Notorious Canadian sketch comedy troupe The Kids in the Hall will hit the Mystere stage at Treasure Island Friday, June 5 at 9 p.m., in the group's first tour in six years.
On their long-running, landmark comedy series, The Kids in the Hall offered audiences a peek into the absurd and bizarre behavior of the average human being. The groundbreaking five-man sketch comedy troupe was discovered by SNL's Lorne Michaels in the late 1980s, who took their blockbuster live shows from the packed performance spaces in and around Toronto, Canada and brought it into the living rooms of an American audience desperate for hilarious, edgy, timeless, REAL takes on who we are and what we think when we're not trying to be polite. No subject is too sacred; no corner of the human experience is too strange or too scary to hide from the blisteringly funny Kids in the Hall. After their initial 1989-1994 run on HBO and then CBS, The Kids in the Hall continued to air in syndication on Comedy Central throughout the 1990s while the troupe wrote and starred in "Brain Candy", a film which went on to develop a devoted cult following. After filming on "Brain Candy" was completed, the troupe members disbanded to explore various solo projects, including Dave Foley's "Newsradio", which enjoyed both a lengthy run on NBC and considerable critical acclaim.Videos