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Kids in the Hall: Comedy Punks
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Mine. Kevin McDonald’s expressions crack me up. https://youtu.be/zAAiSHSPk_w
Mine: The Preacher. So meta. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWRpmhKweGs
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#73Francesca Fiore!
M. Piedlourde
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Part of that I think is their humor is very niche, and I don't know how to describe the niche. I had friends who absolutely loved them, and I never found any of their stuff remotely funny. There is something either in the context that people were introduced to them, or in some subtelness of people's sense of humor that seems to completely make or break how they get perceived. Sort of like the comedy equivalent of Rus…
At it’s best it’s a very quintessentially Canadian sort of absurdism, but then you have to define Canadian. That said i think this is no less true of Monty Python which is really a very British kind of absurdism. Weirdly i feel like there’s no really good, singular American equivalent (certainly SNL isn’t it - Canada’s SNL is probably this hour has 22 minutes). Maybe like… In living color or something. It rarely make…
> Weirdly i feel like there’s no really good, singular American equivalent
“Portlandia” fit the bill for me.
Edit: if you pull certain sketches from SNL over the last 5-10 years you get a good through-line of American absurdism: David S. Pumpkins, Airport Sushi, Bodega Bathroom come to mind.
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#75Earlier quoted context omitted.
At it’s best it’s a very quintessentially Canadian sort of absurdism, but then you have to define Canadian. That said i think this is no less true of Monty Python which is really a very British kind of absurdism. Weirdly i feel like there’s no really good, singular American equivalent (certainly SNL isn’t it - Canada’s SNL is probably this hour has 22 minutes). Maybe like… In living color or something. It rarely make…
> Weirdly i feel like there’s no really good, singular American equivalent “Portlandia” fit the bill for me. Edit: if you pull certain sketches from SNL over the last 5-10 years you get a good through-line of American absurdism: David S. Pumpkins, Airport Sushi, Bodega Bathroom come to mind.
Isn’t portlandia more just Portland/pnw then all of America thou?
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#76Loved KITH. So happy it was broadcast in the UK back in the day. I still occasionally go back to watch The Chase[0], or Bad Doctor, or I Speak No English to this day. Haven’t seen the revival show yet, need to dig out some time to do so. [0] https://youtu.be/cxY0-Qr_l78
> or I Speak No English * https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vgoEhsJORU
I’m a kiwi - never seen the series - awesome!
I loved Sarcastic Guy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9vunDdxWLA
> or I Speak No English
In France a Mum with her ~8 year old daughter came up and asked me something. I replied “Je ne parle pas français”, and the daughter looked very confused and said to her mum (in French) “¡But mama, he’s speaking French!”.
As an aside: when going to a country it is really worthwhile learning some local comedy culture people your age learned as a child. It really helps connect with people. I will have to learn this when I travel to Canada. Knowing Monty Python is important for middle aged foreigners spending time in the UK (and can help in colonies too I guess).
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#77This group in particular has depended on the kudos and good-will of their audience, all united by their common identification with "alternative culture". For my part, I have not seen a sketch of theirs that touches greatness.
Apart from their reboot series, I have not seen a lot of sketch comedy lately, I wonder if this genre is dead now?
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#78I grew up in rural Canada. I dumpster dove for a broken black and white television and spent over a month back and forth to the Radio Shack until I finally managed to fix it. The antenna was now a coat hangar, but I could tune it just fine. My reward was... 1 channel of CBC (Canadian Broadcasting). With that 9 year old me could stay up late and watch The Munsters and Kids In The Hall. I know every episode by heart. I…
Sometimes during zoom meeting I pretend to crush the heads of my co workers
I've found myself looking for a pen in the office before and came away completely disappointed when everyone didn't think it was as funny as I did.
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Mine: The Preacher. So meta. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWRpmhKweGs
The Pen https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQ1pO-tZbYA
Clothesline
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I also love Rush :). And no, I'm not Canadian.
I am Canadian. Add our underdog band with the HUGE lightshow, Triumph. Rush managed to break through the American market, but Triumph only got a small taste by comparison. You can even take a sort of course with Lynda.com about what it takes to set up a Rush concert. One of the best Lynda courses I ever took just for fun. A lot of people forget who Triumph was these days. Nobody forgets Rush. And then there's Max Web…
But Devin though. \m/