can't kill rock - kids in the hall

classic.

[@setlasmon]

Mr Gorgenchuck could have never forseen Bobby destroying the devil in a guitar-off.

[@AvengerII]

Mr. Gorgenchuck WORKS for the devil! And the devil won. Rock IS dead now!

[@CamdenBloke]

I saw this as a kid with my dad, and I was like, “Jeez, imagine having a teacher like that.” He was like, "Imagine having a student like that.” I was like, “What's wrong with the student?”

[@ChristopherSobieniak]

Poor kid!

[@reah7213]

The ignorance

[@davebrau]

Great father and son bonding moment.

[@Autopsy6]

"Jazz...Never!" I once said that very line in my youth, and now I am a jazz cat.

[@michaelwinter742]

This held up pretty well.

[@keithklassen5320]

Rock has been dying for a long time.

[@chaseberwick7801]

Something made you think of this skit recently too, eh? Earlier today, I was thinking, "life's a pretty sweet fruit!!" "Ah, who am I kiddin'? 13 bucks a month nearly *killed* me..." Go watch that one 😉

[@LordsofMedia]

@@keithklassen5320 Been dead.

[@nromk]

If only jazz were popular...

[@sylvio7017]

@@nromk check out Tom misch, the Internet, and moon child man jazz is definitely popular

[@Capng123]

"I have that album!" "Of course you do, Bob..."

[@hobotron2000]

Bruce McCullough always had great facial expressions in his sketches.

[@TlalocW]

There were guys like Bobby in my high school band class. It was rock or nothing. Thus they could never get drunk, where the rest of us who liked multiple genres could.

[@erik878]

Rock rock rock rock

[@nancyf7919]

I Bruce and the way he can get sincere about anything. It's that over the top intensity that makes him so funny.

[@Billinois78]

"If Rock and Roll doesn't reinvent itself, then it probably deserves to die." - Gene Simmons. I'm not much of a Kiss fan, but I actually agree with that quote.

[@jdwhitewolf]

All these years -- I didn't know Dave was a flute player!! Awesome!!

[@timesnewlogan2032]

And a tap dancer!

[@robg3179]

Dave saying "12 beer" and "4 beer" is such a weird little detail, and that's why I love Kids in the Hall.

[@cynthia.marina]

But ... Why he didn't said it in plural? 12 beers /4 beers

[@bahulecticmethod509]

Beer refers to singular units (cans, bottles) or uncountable substance. He contracted the “bottles of”. Must be a hoserism.

[@ryangear1979]

"But I'll never get drunk on one beer!"

[@brojoe44]

exactly Ryan

[@davidpradarelli1960]

Well if ya got the flute, you can meet halfway with Jethro Tull, Lol

[@LordSathar]

Jethro Tull won Best heavy metal alum in 1990 beating Metalica

[@rexasaurus3853]

eF u

[@barbaraarnzen5181]

And loved Jethro Tull. 👍😉

[@iosaturnalia]

As a jazz flutist and huge fan of Ladysmith... I adore this.

[@DemonWarp65]

Then you, are my nemesis!!!!

[@hairmetalstillsucks4577]

I was 18 when they started in 89. I miss those late night showings on CBC tripping on shrooms with some buddy's

[@marshfilm]

You are me

[@SaintMartins]

Me too....same age....but alcohol instead of 'shrooms....and yes "hair metal" still does suck.

[@baileyfurio2327]

Same here, but doses instead of shrooms. Crazy, seen them come and perform live as well, 1994 was the year of that I believe. But I was a little younger than 18!

[@davidthomspson9771]

Totally man!

[@quinnrollen]

But you'll *never* get drunk on one beer!

[@erikk77]

I was really surprised that bob could figure out that 12 beer (-) minus 6 beer (-) minus 4 beer (-) minus 1 beer, leaves 1 beer remaining.

[@brojoe44]

i couldn't even figure it out

[@SnootchieBootchies27]

Beer math. Just gotta keep it relatable

[@BrianGreigRWD]

He put it in terms he could understand

[@AsterPipa2]

I always lose it when Dave responds condescendengly and arching his brows: "alright!".

[@JBiggsNewJersey]

A cow at the top of the food chain

[@abraxasjinx5207]

And yet Rock has lived on, despite Bad Company.

[@Tim_the_Enchanter]

And so it came to pass that rock 'n' roll did not die ... it just got really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really old. Really.

[@Emiliapocalypse]

I went to a Beach Boys concert a few years ago, and it was awesome :)

[@LordsofMedia]

Because you didn't know they weren't the originals?

[@Zatki]

People don't even realize the extent to which Jazz influenced Rock.Maybe not the dixieland or swing stuff, but you can definitely hear Coltrane in a lot of bands that came after.

[@insectwarriorjojo7780]

Agree. Espically the blues and many others. Also jazz and tap dancing and you can story tell jazz,etc with jazz.

[@12AX74Life]

Love this sketch. Plus, Bruce's "Choose Hell" shirt is gnarly.

[@z9elka]

The video I fell for Foley's sass and charm.

[@willr8764]

Well, this sketch turned out to me tragically prophetic...

[@kazumahazeuzumaki]

It's almost like change is the only constant.

[@TheRealMirCat]

I lives in Norway!!

[@underwaterlevelz1947]

yeah i like jazz now wtf happened to me

[@cutterhead13]

@@kazumahazeuzumaki and every 20, 30y-50y it comes back. Probably du to generationnal overlap and how kids immitate teens and teen imitate adults 30y + . Good stuff prevail by definition tho.. its going to be interesting times soon we already see 70s 80s 90s nostalgia in full force . Im gussing 1920 30 style is going to come back a bit like it did a bit with amy winehouse and lady gaga. (You know jetson space race like era after that..)

[@Ev105]

When this KITH came out, rock WAS becoming a sad, tired thing that couldn't digest solid food and talked to itself on the bus. It was all Hair Metal and Pop/Dance. Then, Sub Pop/Seattle happened.

[@cliftondown4340]

he speaks from the heart, jazz is better than 99.9% of music today

[@mikewilson3581]

Yep. I'll stack up Miles Davis's accomplishments against what's out there today musically. And Bill Evans or Jaco Pastorius are for anyone with taste.

[@psisis7423]

@@mikewilson3581 Just sad jazz died so soon. Can't believe how people pass digital lounge techno tunes as jazz.

[@mikewilson3581]

@@psisis7423 Serious music fans get into Jazz. It's not huge, but the cream of the crop tend to be it's fan base. And there's different era's to choose from. Give me The Bill Evans Trio- Sunday At The Village Vanguard , A Kind Of Blue from Miles Davis, or Jaco Pastorius any day.

[@psisis7423]

@@mikewilson3581 I see you're into classic jazz. I like Kind of Blue too and at the extent Art Blakey and Freddie Hubbard. I enjoy more freer jazz, Miles's late 60s-70s and Mingus, some Hancock. But still, if you ask someone what jazz is today, they'll point you to either big band singing or computer generated music, which feels alienating.

[@mikewilson3581]

@@psisis7423 Right. The thing is about Jazz is it's an escape from the mediocrity most folks wallow in musically these days. People can't say your favorites are rubbish because they don't know anything about your choices in the first place. I actually got into it in my 40's after picking up a Chet Baker compilation. His voice blew me away. Coltrane and God, Brubeck fighting racism with his music, and Jaco giving the bass the respect it deserves. I still love that footage of Hancock hitting a bum note and Miles giving him "The Look".

[@bahhumbug9824]

Boy did he nail the Beach Boys but good. LMAO @ jazz sounding a lot like Jethro Tull the way teacher plays it.

[@jarekharmening8993]

yeah, I noticed the same. Definitely more folk than Jazz.

[@dexterjankaren]

"Long live rock.....be it dead or alive!"

[@putridabomination]

Then you sir, are my nemesis!

[@Longetty]

then i'll live each day like my rockin' last !

[@CY0PS]

I started puberty minutes after watching my first Kids in the Hall show.

[@montesol]

I just bought a Choose Hell t-shirt for my Halloween costume as Old Man Bobby

[@TlalocW]

I knew guys like Bobby in high school. The easiest way to piss them off was to play a parody of, "Stairway to Heaven," (best one had the lyrics to, "Gilligan's Island," on it). "Dude, you can't mess with Stairway! That's sacrilegious!" I think you mean, "Sacri-licious!' * turns volume up *

[@chinapig45]

that noise bruce makes at the end is amazing

[@lokicoyote2607]

I like to think that Dave Foley's Mr Gorgenchuck character is actually the mystery serial mass murder in the Life as a Mass Murderer, and Substitute Axe sketches.

[@insectwarriorjojo7780]

Now that you say That? I can kinda see that. But? Sametime? He out and public so much about it? The mass murder. People won't say anything. You know chop chop

[@ryuuseipro]

This is one of my favorite KITH sketches EVER! And it's relevant about today's pop music, too.

[@cesarbaca]

This show was pure genius

[@dulaone]

Is it strange that in this modern time this sketch is pretty accurate?

[@mournblade1066]

It was pretty accurate back when it was made, too.

[@LTPottenger]

He was so right. Though I mostly blame napster since after that what people actually would pay for was basically irrelevant.

[@psisis7423]

Though every music is dying, all there is now are bpm formulas and discrete sound effects. At least there was some good alt&prog rock into 00s, good jazz died earlier

[@thenewyorkpauls]

Best sketch ever.

[@chocolatestraw3971]

We had guys like Bobby in band class, not sure why - the most modern songs we performed were Conga by Gloria Estefan and All I Need Is a Miracle by Mike and the Mechanics, and our biggest crowd-pleaser for the parents in the bleachers during basketball games was the Dallas theme song. Maybe because in between sets, they liked playing tapes on the band room's admittedly bad-ass stereo set-up. I made them hate me when I put in a tape, and Stairway to Heaven started playing, which got them excited, but it was a parody with the words to Gilligan's Island replacing the lyrics. The Bobbys declared that sacrilegious.

[@edwardmarcus8353]

I just looked up the Billboard top 100 after Kids in the Hall went off air. Mr. Gorgenchuck was right. Rock died in 5 years.

[@RC-Flight]

WOW, that information from the 80s turned out too be right!! Rock has basically died, when you look at most of today's popular music! Sad!!!! Not many bands rock out like they used too.

[@Ghadente]

Quit looking at pop music and you'll find better music, it's out there you just have to make an effort to find it.

[@insectwarriorjojo7780]

That true. But there some good modern ones. Steel panther and ninja sex party,Brandon Yates,therewolfmedia,etc. Only ones I can think of

[@RC-Flight]

@@insectwarriorjojo7780 you are right, their are some good rocking bands around, it’s just not very common to hear them on the radio.

[@oxenbarnstokkriii8152]

i love rock. and i love jazz flute

[@justlikeheathen]

Best sketch comedy show ever.

[@nebulousisgod]

This character Bobby reminds me a bit of Wayne Campbell and Garth Algar. Same generational trends. There were a lot of dudes like that then and now they’re just all metal heads. Or posers who dress like them.

[@bruce-le-smith]

Mr Gorgenchuck is a jazz maverick! #themightyboosh

[@Thornspyre81]

He mentions the Pogues haha awesome

[@Willowdog08]

He nailed it. Rock died in the mid 90’s

[@LTPottenger]

He was so right. Sad but true.

[@shivercanada]

WHAT? THey did this in the 90's during the Grunge era yet they were right that Rock was dying! PROPHETS!!!

[@knuteboy3778]

Haven't seen this in 30 years but I'll never forget it, because at the time I was an oddball teen getting into rock from the 70's and I was really into Bad Company. It was cool to hear a reference to them in a skit.

[@JustOneAsbesto]

This sketch isn't even 30 years old NOW, 2 years after your comment.

[@knuteboy3778]

@@JustOneAsbesto 2023-1990 = 33 years

[@JustOneAsbesto]

@@knuteboy3778 Holy shit, you're right. I raced home every day after elementary school to watch KitH. I never realized the pilot aired before I was 1 year old. My apologies.

[@knuteboy3778]

@@JustOneAsbesto Yeah no problem. I did look up the year before i posted the original comment because I couldn't quite remember what year it was..lol. I knew it was early in their run.

[@bubblegumgun3292]

LOL i went from liking rock as a stupid teen to liking jazz and other ethnic music

[@ralphyetmore]

Young me vs Old me

[@ErisRising]

This was the very first sketch comedy character I ever looked at with a shock of recognition.

[@sexobscura]

I decree The Carpenters were the saviours and invigorators of the *TRUE* Rock n Roll Spirit

[@theotherwalt]

If I Were A Carpenter.

[@barbaraarnzen5181]

😂😂😂

[@barbaraarnzen5181]

However, Karen did have one of the best pop voices ever - not just my opinion.

[@norahjaneeast5450]

What makes this funny is I think of this as a person looking back at how you were before sort of Like when I watched this I still were alarmed at how my buddies were starting to love Country music it was sort of like Invasion of the Bodie Snatchers tell they all did then you one day wake up and listen to the Music you hate that that jerk said you would I do like jazz at the time so I was sort of happy knowing Rock will give way to what ever maybe jazz maybe country but the music of boomers seen to go on forever

[@charleslee8313]

That skit was made roughly two or three years before Grunge hit the nation, and that was what saved Rock.

[@ilznidiotic]

Until '98, when it disappeared from the charts forever.

[@daweller]

he was close because after 1998 we haven't seen much, if any, good rock :(

[@ChristopherSobieniak]

If only for a short time.

[@BexRanner]

@@ilznidiotic Linkin Park topped charts until like 2008. Whether or not you thought they were any good is another matter...

[@218maryland]

@@BexRanner Right. I wouldn't consider Linkin Park rock, though. I wish rock still existed

[@SpaceshipCouch]

Those Jeans!

[@DRChupacabrah]

DOPE SHIRT

[@alvaroramos9069]

1974?...And that's why the Punk Revolution took over. Followed by the post-punk/Indie era.

[@400KrispyKremes]

You see the problem is the rap music. All these kids with the hipin' and the hopin' and the bipin' and the bopin', Soooo they don't know what the Jazz is all about you see...

[@patrickdoring7149]

Then you, sir, are my nemesis!

[@ChristopherSobieniak]

NOOOOOOOO!

[@rkgaustin9043]

The real 'School of Rock'.

[@frinkmhey]

Peter Gabriel, Oingo Boingo, and Devo. Frank Zappa was still making records. Music was alive in the 80's, just had to know where to look.

[@johnathancross7465]

I will never get drunk on one beer. Exactly bob. Lol great stuff.

[@tjconr2132]

then you sir, are my nemesis, lmfao. haha, like rock would ever die.

[@SmoothRiker]

Dave is right, if you nurse rock long enough your musical tastes can branch out. I've come to like some blues and folk because of rock. But I still like rock all the way.

[@maxxxmack]

Some of best acts of the past and today's music both popular and alternative come from canada, Arcade Fire, Our Lady Peace, Alanis Morissette, and Bare Naked Ladies to name a few. I'll also add that as a country, we apologize for nickleback, they didn't always suck.

[@bluepandaman]

They didn't realize how correct they were with this skit. Here we are in 2019 and nobody in the younger generations listens to rock.

[@guccideltaco]

I don't know; I teach music to 6-8th graders, and recently one of my 6th graders was telling all about the Slipknot concert he went to last year; a couple weeks later he asked if he could play Zombie by The Cranberries as a violin solo. And most of my 7th and 8th graders were excited when I got out Don't Stop Believin' by Journey for them to play at our next concert.

[@deanolium]

@@guccideltaco Though Don't Stop Believin' is more known as a meme than anything else. Similarly Zombie got a resurgence when Delores died. But kids listening to rock outside of songs which had a resurgence on social media is getting increasingly rare.

[@JesseMaurais]

3 years after this sketch, the Spice Girls hit the charts. Truly, the death cry of good music.

[@PaulTheSkeptic]

Can't a guy like jazz and rock?

[@erikk77]

Yes, especially if you're Neil Peart!

[@dbacksfan09]

No. It is impossible to like jazz. So, no.

[@elliebean1118]

Why sure, Bobby; we call those bass players. If you don't believe me take a look at the one you're with!

[@mef]

Dave was really playing that flute!

[@hotgirlie23]

I love this!!

[@TheRealMirCat]

This is only true with Corporate 'Music'. Long live Napalm Records!!!

[@mournblade1066]

Jazz. And he pulls out a freaking flute.

[@Billinois78]

Here's an example of Jazz influence in Metal: Original Megadeth members Chris Poland (lead guitar) and Gar Samuelson (drums) were jazz musicians before joining Megadeth. Listen to the albums they were on (which were the first 2, "Killing is My Business...and Business is Good" and "Peace Sells...But Who's Buying"). Some of those time shifts and arrangements, also heard in other metal and progressive rock, have some jazz roots (and blues), whether they know it or not.

[@vigo894]

@cookmoore= I loved him in the Beverly Hillbillies. Rock and roll isn't dead. The dignity of MTV is. I remember when MTV started fgoing down the toilet. I started playing techno and "gulp" country music on my radio.

[@zapproowsdower]

saved more than rock. so many fucked up youths during those years, myself included, nirvana was an escape worthy of its namesake.

[@KrasMazovHatesYourGuts]

Heavy Metal has been around for about 40 years, and its managed to survive like a cockroach in the underground, whereas highly popular music forms like disco, new wave, pop punk, the latin explosion and the swing revival have either died or are dying. I think that rock has survived fairly well. :)

[@avosmash2121]

I come to you from the far magical future year of 2021 and everything you said was correct except the disco thing. That one has....well it's been, uh, interesting. But not necessarily bad all the way. Actually all genres operate like that. But yeah, disco in its pure form's kinda waning since 2014 but its sound influence is undeniably all over the place in the background of any popular hits.

[@ThatAdultCrash24]

Of course you do, Bob.

[@MrROTD]

I still rock, so what if it's not the most popular any more?. There's still good rock music coming out all the time.

[@jtvalentine6]

Genius Straight forward comedy Bet they rehearsed the shit out of that one ✌️🇨🇦❤️

[@TheTsunamijuan]

I like the Jethro Tull Jab in there at the end.

[@siggyline]

@DasGoldenBoy We just so happen to have greats such as Rush, April Wine, Kim Mitchell, and Neil Young too!

[@ChristopherSobieniak]

I wanted Jazz to live.

[@BeforeAndAfterScience]

I'm in the garage!

[@Suicideblond]

love it

[@joelfogelsanger5773]

Bobby's got a nice basket.

[@patton303]

I love how many musical "experts" there are on KZbin. Haha......

[@narrowpath2474]

Incorrect jethro tull can make a jazz flute a weapon of rock😎🔥

[@barbaraarnzen5181]

So true!

[@fuscia13]

hahaha! love this one! Thnx, I want to see the Laura skit with Bruce as this character

[@wellesradio]

Nemesis? No, I am your future.

[@UnnamedVibesTree]

The funniest thing about this sketch is that he wasn't wrong...

[@Emiliapocalypse]

I actually saw Brian Wilson of The Beach Boys a few years ago. He was awesome actually! But the joke still stands 😂😂

[@Mrlzman]

Well, the problem with the Beach Boys was never Brian Wilson, he continues to be pretty cool, into old age. Mike Love, on the other hand, has been sad since birth.

[@ScottHeisel]

Thank you so much for posting it! One of my all-time fave KOTH bits. Seeing them tonight, too!

[@TabbyLavalamp]

Jazz is fantastic. But rock isn't dead, it just needed some new lifeblood from some different voices. I've got the new album from The Warning on pre-order, and bands like Band-Maid are making new fans all the time. Babymetal is a global phenomenon, and Rolling Quartz are doing great out of South Korea.

[@17golfstar]

Amazing

[@vamprealla]

Bobby is right!🤘🏻😆🤣

[@hobostovepipewife3419]

Hilarious indeed.