‘SNL’s’ Gay History: All 4 LGBTQ Cast Members

Contents:

• SCHMTS GAY
• WATCH SNL'S LIVE-ACTN VERSN OF 'THE AMBIGUOLY GAY DUO'
• ‘SNL’S’ GAY HISTORY: ALL 4 LGBTQ CAST MEMBERS
• SNL'S 'HILARLY PERFECTED' AMBIGUOLY GAY DUO
• GAY SUPERHERO
• CHECK OUT SNL'S LIVE-ACTN THE AMBIGUOUSLY GAY DUO STARRG JON HAMM AND JIMMY FALLON
• GAY DUO HOST SNL "FUNHOE" SPECIAL

SCHMTS GAY

If you've got a big thirst, and you're gay-- reach for a ld, tall Late Night Highlight Go to show pageTags: 1990, Gay beer, Beer mercial, Chris Farley Adam Sandler gay, Farley Sandler beer, Homosexual beer. [There was a vio here] It's been a while sce Saturday Night Live has aired "The Ambiguoly Gay Duo"—s classic animated sketch about a uple of superhero who may also be an actual uple—so when appeared on screen durg tonight's episo, many were pleasantly surprised.

On October 1, Saturday Night Live returns for s 42nd season—perhaps s gayt on rerd: Not only is Emmy wner Kate McKnon back, but out edian Chris Kelly has been promoted to head wrer, and gay funnyman Jul Torr has been add to the wrers' room, as well.Some say SNL go to the queer well too often, but when do gay humor right, 's a thg of bety.Here are our 13 favore gay sketch om SNL history."Jt Friends" Booty ShortsTwo straight pals (Jason Suikis and Andy Samberg) are tired of beg mistaken for a gay uple, so they throw on their "Jt Friends" booty shorts to prove to the world they're totally straight.The DudleysDialg up and down "the gay" acrdg to twter reactns leav this s pilot wh "Crazy Ey" as a dghter to gay dads Woody Harrelson and Keenan Thompson.

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Sounds like a h.Ellen Page Com Out—Sort OfBefore officially g out,Page had a ltle fun wh lbian mors back 2008, a sk that se her yearng to hug a woman—wh her legs."The Ellen DeGener Show"The gay go to 11 when Kate McKnon drags out her Ellen impersonatn and Jim Parsons plays human Christmas ornament Johnny Weir.New BegngsBen Affleck plays a unselor at an ex-gay mp tasked wh turng a bunch of queer kids straight. Especially the queer part."Canteen Boy and the SutmasterInappropriate on all levels, this sketch saw SNL all-star Alec Baldw as a lechero sutmaster makg sexual advanc on one of Adam Sandler's recurrg characters, the man-child Canteen Boy.HomocilA pill to help parents al wh their gay kids—bee 's your problem, not theirs."Dyke and Fats"For the love of Lorne Michaels, n we brg Officers Lez Dykawz and Chubba Fatzarelli to the big screen? N be a movie Dyke and Fats serv s day theaters.Nancy Reagan's "Bad Seed"Back the mid-1980s, Terry Sweeney was SNL's first openly gay st member.His most memorable character?

A tyrannil yet oddly brtle Nancy Reagan.Xanax for Gay Summer WeddgsA new dg to ease hetero anxiety about attendg a gay uple's flawlsly executed nuptials.

(Note: We gays uld e , too.)Schmt's GayAdam Sandler and Chris Farley bro out hard wh some Speedo-wearg hunks a gay parody of all those magil beer party mercials om the '90s."The Ambiguoly Gay Duo"Stephen Colbert and Steve Carell voiced Ace and Gary, a superhero team who are extremely close an ambiguo way.Here, they give some kids eful safety tips like never pull out a plug by s rd—always grab the male end and stick the hole.Real ambiguo, boys.StefonThe bety of Stefon was that he didn't jt mime gay stereotyp. Michael Michd, thor of books on gay actors Sal Meo and Alan Su, has kdly wrten the tribut to the four — unt 'em, four!

‘SNL’S’ GAY HISTORY: ALL 4 LGBTQ CAST MEMBERS

Even though he intified as gay om childhood, he beme engaged to a woman for a short time. By that time, he was livg openly as a gay man. He was the first openly gay performer on SNL, and there was no other for nearly 27 years.

Terry experienced problems on SNL bee of his sexual orientatn, pecially beg bullied and meaned by homophobic Chevy Chase, who had left the show after one season but who equently returned. Boy, he sure died, you know, he sure went to hell”) and the show’s first openly gay st member, Terry Sweeney (Chase suggted Sweeney star a recurrg sketch where he was weighed to see if he had ntracted AIDS). She first appeared on TV on The Big Gay Sketch Show (2007-2010) and has worked steadily on televisn sce then, gut-starrg on such shows as Maya & Marty, Difficult People, Hudson Valley Ballers, Comedy Bang!

SNL'S 'HILARLY PERFECTED' AMBIGUOLY GAY DUO

He gut-starred on many TV shows, cludg Rejected Pch, Sgle Siblgs, Ltle Horribl, Joe & Dave, Adam DeVe's Hoe Party, Other Space, Gay of Thron, 2 Broke Girls, Dog Walkers, Broken, The Gut Book, Adam Rus Everythg, Foursome, College Humor Origals, We the Inter TV, and His feature films clu Ghostbters, The Ltle T Man, and Camp Takota. John Milhiser is gay, and wants everyone to know he was out and proud while on the show, makg him the send out gay man and third out gay st member:.

Hey, @thedailybeast I’m pretty sure that I was out and proud as a gay man when I was an SNL st member for a hot sec. FeatureJon Hamm and Jimmy Fallon startled — and lighted — viewers by playg live-actn versns of the much-loved rtoon charactersThe vio: This weekend, Saturday Night Live rurrected Robert Smigel's long-nng superhero rtoon, "The Ambiguoly Gay Duo.

(Carell and Colbert voiced the origal "Ambiguoly Gay" rtoons, which date back to 1996. A gay superhero!

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Now some superhero are beg portrayed as clearly gay -- showg that jtice, whether on a smic level or an terpersonal one, is somethg worth fightg for. Like a father on the phone, Jor-El giv the nversatn over to Superman’s mother, Lara (Maya Rudolph), who is tryg to hi her panic over the possibily that her son is gay, what wh him wearg bright tights, sistg that Lois is not his girliend and that he lik to hang out wh a teenager named Jimmy. The Ambiguoly Gay Duo.

Dpe beg such a staple for Saturday Night Live, the Ambiguoly Gay Duo really buted as part of The Dana Carvey Show, which was too awome to exist the ’90s (see also: Chris Ellt’s Get a Life). Ace and Gary are obvly based on the homoerotic unrton of Batman and Rob, but more than that, they appear to be mostly spired by Green Lantern and his kid sikick Kairo om The Superman/Aquaman Hour of Adventure. In 2011, the Ambiguoly Gay Duo got que the fale as they were shot by a “flh ray” that transformed them to live-actn begs, transformg a TV Funhoe segment to a Digal Short.

Check Out SNL's Live-Actn THE AMBIGUOUSLY GAY DUO Starrg Jon Hamm and Jimmy Fallon. Live-actn versn of Saturday Night Live's The Ambiguoly Gay Duo starrg Jon Hamm, Jimmy Fallon, Stephen Colbert, Steve Carell, and Ed Helms. However, one of the most reliable sketch the show's history was TV Funhoe's "The Ambiguoly Gay Duo".

CHECK OUT SNL'S LIVE-ACTN THE AMBIGUOUSLY GAY DUO STARRG JON HAMM AND JIMMY FALLON

For those unfaiar wh the sketch (and there hasn't been a new one years), had superhero Ace and Gary (voiced by Stephen Colbert and Steve Carell) whose acts of heroism were ambiguoly homosexual. The clost thg to “reprentatn” I remember on SNL the ‘90s and 2000s was “Ambiguoly Gay Duo” and “Mickey the Dyke”—characters created by straight people.

It’s damng that, s 46-year history, SNL has only had six openly gay st members. Terry Sweeney beme the first openly gay person to jo the st 1985. It was more than 25 years before SNL hired another gay man, John Milhiser, 2013; he too only stayed on the show for one season.

The show really put the work on transphobia and homophobia when they created “ It’s Pat.

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Pell didn’t e out to her lleagu for at least another five years; she me out at work Febary 2001, the week she wrote “ Homocil, ” a medice for parents of gay kids wh longtime wrer Jam Anrson, who is also gay. See also: the 2013 sketch “Xanax for Gay Summer Weddgs, ” for borg heteros anx about attendg perfect gay weddgs.

In 2011, SNL hired Chris Kelly, who went on to bee the show’s first gay man as head wrer.

Yang’s addn to the st was somewhat overshadowed by the ntroversy over Shane Gillis‘ hirg (and subsequent firg after his anti-Asian, homophobic, and anti-Semic ments me to light). In 2017, host Kristen Stewart ed to openg monologue to inilly nfirmed that she’s “Like, so gay.