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  • Oct 16, 1988
  • CBS
  • Oct 16, 1988
The Kids in the Hall

Summary Get ready for sketch comedy...Canadian style! The Kids In The Hall are a hilarious sketch comedy troupe. They got their name from a comedian named Jack Benny, who would often end a joke by saying: "I got this from the kids in the hall", referring to the amateur comedians who would hang around outside his office. KITH was formed in 1...

  • CBS
  • Oct 16, 1988
  • CBS
  • Oct 16, 1988
The Kids in the Hall
Season 1
5 Seasons
Season Premiere: Oct 16, 1988
Metascore Universal Acclaim Based on 7 Critic Reviews
83
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Summary Get ready for sketch comedy...Canadian style! The Kids In The Hall are a hilarious sketch comedy troupe. They got their name from a comedian named Jack Benny, who would often end a joke by saying: "I got this from the kids in the hall", referring to the amateur comedians who would hang around outside his office. KITH was formed in 1...

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Episode 0 • Oct 16, 1988 • 1 h
Pilot
Episode 1 • Oct 24, 1989 • 24 m
Episode #1.1
Call Girls, The Eradicator, Ballet, Crushing Your Head Part 2, Cause of Cancer, Pear, Kathie and the Blues Guy, Crushing Your Head Part 3.
Episode 2 • Oct 31, 1989 • 25 m
Episode #1.2
Thirty Helens 1, Sketch Comedy, Thirty Helens 2, Cabbage Head, Restaurant, Tractor, Sarcastic Guy, Buddy's Better, Thirty Helens 3, Womyn.
Episode 3 • Nov 7, 1989 • 25 m
Episode #1.3
Gunslinger II, Gorilla, Hey Man, Citizen Kane, Contact Lenses, Hey Man 2, Salty Ham, Hey Man 3
Episode 4 • Nov 14, 1989 • 25 m
Episode #1.4
Déjà Vu, Asshole, The Daves I Know, Menstruation, House Rules, The Dinner, Sick of the Swiss, Country Doctor
Episode 5 • Nov 21, 1989 • 28 m
Episode #1.5
Indian Drum, Geralds, Crushing Disco 1, Good Grampa, Explore Scott, Are Extraterrestrials Dull?, Elvis, Crushing Disco 2
Episode 6 • Dec 5, 1989 • 25 m
Episode #1.6
Thirty Helens 1, Bored Robbers, Running Faggot, Thirty Helens 2, Flogging, The Trucker, Can I Keep Him?
Episode 7 • Dec 12, 1989 • 25 m
Episode #1.7
Hotel La Rut, Plummet, Hotel La Rut 2, First Poem, Fletcher Christian, Hotel La Rut 3, Joymakers
Episode 8 • Dec 19, 1989 • 24 m
Episode #1.8
Ping Pong, The Vacation, Ping Pong 2, Chain Gang, The Banker Doesn't Like Us, Dinosaurs, Ping Pong 3, Tony Comes to Dinner, The Banker Doesn't Like Us 2
Episode 9 • Jan 2, 1990 • 25 m
Episode #1.9
A Place to Die, Secretaries, A Place to Die 2, Preacher, Weston, A Place to Die 3, Teddy Bears' Picnic
Episode 10 • Jan 9, 1990 • 23 m
Episode #1.10
Hoopla, McGuillicutty and Green, Wake Up!, MacIntyre Name, One Step at a Time, Nobody Likes Us, McGuillicuty and Kurosawa, Three for the Moon
Episode 11 • Jan 16, 1990 • 25 m
Episode #1.11
Night of the Living Dead, Can Never Go Home, Thirty Helens Coleslaw, Under Control, Gunslinger I, Star-Crossed Lovers, Thirty Helens Hawaii, Barbershop
Episode 12 • Jan 23, 1990 • 27 m
Episode #1.12
Turning Over, Mood Swing, Billy Dreamer 1, Folk Music, Who's Gay in Hollywood?, Billy Dreamer 2, Skoora!
Episode 13 • Jan 30, 1990 • 25 m
Episode #1.13
Signs of Loneliness, Networking, Lopez 1, Fat Hitch-Hiker, Lopez 2, No Regrets, The Lamp, Lopez 3, Indian Woman, Lopez 4
Episode 14 • Apr 3, 1990 • 26 m
Episode #1.14
Editors Intro, Editors (Film), Break Up, I Lied, Dull Death, I'm A Cat, My Routine, Schoolroom, Editors Finale
Episode 15 • Apr 10, 1990 • 25 m
Episode #1.15
Death Row, White Guy, Crazy Love, Buddy's Island, Captain Alan, Mechanic, Baby
Episode 16 • Apr 17, 1990 • 26 m
Episode #1.16
The Floater, Is He?, Thirty Helens: Pens, Manny Coon, Thirty Helens: Minds, Bass Player, Compensation, Thirty Helens: Disagree, Power of My C**k
Episode 17 • Apr 24, 1990 • 28 m
Episode #1.17
Boo!, Dracula, The Middle, Crushing Girlfriend, Mass Murderer, B & K, Beautiful Women
Episode 18 • May 1, 1990 • 25 m
Episode #1.18
Love Me, Stinky Pink, Premise Beach, Crouton, Olympics, Premise Beach 2, Sh**ty Soup, She's Gone
Episode 19 • May 8, 1990 • 27 m
Episode #1.19
Hey Baby, Island Boys, Can't Kill Rock, Tarantula, Cat's Away, Mutilated, Car Ride, Owww
Episode 20 • May 15, 1990 • 25 m
Episode #1.20
Fat Man, How We Met, Thirty Helens: Photos, Bank People, Double Date, Buddy is Canadian, Buddy Holly, Thirty Helens: Helens, Dr. Seuss Bible
Episode 21 • Oct 31, 2011 • 25 m
Episode #1.21
Episode 22 • Oct 31, 2011 • 26 m
Episode #1.22
5 Seasons

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Universal Acclaim Based on 7 Critic Reviews
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Universal Acclaim Based on 7 Critic Reviews
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100
Sep 18, 2013
Here is some of the freshest and most disarming material the comedy scene has been able to claim in a long while.
By John J. O'Connor FULL REVIEW
90
Sep 18, 2013
If the first two episodes are indicative of the kind of inspired lunacy these guys will produce over the next 20 weeks, the Kids may well be the successors to Monty Python, SNL and SCTV. [21 July 1989, p.5]
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90
Sep 18, 2013
A gifted, wickedly witty ensemble that writes and performs with tasteless abandon. In a wonderfully varied series of skits first broadcast on HBO, these comically vicious brats express unrestrained glee in sending up homosexuals and homophobes, welfare-mother bingo addicts, religious nuts ("naked for Jesus"), beer commercials and May-December romances. [29 Nov 1988]
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90
Sep 18, 2013
They are disarming in the most pleasant extreme...It is fresh, hip and frank. It could prove - especially given the stars' proclivity to perform in drag - America's "Monty Python." [21 July 1989, p.1]
By Rick Kogan FULL REVIEW
80
Sep 18, 2013
Some of their humor is bizarre, and some is even more bizarre. [21 July 1989, p.E-3]
By Robert P. Laurence FULL REVIEW
70
Sep 18, 2013
The quality of the material, all of which is written by the performers themselves, is spotty, to be sure. But when it hits, it has that "on the edge" feeling that makes you squirm as much as it makes you laugh. [21 July 1989, p.9E]
By Eric Mink FULL REVIEW
70
Sep 18, 2013
It turns out, though, that these guys are funny...The whiteness of the group is more problematic. Racial and gay/straight stereotypes are the target of a monologue by Scott Thompson, portraying an effeminate gay character. The script intends to skewer those stereotypes, but the blunt language and the fact that the group is white may lead some observers to question whether the sketch doesn't reinforce them. [21 July 1989, p.C6]
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