Fox's talking heads bear uncanny resemblance to Kids in the Hall

From Backdrops R Us, a grid of Fox News talking heads alongside classic shots of scenes from Canadian comedy show Kids in the Hall (particularly members of the troupe in drag). The resemblances are uncanny.

FOX News Figures Strangely Resemble Kids In The Hall Characters (Thanks, Fipi Lele!)

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That is uncanny and hilarious.
- http://www.facebook.com/people/Robert-Drop/100000929402049 Robert Drop
  
  That’s seriously uncanny.
- millie fink
  
  It’s mean too, but man oh man, these people deserve it.
  - http://twitter.com/incarnedine_v Dan Hibiki
    
    What did Kids in the Hall do to deserve it?
    - Antinous / Moderator
      
      No good deed…
http://www.nothinginside.net mindysan33

Now why would anyone want to insult the loverly boys of the kids in the hall in such a manner…

Also, I always thought Foley looked the best as a dame back in the day.
- Antinous / Moderator
  
  Sadly, I can’t find a video of Mr. Right, the sketch in which Dave is a bride who repeatedly discovers her groom’s inadequacies on their wedding nights.
  - The Rizz
    
    Well, it is on Netflix, and is at the beginning of Season 3, episode 11.
  - nowimnothing
    
    I love the one where Scott is shot and Dave just sighs dejectedly.
    - Preston Sturges
      
      His blind date with The Chicken Lady was also memorable.
      - nowimnothing
        
        Do you want some eggs?
      - Preston Sturges
        
        “Straight out of my body and onto your plate!”
    - Antinous / Moderator
      
      It was the first KITH sketch that I ever saw. My roommate and I were channel surfing, got caught up by the zydeco music and ended up as KITH junkies. It was on YT about a month ago, but has since been flushed. Or buried by unguessable tags.
      - nowimnothing
        
        This was my first one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=muHZM5G_-YU
        I was lucky enough to catch it when it was first airing on HBO, then taped all the CBS and comedy central re-runs. Then I was on the A&E email list so I got each of the seasons as soon as they came out on DVD. They usually had some kind of promotional item. The fridge magnet poetry is set is sadly long gone, but I do still have the “TV rots your brain like crack cocaine” trucker hat.
      - Antinous / Moderator
        
        That one really makes you want to move to Canada, eh?
- Preston Sturges
  
  Foley could wear just about anything in women’s clothes. it made me feel all funny, but not quite like when I watch Brendan Frazier in “George Of The Jungle.”
  
  I still liked him best in “Girl Drink Drunk.”
  - http://www.facebook.com/people/Carol-Anne-Peschke/1287685665 Carol Anne Peschke
    
    ”Tastes like candy! Don’t disappoint me, Ray.”
Fantome_NR

love it. this is truly “amazeballs,” as all the young whippersnapers say these days.
http://thisisonlya.blogspot.com robcat2075

FOX News is made up of women posing as men posing as women, basically.

But seriously… I wonder why women-posing-as-men has never gotten the traction that men-posing-as-women has in our entertainments.
- rattypilgrim
  
  Maybe because the male run entertainment industry likes it that way? Men posing as women is less threatening on some level compared to women posing as men? That said, George Sand got a lot of traction in her day.
- marilove
  
  Because women can wear men’s clothing, for the most part, and no one really thinks twice: I can wear a man’s t-shirt for instance, but no one would notice nor care — but put a man in a blouse, and it’s either offensive (“F*G!”) or hysterical (SNL skits).
  It’s funny because it’s “emasculating” to imply (or more than imply) that a man is in any way, shape, or form acting or looking like a woman.
- Fnordius
  
  I think it has to do with long-standing perceptions of women having less power, rights, or whatever magic sauce. Thus imitating a woman is considered funny because it’s supposed to be demeaning for the guy to have to play a woman. Women imitating men triggers more of a threat response, a double threat to some deep-rooted dominance impulse as it’s a competitor for rank coming from an unexpected angle.
- http://www.gildedgreen.com/ Girard
  
  Marlove and Fnordlus pretty much nailed it. I’d say another corollary is that while you are fairly likely to have sketch groups of all men, necessitating some dress in drag to play women, the general sexism of the entertainment industry would make it almost completely unlikely for there to be an all-female comedy troupe where members have to dress in drag to play male characters.
  
  Laurie Anderson’s “Clone” and “Fenway Bergamot” characters might be exceptions to this general rule.
  - BookGuy
    
    In college, I got to see a production of King Lear with all of the roles played by the opposite gender. The group that put it on had many more women than men, hence the switch. Most of them were so good that after a while, you completely forgot about the swap.
http://twitter.com/beep54orama B E Pratt

Well, that explains that.
Jake0748

Too bad they’re not nearly as funny or intelligent and The Kids in the Hall.
t3kna2007

Heads for the crushing!
- Jake0748
  
  Oooohhh… I crushing your head!
  - http://www.facebook.com/people/Spitty-Sumo/100002601661770 Spitty Sumo
    
    i’m pinching your face!
    
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PM5_dgKDsrc
  - IronEdithKidd
    
    There’s nobody there!
mikei

That’s right, your so-called “Fox News” is actually a comedy show for us Canadians, produced by none other than Lorne Michaels (aka “Roger Ailes”- which is just an anagram of “oil greaser”).
“Méchant, mon feu!”
- ocker3
  
  Okay, the joke’s gone on for long enough, perhaps they’ve forgotten it’s all a setup and they’re now actually living the lives of their characters??
  - dragonfrog
    
    Wait for it. I have it on good authority that the punchline will be a doozy.
    - jandrese
      
      I think the punchline is already a Doocy.
Winslow Morgan

Shhhh, …we were not supposed to let this out!
bcsizemo

Everyone at Fox could use a little brain candy…
Marky

Don’t hate Dave because he’s beautiful…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v3nronwLPoo
- Preston Sturges
  
  In college I was at a Halloween party and there was one girl not in costume. She said “Hey!……Damn it dude it’s me!” It was a small Egyptian guy I knew who weighed about 125 lbs, and the girls had all helped him do his makeup, so he looked really natural. Anyway, nobody knew he was a guy and he was getting soooooo pissed with the whole thing.
  - ocker3
    
    I went in drag to a friend’s birthday, and at one point during the prep I shaved my 2-day stubble. Thing was, the whole getup looked Better with the stubble, it was obviously a guy dressing up as a woman for fun, without the stubble it just looked like I was trying too hard
    - Preston Sturges
      
      And Dagmar
      (Without a doubt, the ugliest sonofabitch I ever saw in my life)
      was his name
      (One two three four)
      The whiskers sticking out from underneath of his pancake make-up
      (And yet, he was a beautiful lady)
      nearly drove you insane
      (Lets talk about leather)
      And so you kissed a little sailor
      (Tex Abel, starring in the latest Shepperton production)
      who had just blew in from Spain
      (Sir Richard Pump-a-loaf)
      - http://profiles.google.com/maurice.reeves Maurice Reeves
        
        Dammit man, so many props for the obscure Zappa reference. Love this album. Love this song. You won the internet for the day. Don’t break it.
      - Preston Sturges
        
        The funny thing is that Dagmar was one of those forgotten 1950′s celebrities, so that’s meta obscure.
        
        http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dagmar_(American_actress)
speleothem

Thirty Helens Agree!
Preston Sturges

Let me try this comment again………you gotta compare Scott’s gay diva “Buddy Cole” with Fox’s Steve Doocy!
FourFeetOfCurl

There’s also this uncanny Glenn Beck impersonation from 1993: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=83tnWFojtcY

Life imitating art, or secret time traveling comedians?
- http://bbc.co.uk/chinese cycle23
  
  Crazy like a fanatic… fox, I mean~!!
- http://profiles.google.com/maurice.reeves Maurice Reeves
  
  Holy shit, that is uncanny. If he’d mentioned gold, it would have sealed it. Nice hidden Fox in there. It’s all so clear now….
Øyvind

Kids in the hall is funnier by far, but Fox is more surreal to watch.
http://www.facebook.com/people/Spitty-Sumo/100002601661770 Spitty Sumo

but where’s the CHICKEN LADY?
cub

i get the joke, but the only true resemblance is top, left.

also, isn’t that an older, heavier dave down below, from the show they did on IFC?
monitorhead

awww no pototato salad mom tho. :(
RadioSilence

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- Antinous / Moderator
  
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http://noctilucent-studios.blogspot.com/ Noctilucent Studios

Further “proof” that this whole thing is a simulation.
http://2012diaries.blogspot.com/ tristan eldritch

Shepard Fox is a bit more of a Twin Peaks/Reaper guy.
IronEdithKidd

As each day passes, I become more convinced that Fox News Channel is the most elaborate performance art ever devised.
- Preston Sturges
  
  They are still working on that “rally at Nuremberg.”
mikedt

What, no Dave Foley in drag? Too attractive for Fox newcasters?
- http://profiles.google.com/briandonaldblank Brian Blank
  
  Bottom row, left.
http://profiles.google.com/briandonaldblank Brian Blank

Personally, I think the Kids in the Hall are prettier. ;-)
KBert

Thanks; this is new to me! As fun as being turned on to Trailer Park Boys…