@@Ursaminor31 actually there isn't a difference. Drag and cross-dressing means basically the same thing, only the word drag specifically comes from actors crossdressing in performances. Usually for comedy. So not a "big difference" its literally the exact same thing by every possible metric, both technically and by the spirit of the word.
My WASP grandmother spent a few months in Detroit in the 1930s nursing her sister during an illness. 70 years later she still talked about Germans and Ukrainians as if they were the most outlandish people on earth.
@@majorhawker4776 This girl was a little too much in love with me in high school, and I just wanted to be friends. She'd be over on weekends and would....tolerate...my endless laughing during KITH sketches, but it was the PUBLIC HEAD CRUSHING when we were out together that broke HER crush, and I WAS FREE!!
Scott completely nails a woman whom is struggling between love of her child, while dealing with a belief that their sexuality is a shame and scandal. " Well if too much love is a sin, then I guess I will be going to HELL at least Brian will have company there !"
;0 nearly =every= KITH sketch even touching on the subject did... ;0 =still= soooo far ahead of its time!! (no wonder it's practically 'off-the-air' these days... tooooo inflamitory/informational for 'trouble' fams!! ;0) kiddies... it's =ALL= political, these days!! ;) you know it!! :)) whether "personal" or "climate-changey"...
@@nyokoSalome You think you're clever but you're not. Learn English and spell correctly, without your cutesy bs. Bs stands for bullshit if you where wondering. Yes Scott Thomson is a genius. That's coming from a straight dude. He's brilliant ahead of his time. His art will live on and be recognized by the LGBTQ folk.
My late BFF/soulmate (who happened to be gay and died in a car crash in 2010) - his Mom was just like this! We both graduated in 1998. I was obsessed with KITH in high school, but he lived in the country and didn't have cable like me. We met in college, & I would show him my VHS collection from Comedy Central. We'd die laughing over skits like this, because it was so true to life! I was a bit like his beard for about a year in front of his family until he was outed by another girl from our college (by her, to his mother, because she was mad that he was gay and didn't want to date her of all things!) 😱😒😫🤷♀️ But these types of forward thinking skits kept us going, laughing, and enjoying life! 🤣🤣🤣
Bits like these are my favorite from the series, you can really tell that Scott put his heart into this and I have no doubt that it helped a lot of others "come out"
tripdefect87 it did. It was important in the gay community. They have a sketch about it, people coming up to Scott and telling him he’s a gay hero. I forget the exact details of the sketch but I think it helped a lot of people that they were so candid about these topics on this show.
@@assmane999 Yeah when you can make fun of a topic it's so much easier to deal with. People's parents really acted like this. It's so much easier to get over it when you see it's a common thing so many people deal with. When you can laugh at it, and when you see it as its own concept rather than something specific to your life and your family, it becomes less scary. It's less the end of the world. And somehow you're actually LESS upset with the situation.
These guys were artistic geniuses. The Fran/Gordon/Brian sketches feel so real. They’re more than just hilarious, they feel like Neil Simon play. I can’t think of any other sketch comedy group like that.
Just the sight of Gordon sitting there at the start, somewhere between an explosion of fury or slipping off the edge into a comatic abyss, is priceless. He could go either way, all thanks to Brian's announcement.
I agree that Scott is awesome and all that. But this wasn’t the 50’s, man. Like today, very, very few people truly care about peoples’ sexual orientation.
@@keegobricks9734 Scott Thompson, the actor in the wig, is very much openly gay and was at the time too (so the irony is in him playing a homophobic woman). Kids in the Hall have a lot of skits involving homosexuality which he would always have involvement in and was never afraid to make fun of himself.
I think you're right. I've heard a lot of interviews with them, and they've talked about this - each of them did contribute a lot from their own personal experiences, essentially writing sketches about people they've known and situations they've been in. Scott mentioned that this was basically how his parents reacted when he came out to them. I love this one, too, and had such a hard time finding it!
@@noneya7910 He wore the same The Smiths' t-shirt playing Brian in a skit named "Vacation" or something like that. Fran and Gordon, were just about leaving the house for a little vacation trip, and Brian haven't slept in his home the night before.
Jace these monologue-type sketches were a big part of the first season, and the cast said that they weren’t fully utilizing the medium of television with these types of sketches. They had a stage show before this, and this is where some of these characters came from. They feel these sketches were basically just their stage show being filmed, but they started to use the medium of television to its full effect in later seasons (ex. The buddy holly sketch which is filmed on location I believe)
3:37 that was a charged moment....Dave gasping, Mark smelling Dave's hair.. .they let the sexual tension hang there for a good five seconds before carrying on into the next beat...
Well certain black people in Canada are black with dutch surnames because of the underground railroad when the escaped slaves went to live after escaping the US, . Most people have forgotten how Many of the Dutch were in the us and owned slaves, especially up north!
don't forget this was Canada, Scott Thompson is gay, so he can get away with a certain amount of non-PC humor, and this was like 1987 before everyone was a whiny pussy victim crybaby.
I love at the beginning when Dave (Brian) and Bruce (Gordon) are out there waiting for Scott's (Fran) entrance and Bruce self-consciously buttons up his shirt. It's that sort of attention to detail that has always made me love KITH and the 5 Kids some of my all-time favorite comedians.
The Fran and Gordon sketches were so darn good and Scott is one magical performer. It is a bit surprising what they were able to do in terms of content 20+ years ago. Edgy and insightful at the same time. What a great ensemble. Truly missed.
One of the most brilliant sketches ever written. And as subtle as the "b" in subtle. I think of Attila often (Dad's worst nightmare!) - it could not be better conceived, written or played. It nails coming out for so many of us. A high achievement.
Oh my effing sweet jaysus ..... 6 minutes where I could barely catch a breath, dangerous given I'm on medical oxygen 24/7,lol. I have not heard of this 'Kids In The Hall' until now but if this gem of a sketch is anything to go by then I've discovered superb talent. 10 outa 10.
Have you watched more in the 3 months since finding them? I've been a devotee since the show premiered in 1989, so I'm curious to see how their humour holds up to someone just discovering them 30-odd years later.
Blame themselves. Of course, Gordon, has found a way to blame me. Lol. I was toop young to appreciate this. I mean I still watched it but I was like 12
This was beautifully done, and kept me laughing from start too finish, really representative of the insane obsession with sexuality the suburban era brought about.
The Kids in the Hall was one of the best comedy sketch shows ever made. Often times, the writing was outstanding and the issues it delt with were relevant.
Absolutely agree with your sentiment, but it's even more incredible than that. This pilot episode was filmed in 1988 and they auditioned for Lorne Michaels with a version of this sketch a couple years before that.
"I had a good christian girlhood! I didn't even know Christ was a jew until I was twenty one." I know people like this ....back then and now it's scary how people use same as a qualifier for good or one of us.
The lack of respect and exposure for this show drives me nuts. It's criminal that Lorne Michaels is still sitting on these, decades later, but allows us to stream Chris Kattan and Jimmy Fallon clips until we throw up out of our assholes.
I am biased as a Canadian, but, show me smarter, funnier, more fearless comedy from anywhere else on Earth. I believe it was Socrates who said, 'you can tell a lot about a youtube commenter's basic coolness by how easiy he misquotes me.' And it's true.
YES. I have the box-set and it has a bunch of performances that they did on-stage pre-KITH, so I'm keeping my fingers crossed about it being on the pilot. :D
Why did Fran want Brian married off so young? Of course she's religious and traditional, but even so, her middle son seems to be only around 16 or 17, and she says she has one older.
Scott does this character so well that sometimes I forget she's not actually played by a middle-aged woman.
yep
All of their women characters where like this. Some more than others. It wasn’t drag it was woman characters. Big difference
@@Ursaminor31 actually there isn't a difference. Drag and cross-dressing means basically the same thing, only
the word drag specifically comes from actors crossdressing in performances.
Usually for comedy.
So not a "big difference" its literally the exact same thing by every possible metric, both technically and by the spirit of the word.
@@FrancisR420 I would assume that he was talking about gay drag. That's the more common usage these days.
what makes them unique is that all of them can play women soooo good
Scott Thompson was a master at playing middle aged women.
Yes, this was a one of a kind show, and I enjoyed alot of laughs when it first aired. Great actors👌👏👏👏
When people cover my eyes and say, "guess who" I always say, "Attila?" because of this sketch.
Because one day, it will be Atilla.
I literally started choking on my soup after the Dutch family comment lmfao
😂😂😂
I had to rewind three times to make sure she said what I thought she said... It's a very underrated joke.
same with cereal.
My WASP grandmother spent a few months in Detroit in the 1930s nursing her sister during an illness. 70 years later she still talked about Germans and Ukrainians as if they were the most outlandish people on earth.
“Oh, I wish I drank.” Scott’s delivery is always stupendous.
He's remarkable.
I can't stop commenting the genius of the furniture and house form in this sketch. The scene elapses in a porch, a living room and a yard, all at once
The Arthur Miller style of this is spot on, especially the euphemisms
i dont think people realize how real and raw kids in the hall really was. they always touched on REAL topics.
Like the oft-ignored phenomena of crushing people's heads in public. :P
@@gabe_s_videos I still do it to this day.
@@majorhawker4776 This girl was a little too much in love with me in high school, and I just wanted to be friends. She'd be over on weekends and would....tolerate...my endless laughing during KITH sketches, but it was the PUBLIC HEAD CRUSHING when we were out together that broke HER crush, and I WAS FREE!!
One real topic, and they said it got old.
No, just you.
This was in the 1988 pilot episode. This group was so far ahead of their time that we still are catching up.
Scott is one helluvan actor. I absolutely believe in Fran! Fantastic.
Frantastic
Scott and Mark were next level genius actors. Both are brilliant
Scott completely nails a woman whom is struggling between love of her child, while dealing with a belief that their sexuality is a shame and scandal.
" Well if too much love is a sin, then I guess I will be going to HELL at least Brian will have company there !"
He really does!
hmmmm thanks for the correction.
That line killed me
;0 nearly =every= KITH sketch even touching on the subject did... ;0 =still= soooo far ahead of its time!! (no wonder it's practically 'off-the-air' these days... tooooo inflamitory/informational for 'trouble' fams!! ;0) kiddies... it's =ALL= political, these days!! ;) you know it!! :)) whether "personal" or "climate-changey"...
@@nyokoSalome You think you're clever but you're not. Learn English and spell correctly, without your cutesy bs. Bs stands for bullshit if you where wondering. Yes Scott Thomson is a genius. That's coming from a straight dude. He's brilliant ahead of his time. His art will live on and be recognized by the LGBTQ folk.
My late BFF/soulmate (who happened to be gay and died in a car crash in 2010) - his Mom was just like this!
We both graduated in 1998. I was obsessed with KITH in high school, but he lived in the country and didn't have cable like me. We met in college, & I would show him my VHS collection from Comedy Central. We'd die laughing over skits like this, because it was so true to life! I was a bit like his beard for about a year in front of his family until he was outed by another girl from our college (by her, to his mother, because she was mad that he was gay and didn't want to date her of all things!) 😱😒😫🤷♀️
But these types of forward thinking skits kept us going, laughing, and enjoying life! 🤣🤣🤣
Bits like these are my favorite from the series, you can really tell that Scott put his heart into this and I have no doubt that it helped a lot of others "come out"
tripdefect87 it did. It was important in the gay community. They have a sketch about it, people coming up to Scott and telling him he’s a gay hero. I forget the exact details of the sketch but I think it helped a lot of people that they were so candid about these topics on this show.
@@assmane999 Yeah when you can make fun of a topic it's so much easier to deal with. People's parents really acted like this. It's so much easier to get over it when you see it's a common thing so many people deal with. When you can laugh at it, and when you see it as its own concept rather than something specific to your life and your family, it becomes less scary. It's less the end of the world. And somehow you're actually LESS upset with the situation.
Seriously. This is like a little slice of theater on TV. Amazing writing and performance that's both emotionally resonant and hilarious.
These guys were artistic geniuses. The Fran/Gordon/Brian sketches feel so real. They’re more than just hilarious, they feel like Neil Simon play. I can’t think of any other sketch comedy group like that.
Just the sight of Gordon sitting there at the start, somewhere between an explosion of fury or slipping off the edge into a comatic abyss, is priceless. He could go either way, all thanks to Brian's announcement.
@@nayr497and Fran's daily monologues.
I absolutely agree. Not only some of the best comedy; some of the best theater!
I think Dave Foley has played more gay characters than any gay actor has ever played straight characters.
In the KITH or in other films/series?
@@thepughasnoname8085he's played several gay roles outside of KitH. "Blast from the past" is a notable example
I used to watch this when I was a kid. They were so ahead of their time!
Scott is a brave dude. It was dangerous to be that out and proud about it then. Comic genius.
I agree that Scott is awesome and all that. But this wasn’t the 50’s, man. Like today, very, very few people truly care about peoples’ sexual orientation.
@@MolokoMinus - You'd be surprised how many people still really care about what others do with their private parts.
@@MolokoMinusnot quite the same as the 80s.
@@MolokoMinusdude... This was thirty plus years ago... Even then, hardly anybody was out and open about it.
"I would rub cherries on my lips and cheeks to feel pretty" is the line where her fantasy becomes truly deranged
"now that he's in....show business." lol. Brilliant stuff.
I love the Irony. These guys were ahead of their time.
Ahead of their time FOR SURE👌👏👏👏👏
What irony?
@@keegobricks9734 Scott Thompson, the actor in the wig, is very much openly gay and was at the time too (so the irony is in him playing a homophobic woman). Kids in the Hall have a lot of skits involving homosexuality which he would always have involvement in and was never afraid to make fun of himself.
Sometimes I think that Scott’s actually telling his life story with some of these sketches.
Fran is based on Scott's mom. I think this is how she reacted when he came out. 😂
Knowing Gordon, he was probably more upset that they were using his car.
this sketch is a masterpiece
I think you're right. I've heard a lot of interviews with them, and they've talked about this - each of them did contribute a lot from their own personal experiences, essentially writing sketches about people they've known and situations they've been in. Scott mentioned that this was basically how his parents reacted when he came out to them.
I love this one, too, and had such a hard time finding it!
Scott is really good with the monologues.
He's ridiculous and loveable.
3:32 Dave is wearing an awesome T-shirt. The Smiths "Queen is Dead" era shirt !
He was wearing it in another sketch too. I have one just like it
@@noneya7910 He wore the same The Smiths' t-shirt playing Brian in a skit named "Vacation" or something like that. Fran and Gordon, were just about leaving the house for a little vacation trip, and Brian haven't slept in his home the night before.
This has to be like, first season or pre-first season. They all look like friggin' teens! LOVE this, btw! Thanks, alittlewideeyed!!
Yeah this was the pilot episode on HBO, back in like '88 or so. Great show!!!
Jace these monologue-type sketches were a big part of the first season, and the cast said that they weren’t fully utilizing the medium of television with these types of sketches. They had a stage show before this, and this is where some of these characters came from. They feel these sketches were basically just their stage show being filmed, but they started to use the medium of television to its full effect in later seasons (ex. The buddy holly sketch which is filmed on location I believe)
You're so welcome!! I loved it too ❤️
This whole bit is an absolute riot, a real rollercoaster of edge of the abyss comedy.
3:37 that was a charged moment....Dave gasping, Mark smelling Dave's hair.. .they let the sexual tension hang there for a good five seconds before carrying on into the next beat...
Holy N-bomb, did not see that coming!
Yes, but the reason for it (A DUTCH FAMILY moving in down the street!!!) shows just how backward and bigoted her upbringing was...
Well certain black people in Canada are black with dutch surnames because of the underground railroad when the escaped slaves went to live after escaping the US, .
Most people have forgotten how Many of the Dutch were in the us and owned slaves, especially up north!
So it reveals the willful exclusion of her Mom, denying that they were not actually dutch but simply BLACK CANADIANS with a Dutch surname.
don't forget this was Canada, Scott Thompson is gay, so he can get away with a certain amount of non-PC humor, and this was like 1987 before everyone was a whiny pussy victim crybaby.
I see more people whining about political correctness than I see whining about "non-PC humor".
I love at the beginning when Dave (Brian) and Bruce (Gordon) are out there waiting for Scott's (Fran) entrance and Bruce self-consciously buttons up his shirt. It's that sort of attention to detail that has always made me love KITH and the 5 Kids some of my all-time favorite comedians.
The Fran and Gordon sketches were so darn good and Scott is one magical performer. It is a bit surprising what they were able to do in terms of content 20+ years ago. Edgy and insightful at the same time. What a great ensemble. Truly missed.
The characters are absurd but lovable. Not easy to pull that off.
This show is so brilliantly nuts. I miss it.
One of the most brilliant sketches ever written. And as subtle as the "b" in subtle. I think of Attila often (Dad's worst nightmare!) - it could not be better conceived, written or played. It nails coming out for so many of us. A high achievement.
cgtravers The show was good overall, but this skit along with Men On Break are top notch sketches.
I'm gay too and this really hit close to home for me.
Thank you cgtravers - 'what he said'
Swine-Flew not just good, one of the best comedy shows of all time
God, this is why I love KITH. They really take normally everyday situations and ridicule them to their limits. Pure genius!
He is definitely a fantastic actor - they were all so good at the little details like that!
Oh my effing sweet jaysus ..... 6 minutes where I could barely catch a breath, dangerous given I'm on medical oxygen 24/7,lol. I have not heard of this 'Kids In The Hall' until now but if this gem of a sketch is anything to go by then I've discovered superb talent. 10 outa 10.
Have you watched more in the 3 months since finding them? I've been a devotee since the show premiered in 1989, so I'm curious to see how their humour holds up to someone just discovering them 30-odd years later.
@@gotaminutereviews .... I've viewed some, same reaction each time. Total hilarity.
I've never noticed Bruce buttoning his shirt up at the beginning! So subtle yet so meaningful!
An Di so brilliant
I always lose it when Scott mentions the Dutch family. XD
i die every time
you warned me, and i still lost it. haha
That is one of the best ever from them, can't believe it's from the pilot. Love those guys!
Scott Thompson is pure comedic genius.
Blame themselves. Of course, Gordon, has found a way to blame me. Lol. I was toop young to appreciate this. I mean I still watched it but I was like 12
Gordon, Fran, and Brian is one of the best skits ever on this show. BRIAN!!!!! GET BACK HERE!!!!
I love Gordon's scream of agonized horror at the end of the skit!
This was beautifully done, and kept me laughing from start too finish, really representative of the insane obsession with sexuality the suburban era brought about.
@@Plisken65 read. Sexuality
The Kids in the Hall was one of the best comedy sketch shows ever made. Often times, the writing was outstanding and the issues it delt with were relevant.
well that was brilliantly written and acted
I’m very surprised this is from the early nineties, this whole show talks about really real things, incredible
You should check out "A different world". It was woke before it was cool.
Absolutely agree with your sentiment, but it's even more incredible than that. This pilot episode was filmed in 1988 and they auditioned for Lorne Michaels with a version of this sketch a couple years before that.
"I hope he's practicing no sex, like his father."
I guess they've been married for 20 plus years, then!
Oy!
I 'm finally catching up!
Sad, but true in the words of Hettfield.
" I got my dad's car! It's a Cordoba, come on!"
I'd just like to take this opportunity to say that David Foley and Bruce McCullouch were both in an Anne of Green Gables movie in the late 80's.
"...At least Brian'll 'ave some company there."
You know what started this all, right?
THAT SALTY, BLOODY HAM!!!!
Hadn't seen this one before; thanks so much for posting it. Brilliant work, I agree.
this show was so far ahead of its time! I really miss it..
cheers 🍾🍾🍾🍾🏳️🌈
"I had a good christian girlhood! I didn't even know Christ was a jew until I was twenty one." I know people like this ....back then and now it's scary how people use same as a qualifier for good or one of us.
Jesus was not a J though
@@mansgottaeat8879 - I know, right? Jesus was an American!
" ...and wear sausages in a link around my neck!" KiLLS ME EVERY TIME!
Was looking for this comment! Priceless 😜
i like how they live in a junk yard.
Scott is brilliant in this!
I wish there had been more Fran pieces.
I loved this show.... so ahead of its time
Can't help but think that at any moment, Bruce sitting in that leather recliner is gonna say, "would ya like me to help you paint yer chair?"
So i guess you want me to paint your chair?
I gotta go… I’m in the middle of a big bike race!
Scott's performance reminds me of my mother...
The lack of respect and exposure for this show drives me nuts.
It's criminal that Lorne Michaels is still sitting on these, decades later, but allows us to stream Chris Kattan and Jimmy Fallon clips until we throw up out of our assholes.
I am biased as a Canadian, but, show me smarter, funnier, more fearless comedy from anywhere else on Earth. I believe it was Socrates who said, 'you can tell a lot about a youtube commenter's basic coolness by how easiy he misquotes me.' And it's true.
Bruh did the best impression of the Queen EVER!
Attilia is my favorite part of this sketch.
He's got a little Schwarzenegger thing going on.
What brilliant fucking writing.
I like the way she keeps saying 'Gordond'.
Just fucking amazing! Scott Thompson...is the shit!
+Marcus A Indeed! A very talented man.
KITH was a Masterclass in monologues. Just amazingly perfect.
The absurdity is absolutely brilliant.
Rumor has it that Scott was the only gay one on KITH……… hmmmmmmmm
The Dutch family part had me in tears! 😂
This makes me proud to be a transgender Canadian
There's Dave's Smiths t-shirt again! Gotta love him.
I adore the way Brian says "Excellent!"
I didn't know Christ was a Jew until I was 21.
"you remind me of my father"
LMFAO, terrible!
ahaha
i love his screaming at the end
I love Scott's weird character pieces, really strange and amazing.
YES. I have the box-set and it has a bunch of performances that they did on-stage pre-KITH, so I'm keeping my fingers crossed about it being on the pilot. :D
"and I'd rub cherries on my lips and cheeks to feel pretty and wear sausages on a link around my neck..."
buddyontheweb my favorite line from this sketch
bingo to you scott
Gordon progressed in to such a funnier 'dad' character...
I LOVE Scott Thompson!
Hilarious still. Wow, times have changed... literally did a spit take of my own shortly after 3:15 played.
I never realized how much of his sketches are monologues
Atilla for Health Secretary
Worst laundry folding award
one of the very best KITH skits - priceless - I remember LMAO 20 years ago watching this!
God, I know. I love him in the other Attila sketch, too!
i am so attracted to scott as a woman.
Dave foley is soooooooooo CUTE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
💏
Why did Fran want Brian married off so young? Of course she's religious and traditional, but even so, her middle son seems to be only around 16 or 17, and she says she has one older.
Scott rules
Miss KITH's edginess for its time...brilliant show!
"Ya know" how Canadian can you get - love it!!"
Never watch Kids In The Hall to go to sleep to. The sleep will never come...
The line about loving her son enough to be his company in hell was superb.
Bless Scott Thompson a thousand times over for his confidence and bravery.