The Kids in the Hall, a Canadian comedy troupe, marked its 40th anniversary with a special performance at Toronto's Rivoli club. The show featured an unrehearsed reading of banned sketches from their television series.
Kids in the Hall performed in its 40th anniversary show at The Rivoli in Toronto, on Nov. 26. From the left: Kevin McDonald, Scott Thompson, Mark McKinney and Bruce McCulloch.At Toronto’s Rivoli club late last month, the comedy troupe the Kids in the Hall celebrated its 40th anniversary of performing at the Queen Street West fixture. For the occasion, the group stood on the stage but not on ceremony. “The dressing room is exactly the same,” Bruce McCulloch told the audience.
“They still have the couch the Parachute Club had orgies on.”Kids in the Hall sketches that had been banned from their eponymous television show that ran from 1989 to 1995 on CBC (and HBO and Comedy Central) and an eight-episode revival season in 2022 on Amazon Prime Video.Before it all began, though, Scott Thompson interrupted the first sketch, for which he and the three other Kids – the fifth, Dave Foley, was sick, we were told – wore white wedding veils. Thompson marched off the stage into the audience toward a small sign on the wall.The anniversary show was devoted to an unrehearsed read-through of Kids in the Hall sketches that had been banned from their television show.It was a plaque, like the ones Heritage Toronto puts on historic buildings or in front of the place where Babe Ruth hit a home run in 1914. The one at the Rivoli had the names of the Kids: Thompson, Foley, McCulloch, Kevin McDonald and Mark McKinney. “We’re not dead yet,” protested Thompson, a senior citizen, placing his veil over the memorial plaque.reboot in 2022 had the members being excavated from a mass grave, a reference to the burial scene in the original show’s final episode. Indeed,The Kids had planned to follow the Python model. It just didn’t quite work out as intended. “The blueprint was Monty Python,” the Kids’ McDonald says from his home in Winnipe
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