Various
Mark McKinney
Mark McKinney helped Canadian sketch go feral as various on The Kids in the Hall — Head Crusher, Chicken Lady, drag bits without a permission slip, late-80s CBC/HBO launch of a troupe that made weirdness a 1990s cult language for night owls. Fearless, grotesque, queer. TV Flash files him as catalog-sketch voltage: the face that would not stay one character.
Mark McKinney plays various on The Kids in the Hall, one-fifth of the Canadian sketch anarchists who gave night owls Head Crusher, Chicken Lady, and drag bits played without a permission slip. Late-80s CBC/HBO launch of a troupe that made weirdness a 1990s cult language. Fearlessness — especially the queer and grotesque turns — that American network sketch kept sanding off. McKinney is a face that refuses to stay one person. The bit is the religion.
The Kids in the Hall still photographs as a weekly on CBC/HBO/CBS from 1988–1995. McKinney is in it as Various. Cue s01e01. #101 is CBC/HBO night one: Head Crusher and Chicken Lady not yet folklore, drag bits without a permission slip, weirdness as language. That is how the desk files a first watch. McKinney on The Kids in the Hall remains catalog craft on CBC/HBO/CBS from 1988–1995.
McKinney holds a lane: Various as the human weather the plot has to walk through. The desk's later hour is s02e01. #201 is season two's numbered open: short-form anarchy with long aftertaste, night-owl cult already forming. s04e01 is the later check. #401 is a mid-90s numbered hour: queer and grotesque turns American network sketch still flinches from. Watch McKinney for the job, not the lore dump.
Sketch as a contact sport. The characters photograph as freaks and play as a private language you can still quote. On TV Flash McKinney is catalog craft: the various who made a troupe hour feel dangerous, then left the Chicken Lady looking like civic infrastructure for people who stayed up.
FAQ
Where does Mark McKinney actually clock in?
s01e01. #101 is CBC/HBO night one: Head Crusher and Chicken Lady not yet folklore, drag bits without a permission slip, weirdness as language. That is the start the brief already marked — The Kids in the Hall as a timeslot, Various as the work.
How much of The Kids in the Hall is actually Various?
McKinney holds a lane: Various as the human weather the plot has to walk through. Enough that a catalog pass should include McKinney. The series photographs differently with that face in the cut.
Which later code still has Various at full wattage?
s04e01 is the later proof. #401 is a mid-90s numbered hour: queer and grotesque turns American network sketch still flinches from. s02e01 remains the mid-run turn. #201 is season two's numbered open: short-form anarchy with long aftertaste, night-owl cult already forming.
On the dial
Shows in our catalog
On the web
External sites for further reading — TV Flash is not affiliated with these networks or studios.
Stay on this channel
More with Mark McKinney
← All actors · All shows · Networks · Studios