The comedy show that originally aired between 1988 and 1995 will return to the screen and will have eight episodes filled with new skits starring Dave Foley, Bruce McCulloch, Kevin McDonald, Scott Thompson and Mark McKinney, the original members of The Kids in the Hall. .
Amazon Prime Video is nothing away from releasing his first Canadian production, The Kids in the Hall. For those who do not know, this comedy show has its history, since it originally aired between 1988 and 1995, which means that its protagonists are not so young anymore. Dave Foley, Kevin McDonald, Bruce McCulloch, Mark McKinney Y Scott Thompson They return to put together new sketches full of the program’s characteristic humor.
The five original members of the series will star in eight new episodes that will arrive this May 13 at Prime Video. While this return can be seen as a sixth season of The Kids in the Hall, its premise will include new characters and will make references to current themes. We saw an example in one of the advances, where it is seen that they make fun of amazon.
Considered a cult series, The Kids in the Hall originally aired on CBC in Canada and the United States for CBS, HBO and Comedy Central. Each episode, with a duration of 25 minutes, had original, unconventional content, and showed us the protagonists in absurd situations. Some of them had completely crazy twists and in other cases they even broke the fourth wall. in his skits Foley, McDonald, McCulloch, McKinney, and Thompson They played almost all of their characters, which we will see again in the new episodes.
The five main comedians of the series will be joined by other big names in the comedy space, including Catherine O’Hara, Kenan Thompson and Pete Davidson. The appearance of these last two is not a great surprise, since the production of The Kids in the Hall is back in charge of Lorne Michaels (the original producer) and the creator of Saturday night Live.
As for the sketches that we will see in each episode, the description of the program had said that some will be controversial, but those who watched the original series did not expect anything else. What’s more, the trailer for this comeback jokes about the topics the actors could and couldn’t cover. Although his humor is usually timeless, surely in the next episodes we will see references to pop culture or current issues, although we do not believe that they will detach so much from his classic style full of nonsense and absurd jokes.
As the previews of this series showed us, Dave Foley, Kevin McDonald, Bruce McCulloch, Mark McKinney and Scott Thompson they will return from the grave in the first chapter and it seems that they will pick up the story right where they left off. Almost 30 years have passed since The Kids in the Hall The original ended with its fifth season, however, the new version not only keeps the same protagonists, but also the musical theme, the format and many of the classic recurring characters.
This program is not the first they have done since 1995. In addition to doing several tours, the cast reunited in 1996 with a movie called Brain Candy and in 2010 they made an eight-episode miniseries under the name of Death Comes to Town.
So now you know, on May 13, eight new episodes of The Kids in the Hall a Amazon Prime Video.