The Kids in the Hall sketch: "Tony Comes to Dinner" (Season 1, Episode 8). If you like what you see here and want to see more, purchase the megaset at a bargain price: www.amazon.com...
@@martinhousemuse That is true that at the time it was less so than than it is today but it was prevalent then and the indoctrination didn't happen over night. I just saw a correlation.
I have NO idea where you live, but that is a stupendously, ignorant, sexist, and frankly “dumb” sweeping generalization of all of us wild and crazy, upbeat, fun, intelligent, mature, cultured, stylish, cool women who ever “attended college!” What planet are YOU from, and what time warp are you stuck in?! SAD comment…. So backward and shocking. Thank goodness I had a great time in a big city college and was never exposed to ignorant opinions like yours.
So many great lines in this "the bus ride was fine, we sat in the FRONT" "he studies history, he is not SLOW" and the corny parents "we decided to invite you to sit in my chair" "Susan's never even sat there!"
always reminds me of that Goodness Gracious Me sketch where the white girlfriend comes to meet her indian boyfriend's family and she's in a sari and trying to Indian her ass off while the family is just 100% assimilated British regular folks
My best friend used to tell me about this show when we were kids, but I never got to see it until today. Love it! 🤣 So fitting to how the world seems today.
This sketch is so interesting to me because Scott's makeup is not the joke. Tony is a normal dude, and his girlfriend is the asshole here! X'D It's funny, all my friends who are black have said they dated at least one white girl like this in college. They were all chill guys, but their GFs had to bring up they were different races at EVERY party!
OMG this sketch was a latent memory in my head until RU-vid suggested this. Crazy risk, but the joke/premise is SO good. Dave plays such a great basic white girl 🤣
Where he could be, who he is with, what is he thinking, is he thinking of me, and whether he'll ever return someday. The last I heard, he was doing a show called Surf Cops, and was absolutely, in no way, shape or form, gay.
This is one of the first KITH skits I saw, on Comedy Central while flipping through channels. Another was the five of them together after dinner complaining about how much they'd eaten and how fat they were...then they all started talking about the best dessert and they run off to get Bailey's Irish Cream poured over chocolate turtles. It wasn't at all clear to me that they were men! so convincing as women.
@@uxjosqxqo-28 Over react? Do you think this is more or less offensive than Dr. Seuss's books, GTA, Washington Redskins merchandise, firearms, conversion therapy books, or gender dysphoria analysis books? Even if the owner of the distribution rights allows it to be made, no big retailer may want to sell it (making it profitless to manufacture). You do realize that in Canada, where this was filmed, there are laws against "promoting ethnic hatred" and other nonsense, which have, at least in Europe, expanded in their implementation to apply to people telling jokes, satire, and even simply telling a truth that hurts people's feelings. Canada is following suit. These shows will be hard to find very soon, if not already, because of their content.
@@uxjosqxqo-28 Do you call everyone who is aware of the expanding use of censorship and cancel culture a snowflake? What do you call the people who demand censorship and cancellation? My guess is comrade.
I remember seeing this when it aired and finding it just kind of funny. Fast forward to these days...and it’s both spot-on, provocative & poignant. Makes you realize how ahead of their time The Kids in the Hall really were. They expertly subverted sjw (then, PC) cultural critique w/ clever, good-natured (accessible) comedy. It’s kind of a revelation rewatching some of their sketches now. If only Comedy Central/etc would air uncut re-runs these days, it may lead to some introspection for the ‘woke’ generation.
Coming from a working class leftist that would be labeled as some kind of “woke” SJW by most common RU-vid comment section standards, I view this as a humorous critique not of PC culture, but of wealthy white women (tho I’ve met just as many men who’ve done this) who grow up in a self-absorbed suburban bubble, being told that the world is great and racism is over and all feminists are man haters. Then these trust fund kids get their first taste of social issues courses in college and get so overwhelmed with guilt and confusion that they start fetishizing and attempting to appropriate the suffering of others in harmful and clumsy ways without actually doing anything of substance to help said individuals and their respective movements. Unless they ever come out and address why they, as Canadian men who’ve made just as many progressive pro SJW-like skits, decided to use black-face here, I’m just going to assume they were in their own bubble and unaware at how the US and other countries used it to make a previously enslaved and then systematically oppressed culture the scape-goat laughing stock of any conceivable social situation.
ShadowSumac I’m sorry I don’t understand what you mean by that. Could you clarify what your opinion on leftist memes has to do with the differing interpretations of this decade + old sketch based on differing generational and economic backgrounds?
@@evelenkeating5719 It's an observation, that Left is so arrogant and because of it overly verbose, to compensate for emptiness of their arguments, that they are incapable of formulating their thoughts in a simple and laconic manner, which people can immediately understand.
It is sad, because it actually was a great lesson in one generation assuming that all people in the previous one are naturally intolerant, yet were actually quite accepting. It shows how sometimes "politically correct" views can target the wrong people.
Political correctness is a myth: I've never heard of anyone being harassed for right wing views, it's just that right wingers are such pussies they invent aggrievement. Pathetic.
I know, right? All those years of straightface used to dehumanize young straight kids, adding to the culture of heterophobia that for so long saw the anti-straight patrols and lynch mobs. Very insightful point. Lots of nuance and context there.
At the time The Kids in the Hall was a very liberal, progressive show. It's ironic that people today will look at this and say it's politically incorrect and racist.
No they look at you and say you're racist and they look at this and say that it's funny and Progressive because it is and they look at things like it's always sunny who did blackface a few years ago and aren't racist and say it's funny and Progressive don't project your shit onto actual performers and writers who wrote and performed at a very Progressive nuance and respectful Way completely independently of you And usually people who get get super offencive for no reason over someone who might be offended over there racism are usually racist and they open like a stinky rotten racist clam as soon as you call them one
@@FrancisR420 I know your comment is three months old, but I don't care, I am just that compelled to point out how incredibly stupid your comment was. I'd also like to point out that your comment hasn't aged well at all, and will continue to age very poorly. PlanetofEther was absolutely correct, and you are absolutely wrong. In an interview one of the cast members of KiTH was asked if they were worried about how the current PC culture would interpret the content they produced. Your comment was so incredibly toxic and short sited, you literally are the problem.
@CypyCup lol..you’re a big genius…nothing was proven except you let your authoritarian personality shine through a little..trying to make someone a phony victim of cancel culture is needing conflict…your statements are unwittingly ironic & pretentiousness. only one snowflaking is you…& you snowflaking about cancel culture…but shouldn’t you be dreaming of your strong man now.
@@VASHtheCritic Well the black face isn't really the point of the sketch, it's the daughter desperately trying to be combative with her parents over her boyfriend's race even though they seem fine with it. I honestly think the only reason they didn't hire a black actor was just to save money.
@@MrEazyE357 Tony’s wearing desert boots. They were really popular at the time among the preppies. And I think they were popular in the 50s, too. I remember a character on Animal House wearing them.
Two seconds after this cuts at the end: The mother screams, "Tony, did you just throw your Already Been Chewed Rice Krispie square on the plate with the others?! That's disgusting!! I think you should leave..."
How life has changed our expectations,: I honestly thought for a second when she was reaching in her purse she was looking for her smartphone. And then it was a pack of cigarettes... I watched the show when he first aired.
@@wadew3623 Dave was in drag in an episode of NewsRadio, and he looked stunning. Not the best looking man in the group, but definitely the most beautiful woman of them all. :-D
@@maimy1 Bruce might be in 2nd place, but a distant second. There is one episode where Mark looked mlore convincingly feminine, though, when he played that French pyromaniac.
Scott is a master of the normal well-adjusted character. He doesn't expect anyone to be offensive to him, so he just enjoys himself. And he loves Rice Krispy treats.
I have a question. ..it's not about this video, but. I recall a clip from a sketch comedy show i "think" was kids in the hall. It was a dinner and a guest asks what the meat is. Someone replies "muppet" or "puppet". The discussion cities as to where to get mup/pup and dude goes to the window and yell "gee, i wish someone could help me learn to count to four" and a muppet appears. Then is caught for food. Has anyone else seen this? Or am i recalling a particularly odd dream. ......
@@LostOneOmega LOL! Omg, ok so i have been trying to find the video for literally (original and correct definition. Not the new definition that means figuratively) years. When i saw your reply i decided to try again but sure it would again be fruitless. NOPE!! ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-dpqD4BgdxoM.html Thank you for prompting me to look again
@@keithmills778 DAMMIT! OK, so if one has paramount+ is easy, but of course nearly anything can be found on the webz. So the show is "the state" season 2 episode 2
Nobody in this comment section: this is offensive Everybody in this comment section: lol you couldn't get away with this today omg so true such a critique of sjw culture people are exactly like this so ahead of its time I've never heard of subversive humor before so I'm gonna assume this was meant to be a straight critique of PC culture
At the time this skit came out, this kind of crazy was only limited to the ultra PC crowd on university campuses. Now it is commonplace, and running HR departments.
