Scott Thompson

For other people named Scott Thompson, see Scott Thompson (disambiguation).

Scott Thompson
Born	June 12, 1959 (1959-06-12) North Bay, Ontario, Canada
Occupation	Actor/Comedian
Years active	1980–present
Website
http://newscottland.com/

Scott Thompson (born June 12, 1959) is a Canadian television actor and comedian, best known for his time as a member of the comedy troupe The Kids in the Hall.

Personal life

Thompson was born in North Bay, Ontario, and grew up in Brampton. He is the second oldest of five boys. He attended Brampton Centennial Secondary School and was a witness of the 1975 Centennial Secondary School massacre. He enrolled in 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.

Cancer

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

Career

In 1984, he became a member of The Kids in the Hall. That troupe's series aired starting 1989 on the CBC in Canada and on HBO in the United States, but moved to CBS for the fourth and fifth seasons.

Openly gay, Thompson became best-known on the show for his monologues as the "alpha queen" socialite Buddy Cole, as well as his appearances as Queen Elizabeth II. He also appeared regularly on The Larry Sanders Show 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 was also the host of 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 2008, guest-starred in two episodes of Reno 911!, and performed in the project Death Comes to Town (2010) with fellow KITH alumni Dave Foley, Bruce McCulloch, Mark McKinney, and Kevin McDonald.

Filmography

• Wingin' It (2010)
• Boost Mobile Commercial (2008)
• Carpoolers (2008) (Guest Star - TV series)
• Celebracadabra (2008) (Guest Star - TV series)
• Shifting the Canvas (2009)
• Reno 911! (2009) (Season Six, Episode 5 as Gary - Deb's Boyfriend)
• Another Gay Sequel: Gays Gone Wild
• Another Gay Movie (2006)
• My Fabulous Gay Wedding (2005) (TV series)
• Burnt Toast (2005) (TV)
• The Pacifier (2005)
• Aqua Teen Hunger Force (2004) (TV)
• Stunt C*ocks (2004)
• Prom Queen: The Marc Hall Story (2004) (TV)
• Ham & Cheese (2004)
• My Baby's Daddy (2004)
• The Simpsons (2003, 2008, 2011) (TV series)
• Nobody Knows Anything! (2003)
• The Red Sneakers (2003) (TV)
• Kids in the Hall: Tour of Duty (2002) (V)
• Roboroach (2002) (TV series)
• Run Ronnie Run (2002)
• Tart (2001)
• Further Tales of the City (2001) (miniseries)
• Mickey Blue Eyes (1999)
• Star Trek: Voyager (Guest star - TV Series) (1999)
• More Tales of the City (1998) (miniseries)
• Hayseed (1997)
• Hijacking Hollywood (1997)
• Kids in the Hall: Brain Candy (1996)
• The Larry Sanders Show (1992) (TV series) (1995–1998)
• Super 8-1/2 (1993)
• Millennium (1989)
• Day One (1989) (TV)
• The Kids in the Hall (1988) (TV series)
• Hot Paint (1988) (TV)
• Head Office (1985)

Other works

• Buddy Babylon: The Autobiography of Buddy Cole (with Paul Bellini) in 1998, a humor 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 Scott Thompson's The Kids in the Hall character Danny Husk.

External links

• Scott Thompson at the Internet Movie Database
• Scott Thompson at Memory Alpha (a Star Trek wiki)
• Scott Thompson on Twitter
• New Scottland