SASSY GAY FRIEND - Romeo & Juliet | Amara

Contents:

• EXCLIVE: BRIAN GALLIVAN ON SASSY GAY FRIEND, MIO, AND STUPID BIATCH
• WHAT IF JULIET HAD A SASSY GAY FRIEND?
• HOMENEW VIOSUBTLEDARCHIVEUPLOADCONTACTLOGRSS FEEDTWTERFACEBOOK "AZTCOA8NGZKCYYD99G23F0NJNOI7SWRYVTKMCW=="; LOADG THE PLAYER...VAR POSTID= ("/")(); JWPLAYER('MEDIASPACE')({'FILE': ",SHARG: {: "", LK: ""('?')[0]+""},TRACKS: [{ FILE: "// "", KD: "THUMBNAILS" }],IMAGE: ""+POST.THUMBNAIL+"",TOSTART: ""+TOSTART+"",SK: {NAME: "EIGHT"},'WIDTH': '100%','HEIGHT': '100%'}); THE SASSY GAY IEND JULIET
• SASSY GAY FRIEND – JULIET
• DENSTCTG THE "SASSY GAY FRIEND"
• SASSY GAY FRIEND: ROMEO & JULIET
• SASSY GAY FRIEND: ROMEO & JULIETSASSY GAY FRIEND LYRICS
• SASSY GAY FRIEND
• SASSY GAY FRIEND SAV ROMEO AND JULIET (VIDEO)
• SASSY GAY FRIEND'S TRANSLATN OF JULIET'S BALNY MONOLOGUE
• TACKLG THE HUMOR OF GAY STEREOTYPG ONLE
• SASSY GAY FRIEND
• HOMENEW VIOSUBTLEDARCHIVEUPLOADCONTACTLOGRSS FEEDTWTERFACEBOOK "AZTCOA8NGZKCYYD99G23F0NJNOI7SWRYVTKMCW=="; LOADG THE PLAYER...VAR POSTID= ("/")(); JWPLAYER('MEDIASPACE')({'FILE': ",SHARG: {: "", LK: ""('?')[0]+""},TRACKS: [{ FILE: "// "", KD: "THUMBNAILS" }],IMAGE: ""+POST.THUMBNAIL+"",TOSTART: ""+TOSTART+"",SK: {NAME: "EIGHT"},'WIDTH': '100%','HEIGHT': '100%'}); THE SASSY GAY IEND JULIET
• EVERYONE NEEDS A SASSY GAY FRIEND
• SASSY GAY FRIEND

EXCLIVE: BRIAN GALLIVAN ON SASSY GAY FRIEND, MIO, AND STUPID BIATCH

“Sassy Gay Friend” Brian Gallivan spoke to Monster and Crics about his MiO fueled new-found celebry.

WHAT IF JULIET HAD A SASSY GAY FRIEND?

The Send Cy h seri, “Sassy Gay Friend, ” featur Brian Gallivan, who b clever embedd advertisg wh hilar rants that tackle the bereft and befuddled mains of the Bard. Gallivan’s character, Sassy Gay Friend, pops up as if transported through a time mache to nsole and buck up historil hysteril women who uld have ed some pla old good advice.

MiO, a Kraft foods product, has hched their wagon to “Sassy Gay Friend, ” the seri Gallivan created and produced along wh The Send Cy. M&C: When did Sassy Gay Friend bee this ia/character that you ran wh?

Brian Gallivan: I first created Sassy Gay Friend 2004 when I was part of the Mastage st at The Send Cy Chigo. And then I did not do very much at all wh Sassy Gay Friend until early 2010 when The Send Cy started their youtube channel, The Send Cy Network. The Sassy Gay Friend Hamlet vio was one of the first on they released.

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MiO also helps me make more Sassy Gay Friend vios. Brian Gallivan: I’m not sure what will happen wh Sassy Gay Friend the future. What If Juliet Had a Sassy Gay Friend?

Sassy Gay Friend: Mmm, yeah, kd of. Lady Macbeth: (gasps)Sassy Gay Friend: Yeah. He heard om the three wch this Gay Friend: Okay, first of all, stop gettg your polil news om crazy old women who live the bh.

Romeo and Juliet:Sassy Gay Friend: "Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou, Romeo? " His reactn to Juliet tellg him she slept wh Gay Friend:.. This fate uld've been avoid, if he'd had a Sassy Gay (mutters to Christian) My love grows.

SASSY GAY FRIEND – JULIET

Sassy Gay Friend: (appears out of nowhere) What, what, WHAT ARE YOU DOING?

Sassy Gay Friend: Y! " Great Expectatns:Sassy Gay Friend: Why would you want to remember the worst moment of your life? Sassy Gay Friend: "Ew" is right.

Havisham: I've been so Gay Friend: Well, you have been a total character.

DENSTCTG THE "SASSY GAY FRIEND"

Sassy Gay Friend: No.

And also:Sassy Gay Friend: Buy some nail clippers! Sassy Gay Friend: THEY ARE NINETY-NINE CENTS AT CVS!! The Givg Tree:Givg Tree: He need my branch to make a Gay Friend: Yeah, and the guy om Silence of the Lambs need fat girl sk to make a flh su.

SASSY GAY FRIEND: ROMEO & JULIET

And then:Sassy Gay Friend: You're gonna end up a stump! And he'll e back old and Gay Friend: A-And what?

(7) | 14/12/2011 | Translate: Issue: * Your Name: Your Email: Details: The "Romeo and Juliet" would have very different end, If Juliet had a scy gay a Reply Your email addrs will not be published. Sassy Gay Friend – Juliet. David Levy, wrg for, recently challenged at JWA to ment on the genr/sexualy dynamic of the Send Cy's new vio seri, "Sassy Gay Friend.

Comedy troupe The Send Cy has thrown their hat to the rg this week wh a new Youtube vio their "Sassy Gay Friend" seri. In the vios, Ophelia, Juliet, Dmona and Eve are each about to do somethg stupid when their "sassy gay iend" steps , talks some sense to them, and sav the day. In the vio below, the sassy gay iend stops Eve om eatg the apple.

SASSY GAY FRIEND: ROMEO & JULIETSASSY GAY FRIEND LYRICS

"Sassy Gay Friend" very obvly plays on stereotyp -- the stereotype that gay men exist orr to be women's "sassy gay iends" and the stereotype that women are, as is repeatedly stated the vios, "stupid bch. The send problem is the the assumptn that gay men are the experts at beg women.

This is obvly meang to straight men and women, but also to gay men. In this stereotype, gay men exist only to help straight people, and are therefore rced to a supportg role and often sexualized so as not to be threateng (thk Stanford on Sex and the Cy). " The sassy gay iend this to refer to Juliet and Ophelia, and then turns on himself the clips about Eve and Dmona.

SASSY GAY FRIEND

" By llg Juliet and Ophelia "stupid bch, " their so-lled sassy gay iend dismiss the prsn and heartbreak (not to mentn the misogynistic and paternalistic forc opprsg the young women) behd each of their suicis as well, silly.

Send Cy: Sassy Gay FriendPlay vioa humor sketch om the Send Cy Network's seri "Sassy Gay Friend. " In this vio, Sassy Gay Friend terven Romeo and Juliet.

The guy next to me wrote "severe lack of a sassy gay iend" as his e. 26w↑1Nah, I'm gay and this is funny. Sassy Gay Friend[5] is a YouTube web seri created 2010 by the onle team of the Chigo-based improv pany The Send Cy.

SASSY GAY FRIEND SAV ROMEO AND JULIET (VIDEO)

The seri starred actor Brian Gallivan[6] as the tular character who viss famo characters om lerature and film, as well as a handful of historil figur, to give them advice om the perspective of a over-the-top stereotypil homosexual male. Brian Gallivan created the Sassy Gay Friend character 2004 while performg The Send Cy's mastage show Red Sre. [7] The first Sassy Gay Friend YouTube vio was upload on Febary 17th, 2010 to the Send Cy's channel, pictg the character visg Ophelia om William Shakpeare's Hamlet right before she ms suici.

[13] In April, Salon[14] qutned whether the seri was satire or rercg the cliche that all gay men are flamboyant. Throughout the rt of 2010, Sassy Gay Friend vios appeared on Paste Magaze[15], the Huffgton Post[16], Entertament Weekly[17], the New York Post[18] and Trendhunter.

SASSY GAY FRIEND'S TRANSLATN OF JULIET'S BALNY MONOLOGUE

In Febary 2011, Sassy Gay Friend beme the spokperson for MiO[23], a liquid water enhancer product, dog a handful of man on the street terview vios (shown below) for the brand.

That year, Sassy Gay Friend vios were featured on Time NewsFeed[20], Urlque[21] and Refery29.

TACKLG THE HUMOR OF GAY STEREOTYPG ONLE

For personalized Sassy Gay rgton, e-Cards & more, vis Stargreetz:. Romeo and Juliet would have end MUCH differently if Juliet had a Sassy Gay Friend!!!

Sassy Gay Friend Sav Romeo And Juliet (VIDEO)We like our gay iends sassy and reasonable. And Juliet Capulet certaly uld've ed a sassy gay iend as she was about to m suici. Can you name the words to Sassy Gay Friend's translatn of Juliet's Balny Monologue?

Two Web shows take a stab at our culture's portrayal of homosexual men and their variably sassy character tras.

SASSY GAY FRIEND

Sassy Gay Friend: Insultg or funny? Do you have a gay bt iend who giv you fashn advice and tells you when you're beg a stupid bch? Gay men have been the hottt accsori for straight women ever sce "Will and Grace" ma ntered homosexuals safe for prime time, and acrdg to a Web seri by Chigo's edy troupe Send Cy, some of the most famo women lerature would have been better off wh their own Sassy Gay Friend.

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The Sassy Gay Friend is a character played by edian Brian Gallivan who pops up the liv of Shakpearean characters like Ophelia, Juliet and Lady MacBeth (and more recently, Na om "Black Swan") to save them om their impendg doom wh his signature tchphrase, "What, what, what are you dog?

While the vios are funny (really, really funny, actually), they exist an unfortable space where you aren't sure if the character of the Sassy Gay Friend is a mentary on how our morn culture views homosexual men and their fag hags by ntextualizg a historil settg, or if they were jt bankg on a gay stereotype to get lghs, like Jack om "Will and Grace. " As Thomas Rogers wrote his article "Ladi: I'm Not Your Gay Boyiend, " this sendary form of humor don't embrace gay culture as much as lgh at :.

It's ["Will and Grace"] turned what was once a special relatnship between two cultural outsirs -- gay men and the straight women who love them -- to an eye-rollg cliché... The past , gay men have bee ls fed and ghettoized by our sexualy than ever before, makg terms like "fag hag" feel as retrogra as, well, "Will & Grace.

EVERYONE NEEDS A SASSY GAY FRIEND

I gus pends on what part of the stereotype is trimental to the gay muny. Is the way Sassy Gay Friend talks and his mannerisms?

SASSY GAY FRIEND

I know many wonrful gay men who talk and move like Sassy Gay Friend, and would anyone say those actual men are trimental to the LGBT muny? Sassy Gay Friend is smart, fun, and loyal.

But Gilbert's argument don't touch on perhaps the biggt problem wh the stereotype: Many gay men jt are not outlandish "La Cage Aux Foll"-typ. "Disappotg Gay Bt Friend, " created by Tyler Coat and Mikala Bierma, portrays the relatnship between a woman and a much different kd of homosexual man:. She bought to our culture's portrayal of gay men as fun-lovg party monsters so wholeheartedly that she's bld to her iend's barely ncealed disda and disapproval for all the markers that make up that stereotype: He's not to fashn, don't want to go out and dance bee he's jt orred Thai food, and uldn't give a crap about Lady Gaga.