#Kinley Mochrie

[insidemymessymentalmind]

A fantastic interview from back in June featuring Colin and his wife Deb and daughter Kinley. Hearing them talk about the experience of being what is known as 'a trans family' has been quite an informative listen for me.

[sorio99]

“Colin Mochrie’s daughter is a major character in the Channel Awesome movies” is both a true statement and proof that our universe is just the dumbest.

[pinkdogplushie]

Wait, isn't Colin Mochrie Kinley Mochrie's dad?

the gay alien you keep rbing looks like colin mochrie

I... Garak??? Him??? Colin mocherie??

I'm crying you're not entirely wrong

[emilythecsi]

This was so sweet. A+ parenting, Colin

[wonderfulworldofmichaelford]

Michael After Midnight: TGWTG Anniversary Crossovers

I think enough time has passed where I can talk about these films without looking like I’m jumping on a trend.

Back when it was, you know, an actual thing, Channel Awesome would every so often gather together and make a big-as anniversary film to celebrate the site. The movies would always be these massive doorstoppers where everyone would be running around in Halloween costumes of whatever character they liked the most that fit the theme and fighting some random villain. None of this ever really tied in to their work, and none of this even remotely had anything to do with reviews. It was all just hanging around with friends and having dumb fun, and when I was younger I kind of just accepted that.

But certain revelations have made that dubious. No one was having fun making these. Everyone was miserable, except perhaps Doug Walker, who was just utterly oblivious to the plight of his coworkers. There was seedy stuff going on, people were pretty much being tortured and abused, and it’s a wonder anyone was ever able to feign enjoyment in any of their scenes. And looking back on these movies I used to remember fondly, I have to say… they kind of really, legitimately suck ass. These three films – Kickassia, Suburban Knights, and To Boldly Flee – are just legitimately painful and depressing to sit through, for reasons both meta and writing-wise.

The biggest problem with all of them is their humor, which is a pretty big problem when you’re starring a bunch of comedians, some of whom can be legitimately funny. The worst bits tend to revolve around the mind-boggling number of references they cram into each script; To Boldly Flee and Suburban Knights are much worse in this regard, as they have all of the actors literally dressed up as their favorite characters, but there are two examples of this sort of thing that shine as the worst examples of all. The first is Lindsay Ellis doing a Sarah Palin impersonation in Kickassia; Palin was such a flash-in-the-pan politician that it instantly dates the whole movie, and I don’t know if it was just bad writing, lack of direction, or what, but Ellis just fails to make this joke work at all. Like I know I can’t expect this to be as funny as Iron Sky’s Palin riffing, but still, it’s just sad.

The absolute worst, however, is JO in To Boldly Flee as Ed from Cowboy Bepob… at least that’s who I think he’s supposed to be playing. I know nothing about Cowboy Bebop and have outright refused to ever watch it because if Ed is anything like how JO played her, I’m going to fucking hate the whole show, Steve Blum and Melissa Fahn be damned. JO’s portrayal is whiny, hyper, annoying, manic, obnoxious… there’s not a single positive thing that can be said. His performance of the character is pretty much the poster child for just how absolutely awful these movies could get.

There’s also a lot of jokes where the punchline is basically just “this guy’s body/genitalia is funny, teehee.” Suburban Knights and To Boldly Flee have some truly awful examples of this, such as the numerous upskirts Doug Walker gets as Link and the infamous Spoony Dune scene. But even that isn’t the worst of it. The worst of it comes from the frequent states of near-nudity that Justin “JewWario” Carmichael would find himself in throughout these films. To Boldly Flee has him channeling George Takei and fencing without his shirt on, which is bad enough, but Suburban Knights has perhaps the worst scene of all, in any of these films, though only with hindsight.

For those of you not familiar, JewWario was outed as a creepy sexual predator during the whole #ChangeTheChannel fiasco. The guy groomed young women and did god knows what else during his time on the site, with none of his coworkers any the wiser and the management doing their best to cover it up; in fact, everyone only found out because the suits who owned CA made a huge blunder during their rebuttal of the claims of its former employees. With all of that context, please try and rewatch Suburban Knights’ climax in which JewWario helps save the day by revealing his penis to everyone. This right here is Keyser Soze levels of “uncomfortable in hindsight.”

The stories aren’t much better, and often fall into the same sort of issues that The Angry Video Game Nerd movie fell into, in that nothing in these films really showcases why we love the reviewers; Kickassia infamously has the Dr. Insano twist, as one example of how they botched this. All of these movies just feel too epic in scope and don’t really try to incorporate anything that we love about these reviewers into the films. Only To Boldly Flee really does anything right in that regard, as it throws back to everything from oneshot Nostalgia Critic villains to the Todd-Lindsay-Lupa love triangle to Phelous dying… the real problem is you have to actually sit through To Boldly Flee to see that. The movies go for these epic plots where the reviewers do cool shit like take over micronations (Kickassia), quest for powerful artifacts (Suburban Knights), or deal with extremely heavy-handed and hamfisted allegories for internet privacy bills (To Boldly Flee). You’d think maybe throwing a bunch of comedians into an epic plot like any of these could lead to some funny jokes, or maybe some sort of Monty Python-esque parody, but no, instead these comedians decide to revel in melodrama and try to genuinely act, with EXTREMELY mixed results. It doesn’t help that some of these people just aren’t even remotely funny when they’re trying to be.

Here’s the thing with The Angry Video Game Nerd’s movie, in comparison to these, though: it may have had this epic, ridiculous, goofy plot involving Area 51, kaiju, aliens, and crappy Atari games buried in a landfill, but the entire plot was building up to, and ultimately delivered on, the promise of the long-awaited review of the E.T. game. For all the film’s flaws, Rolfe knew what we loved about the Nerd, he knew what the fans wanted, and by god did he give it to them in the silliest, most epic way possible. Even if I didn’t love the film, the fact Rolfe knew why we’d want to see a feature-length Nerd film in the first place speaks volumes about how he understands that he can do what will make him happy artistically and still show the fans what they want to see.

These movies from the Channel Awesome crew don’t seem to get that at all. They don’t build up to a review. They don’t build up to them discovering the worst movie or song or whatever they review. They’re all very straightforward genre comedies where they can make a bunch of shallow, Seltzer & Friedberg-esque “Look at this thing that exists! That’s a joke right?” references. Aside from seeing your favorite reviewers in a goofy plot like this, where is there any bit of the reason you watch these people in the first place? Maybe it wouldn’t be so bad if they were playing characters instead of them playing themselves, in their internet reviewer personas; at least then you wouldn’t be watching Brad Jones stumbling around in a Darth Vader helmet and think to yourself miserably “God I wish that poor guy was watching another E.T. porno.”

So there are some positives in these films, shockingly enough. Brad Jones is consistently good across the entire ‘trilogy,’ especially in Kickassia where he has the good sense to walk out on all the bullshit for a while. Maybe it’s just because these films got me interested in him, but I definitely think he does a good job. The same can be said for a lot of the actors, such as the bad guy in Suburban Knights and Ma-Ti’s actor; they manage to deliver at least solid performances in spite of the films. And then there are the James Rolfe cameos, and it’s just always good to see Rolfe in general.

To Boldly Flee, despite its reputation, actually has a lot of genuinely good bits. For instance, the distraction song is actually a really solid musical number. Linkara, Doug, and Spoony actually play really well off of each other, so when they have their three idiot villains team up they at least get some decently good moments. And other reviewers I generally like such as Phelous or Todd do a solid job, and frankly in To Boldly Flee Doug Walker does show some impressive dramatic acting… but it’s in service of a character who has previously been portrayed as a petulant, whiny, self-serving, egotistical manchild, so it almost feels like he’s playing a totally different character. Still, credit where credit is due.

None of these films succeed at what they want to. Ostensibly, they are supposed to be celebrating the site and the friendship of the reviewers, but as I mentioned, there’s no reviewing, there’s nothing that indicates what the site is about, and they all just come off as ego-stroking self-congratulatory wanking. None of these films were worth the pain and suffering that the cast and crew had to go through to produce these, and watching them at all these days is especially hard knowing that a lot of these people are smiling and joking through pain, stress, and abuse. It’s sick.

Kickassia may be the most competent, but that isn’t saying much at all. Aside from the whole Palin bit, this one has a simple, straightforward plot and is relatively down-to-earth, and it almost feels like it really was just a bunch of friends making a shitty low budget action movie in the desert… something sadly undermined by reality. Suburban Knights is probably one of the most uncomfortable to sit through due to jokes like Film Brain saying he’d eat Kinley Mochrie’s “pea-ness” (this was before she came out mind you) and the numerous jokes surrounding JewWario’s junk, but it almost works, like it nearly comes close to being a dumb epic fantasy comedy, but it just frequently shoots itself in the foot with the bad writing and acting and its overreliance on references.

To Boldly Flee is, to put it absolutely simple, a hot mess. This film is an utter trainwreck from start to finish. It is the Battlefield Earth of internet review movies, a bloated, messy, overly long dumpster fire with some of the most nightmarish behind-the-scenes stories and horrendous financial mismanagement you could ever imagine. But where Battlefield Earth is at least unintentionally funny, this film… is not. This film just makes you feel bad for everyone involved, it makes your heart ache for all the poor reviewers who had to suffer under the miserable conditions, it makes you question Doug Walker’s sanity in thinking he could turn his screeching manchild of a reviewer into some tragic martyr in a total 180 from how he had always been portrayed prior. None of these three films are worth sitting through, but I think To Boldly Flee is, with hindsight, the one least worth sitting through, which is a truly incredible accomplishment.

It’s kind of tragic. I still like a lot of the reviewers who took part in these – Todd, Linkara, Phelous, Brad Jones, and even Doug to some extent (though that’s an unpopular opinion these days) – but I just can’t muster up any forgiveness for these films anymore. And I don’t blame any of the people in it (except maybe Doug); most of them were there out of obligation or friendship or what have you. These films are just a monument to hubris, ignorance, broken friendships, horrible management, and wanton cruelty to those who called you friends.

See that picture up there at the top? With all of them gathered together like friends? God, how I wish that were the reality. How I wish that picture accurately reflected life, that they were all pals having a good time and that these films were something they were proud of. But behind that picture are stories all of them could tell of hurt, betrayal, resentment, anger, contempt, and some very unspeakable things in Carmichael’s case. I wish the sort of world a surface level glance at that picture shows you existed, where the crew of TGWTG all had a blast making these shitty movies together, because at least in that case I could find a sort of ironic enjoyment in them. But reality has gone out of its way to undermine any of that. 

[ms-chaotic]

This just in Colin Mochrie from Who's Line Is It Anyway loves and supports his trans daughters and so does his mother and mother in law. Colin's daughter's name is Kinley and I love her.

[shwoo]

So I’ve been fascinated with the fourth, and worst, Channel Awesome anniversary film, To Boldly Flee, for a while. Even apart from the poor filming conditions, there’s the three and half hour runtime, the terrible love triangle subplot, the subplot that’s mostly word-for-word Star Wars quotes, the jokes that go on for twice as long as they need to, the bit where a character overhears a villain assimilating another character into the Borg Collective and assumes they’re having sex, the implications that rights holders care enough about Internet reviewers to want to legislate them out of existence, the personality makeovers some of the characters get, the weird dichotomy between good, worthwhile art and bad, pointless art, the bit where the Nostalgia Critic meets his creator, has to decide whether or not to destroy the universe, and then becomes God...

There’s so much so bad it’s good here. And the people who acted in it did a pretty good job sneaking the occasional funny bit in, usually through line delivery or body language.

Earlier this year I did a whole in-depth summary/mockery of the movie. It’s pretty bad, and almost as unnecessarily long as the movie itself, but I kind of want to post less bad excerpts. Like some of the smarter things I said, and the stupider tangents? I went on some pretty stupid tangents.

I might do that, but for now, here’s some of my favourite bad exchanges from the movie.

(Note: I see no good way to refer to Kinley Mochrie’s character without either deadnaming or implying that she is her character, so I will call her Kinley Mochrie’s Character. All other characters are referred to by their character names to distinguish them the people portraying them)

HOW DARE SHE (After Obscurus Lupa politely turns down Todd in the Shadows, who has been stalking her for some time) 8-Bit Mickey: Look, Zorro, can you take your love triangle outside? Todd in the Shadows: Outside is a cold, heartless vacuum. 8-Bit Mickey: Yeah, and so’s Lupa.

THE NOSTALGIA CRITIC IS THE MOST IMPORTANT CHARACTER IN HOMESTUCK Film Brain: You can’t just leave us now. We need you! I need you. You’re like a hero to me! Nostalgia Critic: Oh come on, Film Brain, I’m no hero. Film Brain: Yes you are! You’re the best critic there is! Nostalgia Critic: I’m not even a good critic! All I do is yell and scream at things I don’t like. What kind of critic does that? Film Brain: You gave us a voice. A place to call our own. Nostalgia Critic: And how many Ma-Tis will it take? How many more crappy laws will be invented because of my bullshit?

EVEN LESS SELF-AWARENESS THAN USUAL Darth Snob: So. The Critic’s in the Hole. Your failure is now complete. Once we have him on our side, we’ll turn him into the next Tommy Wiseau. Kinley Mochrie’s Character: (Anguished) Stoooop!

CHAUCER <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< PUDDING Film Brain: You think I don’t understand? To be the lackey, to be the butt of everyone’s jokes? For goodness sake, I’m British! Our only contributions to culture is comedic crossdressing and spotted dick.

I AM 99% SURE THIS WAS SCRIPTED (The characters reminisce as they face their deaths) Linkara: Hey. Remember the Man Who Fell To Earth review? That was brilliant. Oancitizen: Thanks. Alone in the Dark was pretty good too. Obscurus Lupa: That was a great crossover. 8-Bit Mickey: So is this.

[genzedcomedy]

Pew pew!

[kurgarru]

Beautiful yet also heart-breaking to see the outpouring of love & hope towards this very sweet but pretty basic parental affection.

people keep spreading the misinformation that Colin Mochrie’s daughter is named leia because star wars but she actually asked her parents for name suggestions and picked Kinley from the list they gave her, please respect her name?

[mikayla-jays-world-blog]

Inspiring mini-doc on Canadian actor Colin Mochrie and the support of his daughter and transwoman Kinley Mochrie.

[glucophage5mg]

Colin Mochrie Net Worth 2021: Age, Height, Weight, Wife, Kids, Bio-Wiki

Colin Mochrie Net Worth 2021: Age, Height, Weight, Wife, Kids, Bio-Wiki

Colin Mochrie Celebrated Name: Colin Mochrie Real Name/Full Name: Colin Andrew Mochrie Gender: Male Age: 64 years old Birth Date: 30 November 1957 Birth Place: Kilmarnock, United Kingdom Nationality: British, Canadian Height: 1.85 m Weight: 85 kg Sexual Orientation: Straight Marital Status: Married Wife/Spouse (Name): Debra McGrath (m. 1989) Children: Yes (Kinley…

[desymbol]

‘Whose Line Is It Anyway?’ Star Colin Mochrie Schools Internet Trolls Who Attacked His Daughter On Her Birthday

‘Whose Line Is It Anyway?’ Star Colin Mochrie Schools Internet Trolls Who Attacked His Daughter On Her Birthday

A lot of kids cringe in mild shame when their parents post on social media. But not Kinley Mochrie. Ever since the trans woman came out to her father in April 2016, he was nothing but supportive. Even if it means responding to nasty internet trolls.

“Happy birthday to my lovely Daughter,” Colin Mochrie, a symbol of the popular improvisational comedy television show Whose Line Is It Anyway?wrote.…

[marzgurl]

Whatever happened to Paw and Colin Mochrie's daughter(blanking on her new name and don't want to refer to her by her old name)? Other than the latter coming out as trans, they seemed to drop off the face of the earth. I wonder if they have any stories about all this.

Paw and Elisa are about as happy as I can tell they are from someone of a distance with their young son. Kinley Mochrie is doing well, and in fact we recently reconnected. I know she joined a division of Second City, at least for a little while. Can’t say I know much more about what’s happening in her life, but we both expressed we’d like to catch up.

[redandfranticfeelings]

All of this because of your opinions on channel awesome?

thats why i got shit on on kiwifarms yeah. cuz i corrected someone spreading personal info about producers and misgendering kinley mochrie