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We need to talk about Kids In The Hall Seriously, we need to talk. If you have not watched KITH, the TV show, do not start your education with Brain Candy. It's too advanced for you. What you need to do is Netflix (or get your tail to Best Buy) and start watching. No need to start with Season One; you'll be fine wherever you start. It's sketch comedy,so it's all good. Be warned: they're Canadian. You should be ready to get to know the Kids, all five of them, each talented and brilliant and sexy in a dress. You may recogize them from other places--I'll share just a few examples: Dave, from News Radio and Celebrity Poker Showdown, Kevin was on That 70s Show, Bruce directed Superstar: Dare to Dream and directed and starred in Dog Park (with Luke Wilson and Janeane Garafolo) and he was even on Gilmore Girls (he played the annoyingly prissy suck up night manager at the Independence Inn named Tobin), and if you don't recognize Scott's voice from The Simpsons, we're no longer friends. And Mark's been tons of places, but most recently on Studio 60. (Huh! He played a sketch comedy writer. Small world). Some people claim that they don't "get" Canadian humor. But is it really that different from the United States varieties? We "get" Jim Carrey just fine, don't we? Perhaps it starts with not being afraid of straight men in skirts. Shakespeare's actors did it, ya know. Then, one must use a bit of critical thinking. It's satire, people. Be ready to laugh at the institutions you love and which make you feel comfortable. Oh, right, Brain Candy. I first saw it in the theater and watched it tonight while making my famous vegetable risotto. They both got done at the same time. In Brain Candy, a drug company desperately needs another hit drug so they don't go broke, so their main developer, Dr. Chris Cooper (Kevin), is bullied by the boss (Mark) into releasing a new anti-depressant before it's gone through enough testing. As you can imagine, there are side effects--well one really, but it's a biggie (you'll see). Meanwhile, Dr. Cooper has gone from capitalN nerd to sexy in what feels like minutes, and even loses his virginity! He is drunkened by success. Everything changes when Alice (his assistant, brilliantly played by Bruce and the character who gets the best line in the film: "This urine is great") brings a lab rodent to his pad and finds out, jealously, that Chris has girls over. Meanwhile, many of the characters in the film are played by the five KITH, including the test studies, the gay husband in denial, & the moody rocker whose career shifts into rainbows and puppies when he begins to take the drug. Part of the fun of being a KITH fan is spotting the five (and Bellini, and the girl who played "Laura") in side plots and crowd scenes. As with the sketches, there's satire here. Beware of drugs. Beware of Big Business. Don't lie about your sexual orientation. The list goes on. And there's also a pretty strongly worded moral to the film, voiced by Dr. Cooper: "You can't be happy all the time--that's life--take it back!" The point I'm trying to make, in my round-about Albuquerque kind of way, is that the KITH are fracking hilarious. And you're missing out if you've not seen the shows or Brain Candy. But like I said, start with the shows, and you'll soon be wondering about Tony, crushing people's heads, and mimicking the Chicken Lady all through your lunch break. email this review to a friend
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