Gay of Thron – Funny Or Die

Contents:

• GAY OF THRON
• JONATHAN VAN NS REACTS TO 'QUEER EYE' AND 'GAY OF THRON' EMMY NOMATNS (EXCLIVE)
• JONATHAN VAN NS (‘GAY OF THRON,’ ‘QUEER EYE’): ‘ALL OF A SUDN ALL MY DREAMS ME TE’ [EXCLUSIVE VIDEO INTERVIEW]
• LENA HEAY VISS ‘GAY OF THRON’ TO TALK EMMYS: ‘I HOPE THE AMY REMEMBERS A LANNISTER ALWAYS PAYS THEIR BTS’ [WATCH]
• GAY OF THRON
• FAB FIVE GROOMG EXPERT JONATHAN VAN NS ON ‘QUEER EYE’ SEASON 4, ‘GAME OF THRON’ CONTROVERSY & BRGG AN END TO ‘GAY OF THRON’
• GAY OF THRON, STEVE BCEMI, HONT TRAILERS, AMONG EMMY WEB NOMS
• GAY OF THRON' JONATHAN VAN NS TELLS LENA HEAY HOW TO KILL, ER, BEAT HER FELLOW EMMY NOME
• 'GAY OF THRON': NOT YOUR MAMA'S REP SHOW
• ‘GAY OF THRON’ RETURNS: EMMY NOMATED REP SHOW IS BRGG FIERCENS BACK TO WTEROS [WATCH]

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Gay Of Thron. Update: On Thursday, July 12, “Gay of Thron” was nomated for Outstandg Short Form Variety Seri.

JONATHAN VAN NS REACTS TO 'QUEER EYE' AND 'GAY OF THRON' EMMY NOMATNS (EXCLIVE)

Before “Queer Eye” was a twkle our queer ey, there was “Gay of Thron. Created by Er Gibson, “Gay of Thron” received an Emmy nomatn for Outstandg Short Form Variety Seri 2016, the gural year of the short form tegori.

JONATHAN VAN NS (‘GAY OF THRON,’ ‘QUEER EYE’): ‘ALL OF A SUDN ALL MY DREAMS ME TE’ [EXCLUSIVE VIDEO INTERVIEW]

Further explag the Beyoncé nnectn, he said: “We actually got snubbed the same year for an Emmy and a Grammy, bee ‘Lemona’ got snubbed the same year ‘Gay of Thron’ did, and Steve Bcemi and Ale should go start a club. As “Gay of Thron, ” he rattl off cultural touchston at a breakneck pace, dulgg tangents that always feel relevant.

As for whether he and Gibson will do the fal season of “Gay of Thron” when “Game of Thron” nclus next year, Van Ns said they are fely fishg wh a bang. The 31-year-old hairdrser-turned-TV star was full of emotn on Thursday when was revealed that his popular Netflix show, Queer Eye, and Funny or Die's parody web seri, Gay of Thron, both received 2018 Emmy nomatns. Queer Eye -- which also stars Antoni Porowski, Bobby Berk, Tan France and Karamo Brown -- was nomated the Stctured Realy Program, Cematography, Castg and Edg for a Realy Program tegori, while Gay of Thron received a nomatn for Outstandg Variety Seri moments after the reveal, ET ught up wh Van Ns over the phone, who uldn't nta his excement over the excg news, sharg a hilar story about how he passed the time wh his Queer Eye -stars leadg up to the nomatns ceremony.

LENA HEAY VISS ‘GAY OF THRON’ TO TALK EMMYS: ‘I HOPE THE AMY REMEMBERS A LANNISTER ALWAYS PAYS THEIR BTS’ [WATCH]

"Havg the origal st's support and their blsg has been amazg, " he said, addg that 's also "jt so credible" to see the amount of diversy displayed this year's nomatns, givg specific praise to RuPl's Drag for Gay of Thron, Van Ns is an executive producer on the parody seri, which received s first nomatn 2016. "I'm a hairdrser, and Gay of Thron was my first troductn to edy, and what wrg is, what performg is and what creatg ntent is, " he explaed.

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""But when Gay of Thron first got nomated, I wasn't a producer on , " he add. When asked what an Emmy w would mean for him (and both sts of Queer Eye and Gay of Thron), he said he "n't even go there. The hairdrser beme a hoehold name thanks to “Queer Eye, ” but Van Ns jt earned his send Emmy nomatn for Bt Short Form Variety Seri as executive producer of Funny or Die’s “Gay of Thron.

“Gay of Thron” shoots on a tight schle.

FAB FIVE GROOMG EXPERT JONATHAN VAN NS ON ‘QUEER EYE’ SEASON 4, ‘GAME OF THRON’ CONTROVERSY & BRGG AN END TO ‘GAY OF THRON’

One of the sadst thgs about the ncln of “Game of Thron” — apart om who died, who said goodbye and who was exiled — was that meant the end of “Gay of Thron, ” the Funny or Die web seri which “Queer Eye” star Jonathan Van Ns repped the show through his uniquely fabulo perspective. Well, “Game” and “Gay” are both nomated for Emmys this year, so Lena Heay joed Van Ns to wish each other luck. Watch the special Emmy edn of “Gay of Thron” above.

“Gay of Thron” is nomated for Bt Short Form Variety Seri for the third time and Van Ns along wh as an executive producer. Star Billy Porter has also ma history as the first openly gay black man to be nomated for bt lead actor a drama seri. Openly gay actrs Fna Shaw received nomatns two different tegori — supportg actrs a drama seri for Killg Eve and gut actrs a edy seri for Fleabag — makg her a double-actg nomee.

GAY OF THRON, STEVE BCEMI, HONT TRAILERS, AMONG EMMY WEB NOMS

She will go up agast Emmy-wng openly gay actrs Jane Lynch the edy tegory. Other nods to LGBTQ cln clu gay actor Ben Whishaw securg a nomatn for supportg actor a limed seri or TV movie for A Very English Sndal; transgenr actrs Laverne Cox beg nomated aga for gut actrs a drama seri for Orange Is the New Black; and RuPl’s Drag Race receivg ne noms wh host RuPl Charl himself petg agast Ellen DeGener for bt realy host. Toml is now openly gay and starrg on the Netflix show Grace and Frankie, which has earned her four nomatns for lead actrs a edy seri.

One of Hollywood’s first well-known openly gay figur, DeGener won her only Emmy 1997 for her wrg of “The Puppy Episo, ” the two-part g-out episo of Ellen. The notable w me right after her public g out on the ver of Time magaze and her acceptance speech enuraged gay teens to be proud of who they are.

The openly gay Murphy has been rackg up Emmy nomatns and ws sce 2004, most notably for his shows Nip/Tuck, Glee, Amerin Horror Story, Amerin Crime Story: The Assassatn of Gianni Versace and Pose. The Handmaid’s Tale actrs not only plays a gay character on the h show, but she is also an openly gay woman herself. Sce then, Mart has embraced beg a gay man, wh his performance as Gianni Versace’s lover, Anton D’Ami, Amerin Crime Story: The Assassatn of Gianni Versace beg only the latt example.

GAY OF THRON' JONATHAN VAN NS TELLS LENA HEAY HOW TO KILL, ER, BEAT HER FELLOW EMMY NOME

Van Ns’ other seri, Gay of Thron, on which he both stars and produc, has also been nomated for Emmys and is up for bt shortform variety seri this year. Jt two months earlier, though, the pop culture aficnado said goodbye to HBO’s Game of Thron, a seri he and lns of others had loved—and wh , his Funny or Die short-form seri Gay of Thron—the batn of which was a somber affair. What some may not realize, though, is that Gay of Thron was the project that put Van Ns on the map.

Receivg his send Emmy nomatn this year for Gay of Thron, Van Ns will always have fond memori of puttg together his first seri, as irreplaceable to him as the show was mentg on. DEADLINE: What did you set out to do wh Gay of Thron, the begng? JONATHAN VAN NESS: Really, our tent when we very first started dog Gay of Thron was to do one episo, and we weren’t really even sure what the format would look like.

VAN NESS: Really, Gay of Thron [took] me om [beg] a full-time hairdrser to someone who still do love to do hair—but now, I’m kd of a full-time producer/ntent creator/accintal Emmy nomee. When I started dog Gay of Thron, I fely didn’t know that I would end up fully an entertament reer. DEADLINE: On Gay of Thron, as on Queer Eye, your pop culture referenc are always on pot.

'GAY OF THRON': NOT YOUR MAMA'S REP SHOW

To return to Gay of Thron for a moment, uld you expla how that seri is put together? I was fan-girlg on her so hard before Queer Eye, so to get to work wh her on Gay of Thron was a pch-me moment.

DEADLINE: Between shootg Gay of Thron and your time on the awards circu wh Queer Eye, have you had the opportuny to get to know some of the Game of Thron st? The very first season of Gay of Thron, HBO had hired me— pletely separately om Gay of Thron—to groom the whole st for Comic-Con.

Sce Queer Eye, I ran to Eia Clarke last year at the Emmys, but I wasn’t gog to brg up Gay of Thron, bee I didn’t want to be that person. That explas her meo the fal season of Gay of Thron….

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It’s so heartbreakg for all of that love Christa Aguilera [Van Ns’s Gay of Thron nickname for Daenerys Targaryen] so much, and love Gwendole so much, for those storyl to have Brother D [Jaime Lannister, or “Brother Daddy”]…Havg Gwendole waxg poetic about him that history book, and for Christa to go down like that, was jt like, What?

Wh Gay of Thron at s end, do you have plans to take on any other short-form projects? I love the team om Gay of Thron; everyone om wh that team is really by on their own projects. It also seems that [what] ma Gay of Thron so special was that we had such a rich story to pull om, to make so many of those hilar jok, and create that Gay of Thron world wh Game of Thron, like a salon.

Jonathan Van Ns, Queer Eye’s groomer, was nomated not only for the liftyle show, but also for his Funny or Die web seri, Gay of Thron.