As the Prime Minister of Canada, circa 1990, it’s your sworn duty to ensure that citizens of the frozen north are adequately and efficiently entertained, night after night after brutal arctic night…via the airwaves of CBC television, of course! It’s come to your attention recently that Don Cherry’s playoff wardrobe will put the CBC’s expenditures several million dollars over budget this year. And that can only mean one thing:
One of the Kids in the Hall must die.
Between their exorbitant CBC salaries, their nationally-funded healthcare, and their annual allotment of Canadian bacon, it just seems excessive to allow all five of them to remain walking the earth…and quite simply, removing one of these funnymen from the airwaves (and all of existence) means Grapes can keep dazzling the nation every Hockey Night with his stunning display of floral-patterned blazers and French cuffed shirts.
So Prime Minister: Do your duty and kill one of those damn Kids in the Hall. For Canada. For the Queen. Pour le hockey!
Dave. He’d appreciate the sweet release of death. And he’s on everything, the News Radio days were good, but he’ll take any guest spot on any show now, and he’s just become boring.
He’s in this sketch for less than thirty seconds but it’s a great thirty seconds.
The sketch itself is a mild example of a lot of Bruce’s work on the show - silly mixes of surrealism/absurdism/existentialism. One of the better examples is “Each Day We Work”. I assume Bruce wrote or co-wrote these bits.
Never Bruce or Dave or Scott. Kevin always gets voted least popular and I think he’s great so I guess not him. That leaves Mark I guess. Ohh but I love Darrill. It’s too hard to choose…
The Chicken Lady should have only been a one appearance character but that one appearance was glorious.
I have to go with Scott. He seemed to annoy me at times more than the others but I loved him too. And Buddy should have been retired long before the end of the run.
