I can’t speak for everyone else, but that’s how I feel.Ī: It just felt right. Other gay male comics and I share a (solidarity) and also a deep sadness that none of us have ever gone to the next level, and it’s because our own community does not support us. Q: It’s true that there aren’t many popular, openly gay male comics here, although that’s changing with Billy Eichner, Guy Branum, James Adomian and a few others.Ī: This is something I was battling forever and I’ve been hyper-aware of it. We caught up with the 58-year-old Thompson, a founding member of the influential, Lorne Michaels-backed sketch troupe The Kids in the Hall, in advance of his Colorado concert, the re-release of his book “Buddy Babylon: The Autobiography of Buddy Cole,” and more. “Gay men will not support another gay man unless he’s a porn star or a drag queen, and that’s the ugly truth.” “My fan base is all straight men,” Thompson said over the phone from Los Angeles before his April 9 show at the Oriental Theater, part of a mini-tour leading up to appearances at the Moontower Comedy Festival in Austin, Texas (April 19-21) and The Onion Comedy and Arts Festival in Chicago (May 30-June 3).

Whether it was on “The Kids in the Hall,” which aired on HBO and in syndication on CBS from 1989 to 1995, or more recent shows such as “The Colbert Report,” Buddy Cole only ever wanted us to listen to him.Īnd now, thanks to an unlikely sequence of events that finds Thompson at the forefront of the North American comedy scene, we are.

The gay bon vivant and lounge lizard - played to lacerating perfection by Canadian comic Scott Thompson - may have predated Twitter in his early ’90s rants, but he unloaded the same scathingly literate, hilarious truths that often appear on that site, mixing insight with a double shot of satire. Saturday, May 6th 2023 Home Page Close Menuīuddy Cole never wanted your sympathy or approval.

Eight Days by Scott Thompson