The Kids in the Hall: Comedy Punks

Feature documentary. SXSW, Hot Docs, Prime Video.

Canadian Screen Award Winner Best Biography Documentary Canadian Cinema Editors Award Nominee: Best Editing in feature Documentary Hollywood Critics Association Award Nominee: Best Streaming Docuseries

“Like most traditional docs, Comedy Punks is structured around the usual talking heads interviews mixed with archived footage, home videos, photographs, and the like. What makes it different, truly different, is the editing…This may be Harkema’s film and the Kids’ story, but its editors Peter Denes and David McMahon’s pitch-perfect timing that makes the entire documentary feel like we’re watching one of the troupe’s live shows with each member riffing off the other…Comedy Punks’s frank approach is an appropriate celebration of a legacy that continues to grow and is bound to grow all the more in part to Harkema’s documentary, one of best documentaries of 2022.”

— Douglas Davidson, Elements of Madness