Brain Candy Movie

A corporate tycoon who insists that the carpet his underlings unroll before him each morning matches his socks. A solidly suburban family man who stages his own neighborhood coming-out parade when he finally fesses up to being homosexual. And a precocious young cancer victim who achieves pop stardom as a wheelchair-bound whistler.

Like Monty Python's Flying Circus, the Kids in the Hall have achieved their widest popularity posthumously. Having first hit the airwaves in 1989 over Canada's CBC, the troupe moved on to HBO, then to the more accessible Comedy Central, where their old shows now enjoy multiple daily showings and seem to win converts with the same frequency. But they don't make new TV shows anymore; the members have moved on to individual projects. They may exist in the future only as a movie-making unit.

Like Monty Python's Flying Circus, the Kids in the Hall have achieved their widest popularity posthumously. Having first hit the airwaves in 1989 over Canada's CBC, the troupe moved on to HBO, then to the more accessible Comedy Central, where their old shows now enjoy multiple daily showings and seem to win converts with the same frequency. But they don't make new TV shows anymore; the members have moved on to individual projects. They may exist in the future only as a movie-making unit.

A corporate tycoon who insists that the carpet his underlings unroll before him each morning matches his socks. A solidly suburban family man who stages his own neighborhood coming-out parade when he finally fesses up to being homosexual. And a precocious young cancer victim who achieves pop stardom as a wheelchair-bound whistler.