008 1:26 PM
I'm going to run out and tell this great news to all the Daves I know!
This is EXACTLY what they should be doing. The League of Gentleman reminds me of Kids In the Hall and viceversa. I am so HAPPY! We have been redeemed!!!
Posted by: ph at December 4, 2008 2:09 PM
admin, you leave my Chief Drinking Officer alone. The Charter says nothing about stripping citizenship, only (relevantly) that she can't be compelled to testify against herself and that she can't be tried twice for this offence. We already had a "trial" in the MurderLounge, so she's scott-free, ain't that right, meaux?
You just made my life!
"Dave Gord, works in my dad's store, he's worked there for 12 years, he'll probably work there for for"
Posted by: Agente Provocatrice at December 4, 2008 2:41 PM
The operative word was maylordhelmet.
I was looking for a bribe* and if you would have kept your legislation loving yap shut we could have split it!
*bribe in this context refers to copious amounts of beverages of an alcoholic persuasion.
Posted by: admin at December 4, 2008 2:43 PM
Dude, admin, I'm very reasonable when it comes to bribery, you just gotta ask right, not threaten! Just mosey down to the Murderin' Lounge and tell meaux to give you whatever's on tap. Tell her I said it's ok.
Posted by: lordhelmet at December 4, 2008 2:48 PM
lizzieborden - HA! I knew you weren't the real Lizzie Borden. It wasn't her mother and step-dad, but her father and step-mother whom she allegedly killed.
Besides, this living in Maryland was a dead giveaway (no pun intended). Everyone knows she lived in Fall River, MA.
Snath - I've been to the Lizzie Borden museum/B&B too--during the weekend of the anniversary of the murders, so we got a special tour with actors and everything.
Posted by: tamatha at December 4, 2008 2:49 PM
Yeah, tamatha, I always mix up which parent is the step. She was acquitted, though. That much I do remember.
The other giveaway? She's been dead since about sixty years before I was born! ;P
I've not been to the B&B, but damn would I love to visit it sometime.
Posted by: lizzieborden at December 4, 2008 2:55 PM
lb - dead? alive? details, details.
Posted by: tamatha at December 4, 2008 2:59 PM
My mom and I went to the house when we were in the area for a wedding. We went to the cemetary also where the family plot is. I've got pictures of the stones. Pretty cool stuff.
I also got a Lizzie bobblehead. I wanted to get a stained glass axe to hang in my window too, but I couldn't get both. Next time, though.
Posted by: Anna von Beaverplatz at December 4, 2008 3:03 PM
Anastasia, it would undoubtably be the most hilarious orgy of all time.
Posted by: PaleoLithchick at December 4, 2008 3:40 PM
Mrs. Snath used to live in Beverly, MA, and has been to Fall River several times. She's stayed at the LB B&B twice, and has some cool pictures of it. I've never been...we were supposed to go in October, but she got pregnant. She doesn't like to fly (has panic attacks and goes crazy) and has to drink/take pills to keep sane, which she can't do while pregnant. Oh well, eventually I'll get there.
Apparently the Hawthorne Hotel in Salem is pretty awesome, too. Everyone that's been raves about the cheesecake. Fuck The Scarlet Letter and those damn gables, let's eat some cheesecake!
Posted by: Snath at December 4, 2008 3:50 PM
dead? alive? details, details.
too true, tamatha. mayhaps i am her reincarnated corpse. or just her reincarnation. either way, can i really be blamed for forgetting shit about people i never laid axe on?
Posted by: lizzieborden at December 4, 2008 3:57 PM
I knew I'd been listening to Shame Based Man all week for a reason.
FACT! Brain Candy is probably the best comedies ever put on film.
"I need...the room.."
Posted by: BarbadoSlim at December 4, 2008 12:02 PM
Fact. The pills are made of monkey cum.
Posted by: greer at December 4, 2008 7:12 PM
meaux and lordhelmet, you break my heart. What kind of Canadian parents didn't let you watch KITH?
"I figured, how far can you coast on charm? Well, pretty far, actually!"
Dave Foley does look good in a dress - recall News Radio where Lisa got mad at Dave because he looked better in her dress that she did? Ah, good times, good times.
Posted by: llp at December 4, 2008 9:52 PM
What kind of Canadian parents didn't let you watch KITH?
My kind. I had to sneak it, like everything else.
Posted by: Lauren at December 5, 2008 4:49 AM
Ahhh, parents with cultural awareness. My parents used to set me down in front of Monty Python's Flying Circus, thinking it would show an actual circus. I would watch it and then complain they didn't have any circus animals, but flying cartoon boobs instead.
Link is weird. AND SO'S YOUR FACE!