THE McBRIDE BROTHERS
....poster children for birth control
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Greetings and salutations. Welcome to the completely demented paradox that is McBride. This page has been designed with the sole intent to confuse, abuse, and toy with your head and to guide you in all things McBride. If you're new to The McBride Brothers this is where you can find out what you've probably been avoiding most of your life. And even if you're a stalk... dedicated fan... you can take the time to soak yourself in the essense only known as McBride.
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Oct. 7, 2005
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WHO ARE THEY?
The McBride Brothers, in all reality, are five Hoosiers that were joined together, at the hip, and write and perform comedic sketches to be seen in morgues, pet cemeteries, and other similar comedic entertainment venues around the country. The Brothers are as follows: Grant Boyd, Jon Hurley, Kyle Lowden, Nick Nobel, and Nathan Smith. Joining together in high school, they've created a bizarre type of humor that could never truly be described on a frequency humans would understand. It varies from slap-stick to dry wit only matched by a barren desert. All of the brothers write (some at a greater rate than others) and they feel their best writing dynamic is when they write together and bounce off each other.
THE McBRIDE BROTHERS?
The name for the sketch comedy group is a very uninteresting story but has been asked repeatedly since none of them have McBride as a last name. The name surfaced after the war on the populous of Togo who were invaded by the world power that was San Marino. In the beginning, there were many options. There was "Meeker and his Unwanted Band of Jigaloes"(yes Jig not Gig), "The Four Toed Sloths" (which Kyle regrets thinking of to this day), "Men who've Seen Dick Enburg on National Television" (one of their finest moments), or "The McBride Brothers". Eventually, The McBride Brothers was chosen. Rumor has it that Nathan didn't like the name for the group as much as his own "Meeker and Co." but has coped with it quite nicely referencing a quote from Kid in the Hall Scott Thompson, "Its better than being known as a serial killer."
HOW DID IT BEGIN?
As much as they would like it to be some exotic story about bumping into each other looking into each others eyes and knowing right there and then that they were to make history... but that would have been extremely disturbing and unsettling. Jon and Grant had been going to the same school since roughly third grade. Kyle came to Canterbury when he was in fifth grade. Two years later, Nathan came to Canterbury and history was forever changed...or at least it is thought to have changed. They're not sure how but they say it has something to do with a monkey. Kyle and Nathan had become friends quickly and discovered they had three things in common: 1) both liked Monty Python 2) both were left handed and 3) both had an extremely bizarre sense of humor. They had an idea for a sketch and the group was created in 1998. After a summer of writing they asked Jon to join the group, and later that year offered Grant a spot in the group. Then two long and exhausting years later they found Nick, a lowly freshman at the time and these juniors courageously took him under their wing and taught him the intrinsic value of sketch comedy. He joined April 2001.... and so it was.
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Grant * Jon * Kyle * Nick * Nathan
Toby * Winky * Sean * Jared * Simon
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***LAST UPDATED 5/1/05***
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