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For example, Kevin McDonald announces that if the next sketch (which he has written) is not successful, the others are considering kicking him out of the group.

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The Kids frequently appeared as themselves rather than as characters, and some sketches dealt directly with the fact that they were a comedy troupe producing a TV show. Many of the sketches featured gay characters and themes most of these sketches were written by and starred Scott Thompson, who is gay. Another prominent recurring character was Cabbage Head, played by McCulloch, who was a gruff-voiced cigar-smoking misogynist who frequently used the fact that he had cabbage in place of hair as a means to generate pity in the hopes of getting women into bed. McKinney also played Chicken Lady, a shrill-voiced sexually excitable human-chicken hybrid. Tyzik, played by McKinney, who pretended to crush people's heads from a distance with his fingers. Р”Вespite their SNL connection, the show's sketches were more reminiscent of Monty Python's Flying Circus: often quirky or surreal, frequently utilizing drag, with very few celebrity impressions or pop culture parodies the only recurring celebrity impression was of Queen Elizabeth II, played by Thompson.

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The series will feature the return of all of the original РІР‚СљKids' in an 8-episode run, which will be a continuation of the original show, and is heralded as 'the first Canadian Amazon Original series'. In March 2020, Amazon announced that the TV series was coming back with new episodes for Amazon Prime. The theme song for the show is the instrumental 'Having an Average Weekend' by the Canadian band Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet. CBC aired the show for the whole duration of its run. In the United States, the first three seasons were on HBO before it moved to CBS in 1993, where it stayed for two more seasons airing late Friday nights.

The regular series premiered Jon HBO, and September 14 on CBC.

The series debuted as a one-hour pilot special which aired on HBO and CBC Television in 1988, and began airing as a regular weekly series on both services in 1989. The troupe, consisting of comedians Dave Foley, Kevin McDonald, Bruce McCulloch, Mark McKinney, and Scott Thompson, appeared as almost all the characters throughout the series, both male and female, and also wrote most of the sketches. The Kids in the Hall is a Canadian sketch comedy TV series that aired for five seasons from 1988 to 1995, starring the comedy troupe The Kids in the Hall.