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SNL TRANSCRIPTS: TOM HANKS: 09/28/96: THE AMBIGUOLY GAY DUO
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. 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.