i had the pear dream again

Kids in the Hall do shows of new material, article from New York TimesĀ

The Kids in the Hall are back! The Kids had a profound effect on the way I enjoyed comedy. I discovered them in 7th grade, I think, first on CBC and then on Comedy Central (which may have been called the Comedy Channel then, not sure…). Prior to that, I had watched Saturday Night Live (which was pretty good most of the time to my 6th-7th grade level sense of humor), and before that, In Living Color (which, in retrospect, wasn’t very good, but I do believe I enjoyed some of it, when the heck was that, 4th-5th grade?). And some Monty Python in there too, which I did enjoy quite a bit when I caught it. I knew I liked sketch comedy, but I never knew how much I could like it till I found KITH.

My friends and I would make stupid movies a lot in those middle school days, and a lot of the “writing” we did was influenced by Kids in the Hall. At least I know I was. We always wanted to do a public access sketch comedy show, but never got our shit together enough to actually do it. I had written some sketches in my early high school days that we never did anything with. I also tried to write for Comedy Company, the University of Michigan student sketch/improv group. I even got two sketches (that I CO-wrote) performed, which was pretty cool. (It did however, prove to be very difficult to continue to be funny on a regular basis, and therefore, I ended up quitting.) The entire point of this paragraph was: “Yeah, I like sketch comedy a lot”.
But I digress. The real point of this entire post is: “I would be totally geeked to go see the Kids perform a bunch of new material like this article in the New York Times mentions”.

These days, I still love me some KITH… Mr. Show gives it a run for its money, though (and despite what all my friends say, Season 4 IS in fact like 50% worse than the previous 3 seasons. But upon repeated watching, I do enjoy it more). And of course, my current favorite is Human Giant, but I’m not sure that their sketches have the lasting power of KITH or Mr. Show. But what do I know. I still laugh at inside jokes from 6th grade. In fact, it is my primary method of communication.