@@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!!
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! 🤣🤣🤣
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.
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.
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.
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.
@@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.
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...
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.
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
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.
@@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.
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.
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 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!
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.
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)
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
I've been watching KITH vids for 2 nights and this scetch has made me laugh the hardest! It's the way Scott gently touches his neck and bosom - So realistic!