10 Best Recurring Sketches On The Kids In The Hall
1. Buddy Cole
When you're on a sketch comedy show, you end up playing a huge variety of characters. But if you're lucky, one of those characters becomes someone you're identified with and continues to be a part of your life long after the show is done. That is the nature of the relationship between Scott Thompson and Buddy Cole.
Buddy is a gay bar owner and socialite who goes on incredible rants about life, culture and the gay community. These rants, frequently given while sitting at his bar, were done in brilliant monologues by Thompson. They were funny, impassioned and emotional. One episode of Kids in the Hall was a single, full length adventure about Buddy and his closest friends.
The popularity of the character continued after the end of Kids in the Hall. Cole continued to pop up for years after that in a variety of media forms. A biography of Buddy was released in 1998, and re-released in 2018. Cole was the 2014 Winter Olympics correspondent for The Colbert Report, a jab at Russia's anti-gay laws. He also had a tour in 2018 called Apres les Deluges: The Buddy Cole Monologues.
There wouldn't be a Buddy Cole without Kids in the Hall but you can't have Kids in the Hall without Buddy Cole.