Back From the Grave: New Trailer for ‘Kids in the Hall’ Amazon Prime Reboot Mixes New and Familiar, If Aged Characters
They’re back, and now they can swear!
Canada’s sketch comedy troupe The Kids in the Hall is returning, this time to streaming, with a new season featuring some of the gang’s classic characters, albeit ones that look a little older than the last time we saw them.
In the trailer, after being exhumed from the “grave” where the Kids have been mouldering for 27 years, Bruce McCullouch says he wishes they had “cryogenically frozen our bodies.”
As the trailer progresses, you can spot glimpses of Buddy Cole, Cathy and Kathy from all the office sketches, annoying kid Gavin, masked racquetball menace The Eradicator, the “I’m crushing your head” guy, and even the restaurant staff from the rather obscure “dipping areas” sketch. (No sign of the Chicken Lady, though, unfortunately.) And sure, they look a little older, but the laughs seem to be very much intact.
Dave Foley and Mark McKinney play network execs in the trailer, with the former asking who’s funding the reboot. “The Devil again?” he asks, to which McKinney’s character responds, “Well, sort of: Amazon.” Foley’s character jokes that the corporation founded by the guy with a penis-shaped rocket wants “a funny show but one that is free of targets, alarming edginess or unsettling settings.”
As Kids in the Hall has been resurrected by Amazon Prime, they aren’t subject to network censors anymore, so expect even more raunchy language and adult situations.
The original series of Kids in the Hall aired from 1988-1995, on the CBC network in Canada, and on HBO, CBS and Comedy Central in the United States. They made one feature film, Brain Candy in 1996, and reformed for an eight-part mini-series called Death Comes to Town in 2010. The show also stars Scott Thompson and Kevin McDonald.
As a companion to the KITH series revival, Amazon is also releasing The Kids in the Hall: Comedy Punks, a two-part documentary produced by Blue Ant Studios.
The new series drops on May 13th and the documentary premieres on May 20th.