The Kids in the Hall (1988)

Genre

sketch show, LGBT-related television series

Country

Canada

Length

5 seasons, 110 episodes

Rated

18

Rating

7.5 of 10 from 97 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A troupe of five comedians performs all the characters in short comedy sketches. The sketches are surreal and often feature cross-dressing with a mix of silliness and clever social commentary.

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What happens

The Kids in the Hall is a Canadian sketch comedy television series that aired for five seasons from 1988 to 1995, and a sixth revival season in 2022, starring the comedy troupe The Kids in the Hall. The troupe, consisting of comedians Dave Foley, Kevin McDonald, Mark McKinney, Bruce McCulloch, and Scott Thompson, appeared as almost all the characters throughout the series, both male and female, and wrote most of the sketches. The series debuted as a one-hour pilot special which aired on HBO and CBC Television in 1988 and began airing as a regular weekly series on both services in 1989. The regular series premiered July 21, 1989, on HBO, and September 14 on CBC. In the United States, the first three seasons were on HBO before it moved to CBS in 1993, where it stayed for two more seasons airing late Friday nights. CBC aired the show for the whole duration of its run. A sixth, revival season of the show, which includes eight episodes, was released on Amazon Prime Video on May 13, 2022. It features the entire troupe as well as numerous guest stars, and was Amazon's first Canadian original series. The theme song for the show is the instrumental "Having an Average Weekend" by the Canadian band Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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