‎Sassy Gay Friend! (2010) directed by Joshua Funk • Film + st • Letterboxd

Contents:

• SASSY GAY FRIEND SAV OPHELIA
• WOULD OPHELIA HAVE DIED IF SHE HAD A SASSY GAY FRIEND?
• EXCLIVE: BRIAN GALLIVAN ON SASSY GAY FRIEND, MIO, AND STUPID BIATCH
• DENSTCTG THE "SASSY GAY FRIEND"
• EVERYONE NEEDS A SASSY GAY FRIEND
• SASSY GAY FRIEND
• SASSY GAY FRIEND: HAMLET
• OPHELIA’S SASSY GAY IEND
• TACKLG THE HUMOR OF GAY STEREOTYPG ONLE
• SASSY GAY FRIEND!

SASSY GAY FRIEND SAV OPHELIA

Buzz·Posted on Feb 23, 2010Hamlet would have end much differently if Ophelia had a sassy gay iend.

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

WOULD OPHELIA HAVE DIED IF SHE HAD A SASSY GAY FRIEND?

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. MiO also helps me make more Sassy Gay Friend vios.

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

Brian Gallivan: I’m not sure what will happen wh Sassy Gay Friend the future. 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.

DENSTCTG THE "SASSY GAY FRIEND"

In the vio below, the sassy gay iend stops Eve om eatg the apple.

"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.

EVERYONE NEEDS A 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. AbstractThere is a YouTube Ophelia that I like to click on — Sassy Gay Friend’s alternate scenar of her drowng.

” cri an offstage voice, and Sassy Gay Friend, a tall, cute guy wh an earrg and a srf, pops onscreen. ” mands Sassy Gay Friend. Sassy Gay Friend is a creatn of the good folks over at Send Cy, and ’s hilar!

The urse of history and lerature ulda been different had some of our favore characters had a sassy gay to gui them through life’s tought moments. Everyone needs a Sassy Gay Friend ed.

SASSY GAY FRIEND

If you don’t have one, you n follow Sassy Gay Friend on Twter.

SASSY GAY FRIEND: HAMLET

So before you make another important life choice, please nsult your Sassy Gay Friend to ensure ’s the right one. Do you have your own Sassy Gay Friend? If only Ophelia had a sassy gay iend...

Cast & crewUser reviews20102mHamlet would have end much differently if Ophelia had a sassy gay would have end much differently if Ophelia had a sassy gay would have end much differently if Ophelia had a sassy gay productn, box office & pany PhotosReview Very funny but 's odd that this is only the Sassy Gay Friend vio listed on IMDbBrian Gallivan has ma about 5-10 short Sassy Gay Friend vios for the Send Cy Televisn webse.

Bee he's done several, I am nfed why only "Hamlet" is listed on IMDb--pecially bee 's not the bt of his vios, though is this stallment, our Sassy Gay Friend has an terventn wh Ophelia om "Hamlet". Instead of her gog crazy and killg herself, Sassy Gay Friend giv her reasons to live as well as to get over Hamlet (after all, he DID kill her father) vio, like all the Sassy Gay Friend, is clever and funny. However, I strongly remend you try a few of the rt--pecially Sassy Gay Friend's terventns wh "Great Expectatns" and "Eve".

OPHELIA’S SASSY GAY IEND

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

TACKLG THE HUMOR OF GAY STEREOTYPG ONLE

" 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.

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? 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:.