Mark McKinney

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Birthday:

26 June 1959, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Birth Name:

Mark Douglas Brown McKinney

Height:

180 cm

Mark was born to Russell, a Canadian diplomat, and Chloe, an architectural writer, McKinney. Since his dad was a diplomat Mark and his siblings spent most of their childhood traveling with him. Mark's younger brother, Nick, is also a comedian and appeared on the short lived Comedy Central sketch comedy show The Vacant Lot. Mark attended a number of schools in cities around the world while traveling with his father, including Trinidad, Paris, and Washington D.C. He met Bruce McCulloch at the Loose Moose Theater Company, and the two joined with two other comedians to form the comedy troupe, 'The Audience', which performed at Theatresports. Later, Mark moved with Bruce to Toronto and met Dave Foley and Kevin McDonald. They combined to form The Kids In the Hall. He then later starred in the TV cult sensation, The Kids in the Hall (1988) . After the show was canceled in 1994, Mark became a cast member of Saturday Night Live (1975) from 1995 to 1997. Mark had roles in various movies including A Night at the Roxbury (1998), The Out-of-Towners (1999), The Ladies Man (2000) and Dog Park (1998) and Superstar (1999) which were both directed by Kids In The Hall co-star and friend Bruce McCulloch. Show less «

It took us a while to figure out what the camera did to comedy, but that was a creative lesson to learn. If you go back to our first season ...Show more »

It took us a while to figure out what the camera did to comedy, but that was a creative lesson to learn. If you go back to our first season you'll see a few sketches without any kind of editing that television allows you to do to make the thing pace up a bit. But the half-hour format was very generous. We were indulged and coached and nurtured in such a fantastic way that it kind of spoiled us. We got to do this completely original thing at a very young age, and then we got to discover what he bigger business was actually like. Show less «

[on 'The Kids in the Hall'' in the 1980s] We get discovered by Lorne [Michaels] and then there is a whole new door of the industry opening u...Show more »

[on 'The Kids in the Hall'' in the 1980s] We get discovered by Lorne [Michaels] and then there is a whole new door of the industry opening up which is cable and which meant that you could do a show that was more specific, and more cult-y and edgy, because you didn't need to amass the gigantic audiences that at that time were required to make a network show a hit. Show less «