Atralian actor Josh Thomas plays gay a new way his show, 'Please Like Me'

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<i>Please Like Me</i> has drawn parisons to <i>Girls</i> and <i>Louie</i>, and s h take on gay characters may be exactly what U.S. televisn needs.

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JOSH THOMAS ON 'HOW TO BE GAY'

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The Atralian edian Josh Thomas was at the olst gay bar New York, batg how much to say about a breakup. ’ ” On “Please Like Me, ” which he played a gay twentysomethg also named Josh, he rtaged the breakup almost word for wh many ntemporary edians, mg unpleasant experienc for humor—even tragic on—is send nature to Thomas. He began velopg “Please Like Me” nsultatn wh the Atralian Broadstg Corporatn, which eventually missned a first then, he was his early twenti, and jt begng to acknowledge the fact that he was gay.

As part of this reckong, Thomas rewrote the pilot of “Please Like Me, ” changg the sexualy of his character—and the work found self posssn of a s wh a gay lead. “The superpower I had wh ‘Please Like Me’ is that the gay person was based on me, ” Thomas told me. ” He joked, “It’s, like, ‘Well, you’re gay, so that’ll be noble.

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The edian and shownner’s new podst, How To Be Gay, marri terviews wh personal stori. But he saved his ‘last secret’ for * gay australian comedian josh *

“I was, like, ‘Why are GLAAD better thori on homosexualy than I am? He relled rmg Freeform executiv, “I am a top-tier homosexual. They’re not more gay than me.

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Beloved Atralian edian and wrer, Josh Thomas is turng his hand to podsts wh new dible seri 'How to be Gay' on the words he typed to google as a teenager, 's an unflchg exploratn of sexualy and the queer experience.

He plays Nicholas, a gay 25-year-old Atralian who sudnly fds himself the guardian of two Amerin half-sisters when his father, who liv wh them the Uned Stat, di of ncer.

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The humour is broar, the lours more vibrant, the high school trop a ltle heavy-hand – but by the send episo the pace settl and the character quirks and meanrg dialogue Thomas imbued Please Like Me wh are allowed to take Thomas: ‘If they don’t want to see gay people kissg then I don’t want them watchg my show. ”As wh season four of Please Like Me, season one of Everythg’s Gonna Be Okay starts wh a gay make-out scene, somethg he says has given his “poor mum” e for ncern.

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Atralian actor Josh Thomas plays gay a new way his show, 'Please Like Me' .

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