Gay Comedian Scott Thompson: Eliminate GLAAD

Scott Thompson won’t be confused with MAGA anytime soon.

The Canadian comic spent part of a recent interview excoriating President Donald Trump for his “51st State” jabs at his native Canada.

Even though, Thompson admits, Trump has some points in his Canuck critique.

The “Kids in the Hall” alum still saved plenty of venom for another target, one that’s unexpected given his political leanings.

GLAAD – The Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation.

Thompson targets the group in his new, one-man special, “The Last Glory Hole,” featuring his outrageous Buddy Cole character. He teased his rationale during a chat with Metro Weekly last month. It stems from the comic’s 2022 “Kids in the Hall” reunion series.

The Prime Video show came and went without incident, but that wasn’t the case behind the scenes.

Far from it.

He says the censorship battle his comedy mates faced was “probably the worst we’ve ever encountered, ever,” in the Metro Weekly interview.

To his surprise, the censors all hailed from the cultural Left. More specifically? GLAAD.

“I think they should be eliminated.”

Thompson says GLAAD and Amazon tag-teamed against his fellow “Kids,” making them remove 14 sketches from the proposed series. Roughly half of those moments featured Buddy Cole.

“They wouldn’t allow Buddy Cole to be in the series. Everything I did was rejected — I had seven monologues rejected!” 

“The truth is Amazon was a very difficult experience,” he says. “It probably, for me, was the worst experience I’ve ever been through in show business. And I was so angry at what was happening that I had to wait a number of years before that anger became comedy.”

Fellow comedian Andrew Schulz pulled his standup special “Infamous” from Prime Video for similar, censorious reasons.

Here’s how the CBC describes Thompson’s long-running character.

Buddy Cole is a self proclaimed “actor, singer, dancer, model… Canadian” and a keen observer, no nonsense monologist who addresses stereotypes, tells outrageous stories and shares his intriguing life experiences — all the while poking fun at everything and everyone including his own sexuality and the gay community.

Thompson said it took time for him to process the censorship fight and find the funny within the battle. That helped fuel his current, one-man showcase.

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— Scott Thompson (@ScottThompson_) March 12, 2025

The comic actor says censorship once came from right-leaning voices. Now, the opposite is the case. He says the Prime Video revival would have caused a kerfuffle had the show kept the censored material, but he welcomed the possible blowback.

“That would’ve allowed us to reach the young generation, which we wanted, but we were handicapped by the censorship. They kneecapped us so that that could not happen. And that makes me sad, because we would’ve negotiated it properly.”

Now, Thompson’s fans can learn more about the behind-the-scenes battles via his comedy showcase.

Thompson recently explained the character’s lack of political leanings to a CBC interviewer. In doing so, he likely shared his comedic philosophy.

Buddy Cole, he’s whatever he thinks. He’s an individual. He’s a human being. He’s not a cause. When you’re too much into a cause that means you’re not gonna make fun of the people around you and you have to. That’s why I don’t join anything, because if I join then I’ll wanna make fun of them. They don’t want me. Nobody wants me. When a group wants me, I go, ‘Why would you want me, I’ll just f*** things up.’ You need me in comedy and that’s it. You don’t need me in any group.