Why Scott Thompson felt like Buddy Cole needed to come back
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 8 มิ.ย. 2018
- Scott Thompson talks about reprising the iconic role of Buddy Cole and how the LGBTQ community really reacted to the character.
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Scott's Buddy Cole monologues are some of the most amazing comedic monologues EVER!
He really is a legend! Thank you so much for watching!
And honest.
Those greatest generation housewife monologues were solid gold
Right? I just had this flashback moment and realized my mom had never seen any of them, so I sent her all of them. And she died of laughter.
First time seeing buddy as a 15 year hetero I was amazed by the courage. Second time seeing buddy i was on the floor in stitches just laughing my head off.
I'd like to thank Scott as well.
He was a significant factor in turning a homophobic straight teenager into a man who thinks someone's sexuality doesn't define their morals or character.
Scott, in the long shot you hear this, you helped me be a better man.
Scott, I was a 15 yr old (always grounded) girl (back in the 90s) in rural nowhere and watching you in this character gave me such a ton of Savvy that i carry w me to this day. LOVE YOU.
Hearing that he based Buddy on a lover who died of AIDS moved me, and gave me insight into why I loved Buddy so much.He is a fierce ghost that I remember from my own past.
Scott Thompson has aged really well. He was the oldest member of Kids in the Hall and yet you would never know it.
Scott Thompson is a living legend. I hope he figures that out sooner rather than later.
As long as people keep watching his stuff, he'll get it :) Thank you so much for watching!
It breaks my heart to know that this man felt as if he didn't reach the Gay community in the late 80's with Buddy. Here we were, dying in droves, friends, boyfriends, sons, uncles... but with the "spontaneity of Champagne in a slipper," Scott "Buddy" Thompson gave us something to laugh about when those not living with HIV and AIDS would let us die. For 4 to 5 minutes, we could escape to Buddy's Place, have a laugh and prepare to fight another day. I bought and read "Buddy Babylon" from cover to cover on a flight from San Francisco to Vancouver (oddly enough it being Canadian) and laughed out loud the whole way through. From the corny girl doll at the pig farm in Quebec to the lover who died over a toilet... H I L A R I O U S. Thank you Scott, I've appreciated what you've done all these years to make me laugh out loud... your talent will always remind me of what Moliere once said to Guy de Maupassant in a cafe in Vienna...
That's nice. You should write it down.
"People make fun of me because I lisp. Really! Such a lot of fuss over a few extras "s" es". Best line EVER!!!
"I'm young, I'm dumb, and I'm full of-I'm ready to go!" Lol I see what you did there Scott. You're the best.
Grew up watching Kith, Scott Thompson is a Canadian national treasure.
Thank you Scott.
I came out as Bi in ‘98.
You and buddy are a big part of why that happened.
Thank you Scott.
Buddy Cole is the hero we need right now.
OMG ! How do We get Him to be the beacon of light & hope !
I love Scott, he always seems so genuine and he's smart and hilarious. What a treasure.
As a kid and young teen, I grew up watching the CBC and loved Buddy Cole. He was hilarious!
The best thing about Buddy Cole was the constant smirk. It was like Buddy took pleasure in teasing straight people and pissing off the homophobes.
I never thought he was pis sing off people. I thought he was just funny.
Scott, you are a Canadian National Treasure! 🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦❤️
I'm from a small town in Atlantic Canada. Growing up in the 80s and early 90s, Buddy Cole (and Scott and the rest of KITH) was a saviour. Thank you, Scott.
Another reason to love the Canadians: 0 dislikes on a video that is PURELY likable.
Dear Scott, Thank you for Buddy, he is a joy to watch
Absolute legend. So under appreciated
I loved Buddy Cole from the beginning... And I still love that character!!
Buddy Cole is the Quentin Crisp of North America! What a fabulous treasure. Both successors to Oscar Wilde without the "beard". Scott Thompson helps us stay alive, laughing and relevant through our darkest days! His take on of SILENCE=DEATH doom-and-gloom with a poster of Buddy Cole in black shirt and Jean's sitting while holding a large Martini glass with the iconic all caps letters "screaming" SILENCE=RELAXATION! Fucking brilliant! Nothing but love and respect.
Buddy Cole is awesome!!
I ♥️ Buddy Cole!
I loved Buddy Cole. He was hysterical and affirming.
Scott ALWAYS cheers me up! Buddy's my favorite!
This is what i remember Scott Thompson for. Opening the well.
Scott, growing up in N Ontario we lived for your weekly Buddy Cole monlogues and were disappointed if there wasn't one that week. Always fun and truthful. So much fuss over a few extra s's!
Loved Buddy Cole fantastic character and one of my favorite TV characters of all time.
I love Buddy Cole, and when KIH first aired, that character greatly helped me accept myself too.
I started watching kids in the hall after high school because I caught buddy cole. It was pretty much the most awesome thing I ever saw on tv and scott thompson was my favorite cast member by far. Obviously...
I had no idea Buddy had an autobiography! I want to read that!
Powerful interview 🙌🏾 🙏🏾! I LOVE SCOTT THOMPSON ♥️
I have such a warmth for Scott, I love the whole troupe and how they balance and intersect with one another, when he got sick I was so worried and upset, I’m so glad he made it through and they’re back stronger than ever. The insights and inspiration around Buddy Cole are so important to know.
I have always thought Scott Thompson is one of the best sketch comics of all times. I wish we saw more of him.
This was such a beautiful interview.
Dude, you have to audition for, "What We Do in Shadows" with that 1,000 year old vampire. You'll knock them dead...moohoohaha (that was an attempt at a sinister laugh).
Love Scott & Buddy Cole . Long live the queen
I always enjoyed his skits.
What a great interview.
I'd love to see an entire series based around Buddy Cole.
Buddy Cole always made me laugh my butt off!!!
So you must’ve been a top, not a bottom.
Scott is awesome and I’m glad to see him and the boys back!!
The amazingly witty and funny Buddy Cole! I will always love the Kids in the Hall too.
Buddy Cole was never a favourite character of mine, but Scott was (and is) fearless and hilarious and the character is part of the package and wouldn’t hit as hard without it.
Scott is so wonderful.
Love Scott’s enthusiasm, he was fearless back in the day, glad they brought Kids In The Hall back!👏
I love everything about this interview and Scott Thompson. I would sneak into my grandmother's living room about 1 a.m. and watch Kids and I remember his monologues were so shocking and funny and honest (or at least seemed honest to my 12 year old brain). Now, and speaking as a middle aged Christian, conservative in Texas, I still find his honesty and humor refreshing. Scott Thompson is punk for nice people.
Just saw the Kids on The National with Hanomansing! Buddy Cole was the best satire and commentary. It is so exciting because i have been playing The Kids on your tube for the past week. a play lost of over 300 clips
We love you, Scott!!!
So glad the world has... and has had... Scott Thompson.
And Mississippi Gary.
Love Buddy❤❤
Buddy Cole was an amazingly funny character.
And now, 4 years later TKITH is back (on Amazon)! And Buddy is there! I haven't it yet but the trailer looks great.
Love Scott and always loved the in your face nuance and complexity of Buddy's satire. I think many ppl really misunderstood his humor and honesty, and its sad to see how that affected Scott.
Does Scott have a channel, I'd love to see more of his recent work :) Thank you for the great interview :)
I was a huge KITH fan in the early 90's (19-20yo), and a year or two from coming out, so I looked at Buddy and thought this is part of what my world will be some day. I knew zero gays and the rest of the gays on TV were terrible, but I wasn't conflicted, nor anywhere even close to be that flamboyant or effeminate, and Buddy was hilarious and I knew being gay was going to be great (it was!). To this day, I still go "What's herrrr problem?" in Buddy's voice, and loved that after I came out I finally understood what "girl, and sister, and what's her problem?" meant! (Oh, and don't forget to twirl while rounding your bases, or just walking down the street.)
Scott/Buddy, this is one old Kentucky boy who has loved you for decades!
I was just realizing I was gay when Buddy came on TV and he terrified me. I was so afraid if I gave in I'd become Buddy. It took me a couple more years before I "came out". Once I got out into the real gay world and realized that's not the case I fell in love with Buddy!
Love Scott Thompson. He was great on Hannibal as well!
Because of Buddy Cole, I came out as straight in 85
That’s funny because Buddy Cole wasn’t seen on TV until probably at least 1989.
Buddy Cole is iconic. It saddens me how much he wasn’t embraced by the gay community at the time. I would listen to Buddy Cole read the phonebook.
I’m straight and that character was epic and legend!
legend!
Think about Buddy every time I see him on Hannibal
I would love to see Buddy Cole in like a Peewee Herman big adventure type movie, I would go see it in a heartbeat
Buddy Cole as a Judge on RuPaul..please please please..and if I missed it where can I find it?
A Buddy Cole vampire movie I would watch!🧛🏻♀️
Love, Liz... Lol
Everybody should listen, but nobody should be told to listen.
Buddy Cole was the first gay character I encountered and I absolutely loved him I thought he was hilarious!!
I'd do Scott 😂
Needs to come back?!?! Theres a little cole in all of us.
This gay man really appreciated Buddy Cole. Seeing gay characters effeminate or masculine were all important. I look forward to seeing more Buddy Cole.
I know a lot of effeminate guys. Not sure why if you want people to accept you how you are then stop wearing the mask. Then again it's up to the person when they're ready to. My mom loved Buddy. She first saw Buddy on The Colbert Report. Unfortunately, she didn't get to see the early years when he originated in KITH.
I miss Buddy Cole. If I played with balls, it would be on Cole's Softball Sluggers team.
In the solid words of the best:
"And Girl, You'd Better work."
What if Geofrey Jellineck dated Buddy Cole?!...
Buddy on the desert island
2:02 - The dumdum host actually asks about the Buddy Cole character by asking, “what was the *original origin* of it?” Can you be more redundant?
Buddy Cole has the perfect defence against change: he's very shallow.
0:01 they used the 10% of "inoffensive" Buddy material.
Trekkies with red pubic hair
Buddy would be maligned in today's "woke" culture. They need someone like Buddy Cole to dump some perverbial ice water down their pants.
I'm straight and I love Buddy's "tell it like it is" attitude.
Great guest. White men should listen. But they should be free to talk, too.
I think it's insincere of you to pander to woke politics and then be the "straight white guy" who has a chat vlog.
If you want my subscription, you will promote free speech for all. No freedom or equality can be won by curtailing free speech.
I don't know what your politics are, but where I am from EVERYONE GETS TO SIT AT THE TABLE AND TALK. EVERYONE.
Yes congratulations it's very big of you to try to include white men, they really need media representation.
Im sure the white man literally touring a country to perform to thousands is in great danger of losing free speech. I mean he only has a lifetime of jobs and connections in the entertainment industry. Hed be helpless if someone was mean to him on Twitter for saying something dumb
We should stop labeling people by skin color, it's only perpetuating racism. For instance, instead of proclaiming that"white men should be allowed to speak", I think it would be far better just to say that all humans should have the right to speak equally. What does pigmentation have to do anything? Or gender for that matter? We're all humans and we should start viewing each other in that way.
That said, I agree with your underlying sentiment. Political correctness is rampant, as is racism against those with a lighter pigment. That it's perfectly acceptable and even trendy in the media to hate, mock, censor and stereotype those with a European ancestry is pretty absurd. It's been in my experience that those who are the most vocal in accusing others of hate are often the ones with the most hatefulness in their hearts.
Why specifically white men? This isn't exactly helping matters
The problem was always the misogyny within the gay community and never with Buddy Cole. It is the same criticism faced by Jack on Will and Grace and Mitch and Cam on Modern Family. Open hatred of the feminine. As if being effeminate is the worst thing possible and always inherently negative. So much self hate projected. I think subsequent generations are doing better and better with wrestling that particular demon to the floor.
Of course Tom's never read Philip Roth. Literary references can fly right by, and our Tom can still pull in the big, big $$$. Our taxes. How embarrassing. A high school kid would have more profound questions.
Did you catch the flash of self-righteous indignation on his face when Scott says, "I don't have to listen"? I think Scott was well aware of the buttons he was pushing, and good on him for it.
Just like others, after watching KITH, I felt that homophobic behaviour is bad. During the that time, most of society, especially religious individuals, were very wary and against homosexuals.
However after I watched KITH, I decided that this behaviour was bad - there is no crime/guilt for how you were born. A person's sexual orientation/preference doesn't make the individual good/bad, it's there actions. There are bad straight people and bad gay people, the measuring stick should be the same. Of course everyone defines this differently...
Great interview
Only quibble is another person misdefining political correctness
It's supporting all things liberal.
So the homophobes are the INCORRECT
Wrong. Political correctness seeks to cast certain values as the truth and therefore above criticism. This is the antithetical to liberalism, which holds that there are no sacred cows.