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So you want to be aKids in the Hallkeener?
Like nerd, geek, brown-noser, smartypants, etc.
but with more emphasis on willingness and enthusiasm and less on social inadequacy, sycophancy, or natural ability.
Then listen toyour old man.
And adjacent to but not an affiliate of A.T. & Love are lawyers the Geralds.
Bruces Little Punks and Twerps
No, this isnt the name of a spinoff sketch series.
McCulloch can play a hundred shades of twerp, from loathsome creepCabbage Headto overly chatty latchkey kid Gavin.
Buddy Cole
Thompsons greatest characteris a folk hero, trailblazer, iconoclast, and chaos agent.
The worldliestCanadianto ever live, Buddy Cole is a unique character in sketch history.
What makes Buddy a fully balanced one-queen force is how he sprinkles his satire with the surreal.
TakeDinosaurs,a monologue about queer social lifeandabout an influx ofT.
Canadian television funding has never gone to a worthier cause.
Canada
Above all,KITHare goodCanadiansubjects of the queen.
Or at least Thompsons version of her.
Obviously that would become the mainstream breakout character.
What dont you understand about this?
The Darcy Pennell Show
McDonalds completely incompetent talk-show host is underrated but extremely funny.
Cantpronounce a name to save her life, poor dear.
Darill
McKinneys ponytailed, ambiguously accented Darill feels like aFrasiercharacter.
This is ultimate praise.
Thompson plays the mysterious and glamorous Uruguayan beauty Francesca, and Foley plays Bruno, her lover-pimp-co-star.
German Expressionism
Alotof existential dread and paranoia going on in some of these.
Alotof creativity with the camera and filmmaking style.
And whether hell ever return someday.
Her friend Michelle (Thompson) is wondering the exact same thing.
My headcanon isMonique the Pyromaniacis her identical twin.
The King of Empty Promises
Almost forgot to include this guy on the list.
Meta Sketches About Sketch Writing
Premise Beach isonly the tipof this iceberg.
Monologues
Every member ofKITHcan pull off a mean monologue, bothin characterandout.
They makeSNLand late-night monologues sound like kindergarten graduation speeches, and they go well beyond Buddy Cole.
Foley is especially skilled at givingclear-eyeddeliveriesofpsychotictakes.
Theyve got multiple soliloquies about how much it sucks to be acyclistinToronto(plus ca change…).
But only Bank People has dance breaks.
Paul Bellini isKITHs version of that.
After Shania Twain, he is Timminss most famous export.
Songs
What wouldKids in the Hallbe without that surf-guitar theme music?
And what would it be withoutmusicalsketches?
And what would all these Daves be without their moms?
Surrealism
If you havent figured it out by this point,KITHrevels in the absurd.
Either the Pear Dream speaks to you or it doesnt.
Bye, Mr. Stevenson!
