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Scott Thompson
Canadian television actor and comedian

Scott Thompson

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Canadian television actor and comedian
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Place of birth
North Bay, Nipissing District, Ontario, Canada
Age
65 years
Education
Brampton Centennial Secondary School
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Biography

John Scott Thompson (born June 12, 1959), known professionally as Scott Thompson, is a Canadian actor and comedian, best known as member of the comedy troupe The Kids in the Hall and for playing Brian on The Larry Sanders Show.

Early life

Thompson was born North Bay, Ontario and grew up in Brampton. Named for his uncle, he later dropped the name "John" to simplify his name for the stage. He was the second oldest of the five children in his family.

He attended Brampton Centennial Secondary School, and was a witness to the 1975 Brampton Centennial Secondary School shooting. He enrolled at York University but in his third year was asked to leave for being "disruptive". He joined the comedy troupe The Love Cats, where he met Mark McKinney.

Career

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Thompson at his Brampton Arts Walk of Fame star unveiling, 2014

In 1984, Thompson became a member of The Kids in the Hall, whose eponymous sketch comedy series aired starting 1989 on the CBC in Canada and on HBO in the United States, but moved to CBS for its fourth and fifth seasons. Openly gay, Thompson became best known on the show for his monologues as "alpha queen" socialite Buddy Cole, and his appearances as Queen Elizabeth II, secretary Cathy, businessman Danny Husk, suburban housewife Fran, actress Francesca Fiore, and the demented old man in the popular "Love and Sausages" sketch.

Concurrently with The Kids in the Hall, Thompson and his writing colleague Paul Bellini collaborated in a queercore punk band called Mouth Congress.

During the mid-1990s Thompson ran an interactive website, developed by his younger brother Craig and called ScottLand. It had a live-chat area, voting and comedy espionage and sold Buddy Cole T-shirts and video tapes of comedy sketches.

He also appeared regularly on The Larry Sanders Show as Hank Kingsley's personal assistant Brian, and made numerous guest appearances on other television series, including Politically Incorrect, The Late Show, Late Night with Conan O'Brien, and Train 48. Thompson hosted a reality television program in Canada called My Fabulous Gay Wedding. Thompson defended Mordecai Richler's novel Cocksure in Canada Reads 2006. He has continued to tour, and act in numerous movies and on TV.He joined the other Kids in the Hall to tour as recently as 2014, guest-starred in two episodes of Reno 911!, and performed in the project Death Comes to Town (2010) with fellow KITH members Dave Foley, Bruce McCulloch, Mark McKinney, and Kevin McDonald. He had a recurring role in the NBC series Hannibal, playing Jimmy Price, an FBI crime scene investigator.

Thompson published a humour book, Buddy Babylon: The Autobiography of Buddy Cole, and a graphic novel, The Hollow Planet, based on characters from The Kids in the Hall, and has written and performed two one-man shows. In 2014, Thompson, in character as Buddy Cole, did a series of reports on The Colbert Report as the program's correspondent for the 2014 Winter Olympics.

In 2015, Bellini and Thompson uploaded all of their Mouth Congress recordings to Bandcamp, and they reunited the following year for several live shows to promote the release. They launched a Kickstarter campaign to fund a documentary film about the band; that film, Mouth Congress, premiered at the Kingston Canadian Film Festival in 2021.

Around this time, Thompson performed his Buddy Cole monologues at the Portland Queer Comedy Festival.

In 2018, Thompson launched Après le Déluge – The Buddy Cole Monologues, a one-man show in character as Buddy Cole.

Personal life

Thompson is openly gay.

Firebombing

In 2000, Thompson was living with his boyfriend, French documentarian Joel Soler, in Hollywood. Soler had smuggled footage out of Iraq to make an E! News-style satiric political documentary comedy, Uncle Saddam, about the eccentricities in the home life of Saddam Hussein and his family, which bubbled behind Hussein's dictatorial façade. Thompson wrote the narration for the movie, which was read by actor Wallace Langham. Following the movie's release, Thompson and Soler's West Hollywood home was firebombed on November 1, 2000. Thompson has discussed the details of this incident in interviews with Jesse Brown of Canadaland and fellow Canadian comic Elvira Kurt, as being inspiration for his future show The Lowest Show on Earth. In the interview with Kurt, he says of the attack, "We were sleeping and a group came to our home. They filled our giant garbage cans with gasoline and set them on fire on our front lawn. They had buckets of red paint. They covered the house with it so it dripped off like blood. They put a note in the front hall that said, 'In the name of Allah, the merciful and compassionate, burn this Satanic film or you will be dead'. They underlined "dead" just in case we weren't freaked out enough".

This, along with many other incidents throughout Thompson's life, including the 1975 Centennial Secondary School shooting at his Brampton high school, led him to process incidents of terror on micro- and macrocosmic levels through his one-man comedy show The Lowest Show on Earth. Thompson went on tour with this show and secured a spot in New York, off-Broadway. The posters—featuring Thompson lying supine on the ground with a big wad of semen dripping down the side of his face—went up around the city on September 10, 2001. The following day, the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center made the one-man show's difficult material impossible to talk about.

Health

In March 2009, Thompson was diagnosed with B-cell non-Hodgkin's gastric lymphoma. He completed six rounds of chemotherapy and one month of radiation and is now cancer-free.

Filmography

Film

YearTitleRoleNotes
1985Head OfficeMan Outside Office BuildingUncredited
1989MillenniumController
1994Super 8½Buddy Cole
1996Kids in the Hall: Brain CandyBaxter / Mrs. Hurdicure / Wally
1997Hijacking HollywoodRussell
1997HayseedJ.D. Wood
1999Mickey Blue EyesFBI Agent Lewis
2001TartKenny
2002Run Ronnie Run!Scott Thompson
2003Nobody Knows Anything!Mechanic
2004My Baby's DaddyCashier
2004Ham & CheeseFloyd
2005The PacifierDirector
2006Another Gay MovieAndy's Dad
2008Another Gay Sequel: Gays Gone Wild!
2014Patch TownExecutive #2
2017Don't Talk to IreneBarrett
2018The Go-GettersYoung Guy
2023Zombie TownAndy
2023My AnimalMarcel

Television

YearTitleRoleNotes
1987Street LegalDirectorEpisode: "Desperate Alibi"
1988, 1990The CampbellsRed2 episodes
1988–1995; 2022The Kids in the HallVarious characters109 episodes
1995–1998The Larry Sanders ShowBrian35 episodes
1998Tracey Takes On...MatthewEpisode: "Religion"
1998More Tales of the CityArlington LuceEpisode #1.2
1998Veronica's ClosetScottyEpisode: "Veronica's Great Model Search"
1999JesseCecilEpisode: "Cecil, the Angry Postman"
1999Star Trek: VoyagerTominEpisode: "Someone to Watch Over Me"
2000Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every ChildPrince Rip / RabbitEpisode: "The Frog Princess"
2001Dharma & GregDavidEpisode: "Kitty Dearest"
2001Further Tales of the CityArlington Luce3 episodes
2001ProvidenceElliot Anderman9 episodes
2002The Red SneakersAldoTelevision film
2002–2004RoboRoachRube52 episodes
2003Odd Job JackDr. Prof. RandalfEpisode: "Lord of the 3-Ring Binder"
2003Touched by an AngelHerbertEpisode: "The Show Must Not Go On"
2003Made in CanadaCharles StrongEpisode: "Richard's Brother"
2003Lilo & Stitch: The SeriesMrs. Pleakley2 episodes
2003–2018The SimpsonsGrady4 episodes
2004Prom Queen: The Marc Hall StoryLonnie WinnTelevision film
2004Aqua Teen Hunger ForceDusty GozongasEpisode: "Dusty Gozongas"
2004Grounded for LifeDr. KaganEpisode: "Psycho Therapy"
2005Puppets Who KillJules CashearEpisode: "Cuddles the Artist"
2005Burnt ToastTimTelevision film
2005, 2006G-SpotCounsellor / Group Leader2 episodes
2006The Jane ShowDr. Tyler MilgramEpisode: "Should Have Said"
2007Fawlty Tower OxnardThe Major3 episodes
2007, 2008CarpoolersTom / Rich Carpooler4 episodes
2009Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!RicardoEpisode: "Hair"
2009Reno 911!Gary Werner2 episodes
2010The Kids in the Hall: Death Comes to TownVarious roles8 episodes
2010The SoupGrownup Pageant Princess1 episode
2011ACME Saturday NightGuest HostEpisode: "Scott Thompson"
2011She's the MayorWalter SussmanEpisode: "Gimme Shelter"
2011Dream CrushersScott2 episodes
2011–2012Wingin' ItAgent 453 episodes
2012Comedy BarSwa S. TikaEpisode: "Episode 2"
2013Rocket MonkeysBaron von Monkey2 episodes
2013Fugget About ItQueen Elizabeth IIEpisode: "Royally Screwed"
2013But I'm Chris Jericho!AJ Mirkin10 episodes
2013–2015HannibalJimmy Price27 episodes
2014Working the EngelsHarry Le MaireEpisode: "Meet Irene Horowitz"
2014Spun OutSebastianEpisode: "Middle Aged Men in the Hall"
2014Rocky RoadReverendTelevision film
2014Dark RisingSkcraab5 episodes
2014Odd SquadProfessor SquareEpisode: "Crime at Shapely Manor"
2014The Stanley DynamicMr. BlountEpisode: "The Stanley Feud"
2015Degrassi: The Next GenerationMr. Bane4 episodes
2015Degrassi: Don't Look BackMr. Bane
2015SuperMansionKid VictoryEpisode: "A Shop in the Dark"
2016Man Seeking WomanTiresiasEpisode: "Balloon"
2016Bruno & Boots: Go Jump in the PoolHeadmaster HartleyTelevision film
2016HumanTownDr. Photon
2016The Amazing Gayl PileMike3 episodes
2016Holiday JoyMr. ElderberryTelevision film
2017What Would Sal Do?Father Luke8 episodes
2017American GodsKind ManEpisode: "Head Full of Snow"
2017Pitch Off with Doug BensonGuestEpisode: "Pitch "Woody Allen Disney Movie" to Doug."
2017American Dad!HenchmanEpisode: "The Long Bomb"
2018Let's Get PhysicalHerbert LangworthEpisode: "Paybacks a Bitch"
2018ConanQueen Elizabeth II1 episode
2019Save MeDanEpisode: "First Call"
2019Snowbound for ChristmasJean-LucTelevision film
2021Hey Lady!JudgeEpisode #1.8
2022–presentPinecone & PonyThistle (voice)Recurring role
2022Sort OfBryceguest star 4 episodes
2022ShoresyShoresy's foster fatherEpisode #1.4
2023FUBARDr. Louis PfefferRecurring role

Other works

  • Buddy Babylon: The Autobiography of Buddy Cole (with Paul Bellini) in 1998, a humour novel; ISBN 0-440-50828-2
  • The Lowest Show on Earth, a 2001 one-man show produced in Toronto
  • Scottastrophe, 2006 multimedia show
  • The Hollow Planet, a graphic novel by Scott Thompson, Kyle Morton, and Stephan Nilson, from IDW Publishing; featuring Thompson's The Kids in the Hall character Danny Husk.
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