Solid writing, memorable characters and strong host-segment sketches made it a perennial favorite with Saturday morning viewers. MST3K still holds up 25 years after its debut. Connection’s 1985 syndicated Mad Movies, and the following year’s The Canned Film Festival, as well as Denver’s famed High Street KFML-AM radio show, simulcast with KWGN’s Monday night movie during the early 1970s - exploited the same premise. Shows that riffed on TV - such as 1963’s Fractured Flickers, the L.A. The urge to mock films is as old as the dawn-of-sound sequence in Singin’ in the Rain, Woody Allen’s 1966 comic overdub What’s Up, Tiger Lily? and 1982’s It Came From Hollywood. They had so much fun, they said they’d come back.” "The shows last year were uproarious, and they are really easy to work with. “When they brought the show here, it was the first time they’d ever done it that way," Wilder recalls.
Wilder, who’s managed the club through its fifth anniversary, first contacted Conniff in March 2015 about bringing a variation on the theme to Voodoo.
This duo is one of the many recombinations of the core personnel who crafted the highly successful MST3K. “They like to keep it a secret,” says Voodoo head honcho Steve Wilder of the mockable movies on the menu for Friday and Saturday, when Trace Beaulieu and Frank Conniff, stars of TV’s iconic 1988-1999 Mystery Science Theater 3000 series, will return to Voodoo for a live movie riff – with a different feature film each night, along with selected shorts. Whatever happens at Voodoo Comedy Playhouse this weekend, it will definitely come as a surprise.
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