A three part seri of specials where four straight male edians ("The Flab 4") makeover a gay male to help him try to fool the straight world by ftg to their stereotyp. Each episo will volve a new subject as they disver what means to be straight by learng how to drs...
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STRAIGHT PLAN FOR THE GAY MAN
* straight plan for the gay man *
A three part seri of specials where four straight male edians ("The Flab 4") makeover a gay male to help him try to fool the straight world by ftg to their stereotyp. LOS ANGELES, California (Rters) -- Cable work Comedy Central is planng to turn the make-over h "Queer Eye for the Straight Guy" upsi down wh a new show lled "Straight Plan for the Gay Man.
Debutg Febary, the new show will parody the Bravo channel's "Queer Eye" seri and male stereotyp general as a team of straight edians -- the "Flab 4" -- teach a succsn of gay men how to pass as heterosexuals. He said the work is currently producg three hour-long episos centerg on three gay men lookg to go straight for a day to satisfy some personal cursy about life on the "other team. The format is a role reversal of "Queer Eye for the Straight Guy, " which five gay men wh expertise good groomg, food, fashn, culture and terr sign e to the aid of a hapls heterosexual slob.
Straight Plan for the Gay Man. The "Flab 4" ics teach gay men how to pass as straight.
STRAIGHT PLAN FOR THE GAY MAN
Cable work Comedy Central is planng to turn the make-over h Queer Eye for the Straight Guy upsi down wh a new show lled Straight Plan for the Gay Man. * straight plan for the gay man *
Straight Plan for the Gay Man is a send-up of Queer Eye that, as s tle announc, revers the rol of s gay and straight participants. Each week, a gay man who is cur about what would be like to experience some facet of the straight world gets his wish granted by four spired, 20somethg, gay-iendly heterosexual mal. While the gay man who is transformed is an actual person, the straight guys are not, like the Fab Five, profsnals their rpective fields, but edians.
The "Flab 4" ics teach gay men how to pass as straight. * straight plan for the gay man *
The “queer” Queer Eye is exemplified by all that the upsle, whe, urban gay male needs for survival: groomg products, fe food and we, signer labels, and an apartment rated by a profsnal.
The show’s tractors feel Queer Eye promot the stereotype of gay men as tasteful, cultured, and shallow (and, as stereotyp go, there are certaly worse on out there). When Jonathan has his turn, he quot om Gone wh the Wd (“Frankly, my ar, I don’t give a damn”) and tri aga wh an even gayer Bette Davis le om All About Eve (“Fasten your seatbelts, ’s gonna be a bumpy night. ”) It’s the funnit moment on the show, perhaps bee the humor stems om the sharp ntrast between gay and straight cultur, rather than simply showg jt how irratg straight male edians n be.