"I may have been born yesterday, but I still went shopping!"
Happy 16th birthday to Charles Budderick "Buddy" Cole, born 64 years ago, yesterday.
Image/quote sources are under the cut:
Opening sentence of Buddy Babylon, written by Scott Thompson and Paul Bellini
Frame from "Buddy Cole Origins part 1", Scott Thompson's first video as Buddy Cole. Entirely improvised by Scott Thompson, filmed by Paul Bellini in 1985.
Still frame from the Buddy Cole sketch "Buddy and Bobs", filmed for the Kids in the Hall on CBC/HBO but never released
Photograph taken by Jessamine Manchester backstage at Scott Thompson's Philadelphia show during his KING tour on February 10th, 2024
Buddy Babylon, page 2
"Buddy Cole Origins part 1"
Buddy Babylon, page 131
Photograph taken by Jessamine Manchester in the green room of Scott Thompson's Atlanta show on the KING tour, February 16th 2024
Buddy Babylon, page 198
Scott Thompson quoted in "An oral history of Kids in the Hall's unabashedly outspoken Buddy Cole played by Scott Thompson" written by Vanja Mutabdzija Jaksic June 9th 2021.
Frame from "Buddy Cole Origins: Uncle Sappho" filmed by Paul Bellini in September 1986.
Photo taken during sound check at City Winery Atlanta by Jessamine Manchester February 16th 2024
Buddy Babylon, page 167
Buddy Cole in "Stand Out: An LGBTQ Celebration" on Netflix. June 2022.
Vulture article "The Kids in the Hall’s Scott Thompson Used Gay Provocateur Buddy Cole As an Essential Megaphone" written by Abraham Josephine Riesman on February 9th 2017.
Photo taken by Jessamine Manchester in the green room at Scott Thompson's Boston show during his tour of KING, February 7th 2024
"Behind Buddy Cole" written by Jaffe Cohen, published in the New York Native on January 8th 1990
Photo taken by Jessamine Manchester February 2024
Scott quoted in "An Antidote for a Sickening Era", written by Eve Kucharski May 30th 2019
Frame from Buddy Cole monologue "I'm Canadian", from Kids in the Hall Season 1
Photo taken backstage at Mouth Congress's performance at PhilaMOCA in May 2022 by Anne Hoskins
Scott Thompson quoted in "The Persistence of Buddy Cole: Scott Thompson Discusses His Most Iconic Role" written by Brock Wilbur on May 30th 2018 for Paste Magazine
Frame from Scott's first Buddy Cole monologue "Love at First Sight" from the Kids in the Hall Pilot, 1988
Frame from The Lowest Show on Earth (2001, possibly 2002) encore in which Buddy Cole appears in a fursuit and makes love to a woman live on stage
Frame from Buddy Cole monologue "Finding Love", from Kids in the Hall Season 3
Frame from Scott Thompson's appearance as Buddy Cole on Late Night with Conan O'Brien, 1997 or 1998
Vulture article "The Kids in the Hall’s Scott Thompson Used Gay Provocateur Buddy Cole As an Essential Megaphone" written by Abraham Josephine Riesman on February 9th 2017.
Frame from Buddy Cole monologue "Paris" Kids in the Hall season 3
Frame from Buddy Cole monologue "Montreal" Kids in the Hall season 5
Buddy Babylon, page 159
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