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• 7 HILAR GAY COMEDIANS WHO SLAY EVERY PERFORMANCE
• EXCLIVE INTERVIEW: NETFLIX IS A JOKE STAND-UP STAR MATTEO LANE “I’M JT TALKG ABOUT WHAT I LIKE & IF HAPPENS TO BE SUPER GAY, GOOD!”
• JEWISH EDIAN MODI ROSENFELD, A MASTAY FOR ORTHODOX DIENC, IS GAY. SO WHAT?
• KEV SPACEY: I N’T TELL WHETHER MEN ARE GAY JT BY LOOKG AT THEM
• LOVE TRIP PARIS: Y, MATT ROGERS IS A GAY, MEET HIS BOYIEND- DATG HISTORY
• ROBERT WHE COMEDYROBERT WHE COMEDY‘HELLO AND WELE TO ME, ROBERT WHE, THE ONLY AUTISTIC, GAY, DYSLEXIC, CROSS-LATERAL, QUARTER- WELSH, WEBBED-TOED, HYPER-SENSIVE, GLUTEN-TOLERANT, PSDO-GENI, MIL EDIAN THERE IS…. PROBABLY!’‘HELLO AND WELE TO ME, ROBERT WHE, THE ONLY AUTISTIC, GAY, DYSLEXIC, CROSS-LATERAL, QUARTER- WELSH, WEBBED-TOED, HYPER-SENSIVE, GLUTEN-TOLERANT, PSDO-GENI, MIL EDIAN THERE IS…. PROBABLY!’HOMECONTACTSIGNUPINSTAGRAMLIVE SHOW/TOUR DATCOMEDY BSAUTISM SPEAKERAUTISTIC COMEDIAN DOCUMENTARYMICINSTMENTALMIC & WORDS NON EDY EARLY ARCHIVEMERCHPHOTOSMY AUTISTIC LIFE 1977-2020MOREUSE TAB TO NAVIGATE THROUGH THE MENU EMS.ROBERT WHE COMEDIAN
• MATT ROGERS [COMEDIAN] WIKI, GAY, PARTNER, NET WORTH
• MEET SON LOR, THE GAY FILIPO MAN WHO CATWALKED HIS WAY TO FAME

7 HILAR GAY COMEDIANS WHO SLAY EVERY PERFORMANCE

Whether the bt LGBTQ edians are observatnal, suatnal, absurdist, blue llar, abstract, alternative, dark, or a long form storyteller, all of the funnit gay edians are unique, hardworkg, and hilar.

Kathryn McKnon Berthold (born January 6, 1984) is an Amerin actrs, edian, and mician wily known as a regular st member on The Big Gay Sketch Show (2007–2010) and Saturday Night Live (2012–prent). Risg to fame followg her special "Nate, " Gadsby has phed edy to new levels by weavg together personal stori, art history lsons, and sthg monologu — routely takg hs at men and the chronicl her childhood growg up as a lbian Tasmania, where homosexualy was illegal until 1997.

EXCLIVE INTERVIEW: NETFLIX IS A JOKE STAND-UP STAR MATTEO LANE “I’M JT TALKG ABOUT WHAT I LIKE & IF HAPPENS TO BE SUPER GAY, GOOD!”

Yang beme the first Che-Amerin and third openly gay st member on NBC's "Saturday Night Live" edian, who hosts a pop culture podst lled "Las Culturistas, " has proven his range on the "SNL, " masterfully portrayg characters om a Che tra reprentative ed as "Tra Daddy" to former Democratic printial ndidate Andrew Yang.

Amstell, who beme known for appearanc on "Pop World" and "Never Md The Buzzcks, " stand-up edy as a nfsnal, workg through issu like his parents' divorce, eatg meat, and timacy the Brish ic speaks openly about his sexualy durg sets, Amstell said he was "terrified" of beg gay before g out durg his Netflix special "Set Free.

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.

JEWISH EDIAN MODI ROSENFELD, A MASTAY FOR ORTHODOX DIENC, IS GAY. SO WHAT?

Rob Anrson is a edian and ntent creator bt known for his short form sketch, parodi and edic seri like BOYFRIEND TWINS and GAY SCIENCE, the latter answerg important LGBTQ qutns like: "How do Gaydar work? 7 Hilar Gay Comedians Who Slay Every PerformancePri Month means that ’s time to enjoy art and entertament om our favore LGBTQ creators, so here are seven of the bt gay Jun.

While we should be watchg a diverse array of stand-up edy all year long, now is the time to celebrate some of the bt gay edians the universe has to offer. Article ntu below advertisementSure, there are the Saturday Night Live greats, om Terry Sweeney (who allegedly endured homophobic bullyg om Chevy Chase) to Bowen Yang, and several credible gay edic actors on televisn. Mawaan is an activist among LGBTQ ics, havg gone to Pakistan to film the documentary How Gay Is Pakistan?, which explor what means to be gay a untry where ’s emed illegal.

KEV SPACEY: I N’T TELL WHETHER MEN ARE GAY JT BY LOOKG AT THEM

Article ntu below advertisementCole EslaSource: Getty ImagSome people might regnize Cole Esla most as Chip aka “the twk” Search Party, but their absurdist, goofy edy easily mak them one of the bt gay edians — if not jt one of the bt edians — of our time. Fluent five languag, wh a sgg range of six octav, pup good looks, and charisma for days, Matteo Lane is already a gay hearthrob (as a quick glance at his Instagram will nfirm) and fast beg a New York stand-up edy stutn, regularly performg at the legendary Comedy Cellar the Wt Village. Ahead of his Netflix Is A Joke shows, Matteo Lane had an exclive chat wh The Queer Review’s edor Jam Klemann about why Joan Rivers was rponsible for him gettg to stand-up, how he was able to keep preformg when New York’s door edy venu were closed, why Stand Out at the Greek is gog to feel like a fay rnn, and who his gay in for life is.

When you were startg out stand-up, I image you looked out at the edy landspe and noticed that there weren’t any proment gay male edians at that time.

“I thk stand-up edy is so associated wh straight men—and very few women—to the extent that if you were gay or queer 15 or 20 years ago and gettg edy was like, why?! I’m talkg about myself on stage and so why lim myself to talkg about thgs based on how other people are gog to perceive and whether ’s too gay or not, who r?! It’s more of an appreciatn for the art form as opposed to thkg, let me do this joke bee the people are gay or let me do that joke bee the people are straight.

LOVE TRIP PARIS: Y, MATT ROGERS IS A GAY, MEET HIS BOYIEND- DATG HISTORY

The pair talk about livg and travelg together, and a recent episo revealed they would be vatng on Fire Island, which has a famo gay scene, wh proment gay Jewish okbook thor Jake Cohen.

The Variety article was born of Rosenfeld’s epeng belief that ’s possible to merge his Orthodox and gay inti more publicly — somethg that he has long done as a ngregant and sometim-ntor at the Morn Orthodox synagogue he attends the East Village. For Rosenfeld, there’s no tensn between Jewish observance and beg gay — although his articulatn of why reveals an awarens of the pa that others might feel tryg. When Rosenfeld shared the Variety article on his Instagram page, the vast majory of the nearly 800 ments left by fans and iends showed support for his public embrace of his gay inty.

Sce he has started addg gay material to his repertoire, his dienc have been creasgly LGBTQ, like at some of the “Holidazed” shows he performed December at Sony Hall New York. They also said they were surprised by how weled they felt as a gay uple at a Republin event, and remarked on how many of the polil figur and donors they met were exced to show them pictur of all the other gay upl they knew. One early sketch that would bee emblematic of Yang’s imprt on the show starred Harry Styl as a social media manager who accintally fills up Sara Lee’s Instagram acunt wh gay thirst ments.

ROBERT WHE COMEDYROBERT WHE COMEDY‘HELLO AND WELE TO ME, ROBERT WHE, THE ONLY AUTISTIC, GAY, DYSLEXIC, CROSS-LATERAL, QUARTER- WELSH, WEBBED-TOED, HYPER-SENSIVE, GLUTEN-TOLERANT, PSDO-GENI, MIL EDIAN THERE IS…. PROBABLY!’‘HELLO AND WELE TO ME, ROBERT WHE, THE ONLY AUTISTIC, GAY, DYSLEXIC, CROSS-LATERAL, QUARTER- WELSH, WEBBED-TOED, HYPER-SENSIVE, GLUTEN-TOLERANT, PSDO-GENI, MIL EDIAN THERE IS…. PROBABLY!’HOMECONTACTSIGNUPINSTAGRAMLIVE SHOW/TOUR DATCOMEDY BSAUTISM SPEAKERAUTISTIC COMEDIAN DOCUMENTARYMICINSTMENTALMIC & WORDS NON EDY EARLY ARCHIVEMERCHPHOTOSMY AUTISTIC LIFE 1977-2020MOREUSE TAB TO NAVIGATE THROUGH THE MENU EMS.ROBERT WHE COMEDIAN

Although a lot of the homophobia YouTube vio ments or popular Redd threads related to him is blatant and easy to dismiss, ’s often drsed up as an annoyance about his lack of range. ” which the poster tried to draw a parallel between Gillis’ e of homophobic slurs and Yang’s e of queer-d characters, argug that was hypocril for the show to have fired Gillis but not Yang.

Audienc are ed to straight characters’ sexualy not havg anythg to do wh the joke of the sketch, but if a gay character’s sexualy isn’t a punchle, then s cln requir an explic jtifitn.

Havg a moment, the late ’90s and early ghts, meant that, sudnly, a gay performer or character would appear a space that had been prevly domated by straight people — say, at the center of a TV s like “Will & Grace” or a stand-up special, or as the voice of reason to the leadg lady a romantic edy like “My Bt Friend’s Weddg” — and everyone uld appld and say, “We solved ! Gay edy isn’t niche ’s all changed so fast that at one pot, while he’s discsg a sketch about rporate sponsorship of gay pri paras that he did wh Lil Nas X last May, Yang, 31, tch himself and says, lghg, “Why am I talkg about this the past tense, like ’s another era? (The podst format, which gay obssns n be discsed and nstcted at length, or which the hetero world n be filtered through gay sensibili, as is on Sam Taggart and Gee Civeris’s “StraightLab, ” has bee fertile turf for emergg edy stars.

MATT ROGERS [COMEDIAN] WIKI, GAY, PARTNER, NET WORTH

” says Rogers, who, like all of his lleagu, has many ncurrent projects; he spent an early month of the panmic hostg (hilarly) a pet-groomg realy show lled “Hte Dog” for HBO Max; he -created a short-form seri lled “Gayme Show” (“for Quibi, rt peace”), whose wrg room was “entirely stocked wh queer people”; and he will have a regular role on a new Showtime edy lled “I Love That for You, ” tentatively schled for this sprg, wh the “S. ” Lyn’s style of humor — bchy, suatg, spiked wh alhol, rancid wh self-mockery — was rarely overtly queer; was what would now be scribed as “queer-d” — other words, legibly gay to anybody, gay or straight, who knew what signifiers to look for but to the obliv, merely droll.

Lyn (who was self-protectively disparagg about gay men terviews) and ntemporari like Charl Nelson Reilly on “Match Game” (another game show) the 1970s were gay entertaers before that was a tegory; they are the first DNA strand ntemporary gay male edy’s triple send strand was the first generatn of out male edians — guys like the performance artist Frank Maya, who beme the first out gay man to get a spot on the early ’90s MTV seri “Half Hour Comedy Hour, ” and Bob Smh, the first to crack “The Tonight Show” durg the Jay Leno era, and Stt Thompson, the gay member of the Canadian edy qutet the Kids the Hall.

MEET SON LOR, THE GAY FILIPO MAN WHO CATWALKED HIS WAY TO FAME

They were pneers who had to walk a plited le, at once makg stand-up safe for gay performers and makg gay edy palatable for straight dienc that, 30 years ago, were still far more fortable lghg at queer people than wh them. And the third strand was drag — there all along, olr than pop culture self, the subject of angry ntentn the gay muny between those who embraced as an act of transgrsive fiance and genr subversn and those who nounced as mstrelsy or, worse, bad for the e; pop culture, was a s-long journey om “La Cage x Foll” on Broadway the 1980s to “RuPl’s Drag Race” the 2000s, at which pot the naysayers fally had to adm feat. Source photos: Alex SchaeferOne thg that distguish the new wave of gay edy is that n draw om all the tradns and rebe them to somethg new — at once polil and mpy; cheerful and subversive; stumed and nfsnal; explic and mastream.

It’s an approach that nnects gay edy to a long Amerin tradn of outsir humor — the humor of the opprsed — and an equally long tradn which those outsirs bee sirs. In the scene, Styl plays a distracted, gay, sexually (hyper)active social media brand manager who’s ught advertently postg his own horny Instagram msag unr the pany acunt — cludg one to Shawn Mens, to whom he sends what he sheepishly adms to his boss ( a le that drew screams of lighted shock om the stud dience) was “a picture of my open throat. ”The sketch was an stant h, which was surprisg not jt bee Styl gamely threw himself to the role but bee the language ed — “still on a poppers high, ” “feelg really prsed after threome, ” “wreck me, daddy” — was for-, by- gay talk of a kd that was unprecented on “S.