The Comedy Duo Behd ‘Very Gay Pat’ Commted to a B So Hard That They’re Now Real Muralists – PRINT Magaze

Contents:

• MEET THE COMEDY PATG DUO BEHD VERY GAY PAT
• MEET THE DUO BEHD THE VERY BRIGHT AND VERY FUN VERYGAYPAT
• THE COMEDY DUO BEHD ‘VERY GAY PAT’ COMMTED TO A B SO HARD THAT THEY’RE NOW REAL MURALISTS
• MEET THE COLORFUL AND DYNAMIC DUO BEHD VERY GAY PAT
• FORD ROLLS OUT 'VERY GAY' TCK RPONSE TO HOMOPHOBIC TROLL
• AMID THE BUD LIGHT-DYLAN MULVANEY BACKLASH, FORD’S ‘VERY GAY’ TCKS HAVE RURFACED
• FORD VERY GAY RAPTOR BOYTTED FOR BEG ‘WOKE,’ LGBTQ-IENDLY TCKS

MEET THE COMEDY PATG DUO BEHD VERY GAY PAT

Nicholas Scheppard and Jenson T are LA based edians who, g ancient gay wizardry, turn your walls gay wh pat. I don’t ordarily ask the creativ I terview which sign trends are gay. But when talkg to Nicholas Scheppard and Jenson T, Founrs, Co-Owners, and edians who pat at Very Gay Pat, feels like the right thg to do.

Gay as hell. Nicholas and Jenson didn’t totally agree there, but they did say the Easter bunny is a ragg homo. But that’s jt one part of what Very Gay Pat do—they’re part paters-for-hire and part edy duo.

MEET THE DUO BEHD THE VERY BRIGHT AND VERY FUN VERYGAYPAT

Tongue--cheek ptns highlight their spiratn (“ancient gay n ed elaborate ruals to help the er digt dairy well to their 50’s”) or give a very gay history lson (“The three l this mural reprent the three l a gay character was legally allowed to say any film om the early 2000s”).

THE COMEDY DUO BEHD ‘VERY GAY PAT’ COMMTED TO A B SO HARD THAT THEY’RE NOW REAL MURALISTS

Their prev work has been well-received at edy or stand-up shows, but the ncept for two gay men who pat thgs a very gay way is nothg the terr sign and art world has really ever seen before. And while Very Gay Pat is supposed to make you lgh, Nicholas and Jenson put ser thought to this brand they have created. “I remember growg up and at a time when sayg thgs were gay was ed rogatorily, ” Nicholas explaed.

“Gay films are always very tense, like about AIDS, or there’s Queer Eye. But you don’t get to see this down-to-earth view of gay people pokg fun of themselv.

Very Gay Pat me about the panmic, and they’ve got a solid procs down for creatg murals and piec people’s hom. The dream is for Very Gay Pat to expand to a Very Gay World—one where Nicholas and Jenson show what ’s like when the hierarchy gets flipped, and gay people bee the masters and novators of their worlds. “What a dream to grow up on the playground and be like, ‘Oh no, I’m not gay, I’d never want to do that, ’ and then now as an adult to create this fantasy world where we’re like, ‘Are you straight?

MEET THE COLORFUL AND DYNAMIC DUO BEHD VERY GAY PAT

When Jenson T and Nick Scheppard, the two halv of the cheekily named VeryGayPat, moved to Los Angel two years ago, patg murals was not part of their plan. ” And th, the very first VeryGayPat mural was born. Courty of VeryGayPatJenson and Nick wasted no time refg their patg technique and tablishg their tramark clean athetic.

VeryGayPat murals aren’t meant to be the loud centerpiece of a room—they’re meant to plement the existg sign, and elevate other key piec a space. At least, that’s if you ask Nicholas Scheppard and Jenson T, the edian-muralist hybrids of Very Gay Pat.

FORD ROLLS OUT 'VERY GAY' TCK RPONSE TO HOMOPHOBIC TROLL

Smash cut to prent-day Los Angel, where Very Gay Pat is a fully-fledged mural pany takg on imprsive, high-profile projects like RuPl’s black-and-whe-striped dg room and Trixie Mattel’s Trixie Motel Palm Sprgs.

” They exprs this through their brand big and small ways, om the tagle on their webse (“We pat thgs a way that is very gay”), to their homepage button labeled “Homo” stead of “Home, ” to their promotnal materials overtly parodyg the form of ntent that morn-day artists create. In many ways, Very Gay Pat is a long-form, drawn-out edy sketch that Scheppard and T have mted to so hard that the muralist characters they’ve veloped and play are now actual, real-life muralists.

“I very much thk of Very Gay Pat as a character that I play, ” reflected T. “We created the two muralists that play this way, this satiril and irreverent and absurd voice around beg gay. Startg om the name Very Gay Pat, ’s obv that the cx of the brand’s edy is their over-emphasis on Scheppard and T beg gay.

AMID THE BUD LIGHT-DYLAN MULVANEY BACKLASH, FORD’S ‘VERY GAY’ TCKS HAVE RURFACED

This ia stemmed om the duo fdg ridiculo how society will view someone’s intifitn as gay as makg whatever they do herently special and signifint. “We uldn’t earntly be like, It is valuable and amazg and good enough that I’m jt gay! That ia was hysteril— like, very few of the stars of Queer Eye have an amazg proficiency the thg they’re supposed to be good at— ’s jt them beg gay that mak amazg.

FORD VERY GAY RAPTOR BOYTTED FOR BEG ‘WOKE,’ LGBTQ-IENDLY TCKS

I always thought that was so funny, like medcry wh the gay label on sudnly mak so sparkly. But light of the recent, buildg onslght of laws targetg the LGBTQIA+ muny and public displays of homophobic and transphobic behavr, Scheppard adms thgs have changed a b when to celebratg somethg or someone simply for beg gay.