7 of the Bt Gay Comedians to Check Out Right Now

Contents:

• MILO YIANNOPOULOS SAYS HE IS ‘EX-GAY,’ WANTS TO REHABILATE ‘NVERSN THERAPY’
• JERROD CARMICHAEL OUT AS GAY HIS NEW EDY SPECIAL
• THE GREATT GAY COMEDIANS OF ALL TIME
• 7 HILAR GAY COMEDIANS WHO SLAY EVERY PERFORMANCE
• BILLY EICHNER’S NEW GAY BREAKUP EDY ‘EX-HBANDS’ IS HEADG TO AMAZON – AND WE N’T WA
• BILLY EICHNER ‘S ‘BIG, GAY DIVORCE COMEDY’ ‘EX-HBANDS’ HEAD TO AMAZON; ‘IT’S THE GAY ‘WAR OF THE ROS’ YOU’VE BEEN WAG FOR!’
• MILO YIANNOPOULOS CLAR HIMSELF EX-GAY AND SAYS HE’S ‘MOTED’ HBAND TO HOEMATE BIZARRE NEW TERVIEW
• ‘IF YOU’RE GAY, BE GAY’: BILLY EICHNER REACTS TO THAT VIRAL COLTON UNRWOOD VIO

MILO YIANNOPOULOS SAYS HE IS ‘EX-GAY,’ WANTS TO REHABILATE ‘NVERSN THERAPY’

Risg to fame followg her special "Nate, " Gadsby has phed edy to new levels by weavg together personal stori, art history lsons, and sthg monologu — routely takg hs at men and the chronicl her childhood growg up as a lbian Tasmania, where homosexualy was illegal until 1997.

Yang beme the first Che-Amerin and third openly gay st member on NBC's "Saturday Night Live" edian, who hosts a pop culture podst lled "Las Culturistas, " has proven his range on the "SNL, " masterfully portrayg characters om a Che tra reprentative ed as "Tra Daddy" to former Democratic printial ndidate Andrew Yang. Amstell, who beme known for appearanc on "Pop World" and "Never Md The Buzzcks, " stand-up edy as a nfsnal, workg through issu like his parents' divorce, eatg meat, and timacy the Brish ic speaks openly about his sexualy durg sets, Amstell said he was "terrified" of beg gay before g out durg his Netflix special "Set Free.

Cho, who grew up San Francis and had parents that owned a gay bookstore, has squashed the stereotypil tras placed on Asian-Amerin gaed populary by wrg and starrg a s lled "All Amerin Girl" and has bee a celebrated stand-up ic.

JERROD CARMICHAEL OUT AS GAY HIS NEW EDY SPECIAL

He often jok that he knew he was gay before he knew he was 's sce lnched a succsful stand-up reer — appearg on "The Late Late Show Wh Jam Corn, " "Late Night Wh Seth Meyers, " "CONAN, " and more. 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.

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THE GREATT GAY COMEDIANS OF ALL TIME

The 36-year-old Brish polil mentator, whose speech and wrgs often ridicule polil rrectns, social jtice and femism, clared himself no longer gay and “sodomy ee, ” he told LifeSe an terview.

— and only leaned heavily to public bee drove liberals crazy to see a handsome, charismatic, telligent gay man rtoly celebratg nservative prcipl, ” Yiannopoulos ntued. “As for the CHANGED movement, I gus bee they’re Californian they don’t see how funny their webse is, or maybe they’re dirty non-doms who thk God lov you more the gayer you act, but I was slightly makg fun of them wh that ptn, ” he said.

7 HILAR GAY COMEDIANS WHO SLAY EVERY PERFORMANCE

We have a number of talented gay edians who are exceptnally skilled at entertag the dience while passg on subtle msag on issu related to the LGBTQA+ movement. 7 Hilar Gay Comedians Who Slay Every PerformancePri Month means that ’s time to enjoy art and entertament om our favore LGBTQ creators, so here are seven of the bt gay Jun. While we should be watchg a diverse array of stand-up edy all year long, now is the time to celebrate some of the bt gay edians the universe has to offer.

BILLY EICHNER’S NEW GAY BREAKUP EDY ‘EX-HBANDS’ IS HEADG TO AMAZON – AND WE N’T WA

Article ntu below advertisementSure, there are the Saturday Night Live greats, om Terry Sweeney (who allegedly endured homophobic bullyg om Chevy Chase) to Bowen Yang, and several credible gay edic actors on televisn. Mawaan is an activist among LGBTQ ics, havg gone to Pakistan to film the documentary How Gay Is Pakistan?, which explor what means to be gay a untry where ’s emed illegal.

BILLY EICHNER ‘S ‘BIG, GAY DIVORCE COMEDY’ ‘EX-HBANDS’ HEAD TO AMAZON; ‘IT’S THE GAY ‘WAR OF THE ROS’ YOU’VE BEEN WAG FOR!’

Article ntu below advertisementCole EslaSource: Getty ImagSome people might regnize Cole Esla most as Chip aka “the twk” Search Party, but their absurdist, goofy edy easily mak them one of the bt gay edians — if not jt one of the bt edians — of our time. The film tells the story of a gay uple who got married when same-sex marriage beme legal and now mt al wh the fact that ’s time to get a divorce, reports Deadle.

Billy celebrated the news of the project sayg will be the “first rom about gay men ever produced by a major stud, and, apparently, I’m the first openly gay man to ever wre and star their own stud film. 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. 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. 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.

MILO YIANNOPOULOS CLAR HIMSELF EX-GAY AND SAYS HE’S ‘MOTED’ HBAND TO HOEMATE BIZARRE NEW TERVIEW

Eichner wrote the script wh Pl Rudnick and has Greg Berlanti and Sarah Schechter attached as tells the story of a gay uple who got married when same-sex marriage beme legal and now mt al wh the fact that 's time to get a divorce. The characters, named Daniel and Connor, "beme the first gay uple NYC to get legally married 2015 and poster boys for LGBTQ love and acceptance, " acrdg to Deadle.

""The ncept of a big, gay divorce edy has been kickg around my head for years and I nnot thk of better llaborators than groundbreakg producers Greg and Sarah, and a te in whose work I have craved and admired sce I was a young gay boy ltg after show bs, the brilliant Pl Rudnick who really paved the way for me and many others, " Eier said. "In shockg news, BROS will be the first rom about gay men ever produced by a major stud, and, apparently, I'm the first openly gay man to ever wre and star their own stud film, " he wrote. Havg a moment, the late ’90s and early ghts, meant that, sudnly, a gay performer or character would appear a space that had been prevly domated by straight people — say, at the center of a TV s like “Will & Grace” or a stand-up special, or as the voice of reason to the leadg lady a romantic edy like “My Bt Friend’s Weddg” — and everyone uld appld and say, “We solved !

‘IF YOU’RE GAY, BE GAY’: BILLY EICHNER REACTS TO THAT VIRAL COLTON UNRWOOD VIO

Gay edy isn’t niche ’s all changed so fast that at one pot, while he’s discsg a sketch about rporate sponsorship of gay pri paras that he did wh Lil Nas X last May, Yang, 31, tch himself and says, lghg, “Why am I talkg about this the past tense, like ’s another era? (The podst format, which gay obssns n be discsed and nstcted at length, or which the hetero world n be filtered through gay sensibili, as is on Sam Taggart and Gee Civeris’s “StraightLab, ” has bee fertile turf for emergg edy stars. ” says Rogers, who, like all of his lleagu, has many ncurrent projects; he spent an early month of the panmic hostg (hilarly) a pet-groomg realy show lled “Hte Dog” for HBO Max; he -created a short-form seri lled “Gayme Show” (“for Quibi, rt peace”), whose wrg room was “entirely stocked wh queer people”; and he will have a regular role on a new Showtime edy lled “I Love That for You, ” tentatively schled for this sprg, wh the “S.

” Lyn’s style of humor — bchy, suatg, spiked wh alhol, rancid wh self-mockery — was rarely overtly queer; was what would now be scribed as “queer-d” — other words, legibly gay to anybody, gay or straight, who knew what signifiers to look for but to the obliv, merely droll.

Lyn (who was self-protectively disparagg about gay men terviews) and ntemporari like Charl Nelson Reilly on “Match Game” (another game show) the 1970s were gay entertaers before that was a tegory; they are the first DNA strand ntemporary gay male edy’s triple send strand was the first generatn of out male edians — guys like the performance artist Frank Maya, who beme the first out gay man to get a spot on the early ’90s MTV seri “Half Hour Comedy Hour, ” and Bob Smh, the first to crack “The Tonight Show” durg the Jay Leno era, and Stt Thompson, the gay member of the Canadian edy qutet the Kids the Hall. They were pneers who had to walk a plited le, at once makg stand-up safe for gay performers and makg gay edy palatable for straight dienc that, 30 years ago, were still far more fortable lghg at queer people than wh them.