“Their namesake sketch series helped define Gen Xers, arresting their generational sensibility mid-eyeroll: sarcastic, sneering, derisive of authority and self-importance, yet also progressive, compassionate, wildly intelligent, and maybe more than a little self-indulgent.” -John Semley (from This is a Book About The Kids in the Hall) In the Late eighties SCTV was gone and although […]
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Let’s Start a Riot by Bruce McCulloch (HarperCollins, $29.99)
By Andreas Kessaris for Curtains Up! (@AKessaris) “…I realized that, even though I had been a young a**hole, I was right. No one should ever go to Drumheller.” -Bruce McCulloch (from Let’s Start a Riot) In 1988 a void existed in broadcast comedy/variety, with SCTV long gone and Saturday Night Live just beginning to become […]
