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Remember "Blinded by the Light"? Not the song, the sketch

by Danny Gallagher, posted Oct 12th 2009 7:08PM

For some reason, Showtime's original series have been attempting to reference every major song on the Billboard '70s and '80s rock chart in their episode titles. Last night's Dexter titled "Blinded by the Light" kept sticking in my head and then I remembered why.

Just as the Kids in the Hall were coming to a close in Canada, Lorne Michaels brought a lesser known comedy troupe called The Vacant Lot to the CBC and Comedy Central. It only lasted one season, but one of their very funny inaugural sketches "Blinded by the Light" got stuck in my brain. Thankfully YouTube is required to save every memory ever recorded, and that includes the Vacant Lot's sketches. Enjoy.

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The Deej

I remember first seeing this performed live on CBC's Just for Laughs.

October 13 2009 at 3:27 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Beth

My favorite Vacant Lot sketch was the song, "slept on his arms last night." If you don't know it, look it up on youtube and enjoy.

October 13 2009 at 1:02 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Pingles

That was a very funny and perplexingly low resolution video!

October 12 2009 at 9:22 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Dan

I've found 'Pamper Me' and 'Knee Slap' on P2P networks. That's the only thing from Vacant Lot I can find...

October 12 2009 at 7:59 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Stevie

My friends and I quote this sketch all the time, as well as some of their others. WTF happened to those guys? more importantly, why hasn't the series been made available on DVD? I feel like most sketch comedy shows are overrated, but this one seemed completely overlooked, and it was really fun.

October 12 2009 at 7:52 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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Nic

Agreed. The show only lasted one series but it was deeply twisted and completely hilarious. The sketch where a guy gets caught smuggling by Mexican border patrol and instead of torturing him, they make him eat a massive bag of candy and turn a bunch of kids loose on him (human pinata!) had me in tears. DVD PLEASE.

October 12 2009 at 9:38 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Lady Olivier

I talked about this sketch as well as the Flock of Seagulls hair time machine sketch all the time. Finally had to track it down on youtube for my little sister who was too young to see it back then to see now. I also found a bunch of Mr Show and The State stuff (before the dvd was out) for her to see too. Kids these days they don't have what we used to!

Great Sketch glad to see someone else likes it too.

October 12 2009 at 7:32 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply

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