1959-06-12 ( 65 years old ) in North Bay, Ontario, Canada
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 Kids in the Hall and for playing Brian on The Larry Sanders Show.
Thompson was born in 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 is 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.
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.
Movies
Night of the Zoopocalypse
2025-01-23
Young Werther
2024-12-05
Outstanding: A Comedy Revolution
2024-06-07
Mr. Dressup: The Magic of Make Believe
2023-09-08
My Animal
2023-09-08
Zombie Town
2023-09-01
Santa's Got Style
2022-12-11
Stand Out: An LGBTQ+ Celebration
2022-06-09
The Kids in the Hall: Comedy Punks
2022-03-15
Back Home Again
2021-10-28
Mouth Congress
2021-03-12
Snowbound for Christmas
2019-12-15
The Go-Getters
2018-03-02
Don't Talk to Irene
2017-08-07
Holiday Joy
2016-12-08
HumanTown
2016-07-26
Hannibal: Reimagining Red Dragon
2015-08-30
Degrassi: Don't Look Back
2015-08-02
Hannibal: This Is My Design
2014-09-16
Rocky Road
2014-07-20
The Immigrant
2012-05-26
4 Pounds
2011-04-09
52
2011-04-08
Another Gay Sequel: Gays Gone Wild!
2008-11-06
The Kids in the Hall: Sketchfest Tribute
2008-04-04
Carfuckers
2008-01-26
Another Gay Movie
2006-04-28
Burnt Toast
2005-10-01
The Aristocrats
2005-07-29
The Pacifier
2005-03-04
Roots
2005-03-03
Nobody Knows Anything!
2004-08-24
Prom Queen: The Marc Hall Story
2004-06-01
I, Curmudgeon
2004-05-01
Ham & Cheese
2004-03-12
My Baby's Daddy
2004-01-09
The Kids in the Hall: Tour of Duty
2002-03-18
The Red Sneakers
2002-02-10
Run Ronnie Run
2002-01-20
Tart
2001-04-23
The Kids in the Hall: Same Guys, New Dresses
2001-03-02
Psyko Ferret
2000-01-01
Mickey Blue Eyes
1999-08-16
The Making of a Mobster: 'Mickey Blue Eyes'
1999-07-31
Hayseed
1997-09-17
Hijacking Hollywood
1997-06-06
Kids in the Hall: Brain Candy
1996-04-02
Super 8½
1994-09-08
Out: Stories of Lesbian and Gay Youth
1994-05-27
Millennium
1989-08-25
The Roommate
1989-01-20
Hot Paint
1988-03-20
Head Office
1985-06-06
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