All the guys are back for the 1991-1992 season and they are still makin' me get my giggle on. The Chicken Lady, and her friend the Bearded Lady, attend a male strip showand CL blows up once Rooster Boy hits the stage. He did have a big red comb, stickin' up an all. Mark McKinney says on the commentary he got hurt when the orgasm mortar went off. The perils of show biz, huh. Like the first 2 seasons this 4 disc set has 20 episodes of new material and 2 episodes built from parts of the others. It's those compilation shows that have the commentaries.
The police continue to be pretty useless but you can see they are outstanding in their field. Dave Foley is a businessman who's addicted to girl drinks. His life is a downward spiral topped with a tiny umbrella. Bruce appears as Tammy the pop star for the first time. Buddy Cole discovered her. Buddy is back with more monologues about his life. Bruce is the Flying Pig. He shows up to amuse the people in line at a bank. He'd later be shot for being bacon. Don't worry, he tasted good. Tanya's the temp is done at AT & Love and her goodbye party goes badly. Danny Husk of AT & Love gets kidnapped but he escapes. The Kids often have a lot of harsh things to say about businessmen. Where does that animosity come from? Sir Simon Milligan has to fire his man servant Hecubus from the Pit Of Ultimate Evil for drinking too much. Hecubus finally figures out he needs some help when he wakes up in Africa with a $7000 bar tab.
Gavin shows up on several shows, chatty as ever. He's got a hard time this season; he falls for his babysitter and his mother dies. His Dad, out of jail for the day, brings his new mom to the funeral. Bruce does Gavin and he also plays the 45 year old hispster who appears in several sketches this season. I'm not as fond of the hipster guy. One of the Sizzler sisters is cured of insanity and it's sad that the other sister doesn't have anyone to be insane with. The cute It's A Fact girl shows up again. The head crushing guy returns with an elaborate trap. It's almost painful to watch Kevin get screwed over by the other guys in his garage band. He writes the songs, sings, and plays the guitar. He gets no credit for that. It helps remind me that people sure are awful sometimes.
Kevin McDonald was born in Montreal in 1961. He lived in Los Angeles and Toronto as a kid. He had acting lessons in high school and attended Humber College as a drama major where he was kicked out because he only did comedy. A smart teacher there enrolled him in Second City Improv classes and it was there he meet Dave Foley. They would join up with Luciano Casimiri to start the first version of The Kids In The Hall. After the Kids tv series ended Kevin appeared pretty regularily in many shows and movies. I haven't seen hardly any of it. I just saw him in the 2007 Epic Movie where he played Harry Potter. Sadly, it's a pretty poor movie. Hope he got paid well. He also does a lot of voice work for tv cartoon shows. That's a nice gig. Two more seasons to go.
I had watched Ask A Policeman a few days back and tonight I watched a second Will Hayes movie called Convict 99. I hadn't ever heard of him before I ran across these two British comedies over at the Internet Archive. Growing up in Canada meant I had a steady stream of British fare to watch on my tv. I grew to like the dry wit as well as some slapstick, though I do draw the line at Benny Hill. Still not a fan. There's some of both comedy styles in Ask A Policeman. Hayes is more of a straightman while Graham Moffatt and Moore Marriott fill in the noisey activity around him.
In the pic on the right we have Moore, Hayes and Moffatt. In Ask A Policeman they play policemen who live in a small quiet town called Turnbotham Round and for the last ten years they have had no crime. Not that they went looking for any, either. The local Chief Constable plans to evaluate the need of a station, what with no crime. Will and his constables plan to create some crime but they suck as being criminals as much as they do at being coppers. They eventually stumble onto some real smuggling and there's a dumb but half way funny ending. I guess the story is pretty dumb in both movies but there are bits and pieces that I enjoyed, some of which made me laugh out loud. Convict 99 has Hayes get hired as a prison warden while he believes he's going to head a bad boys school. He accidentally gets tossed into the prison population for a few days. He decides to clean up the building and make it a nicer place for the criminals to stay in. Moffatt plays goofy guard and Moore plays a squirrelly prisoner who's been unsuccessfully tunneling out of the prison for 40 years. They aren't great pieces of cinema but there's a larf to be had. AAP scores a 7.4 on the IMdb and C99 scores a 6.9, you'll have to be the judge if they deserves that. There are a nice bunch of character actors in the films. Glad I found them. Might watch them again in a few years. Who knows?
This made me laugh this morning. It's Dylan's entry into the MocOlymopics in the Space Pirates category.
Some guy named whoiseyevan posted a video on YouTube and some bloggers passed it along until I saw it. I'm passing it along to you. Whoiseyevan made a trailer for a movie that might have existed if Ghost Busters had been made in 1954 with Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis, Bob Hope and Fred McMurray. It's pretty silly, but sillier is the route I took tracking it upstream. I spotted this on Bits & Pieces and followed the links. The first link lead to Miss Celinia, then to YesButNoButYes, which linked to the Laughing Squid, and that led me to I09, and that linked to Coilhouse which has no link to anywhere. One site said there are 17 movies used to create the trailer. I don't know what they are but I could believe it. It made me laugh, hope you'll enjoy it.
Ain't that a bitch!
