Comedy Central sprung into being when I was eleven years old. I fell in love with The Kids in the Hall two weeks after it debuted. I loved everything about them: M.C. Simon MILLIGan and Manservant Hecubus, every character Scott Thompson played, "These are the Daves I know, I know these are the Daves I know", "I'm crushing your head," and perhaps one of my favorite sketches best described as 'lethargic home invasion'. Maybe you know it.

I followed with great delight the careers in American comedy of Dave Foley and Mark McKinney in particular. Newsradio was one of the most underrated shows in history and McKinney was wonderful in the wonderful Superstore. And its pretty clear Scott Thompson was, in his own way, even more of a groundbreaker than Ellen DeGeneres was. They still together every few years and they're still funny, even though they're not Kids any more. Admittedly some of their early humor has aged badly but it's hard not to love the way they loved to shatter the fourth wall in a way not even Monty Python was willing to do.