The Kids in the Hall Return at Just the Right Time

With full-frontal ween!

Just when the it feels as if the whole world is falling apart, The Kids in the Hall return like comedy angels to lighten our hearts. My friends and I were obsessed with the Kids in the Hall in the 1990s. We taped their shows on VHS and watched them over and over and over. The Kids were a silly, clever, wonderfully irreverent departure from Saturday Night Live, the perfect successors to Monty Python’s comedy troupe throne.

I’m thrilled to report the new Kids in the Hall sketches are just as good as the old ones, and somehow it’s the perfect time to see their take on an increasingly fucked-up world. One can’t help but notice that the Kids aren’t kids anymore, but that’s okay. The Kids in the Hall demonstrate how to age and keep one’s sense of humor, no matter how dark times may get.

The concepts and sensibility is still very much the same old Kids in the Hall, but they’ve incorporated the ultra-ridiculousness of living in end-stage capitalism brilliantly. For me, it’s like returning to an old security blanket — it’s such a relief to laugh at the world with the Kids again.

They revive some of their beloved old characters, but I won’t spoil it by…