The Offensive Sketch Comedy Series On Streaming That Still Holds Up
Like most kids who grew up in the ‘90s and early aughts, I spent an unhealthy amount of time with my friends recording comedy skits that I’m so glad will never see the light of day. Though there is an irrational fear in the back of my mind that one day those tapes will resurface (I hope they were burned) and ruin both my personal and professional life, I still look back at those days through rose-colored glasses because it was just me and friends exploring our creativity through offensive humor and the worst editing skills known to man. These days, I live vicariously through The Whitest Kids U’ Know because their brand of humor, while more thought out and refined than my own when I was a teenager, mirrors what so many kids were doing with their dad’s camcorder whenever they could sneak it out of the house.
Extreme Comedy In The Purest Sense
The Whitest Kids U’ Know, named after the comedy troupe of the same name, ran for five seasons and never once tried to be anything it wasn’t.
Founded by and starring Trevor Moore (god rest his idiotic soul), Zach Cregger, Sam Brown, Timmy Williams, and Darren Trumeter, The Whitest Kids U’ Know pulled no stops in rewriting American History through the use of powdered wigs and terrible colonial and British accents. The gang also had a lot of fun screaming at babies, filming gangster rap music videos prominently featuring Adolf Hitler as the hottest MC to ever come out of Europe, reenacting Super Size Me but with Trevor Moore drinking nothing but whiskey for 30 days, and pooping one’s pants during an important meeting (a business meeting!).
Never shying away from the use of what I refer to as “gamer words you’d only find on 4chan,” The Whitest Kids U’ Know explores conspiracy theories, race relations, and toilet humor with a level of immaturity that makes me foam at the mouth with envy every time I throw on an episode while working on projects around the house.
My personal favorite skit involves Trevor Moore acting as a lawyer who’s trying to convince the jury that his client who murdered his wife and child -and who is absolutely dead to rights- should be let free by convincing everybody on the jury that it’s “opposite day,” which results in total courthouse chaos when it’s time to deliver a verdict. This simple premise, overacted to perfection, is what The Whitest Kids U’ Know is all about.
Fearlessly Immature
There’s no proper way to describe The Whitest Kids U’ Know other than calling it exactly what it is: an unhinged exploration of young-adult immaturity with proper studio backing. It’s obvious that the series had a relatively small production budget, but the skits thrive on simple set pieces, which are elevated through over-the-top dialogue, physical comedy, or both.
A perfect example of the ingenuity found in a Whitest Kids U’ Know skit involves Trevor running at breakneck speeds down the street so he could dump a packet of Kool-Aid into the Long Island Sound in order to turn the entire body of water red. There’s not much to it, but it’s delivered with such a sense of urgency, you can’t help but be enthralled.
The End Of An Era
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The Whitest Kids U’ Know is the live-action version of the group chat you don’t want leaked, the home movies you made with your friends that got you grounded for a month, and a snapshot of millennial shock humor in its purest form. If you want to experience what I consider to be the missing link between The Kids in the Hall and I Think You Should Leave with Tim Robinson, you’ll feel right at home plowing through all five seasons of The Whitest Kids U’ Know.
The sad reality that we have to live with is that The Whitest Kids U’ Know comedy troupe we all know and love has officially dissolved after Trevor Moore’s untimely passing in 2021. While the troupe’s final project, Mars, saw a 2024 Tribeca Film Festival release, and features Moore’s final contributions before fatally falling off his home’s balcony, we’ll probably never see any new material under the Whitest Kids U’ Know banner outside of any unreleased footage from the series if such a thing were to ever resurface.
As of this writing, you can stream all five seasons of The Whitest Kids U’ Know for free on Tubi.
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