Queen Elizabeth Kids

To comedian Scott Thompson, who grew up a citizen of the Commonwealth in North Bay and Brampton, Ontario, the royal family has always been a part of his ...

I had this image of her dancing with Diana and spinning around the floor, and then Diana passing her off to Philip, and then they disappear. She probably went to her grave knowing that she lived the way she was supposed to, if that makes sense. I never tried to be her or imitate her, and then the voice came out, and I was her for hours. I hope I get the chance. It seems like it doesn’t make any sense, but yet it somehow is still here, and it kind of touches a part of us that we can’t really explain. My whole thing with that character was that I wanted to portray a real person, the human, the woman not even that she was, but how I wanted her to be: fun and a girl, in love and a little nutty. It was our first year of the show, and Mark McKinney had this belief that I looked like the queen; he was obsessed with that idea. So when I played her, it wasn’t like I was doing a celebrity impersonation; it was portraying an idea. And then I look and I kind of see myself in a strange way. I see the history of the Anglo world. I’ve always admired her because I admire people who have a duty and they do it and, as my mother would always say, just get on with it. That became even more so the case when he joined the sketch-comedy troupe [Kids in the Hall](https://www.vulture.com/article/kids-in-the-hall-comedy-guide.html) and his resemblance to Queen Elizabeth II drove fellow member Mark McKinney to write her as a character on the show, played by Thompson.