A Kid in the Hall Tells All

The Gist

Peach Fish Productions

Daily News, News

4.5 • 3.7K Ratings

🗓️ 24 July 2017

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

When Kevin McDonald moved to New York, his sketch troupe, Kids in the Hall, had a deal with Lorne Michaels to make a new comedy show. But these were during some lean years for Michaels. "We were in a closet," says McDonald, "and he was being audited, so it was us and a bunch of auditors. Once in a while, if we said something really funny, we could hear the auditors giggling on the other side of the room." While Kids in the Hall was never as famous as Saturday Night Live, the show became legendary for a discerning subset of comedy fans. "It's like unsweetened lemonade—only 20 percent of people like us, but those who do really love us." McDonald is now hosting a podcast with live shows across the U.S. For the Spiel, a not so surreal end for Salvador Dalí's remains. Join Slate Plus! Members get bonus segments, exclusive member-only podcasts, and more. Sign up for a free trial today at slate.com/gistplus. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:01.2	We've got some!
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0:18.9	participating restaurant-only.
0:20.0	The following podcast contains explicit language.
0:23.4	It's Monday, July 24th, 2017 from Slate.
0:30.2	It's the gist I'm Mike Pasca.
0:32.1	The Trump accolades have taken to the airwaves to argue that the attention paid to Russia,
0:37.8	the infighting and the attorney general regret some Napoleonic misinterpretation and the like.
0:43.5	It's all been an example of media misdeeds talking about those things.
0:48.7	What we've been doing is we've been distracting from what should have been the real
0:52.8	discussion.
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0:59.6	He moves forward.
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