Scott Thompson Takes Buddy Cole on Tour
Lounge lizard Buddy Cole from Kids in the Hall makes a return to the limelight in Après Le Déluge: The Buddy Cole Monologues, an evening of humorous monologues from the period the show went off the air in 1995 to the present day. Scott Thompson revives his beloved character, the acid-tongued gay socialite Buddy Cole, beginning April 1 on one of New York’s greatest stages, Joe’s Pub.
In conjunction with the tour, Thompson is re-releasing his 1998 fictional memoir Buddy Babylon: The Autobiography of Buddy Cole with new bonus chapters.
Tickets are available for New York City, Boston at Once in Somerville, the Oriental Theater in Denver, in Austin at the Moontower Comedy Festival, at UCB Franklin in Los Angeles, and in Chicago for the Onion Comedy and Arts Festival.
Fans of The Kids in the Hall know plenty about Scott Thompson but for you millennials and others not yet acquainted, The Kids in the Hall are one of the most respected and beloved comedy troupes in the history of the medium. They created a groundbreaking television series which ran from 1989 to 1995 on CBC in Canada and on HBO and CBS in the United States. After leaving television in 1995, Scott and the boys went on to write and star in their own feature film, the cult favorite Brain Candy. Thompson appeared as a regular for three years on Garry Shandling’s revolutionary comedy series The Larry Sanders Show as Brian, the assistant to Hank Kingsley. In this period and afterwards, he made numerous guest appearances on various talk shows such as Politically Incorrect, The Late Show with David Letterman and was a regular fixture on Late Night with Conan O’Brien.
