| Sunday, January 20, 2008 |
| THE BIG GAY SKETCH SHOW |
What is this program? humor for homosexuals
When and where? season two premieres February 5, 10 p.m., on Logo
Who should watch this program? flaming fairies, Rosie O'Donnell
So how is it? Maybe I'm not gay enough for this show (despite being a straight guy who loves musical theater and the Village People), but I just don't get it. The Big Gay Sketch Show parodies just about every gay cliche in the book (dyke fashion, Liza Minnelli love), but not to particularly hilarious effect. The bits, while not ill-conceived, are often ill-executed. An overly emotional Sally Field in a commercial for an osteoporosis drug? Sounds clever, but it's no more than an over-the-top reenactment of her famous Academy Awards speech. Liza as a superheroine who gets her powers from imbibing alcohol? Drunkenly rescuing twinks getting mugged really isn't all that funny. Some sketches earn genuine laughs, like "Today on Craigslist With Maya Angelou," imagining the acclaimed poet earnestly reciting posts from the man-to-man section of Casual Encounters, and the commercial for Gaydar, a laser-scoped blaster that outs its targets. But the parody of Dynasty with its mocking of convoluted soap storylines and shoulder-padded Joan Collins is something I would expect from Saturday Night Live circa 1996. The one sketch in season two's opener that actually got me chuckling was "WeHo Express," about a West Hollywood FedEx-type store where gay guys ogle a muscular employee as he lifts and grunts and spanks the boxes. This one went over the top in all the right ways, like when a customer starts videotaping the action and packing popcorn falls on the guy ("It's all over my face! Some of it got in my hair!"). The Big Gay Sketch Show is definitely gay, but the laughs just aren't that big.
Do you want to save this program or delete? DELETELabels: comedy, LOGO |
posted by Derek Thomas @ 1/20/2008  |
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