“Friends of Kids in the Hall,” a means for longtime friends and fans of the Kids to support the revival from a distance, doesn’t live up to the rest of the show.
“Friends of Kids in the Hall” (Donovan, Charlene, Ron, Aaron, Jillian, Michael, Lainie, Sasha) Second, multipart sketches such as “Super Drunk” and “Don and Marv” are grouped together. First, there are spoilers ahead, so be warned that twists and dongs will jump out on this list as much as they do in the season. Yes, favorite characters including Buddy Cole return and you can bet that Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet’s twang-a-lang-a-lang-a-lang opens every episode, but the Kids equally delight with new personas, absurdities, and avant-garde moments in the mix.Īcross eight episodes, Dave Foley, Bruce McCulloch, Kevin McDonald, Mark McKinney, and Scott Thompson skewer their sexagenarian status, impolite and evil Amazon money, cops and other hateful babies, gay culture, straight culture, cultural appropriation, doomsday, and so much more that we just had to rank every single sketch in the revival. They got more than that: With their new season, Canada’s alternative-comedy greats deliver surprising laughs, justify their return, and make a compelling case for their revival series to continue. The Kids in the Hall’s legion of pricks waited 27 years (or one 501 streetcar in Toronto) for season six of head-crushingly good fun.
