# "The Kids in The Hall " question **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 26, 2001, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-kids-in-the-hall-question/89828 "2001-10-26T18:19:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![MagicalSilverKey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8797f3/32.png) [@MagicalSilverKey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MagicalSilverKey)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2001, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-kids-in-the-hall-question/89828/1 "2001-10-26T18:19:06Z")
I watch the show cause it does have some really funny skits. I especially love the really off-the-wall crazy stuff that has absolutely no point to it. But I can only take so much of guys in drag. Are these dudes all gay IRL or what? ---
**Author:** ![tiny\_ham](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a183cd/32.png) [@tiny\_ham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tiny_ham)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2001, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-kids-in-the-hall-question/89828/2 "2001-10-26T18:29:08Z")
No, I know that Dave Foley is married with children and I believe Bruce McCullough is straight. And dressing in drag doesn’t automatically equal gay. Is all of Monty Python gay? jar ---
**Author:** ![Mogwei22](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d78d45/32.png) [@Mogwei22](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mogwei22)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2001, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-kids-in-the-hall-question/89828/3 "2001-10-26T18:30:57Z")
I think Dave Foley plays a woman better than most. As for the gay question…I’m fairly certain that only Scott Thompson is gay. Chicken Lady loves life! ---
**Author:** ![Mogwei22](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d78d45/32.png) [@Mogwei22](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mogwei22)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2001, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-kids-in-the-hall-question/89828/4 "2001-10-26T18:33:38Z")
**MagicalSilverKey** You wouldn’t happen to be watching Kids in the Hall on Comedy Central right now would you? ---
**Author:** ![MagicalSilverKey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8797f3/32.png) [@MagicalSilverKey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MagicalSilverKey)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2001, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-kids-in-the-hall-question/89828/5 "2001-10-26T18:46:27Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Mogwei22 \* > \*\ ***MagicalSilverKey** > You wouldn’t happen to be watching Kids in the Hall on Comedy Central right now would you? \*\* Why, yes, as a matter of fact, I am watching it. I watch it everyday. And I know drag does not = gay, but they do a lot of “gay” parody stuff, so I couldn’t help but wonder. ---
**Author:** ![pezpunk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7ea924/32.png) [@pezpunk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pezpunk)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2001, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-kids-in-the-hall-question/89828/6 "2001-10-26T19:20:47Z")
Just Scott is gay. The rest are apparently straight. ---
**Author:** ![aegypt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/76d3ee/32.png) [@aegypt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aegypt)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2001, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-kids-in-the-hall-question/89828/7 "2001-10-26T19:30:36Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by jarbabyj \* > **And dressing in drag doesn’t automatically equal gay. Is all of Monty Python gay?** Wasn’t that mostly Graham Chapman though? Oh, and Terry Jones, of course. Who could forget his role in _Life of Brian_? > [@](#): > > He’s not the Messiah, he’s a very naughty boy! ---
**Author:** ![Mogwei22](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d78d45/32.png) [@Mogwei22](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mogwei22)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2001, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-kids-in-the-hall-question/89828/8 "2001-10-26T19:51:15Z")
I’m pretty sure that John Cleese, Michael Palin, Eric Idle and the other Terry wore dresses (the pepperpots being the only example I can think of at the moment). John Cleese was as strange looking woman. “Burma!” “What did you say that for?” “I panicked.” ---
**Author:** ![pezpunk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7ea924/32.png) [@pezpunk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pezpunk)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2001, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-kids-in-the-hall-question/89828/9 "2001-10-26T20:03:12Z")
Mogwei22 I **LOVE** your sig!!! I almost typed that on a thread the other day! ---
**Author:** ![Enderw24](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ba9def/32.png) [@Enderw24](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enderw24)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2001, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-kids-in-the-hall-question/89828/10 "2001-10-26T20:27:11Z")
E? Eagle? Easter? eeeee? Pinball City! ---
**Author:** ![Eternal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ecb155/32.png) [@Eternal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eternal)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2001, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-kids-in-the-hall-question/89828/11 "2001-10-26T20:43:04Z")
Indeed, Kids in the Hall is a great show. Unfortunately, it’s obscure enough that no one gets it when I quote it. Fortunately, it’s also obscure enough that no one gets it when I quote it. And that fills me with self-satisfaction. ---
**Author:** ![Mogwei22](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d78d45/32.png) [@Mogwei22](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mogwei22)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2001, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-kids-in-the-hall-question/89828/12 "2001-10-26T21:56:14Z")
**pezpunk** Are you saying you know of the greatness that is _Midnight Madness_?! My heart is now all aflutter. **Eternal** Quote me some Kids in the Hall please! I know of so few who get my Kids references. Just the other day I was staring off into space and someone asked me what I was thinking about and all I could think of to respond with was “I was thinking about Tony, wondering where he could be, who he was with and was he thinking of me” but they wouldn’t have understood. I feel I am among my kind and I am as happy as a little girl:D ---
**Author:** ![pezpunk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7ea924/32.png) [@pezpunk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pezpunk)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2001, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-kids-in-the-hall-question/89828/13 "2001-10-26T22:09:48Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Mogwei22 \* > \*\ ***pezpunk** > Are you saying you know of the greatness that is _Midnight Madness_?! My heart is now all aflutter. > \*\* 🙂 I was just joking last weekend about it. It’s been YEARS since I last saw it though. Perhaps I need to go rent it. for some KITH quotes, check here! [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=88241](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=88241) or even here [http://www.kithfan.org](http://www.kithfan.org) ---
**Author:** ![TheeGrumpy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/779978/32.png) [@TheeGrumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheeGrumpy)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2001, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-kids-in-the-hall-question/89828/14 "2001-10-26T22:13:56Z")
Since the troupes are all male, someone needs to dress in drag to play a woman in a sketch. This goes for Python and the Kids, though I don’t recall which one of them offered this explanation. But it makes sense. ---
**Author:** ![Mogwei22](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d78d45/32.png) [@Mogwei22](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mogwei22)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2001, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-kids-in-the-hall-question/89828/15 "2001-10-26T22:26:38Z")
**pezpunk** Heeeee I own it, well, I liberated it from Blockbuster. I didn’t mean to. I had every intention of returning it, but the store was an hour away from my apartment (none of the stores near me carried it). I had a friend who worked for Blockbuster and he magically made the video vanish off of my account. Thank you thank you for the link to the KITH thread. I am now laughing hysterically and looking frantically for the Christmas with the Kids marathon I taped years ago. “I’d like some chamomile tea please” “What?!” “Ya bastard” “I’m sorry for causing all that cancer” “EEEEEradicator!!” ---
**Author:** ![pezpunk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7ea924/32.png) [@pezpunk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pezpunk)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2001, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-kids-in-the-hall-question/89828/16 "2001-10-26T22:32:33Z")
Or one of my personal favorites; “MY PEN!!!” “I think he said I’m a mother hen” ---
**Author:** ![DAVEW0071](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e19b73/32.png) [@DAVEW0071](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DAVEW0071)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2001, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-kids-in-the-hall-question/89828/17 "2001-10-26T22:49:12Z")
> [@](#): > > I’m pretty sure that John Cleese, Michael Palin, Eric Idle and the other Terry wore dresses (the pepperpots being the only example I can think of at the moment). All the Pythons performed in drag at one time or another. Outside of the pepperpots, Chapman wore drag during the Spam sketch, and also in a sketch that began, “There’s a man at the door with a black mustache.” “Tell him I already got one.” For some bizarre reason, Chapman and Jones (who played the husband) had numbers on their backs, as if they were contestants in a dance marathon or something. I remember Chapman was wearing a backless evening gown, so the number was actually painted on his bare back. It was never explained in the sketch. [sub]man, I can’t believe this stuff has stuck with me all these years.[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![Green\_Fool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Green\_Fool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Green_Fool)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2001, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-kids-in-the-hall-question/89828/18 "2001-10-26T22:57:58Z")
Scott Thompson is the big homo in the Kids troupe and summed up why they did drag. 1, because it was an all male troupe and 2, it is inherently funny for a man to dress up in drag in the same way it is funny to see a rich man lose all his money. It is seen as going donw in station, down in the chain of life. ---
**Author:** ![Eternal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ecb155/32.png) [@Eternal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eternal)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2001, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-kids-in-the-hall-question/89828/19 "2001-10-26T23:12:40Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Mogwei22 \* > \*\* > **Eternal** > Quote me some Kids in the Hall please! I know of so few who get my Kids references. Just the other day I was staring off into space and someone asked me what I was thinking about and all I could think of to respond with was “I was thinking about Tony, wondering where he could be, who he was with and was he thinking of me” but they wouldn’t have understood. > \*\* Now, now, obscure quotes are never as funny if you don’t have an appropriate situation. ---
**Author:** ![Menocchio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9de053/32.png) [@Menocchio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Menocchio)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2001, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-kids-in-the-hall-question/89828/20 "2001-10-26T23:14:32Z")
The main difference between Python and KITH is that Python would use actual women when men in drag would make the joke about homosexuality. KITH would cross that line. Also, they made much more convincing women, IMHO, except for Scott, somewhat ironically. As for the rest of you… I am crushing your heads! I am crushing your heads! Crush! Crush! Crush! [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-kids-in-the-hall-question/89828.md?page=2)