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Best. Gay. Week. Ever.
by Michael Jensen

A weekly column highlighting news about gay and bisexual men in pop culture.

Friday, April 14, 2006 (page 2)
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BIG BROTHER'S ALL STAR SEASON—ISN'T THAT AN OXYMORON?
Given the success of Survivor's All Stars version of the show, you have to wonder what took Big Brother so long to follow suit. I suppose there is the fact that some people think Big Brother is lame and annoying, but still. Nonetheless, Big Brother has jumped on the All Star bandwagon, but with an added twist! Viewers get to decide who will compete. Well, at least they'll get to choose from twenty contestants that CBS will offer up.

Long-time fans figure the best gay bet to land in the Big Brother house will be Marcellas Reynalds from Big Brother 3. That's assuming Marcellas wants to take time off from his current duties hosting House Call, CBS.com's chat show about Big Brother. Methinks he'd be nuts not to go for it.

I ALWAYS THOUGHT THAT REFERRED TO TOM AND CLAY
Saturday Night Live has announced the Ambiguously Gay Duo will host a Best of Saturday TV Funhouse's animated shorts by the acclaimed Robert Smigel. The special is set to run on April 29 th ( 11:30 PM ) and as always the duo will be voiced by Stephen Colbert and Steve Carrell. I confess to liking SNL only slightly more than Will and Grace (which I like only slightly more than a flaming baton in my eye), but even I acknowledge Smigel's bits are laugh-out-loud hilarious. Therefore, I will hold my nose and tune in, hoping SNL's sophomoric homophobia doesn't ruin the whole thing.

I ALWAYS KNEW BARBRA AND MERYL HAD EXQUISITE TASTE
Speaking of Will and Grace, reports on the internet are that W&G producers desperately wooed Barbra Streisand and Meryl Streep to appear on the sitcom as Karen Walker's sister. (The part eventually went to Bernadette Peters.) Having the common sense of a cane toad, both Oscar winning thespians passed. I suspect Bernadette, well known for her animal rights work with Mary Tyler Moore (Broadway Barks), only said yes to the role because she didn't have the heart to say no.

AND I THOUGHT JOAN COLLINS WAS RUTHLESS
Last week I told you poor gay Noah, over on Footballer's Wives, was going to get used in someone else's devious plans. That's exactly what happened, as Noah got outed as graphically as you can on TV. Think Brokeback Mountain in the pup tent. Without the tent. Or any clothes. And all captured on videotape and shown to a roomful of astonished people. At any rate, there's no going back in the closet for Noah. But at least it looks like tough-as-nails lesbian, Hazel, is going to keep the homophobic coach from canning Noah. As for this week's episode, all I'll say is that things get worse for Noah, but he triumphs in the end.

NBC's new show, Conviction, had a gay sub-plot last week. One partner in a gay couple in the midst of breaking up was accused of murdering the other half. The plot didn't have much to do with their being gay at all. It was like they were just regular people or something. There were no big coming out speeches, no homophobic rants, in fact, no lectures to anybody at all. How refreshing!

Over on FOX's gag-inducing Unan1mous, Jameson is still in the hunt for the dwindling pot of money, and there is something in a mysterious box that will get opened next week. I'm hoping for the Avian flu…a bomb…and a cancellation notice. Meanwhile, Andrea exited Top Chef, leaving gay Dave and bi Tiffani still in the running. Next week's challenge is to prepare Andrea's organs in a Hannibal Lecter buffet. Dave called dibs on the liver.

With any luck, Sasan on SonoTORIous, will find another reason to take off his shirt.

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