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Contents:

• JERROD CARMICHAEL OUT AS GAY HIS NEW EDY SPECIAL
• JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU
• MATT ROGERS [COMEDIAN] WIKI, GAY, PARTNER, NET WORTH
• 7 HILAR GAY COMEDIANS WHO SLAY EVERY PERFORMANCE
• GAY COMEDIAN CALLS MIKE EPPS A HOMOPHOBE AFTER SHOW
• MATT ROGERS [COMEDIAN] WIKI, GAY, PARTNER, NET WORTH

JERROD CARMICHAEL OUT AS GAY HIS NEW EDY SPECIAL

The acclaimed edian out as gay his new HBO special, “Rothaniel, ” a few years after he first referenced relatnships wh men a prev film for HBO. However, he is perhaps bt known for beg a rrponnt on The Daily Show wh Trevor Noah, He quietly left the show November 2021 and is workg as a wrer and executive producer on the upg HBO seri adaptatn of the book The Gang’s All Queer: The Liv of Gay Gang Members. After breakg to the edy scene, this South Korean-born edian released their but stand-up album, Mol Mory, which vered racism the gay muny and his experienc fyg stereotyp about Asian Amerins.

JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU

And will soon appear alongsi fellow gay Asian ic Bowen Yang the gay romantic edy Fire Island. He filmed the documentary How Gay Is Pakistan?, worked as a wrer on the queer Netflix dreamed seri Sex Edutn and opened for Queer Eye‘s nonbary fashn maven Jonathan Van Ns on tour.

The traed opera sger often throws attentn-grabbg mil performanc to his acts which ver datg, homophobia and his life New York Cy. While he has been regnized as an important ntributor to the creasgly acceptg edy world, he has also acknowledged that gay edians existed long before he and his peers me around. Even somethg like “Hi, gay, ” no one said that before and was so funny, but everyone knows that’s Meg Stalter’s b.

MATT ROGERS [COMEDIAN] WIKI, GAY, PARTNER, NET WORTH

I thk an example of a gay hack joke or queer hack joke has some racist unrton or somehow downplays the experience of other margalized groups, which is somethg I’ve fely heard at open mics.

I remember hearg one where a whe gay was addrsg all of the protts gog on durg 2020, and the joke was like, “I may be a cis whe gay man, but I will always be a faggot. ” And the ma people lghg were other whe gays.

I me out ’96 as a gay parent, and I was talkg about thgs no one was talkg about, so uldn’t be hacky. I didn’t want to be pigeonholed as a gay ic or a lbian ic.

7 HILAR GAY COMEDIANS WHO SLAY EVERY PERFORMANCE

I wanted to be a ic who happened to be gay, and I did that.

I mean, if you’re sayg “I jt want to work for gay men, ” fe. I thk we are lucky that we live an era where queerns is beg so wispread that we n say, “Oh, that gay joke has been done enough.

” It’s a gift that we live a place where gay people, specifilly queer cis men, are dog stand-up and we n say, “Okay, ladi, we heard that one. There’s this trend that I participate actively, which is “I’m gay, but I’m homophobic.

GAY COMEDIAN CALLS MIKE EPPS A HOMOPHOBE AFTER SHOW

But still, if you put a gay person on any lp on any midtown show, they will stick out like a sore thumb. You still have to go up there and troduce yourself to homophobic tourists and figure out how to get them to lgh at you as a human beg.

” The only time you’re gonna see a gay joke over and over aga is if you go to all the queer shows, and that’s jt such a small dience of people. What’s overplayed wh a queer dience is beg queer — sayg “I’m gay” or “I’m trans” as a punch le. Or jt queer people talkg about regular everyday stuff — that is probably the most tertg to me, where I’m like, Oh, we don’t have to expla that we’re gay and you’re lghg at bee we’re gay.

The ultimate goal is to be funny, not to be like, gay funny.

MATT ROGERS [COMEDIAN] WIKI, GAY, PARTNER, NET WORTH

Ron DeSantis’ attacks on Disney over the pany’s opposn to Florida’s “Don’t Say Gay” bill. Whether the bt LGBTQ edians are observatnal, suatnal, absurdist, blue llar, abstract, alternative, dark, or a long form storyteller, all of the funnit gay edians are unique, hardworkg, and hilar.