For #PRIDE 2022 Netflix has put together a Historic Celebratn & Performance of the bt LGBT Comedy. Legends, headlers, and emergg talent that performed at The Greek Theatre for an unfettable gay stand-up event.
Contents:
- 7 HILAR GAY COMEDIANS WHO SLAY EVERY PERFORMANCE
- STAND OUT: AN LGBTQ+ CELEBRATN REVIEW – A SUPER GAY NIGHT OF EDY
- JERROD CARMICHAEL OUT AS GAY HIS NEW EDY SPECIAL
7 HILAR GAY COMEDIANS WHO SLAY EVERY PERFORMANCE
Pri Month means that ’s time to enjoy art and entertament om our favore LGBTQ creators, so here are seven of the bt gay edians. * gay stand up comedy specials *
Hannah Gadsby, for example, speaks about growg up as a lbian Tasmania, where homosexualy was illegal until 1997. And Bowen Yang beme the first Asian-Amerin and third openly gay st member on "Saturday Night Live.
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. 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.
STAND OUT: AN LGBTQ+ CELEBRATN REVIEW – A SUPER GAY NIGHT OF EDY
* gay stand up comedy specials *
Booster ntued, "I'd look at myself and say, 'Why am I treated like a send-class cizen the gay muny? The straight, old, whe men who still sist their racist, misogynistic, homophobic jok are funny have been replaced by young and diverse edians sharg their experienc wh dienc across the globe.
LGBTQ+ edians, like other edians om certa groups, n have their work boiled down to “gay jok” or “trans jok, ” but their sets n be and are more topilly diverse, a realy the Stand Out special reflects.
I always assumed the dience would be predomantly gay or queer bee ’s all of our edy hero on the same stage and that’s never happened and edy really is such a big part of our muny. I had a long talk wh Judy Gold, not very recently, about how the early ’00s and the ’90s when you got on stage, you had to figure out when you were gog to e out and say you were a lbian, gay, queer, bi or trans. In the ’80s durg the AIDS crisis and the opprsn of Reaganism, beg an out gay male edian was like beg a unirn.
JERROD CARMICHAEL OUT AS GAY HIS NEW EDY SPECIAL
That’s why when you thk of that generatn of gay male headlers, ’s very hard to thk of too many.
Notaro exprs her immense love for her wife, their wacky relatnship wh their t Fluff, and her kid’s first words beg, “I’m gay!