#bruce mcculloch

[girl-drink-drunk]

you would fuck that old man. i would fuck that old man. we are the same. hold my hand

#there is no war in old men fuckers city #aaaaaaaaand drum roll on the old men i'd fuck! #kevin mcdonald #dave foley #mark mckinney #bruce mcculloch #the kids in the hall #john larroquette #james spader #harry anderson #brad dourif #david cronenberg #dennis christopher #scott bakula #conan o'brien

[charlotterenaissance]

at any given moment

#girly help i have been on hold with insurance for forty-five minutes #and this is all i have to show for it #it's true though #should i tag them? #i'll tag them #dennis christopher #brad dourif #john larroquette #harry anderson #the kids in the hall #mark mckinney #bruce mcculloch #dave foley #scott thompson #kevin mcdonald #tim robbins #david cronenberg

[astralbondpro]

The Kids in the Hall // S03E10: Minimum Wage

#The Kids in the Hall #Kids in the Hall #KITH #Bruce McCulloch #Kids in the Hall Gifs #Gifs #Television #Television Gifs #Comedy #Sketch Comedy #AVTV #AVTVGifs #AVGifs #AVKITH #AVKITHGifs #AVComedy #AVSketchComedy

[fatmagic]

#kids in the hall #bruce mcculloch #gif

[yeahiwasintheshit]

#kith #bruce mcculloch #hes hip hes cool hes 45 #kids in the hall

[pomegranate]

“The Daves I Know”

#kids in the hall #the kids in the hall #bruce mcculloch #dave foley #one person says dave in my vicinity and i have to immediately watch this. normal behaviour

[coolthingsguyslike]

#Kids in the Hall #1990s #sketch comedy #Canadian #Dave Foley #Bruce McCulloch #Kevin McDonald #Mark Mckinney #Scott Thompson

[pierppasolini]

The Kids in the Hall - 4.09 - Chalet 2000

#Scott Thompson #David Duranovitch #Dayo Ade #Bruce McCulloch #The Kids in the Hall #my caps #my edits #*kidsinthehall

[ofkithandmckinney]

Getting back to their roots

#i love this photo #mark looks ridiculously hot #kith #kids in the hall #the kids in the hall #mark mckinney #scott thompson #dave foley #bruce mcculloch #kevin mcdonald #roots

[zaat]

My beautiful queen I would treat you so right

#bruce mcculloch #kids in the hall #kith

[magentagalaxies]

making my own post bc i have thoughts and i don't want to keep having to go back and forth with tags and replies on someone else's post:

anyway original post i started this conversation on: @charlotterenaissance

my tag essay:

@liliana-von-k's reply:

(all this context is bc i have even more thoughts so i thought i should make my own post)

anyway to respond to that i 100% agree!! it also reminds me of something from my very first conversation with bruce (when we did a zoom interview before we knew each other) which idk if i've posted this aspect of before: i forget what my exact question was but i essentially brought up this kind of paradigm the KITH's female characters are often discussed in and how it's kind of strange comparing it to the actual representation of female characters in the show. like, sure dave "passes" the most as a conventionally-attractive female character, but also i'd honestly say any of the kids in the hall can pass as female, not even just from a genderqueer perspective but from a not all women are "conventionally attractive" perspective. like i know cis women who have a jawline like bruce's or a nose like scott's or any other feature that isn't seen as "feminine" from (often white-eurocentric) beauty standards and many of them are gorgeous.

and the fact that KITH's female characters are often discussed through a lens of "who plays the best woman" (meaning the one who "passes" according to beauty standards) is as frustrating as it is fascinating bc i really do think it points to the way the media tries to comprehend this gender nonconformity and shove it into a box they can understand. because the kids in the hall have already destroyed the most obvious box their female characters could be put in - yes, they are male comedians, but even though the most often way society rationalizes men dressing femininely is as a comedic act (whether as a man purposefully trying to elicit comedy via feminine actions and dress or via a man who genuinely enjoys feminine expression being made an object of ridicule via comedy), the kids in the hall break this framework (this "binary", if you will) by being comedians who are in control of the audience's laughter, but playing their femininity as genuine. you don't laugh with them at their femininity because they do not laugh at femininity, but you also can't make their femininity the subject of ridicule because their position as comedians means they are at once in on the joke and steering the joke in another direction. this technique is more subtextual (and likely subconscious) in the portrayal of female characters, but it's a tactic scott knowingly (and expertly) employs when playing buddy cole

so since the "men in dresses equals comedy" box is eliminated, cishet society feels the need to create another box for them to rationalize this gender nonconformity in, by attributing it to a spectacle other than humor. so they decide to instead view these gender transgressions through the lens of beauty and sexual attractiveness. this also helps rationalize any confusing attraction a cishet person has to one of the kids in the hall dressed as a woman - they pass too well, or at least whichever one you're attracted to (most often dave) does. making a spectacle of the kids in the hall playing women eliminates any confusion or implications that maybe gender and sexuality isn't as rigid as we think, by othering these performers as a special case and convincing yourself that there is no real woman who looks like dave foley in drag, and if there was she would be cis.

it's a slightly better box to be in than having the femininity be the target of ridicule, but it still misses the point that the femininity explored in kids in the hall is not meant to be othered. it leaves out so many of the show's most iconic female characters - fran is not glamorous, but she is a realistic woman. chicken lady is more chicken than lady, but she is still a well-written female character - and reduces others to their attractiveness when the sketch itself is not about that at all. and when i brought this up to bruce he sounded as though he had been waiting for someone to make this analysis, because even though the guys joke about it themselves it is at times uncomfortable to be in an interview that focuses so much on how the interviewer finds dave in drag sexy, or picking apart which physical aspect of the guys passes best. i think i remember bruce saying something to the effect of "no one's asking which one of us is the most hot playing a business man, but that's just as different of a person from us as playing a woman"

and it's interesting to think about this in the context of how the media in general treats people who identify as women in this framework of focusing on physical attractiveness all the time. in recent years, this behavior is more widely known to be sexist af so the overtness has declined (tho is it absolutely still present to some degree), but since the kids in the hall are all male it's fair game to make these sorts of comments about their female characters to their face, because it's spectacle and separate from them. even the exact same people who would call out a comment being made about a cis female comedian are often oblivious of how it could potentially apply to these male comedians, or have other bizarre lines within their ability to rationalize this gender nonconformity for themselves.

take the "wedding dresses" sketch that was censored from the amazon revival for example (this sketch was showcased at sketchfest's "scenes they wouldn't let us do" and has appeared in kith live shows since 2015). this sketch was censored because even though amazon would let the guys play women (and even then it was often an uphill battle), they would not let the wedding dresses sketch air because it featured men wearing wedding dresses in a comedic setting. the rule of thumb seemingly is: men wearing dresses is always comedic (and therefore transphobic), unless he (typically dave foley) passes too well, in which case trans people have nothing to do with the conversation. but the fact that they were men dressed femininely was never the point of the joke, it was the idea of a wedding dress, a significant garment symbolizing an event meant to be only worn for one day, being these guys' everyday wear and all the conflicts and community that came from that. it was an ode to the outsiders, a celebration of those who live and present unconventionally. and the fact that it's never about gender is in itself the most upliftingly genderqueer thing of all.

#time for a jessay #disclaimer the views expressed are my own and not bruce's i'm just saying bruce was part of this conversation and agreed with most points #i did not realize i had all of these opinions but now i'm like damn this might be my favorite jessay i've written #tempted to send it to my professor lmao #also never thought i'd be calling chicken lady a feminist icon but y'know what i am #kids in the hall #scott thompson #mark mckinney #kevin mcdonald #bruce mcculloch #dave foley #david foley #kith #queer #buddy cole

[girl-drink-drunk]

#i did this for a discord and totally forgot to post it! #the kids in the hall #dave foley #kevin mcdonald #mark mckinney #scott thompson #bruce mcculloch

[charlotterenaissance]

thinking about her again

#the kids in the hall #mark mckinney #bruce mcculloch #dave foley #scott thompson #kevin mcdonald #kids in the hall

[astralbondpro]

The Kids in the Hall // S01E15: Death Row

#The Kids in the Hall #Kids in the Hall #KITH #Bruce McCulloch #Dave Foley #Mark McKinney #Kevin McDonald #Kids in the Hall Gifs #Sketch Comedy #Comedy #Television #Television Gifs #Gifs #AVTV #AVTVGifs #AVGifs #AVKITH #AVKITHGifs #AVComedy #AVSketchComedy

[fatmagic]

#kids in the hall #bruce mcculloch #gif

[beardedmrbean]

#cw: flashing #kids in the hall #bruce mcculloch