I grew up watching the Kids in the Hall and I honestly think that Scott Thompson helped change peoples outlook through his comedy sketches. I personally love the guy and still enjoy watching Kids in the Hall with my daughter now.
Ah, the days before Wikipedia when you don't know how self-referential KITH sketches are. This gives me a whole new appreciation for Scott and the others!
I had a lovely breakfast with Scott Thompson on an Amtrak train last month (May 12, 2015) from DC to Chicago. I had gone to breakfast late and they sat him with me -- just him and me together for an hour. I told him a little about my career and I asked he what he did, I fully expected him to say he was an accountant. I was shocked when he said he was a comedian. I had never heard of him before, nor Kids in the Hall. He told me all about his cancer and since I am a medical writer/editor, I was happy to listen. I took a selfie of us together. He was a wonderful conversationalist and breakfast companion but not at all funny nor did he have any gay affectations at all. In fact, I had no clue he was gay until I looked him up later on Wikipedia.
I was going to school at UCSB and living in the college town the Isla Vista when KITH were in their heyday. When the show started the entire college town came to a halt and you hear KITH from every open window.
Had to come back to this sketch after reading the Buddy Cole autobiography and seeing him mention his first acting role on a science fiction movie-sure enough it was the exact same movie he mentioned in this sketch! That book is a masterpiece btw, sure some of the continuity is changed but the small details like that are so fun to pick up on and it's so funny I haven't been able to put it down
Lots of very talented people tried to do (pretty much) this character long before Scott went for it: but nobody did it better than Scott - before or since.
@@teufeldritch There's even a sketch that acknowledges this. Mark plays the ghost of the person Buddy was based on, who's haunting Scott because he hasn't publicly acknowledged him. It's a very meta sketch.
As a New Yorker by origin, THIS, 💯% Watching this sketch, in New York in the 90s, all I could think was - "Hey, I rep-resent that!" ... Yeah, it's an old overused joke, but, I'm not a ... _Cannaaaadian._ So, my humor repertoire is much more limited than Buddy's. 😉
Started watching this show in middle school. Buddy was my favorite. He just had such confidence. But I tell ya, being straight boy emulating a flaming gay man, even just for laughs, gets you talked about.
Hmmmmm. The basketball team is talking ! COMEDY IS FUNNY ...I don't care who we all are ! If we could get back to that idea of comedy being funny ...LIFE WOULD BE GOOD !
"Millennium" is on Netflix all this month. Scott Thompson has a non-speaking role (but a close-up!) as a generic console operator in the future control room when the 1963 airplane's tail is pulled into the time gate.
***** I spent a couple hours with him as a film premier party wound down. He's 90% Buddy Cole. He was living in a shitty apartment in a horrible neighborhood. His friend asked him to watch a small dog, and he saw the opportunity as a connection to the real world, so he accepted. The moment he put the little dog out the back door, it got away through the fence and disappeared. Scott went to the crack house across the street, and reluctantly knocked on the door. A guy opened a tiny slit in the door and said "What do you want?" Scott said "I lost my little dog". The guy threw the door open and said "Hey everybody! The funny fucker from TV from across the street needs our help. We gotta find his dog!" The gang fanned out, and brought back the dog. Scott hadn't ever introduced himself. The crack dealer had just recognized him from TV.
I'm so glad that I grew up with the humor of all the great sketch comedy teams of Monty Python, Saturday Night Live & Kids In The Hall. In Living Color & MAD TV helped keep the laughs going, too. We need more sketch comedy shows - from all kinds of performers.
My god this show was so ahead of it's time, when he says that "Straight people think that being gay is just a phase", this was the late 89 to mid 90's.
Scott Thompson is one of the funniest people I've seen in a long time. Since i have already seen other members of KITH on tv in the past several years. It's time for Scott to make a reappearance on american tv.
My favorite Buddy was the one where he's stranded on an island and he can only bring 1 book (All about Rhoda), favorite record (Denise Williams and Johnny Mathis- That's what friends are for), and favorite person (Dave as Oscar Wilde, and they steal each others' quips) 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
I just looked thru the top 30 or 40 comments & there's not a single mention of the fact that Buddy blew his nose with the Canadian flag. That's kind of the joke, really, that our nationalism is moderate & that we try to embrace a range of perspectives. That 4 seconds of performance is a marker for the ways in which we are not like our friends/frenemies to the south.
holy crap. i haven't left a vid comment for this YET? what is wrong with me? i thought i've left a vid comment for every existing scott thompson vid known to mankind! anywho, great vid. LOVE buddy cole! hehe
Is it weird that I loved this show when I was 10. I'm sure it has something to do with the I am now. I still find it hard to believe the cbc used air stuff this edgy.
I’m glad that they did. In some respects some stuff was not seen as edgy back then. For example, it’s really only fairly recently that “faggot” really got recognized for the pejorative that it is. It was used pretty freely in the 90’s and decades previous to it. This show is still ahead of it’s time.
Actually, I like the movie, probably because it's so different. See Scott Thompson (he's in the movie) ...go to RU-vid and type in: Kids in the hall: Cole 05- I'm Canadian (go to 2:20 - Scott makes a comment about the movie not making a dime)
I was 10 years old when I saw this sketch and I thought Buddy's character was how all Canadians were,lol.Mind you I was only 10.So whenever someone mentioned Canada or Canadians to me I immediately thought of this character.And yes,I know most Canadians aren't this "camp".
I saw "Millennium" in the theatre when it came out (yes, its as terrible), but I don't remember Scott Thompson in it. Probably because this was before I started watching Kids in the Hall :)
All the music for Kids in the Hall was by "Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet", a kick ass Canadian band. Their music leant itself perfectly cuz most of their songs were instrumental . LOVE. THEM.
