The Greatt Gay Comedians of All Time

Contents:

• BILLY EICHNER ON HIS GAY ROM- "BROS"
• ‘IF YOU’RE GAY, BE GAY’: BILLY EICHNER REACTS TO THAT VIRAL COLTON UNRWOOD VIO
• BILLY EICHNER LEADS FIRST BIG-STUD ROM- ABOUT GAY MEN: 'ONLY TOOK 100 YEARS!'
• THE SUBVERSIVE GAY SATIRE OF BILLY ON THE STREET
• BILLY PORTER IS FIRST OPENLY GAY BLACK MAN TO W EMMY FOR LEAD ACTOR IN A DRAMA
• THE GREATT GAY COMEDIANS OF ALL TIME
• BILLY EICHNER LEADS FIRST BIG-STUD ROM- ABOUT GAY MEN: ‘ONLY TOOK 100 YEARS!’

BILLY EICHNER ON HIS GAY ROM- "BROS"

Boy meets boy: Billy Eichner's gay rom- "Bros". Comedian and actor Billy Eichner lov rom-s, but he has one plat: "They never ma one about a gay uple. Wh director and -wrer Nicholas Stoller and producer Judd Apatow (no strangers to rom-s themselv), Eichner has -wrten and stars what's beg billed as the first gay romantic edy ever released by a major film stud, and also the first to feature an all-LGBTQ prcipal st.

‘IF YOU’RE GAY, BE GAY’: BILLY EICHNER REACTS TO THAT VIRAL COLTON UNRWOOD VIO

Corrponnt Jonathan Vigltti said, "I went to the screeng wh my hband and halfway through, we had this moment where we looked at each other, regnizg that this was the first time we had seen ourselv reprented: two gay men ontg a romantic edy on the big screen. What kd of gay man says his favore sger is Garth Brooks? "Vigltti asked, "Why do you thk 's taken this long for a movie like this – two gay men a romantic edy – fally beg on the big screen?

""Well, the real answer to that is that the world, cludg Hollywood, has been very homophobic, " Eichner replied. "Bobby: "I was always too gay or I was too niche or, you know, I ma people unfortable.

BILLY EICHNER LEADS FIRST BIG-STUD ROM- ABOUT GAY MEN: 'ONLY TOOK 100 YEARS!'

For example, 2006 (five years before his breakthrough edy game show "Billy on the Street") Eichner said his manager brought talent agents to see one of his live edy shows: "And asked me if I uld make the show 'ls gay' that month.

There is ncern that gay marriage uld be reversed. Years before Colton Unrwood me out as gay, edian Billy Eichner told the realy TV star that he uld be “the first gay Bachelor. ”While gut starrg on Unrwood’s season of the ABC datg program “The Bachelor” 2019, the “Billy on the Street” star offered the leadg man some life advice that has taken on new meang sce Unrwood announced he was gay Wednday on “Good Morng Ameri.

THE SUBVERSIVE GAY SATIRE OF BILLY ON THE STREET

” “I’m gay. Maybe you’re the first gay Bachelor and we don’t even know.

“If you’re gay, be gay! I’ve been gay forever & I love !

“Number one, pop culture now sometim mak seem like every 14 year old gay boy is flyg out of the closet whout a re the world. ”In a ndid terview wh Rob Roberts on “Good Morng Ameri, ” Unrwood clared that he is “proud to be gay” after growg up Catholic and athletic circl that ed him to be ashamed of his sexualy.

BILLY PORTER IS FIRST OPENLY GAY BLACK MAN TO W EMMY FOR LEAD ACTOR IN A DRAMA

(Mel Meln / Los Angel Tim)For a dollar, name a romantic edy om a major movie stud centerg on two gay you n't, 's bee there's never been one — until and edian Billy Eichner has been tapped to -wre, executive produce and star Universal Pictur' "Bros, " a love story about "two gay men maybe, possibly, probably stumblg towards love.

""In shockg news, BROS will be the first rom about gay men ever produced by a major stud and, apparently, I'm the first openly gay man to ever wre and star their own stud film, " he tweeted.

"Eichner also had some choice words for a former manager, who he said once advised him to "be ls gay bee a big agent was g" to see him perform.

THE GREATT GAY COMEDIANS OF ALL TIME

Can't embed that tweet here bee featur some strong, phoric language all-ps, but suffice to say the former lleagu apparently are not on good shockg news, BROS will be the first rom about gay men ever produced by a major stud and, apparently, I’m the first openly gay man to ever wre and star their own stud film. (Even The New Yorker lled his brand a “edy of nontatn? There’s somethg subversive about what Eichner do that feels different om a lot of gay edians. If gay male culture is often a foundatn for the material that Eichner , both on Billy on the Street and on Hulu’s Difficult People (created and wrten by Julie Klsner), ’s a very specific subset of gay male culture, even subculture.

Perhaps the reason Eichner, who fir on all cylrs at all tim, is equally beloved and dismissed is bee his target is gay male whens: Billy on the Street attempts to nstct the sulary of a gay media culture that’s very whe, and reli on women and people of lor not necsarily as signifint subcultural ntributors but as objects to gaze at. You will fd Billy—tall, well built, hirsute—harangue people about La La Land and s Osr chanc, pter civilians regardg a threome wh him and Jon Hamm, and terrogate gays on the street as to whether or not they re about John Oliver. In both tone and ntent, Billy Eichner has, unr his eye, whe gay astal el.

Gay male whens, of the astal ele kd, prents self wh the proclivy towards pop culture—and the broadns of whatever “pop culture” is, as well as the kd of people who say they’re obssed wh , is part of the joke. If so many gay edians—onle, wrg, on TV, films, etc. He do not do bon mots, and when he do, on Difficult People, they serve to unrle the lampoong of the rivative tennci of, generally speakg, ntemporary gay edians.

BILLY EICHNER LEADS FIRST BIG-STUD ROM- ABOUT GAY MEN: ‘ONLY TOOK 100 YEARS!’

He’s loud and cleverer than thou, and his crosshairs is every other whe gay astal ele like him. The segment’s foc is on Jon Hamm and what he may reprent to whe gay men, and th what whe gay culture orbs around: rich, straight-actg whe men wh large penis, and a world that revolv around those ponents of inty. Not only is Hamm ostensibly good bed, he’s reprentative of cultural power: His prence, and the humor that’s drawn om , be a way to articulate and satirize what whe gay men want.

It isn’t precisely the reactns om those soliced on the street, or at least not exclively; ’s also the prumptively whe gay dience sayg, “Y, of urse we would have a threome wh Jon Hamm and Billy Eichner.

Gay men gravate, not to the polil satirist, but to the black female talk show host, one whose performance of blackns is not only easy to mimic, but undoubtedly rms the language and performance of many. The dynamic between gay whens and black queerns and femy is ght, ls an example of cultural exchange and more of appropriatn, particularly bee of racist attus wh the LGBTQ muny.