Born
12 June 1959 (66)
Place of Birth
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 197...
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.
Paying for It
2025
Night of the Zoopocalypse
2025
Young Werther
2024
Outstanding: A Comedy Revolution
2024
Kids in the Hall: Scenes They Wouldn't Let Us Do
2024
Mr. Dressup: The Magic of Make Believe
2023
My Animal
2023
Zombie Town
2023
Santa's Got Style
2022
Stand Out: An LGBTQ+ Celebration
2022
The Kids in the Hall: Comedy Punks
2022
Back Home Again
2021
Mouth Congress
2021
Snowbound for Christmas
2019
The Go-Getters
2018
Don't Talk to Irene
2017
Bruno & Boots: This Can't Be Happening at MacDonald Hall
2017
Holiday Joy
2016
HumanTown
2016
Bruno & Boots: Go Jump in the Pool
2016
Getting the Old Scent Again: Reimagining Red Dragon
2015
Degrassi: Don't Look Back
2015
Hannibal: This Is My Design
2014
Rocky Road
2014
Frisch verliebt
2014
🎬 DirectorThe Immigrant
2012
A Russell Peters Christmas
2011
4 Pounds
2011
52
2011
Another Gay Sequel: Gays Gone Wild!
2008
The Kids in the Hall: Sketchfest Tribute
2008
Carfuckers
2008
Another Gay Movie
2006
Burnt Toast
2005
The Aristocrats
2005
The Pacifier
2005
Roots
2005
Nobody Knows Anything!
2004
Prom Queen: The Marc Hall Story
2004
I, Curmudgeon
2004