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"How I Became A KITH Fan"
I'm not being mean...but there is no way I have time to write the 2 people who will send
in their stories and ask them if they want their email to show or not...I don't have that kind of time, people! Andi (andi_kith@yahoo.com) It was an odd day of summer 1998. One of those days you expected nothing special to happen because nothing really ever did. There was nothing on to watch...all the smart networks ended the seasons of shows during the summer when the kids are out of school. So, it was going to be just like yesterday...stare at the glowing picture tube until something worth paying attention to came on. Some twist of fate landed it on Comedy Central and for a good portion of the day, I was watching unfunny reruns of SNL. But I finally got a break at 2 when Mr. Announcer voice guy said that the "Kids in the Hall" were up next. For the first few minutes, I didnt pay much attention to that either...until I happen to see Bruce's Cabbage Head character. From then on, I was planted in front the television set listening to Mr. Announcer voice guy take me to the best part of my day. That was ABOUT 4 years ago. Since the show started when I was 2 and ended when I was 7, I really didn't have a lot of time to become a fan during the original syndication of the show. But Comedy Central had made me a fan, and I had no idea just how far it would go. Even when I saw them all in drag the for the first time, it never even hit me that they might be gay. I just thought it was funny and original. They were unlike anything I had ever seen before. 5 guys playing just about every single character on the show without it looking (or being) corny or stupid. Over the top characters and skits that SNL even had to bow out gracefully to. Who wouldnt be hooked? We soon lost cableand I lost my contact with newfound TV freedom. And at the time, I hadnt discovered the internet. So what was a KITH freak in development to do? Nothing. I tried to forget because truthfully, I thought I would never ever see it again. But that was not the casebecause this story, my friends, has a very happy ending. We got cable, the internet, and all that good stuff and I continued on my road to KITHyness. I started the website, which has been successful beyond my wildest dream, and I've become a pretty active member of the KITH community. What else could I ask for? Now, the KITH are known for the very controversial content. Here's my take on it. If you are a Christian and watch the Kids in the Hall, I don't think you have to throw your whole religion out the window just to watch them. It's comedy! Loosen up! They don't do it to offend you, they do it to make you laugh...and you know Canadians know no boundaries. Yes, some of the stuff is a little extreme but as long as you tell yourself it's comedy, you should be just fine. Sometimes I just sit back and think about how funny, amazing, and awesome the Kids are. Together and individually. They make us laugh and brighten our day everytime we dont feel like smiling...they have become a huge part of our lives. And for the lucky ones of us who have actually gotten to meet them, no doubt they have said or did something that have just have and always will stick out in your mind, maybe even more than the meeting itself. Long live the Kids in the Hall. ---------------------------------- Marie (mariesakithfan@netscape.net) I became a KITH fan in late 1999 early 2000(I don't know the exact date, sorry) It would have been sooner but my family kinda shy'd me away from KITH. (I was raised on Monty Python, and my uncle told me that KITH was making fun of MP, so he made it sound like it was a sin for me to watch it. Plus my brother told me that it was just a "rip off" of Saturday Night Live) So believe it or not, I caught KITH(just like everyone else did, by accident) while waiting for an episode of SNL. I caught the very last sketch which was "Baby" (http://www.kithfan.org/work/transcripts/one/baby.html)and I was hooked right away! And it took me 2 more KITH episodes to realize that Dave was actually a man not a woman! LOL! -------------------------- Juli C (julikith@fullzero.com.ar) My KITH story: Place: Buenos Aires, Argentina HBO was the new channel on my cable tv server in 1993. I was 12 at that time and I started to watch movies a lot. Of course, among the movies, there was this new sketch comedy show, called Kids in the Hall late at night but I never watched it because it wasnt for me, it wasnt interesting for me, a bunch of young men ( Were they 5 or 7 guys? Who cares!) cross-dressed and saying stupid jokes I couldn't understand. Of course, they were all very ugly boys! HBO used to promote them a lot and I started to hate them. My mind and heart was more interested at that time in New Kids on the Block, Roxette, Gunsīn Roses and even Duran Duran. Comedy and sketch comedy wasnt something cool for me. November 2001: Channel: I-Sat (a movie and tv shows channel broadcasting international shows like Real Sex, Sex TV from Canada, The Peep Show, UK Raw, Queer as Folk UK version, etc ) started to promote Kids in the Hall: uncensored. My first thought was " It seems that I- Sat has nothing to broadcast !!! KITH is so old! And it īs not funny at all !!! They seem so dumb!!!!! They are all gays!!! I won't watch them! Ever!.... How I became a KITH fan? Thanks to Brain Candy. At least, that is Laura īs ( my sister) story. Iīll let her tell this part of the story. Summer of 2002 ( here in Bs.As: January and February) was pretty boring, nowhere to go and my friends were far away at the beach, I used to spend most of my weekend nights lying on my bed and watching tv. KITH was being broadcasted Saturday and Sunday at 12 PM. There was nothing very interesting to watch on TV one summer night and I decided to watch KITH, at least once, just to discover what was happening with this boys. I didnt tell my sister I watched them, It was like watching a porn movie. You just do it and dont tell. It was episode #205. Iīll always remember, I started to see the Sizzle Sisters skit. And I was quite shocked about this boys, specially Dave Foley. He had those baby blue! And he could also do that strange voice!!!! Then , the Chicken Lady skit was hilarious and strange too! These was really, I mean, really different from anything I had seen before in my life!!!! There are a lot of facts to understand why I am a KITHfan: I was raised in a catholic family, church every Sundays, catholic school, catholic everything! But when I was 20 years I decided that I was too much for me and I stoped beliving in God and "all his friends". And I think that this is one and very important factor to be a kithfan. Otherwise, I couldnt laugh when I see Dr. Seuss Bible!!! ( and many more skits!) Of course, to understand english as a language was very important too. I know I donīt write as well as Iīd want to but trust me, is not the same if you don't understand english, you miss a lot of jokes, coz subtitles sometimes are wrong! Yes! Itīs true! So I always listen to the skits and dont trust on the subtitles. Something I had noticed when I started to watch them was the idea of an old show these days. This is very hard to explain. I dont think I could. Well, they are so great and I think the world is ready now to understand them. It wasnt more than 10 years ago. I wasnt ready to understand them more than 10 years ago. Not being an USA show and being a Canadian show, closer to British culture was another thing about KITH. We studied UK culture at school, because weve learned english and not American English. And I was pretty interested in England most of my life. I dont know If you can notice this but I do. There are so open and smart with subjects as sexuality and religion. They are not sleazy. My first fave Kid was Dave Foley. Mainly because of the Roger Taylor ( Queen) resemblence.
Well, these and many more reasons to worship KITH
were important facts ( of course, internet helped) for my development as a kithfan. I said once: " Ill never remember
all their names and last names, they are hard to remember.... " I guess I was wrong..... Just one month as a KITHfan and I started my own KITHfan
website, but It was in Spanish. Then I made the English version. The rest...well, is another story.... The End!!!! Fin ------------ Laura C My Kith ( short) story Once upon a time there a 21 year-old argentinean girl
who was just choosing what clothes to wear on a Saturday night. The TV was on, she was in her room and she had seen
a preview too many times. "The Kids in the Hall movie", said the male voice. " Oh, not this guys again"- she said. " There
are just gay and dorky guys , they think they īre funny but they are not" The film was starting, she looked up and saw Scott Thompson
as Wally watching gay porno and doing that private act. " I know this guy, his face is familiar to me. Whatīs he doing?...Is
his doing what I think ?... Oh this is just.." She could not belive her eyes. " Itīs just 8 pm!, I
didnīt know this guys were so hot!" Just one scene was enough to keep her paying attention.
She ended up watching almost the whole movie ( she had to leave home and enjoy some party that she doesnt remember now). But ,for certainly sure, she had to watch the Kids show.
" When is it ? When I-Sat airs it? Saturday and Sunday ? At midnight? . OK Iīll be there, I īll be at home waiting for the
Kids." First there was the show, then there was internet and
soon after she was choosing not what clothes to wear but her favorite kid. And , now the kids were in her life, she lived happily
ever after. The end ------------------ Liz (lizloveskith@netscape.net) I guess It was about 94 or 95 that I just started watching
them on Comedy Central after SNL. Thats when they used to play them EVERY day at a reasonable hour of the day! I watched them
to escape my Shitty High School experience! I would annoy the hell out of family and friends, by quoting them nonstop! I would
start almost every sentence with "Oh, this reminds me of a Kids in the Hall sketch!" Evertime I said this my friend Hannah,
would just give me this "Oh, no, not again!" look. She was there for the biggest part of my obsession. In ninth grade, we
had to move, so I wasn't always around Hannah, like before. I would drag my brother Mark into watching it with me. And as
much as I'm sure he hates to admit it he liked it for the most part. But, everytime "Buddy" would come on, he would give me
this look, and ask, "You think this is funny?" Of course I did! He's just such a homophobe! I do remember watching "Gavin"
Sketches, and lauging with him. And let me tell you he didn't laugh often, so when he did, I took it as a compliment. Because,
he was laughing at the same thing as me. I always thought that I was alone in my sence of humour. Until we got a computer,
and found a whole "KitH" community! I have met so many cool people through this amazing comedy troupe! --------------- Jenny Maurer (djjmaurer@aol.com) Once upon a time,back... oh, I'd say summer of 2001,
I simply left the tv on for nosie while I was eating lunch. I rarely paid attention to the ----------- Kaitlyn ------------------- Vani <vaniloveskith@hotmail.com> My KITH story Im an Argentinean girl (22) whos always loved comedy and wasnt able to realize
until she met these freak guys. I dont remember when I started worshipping them since it didnt happen right away
but was rather steady. First of all, you should know that I got a brother whos older than me and a comedy
lover, too. By 1998, I had no idea that this incredible world called COMEDY even existed, but my brother made me know it,
and Im THANKFUL for that! One day, he was sitting on the coach, watching tv, as usual. I sat next to him,
just for curiosity but mainly to see why he was laughing at that movie. To my surprise, it wasnt a regular one, NO WAY! It
was BRAIN CANDY. And he said: these guys are great!!! Theyre called Kids in the Hall. When he explained me who KITH were,
he also emphasized the fact that they could dress as women, act like them and, indeed, look like real ones! This, was what
really caught my attention, as I didnt see men acting like women but women!! It was astonishing!!! Anyway, a couple of years passed until I came across this movie again. This time,
I paid more attention to it and enjoyed it even more than before! But I still didnt know ANYTHING about KITH since I had never
seen their show. When I-sat started running it I did understand why my brother was so mad about them. Now, we were the only
ones at home who watched KITH, being stared at by the rest of the family as insane people. Of course, they didnt get WHY we
found them so funny I still have to explain it as a matter of fact, but its completely nonsense I also remember how often my brother and I used to argue about their names. Lets
highlight that he admires Dave the most (he always did!) and he wanted me to admire him, too. So, he convinced me to see NEWSRADIO.
However, I still wasnt able to distinguee him from the rest of the group; I used to think that Kevin was Dave. It wasnt until
we both watched an episode together that I knew who Dave was, and I eventually got used to call Kevin Kevin and Dave Dave. From then on, I started remembering their names, and being keen on one of them
in particular: Scott. I was particularly interested in Buddys monologues, above all. In spite of this, what my brother could tell me about them wasnt enough. I wanted
to know MUCH MORE. And an idea came up to my mind: INTERNET. And I got excited to know how many people loved them as I did.
In case you dont know, Id like to tell you that here, in Argentina, KITH are not so popular as in other countries so it was
kinda shocking at first. Fortunately, thanks to INTERNET, I met another Argentinean KITH fan, Julieta, whom I still share
my love for KITH with. Now I know I'll be a KITH fan FO-RE-VER!!! ------------------ Diana K. (snlmartymoose@aol.com) It all started on a lonley day in 2002. i was mike myers obsessed and i was watching an old snl
rerun from the early 90's and i thought well why dont i search about him on the internet? (we had just gotten the internet)
well, on a site it was said that he was really really good friends with dave foley,whose name was in bold. i clicked on it
and it came up with pictures and a short bio/film list of mr david foley. i immediatly knew his face from SOMEWHERE.........
oh yeah, that nsync movie! the kith obsession didnt sprout yet, it would come (gasp) a year later. i was switching between
lat night with conan o brien and this movie on the usa channel "kids in the hall:brain candy". i was very taken with this
great funny movie that i noticed had the priest from superstar (duh, mark mckinney i would later find out) i immediately went
on to imdb.com and was mesmerized. i was one when the show came on, so i toatlly missed a part of the great comedy generation
and was not willing to stay up until 2 in the morning on a tuesday just to watch a couple episodes (though i am now) so when
my sister and i were fighting over which movies to rent at hollywood video ("trust me you idiot, just married is stupid")
i dug in the comedys and found my destiny: the best of the kids in the hall. i was hooked between the "daddy drank"
sketch and the one where burce hits on scott as the old woman and "dear regge" i couldnt stop laughing. i bleed kith.i love
kith.
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