'Attack one of us, and five of us attack you.' A long, candid Q&A with the Kids in the Hall about their new sketch-comedy show on Amazon, a new documentary about their career, censorship, comedy, cancer, and a lot more
had been arguing among themselves, a sort of inter-group theater bloodsport that quickly pings from affectionate to snarky to mortally wounding, then back to affectionate, with dizzying speed. Spend even a small amount of time with the Kids as a collective, and you will see them engage in this type of barbed back-and-forth — less competitive oneupmanship and more whydontyoukindlygofuckyourselfship.
But you will also see the way that Foley, McCulloch, McDonald, McKinney and Thompson can sync up and turn into a five-headed, single-minded comedic organism on a dime, as evidenced by the way one offhanded comment turns into an impromptu group sing-along. They regularly finish each other’s sentences. When someone makes a joke, at least two other Kids will instantly add on to it.
Seven years after their last big tour, and several years after a few very brief, scattered residencies, the Kids in the Hall have returned with both a new series and a new documentary.
offices on the eve of their new show’s premiere; we’ve attempted to keep the chaotic, cross-talk-filled, impossible to-control conversation as close to how it unfolded in the room where it happened on the page. It has been condensed and edited for clarity. No heads were crushed during the making of this article. No names have been changed to protect the guilty. No one got out of it unscathed. They have not lost their edge.
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