Bruce McCulloch of Kids in the Hall Interview

[badgrammer]

Thought I'd post the link to this interview with Bruce McColloch of KITH from Bravo! Canada -I figured there might be some FOTs who'd find this of interest. There is a lot of talk about American v. Canadian style comedy, KITH origins, and "Death Comes to Town" (of course!)

http://watch.bravo.ca/the-oregan-files/season-2/the-oregan-files-ep-204-bruce-mcculloch/

[Pidgeon]

I still haven't decided who's the prettiest one.

[Sarah]

I can't stand that CTV guy.  He drove me nuts during the Olympics.  But I'm happy to see this interview.  KITH are the bee's knees, and Death Come to Town was a treat.  I love those boys.

Pidgeon, that would be Dave Foley.  His mayoress is so much like a real woman, it's eerie.  (Later:  I wrote this before I got to that part of the interview.  It's just a fact.  Always has been.  His French Canadian prostitute probably confused a whole lot of fellers.)

[Pidgeon]

I think that Dave is the prettiest as a woman and Bruce looks the best out of drag.

[badgrammer]

I can't stand that CTV guy.  He drove me nuts during the Olympics.  But I'm happy to see this interview.  KITH are the bee's knees, and Death Come to Town was a treat.  I love those boys.

Pidgeon, that would be Dave Foley.  His mayoress is so much like a real woman, it's eerie.  (Later:  I wrote this before I got to that part of the interview.  It's just a fact.  Always has been.  His French Canadian prostitute probably confused a whole lot of fellers.)

Thank you for saying that, Sarah! I thought the same thing --I really don't like his interview "style". Ugh.

They're all pretty in their own way, but I've always had a thing for Dave Foley. I think it's just his gap-toothed smile though...

[Sarah]

I think Scott Thompson looks the best as a man.

[badgrammer]

Yes, AS A MAN, is what I meant! Haha. Although, he used to be the most natural looking girl in drag IMO.

[TacoSmith]

Anyone who doesn't think Dave was the prettiest woman is only fooling themselves.

[Sarah]

I just have to groan about Regan's obsession with the cross-dressing.  Does he really not know that there's a grand tradition of transvestism in British humor, of which Canadia is the heir/beneficiary?  Lordy.

[badgrammer]

On the DVD commentary for one of their live shows --I think it's the Same Guys, New Dresses DVD, Mike Myers definitely admits to being attracted to Dave Foley as a woman.

[Sarah]

*O'Regan

[Sarah]

Ha, he returns to the cross-dressing at the end, when he finally makes the connection to Brit com.

[TacoSmith]

It's always odd to me when people think of KITH as the show with the dudes dressing up like women. It was always just a non-factor to me. As a kid, I just saw it as they had an all male cast so they had to dress up like women to have women in their sketches. Not that big of a deal.

[badgrammer]

It's always odd to me when people think of KITH as the show with the dudes dressing up like women. It was always just a non-factor to me. As a kid, I just saw it as they had an all male cast so they had to dress up like women to have women in their sketches. Not that big of a deal.

Exactly! However, I'm guessing that maybe men dressing as women for comedy was a radical idea for network TV in the 80's? Although it was on HBO to begin with, so I don't know. If anything, I'd think that the odd/dark/quirky sense of humor would be more off-putting to viewers than anything.

I remember seeing Mark McKinney's "Head Crusher" character as a kid and thinking "WHAT IS THIS?!" That sketch is one of my favorites of all time now.

[Sarah]

Yes, I think when Kids in the Hall showed up on network television most people were more squeamish about such matters.  (And a lot fewer people had HBO back then.)

The nice thing about the Kids in the Hall guys' impersonations is that they mostly don't intend them to mock women (unlike, for example, The Whitest Kids You Know, who are awful that way).  They're often quite true to life.  Scott Thompson's long-suffering mother to surly Dave Foley's teenage boy, with Bruce McCulloch as the quasi-abusive husband, was a triumph.  Still, to me, ST's impersonations are in general the most draggish; Dave Foley and Mark McKinney more frequently just did women-as-women.