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THE GREATT GAY COMEDIANS OF ALL TIME
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. * openly gay comedians *
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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.
Llie Jordan played many funny rol sce he first me onto the edic scene 1986, but his path to beg a gay in wasn’t apparent until 2001 when he starred as wealthy New York Cy sociale Beverley Llie the groundbreakg queer s Will & Grace durg s 3rd season (wng him an Emmy), and later for s reboot 2017. He proved this durg the lockdown 2020, when he basilly vented the ont-facg mera athetic for edy, creatg plenty of absolutely hilar viral vios unhged wh gayns, which gaed him over 5 ln followers.