Initially involved with Kids in the Hall: Brain Candy, he left the troupe in the middle of the writing, dissatisfied with the internal strife and the quality of the script, and joined the NewsRadio cast instead. Foley played characters including Hecubus, one of the Sizzler sisters, the A. The troupe's eponymous TV series debuted in 1988 and ended in 1995. Foley, McDonald, Bruce McCulloch, Mark McKinney and Scott Thompson formed The Kids in the Hall in 1984. He played Lewis Allen in the miniseries Anne of Avonlea.
The Kids in the Hall at the 2008 Toronto International Film FestivalĪfter dropping out of high school, Foley pursued standup comedy for about a year in the Toronto Second City Training Centre, where he began taking improv classes and met Kevin McDonald, who gave him a job as an usher at a local art house movie theatre.