G4 brings "The Peter Serafinowicz Show" and its gay-inclusive Brit comedy Stateside

Technology and "internet culture" cable channel G4 has announced that they'll be adding two British programs — magic show Freaky and The Peter Serafinowicz Show, a BBC sketch comedy — to their "Duty Free TV" programming block.

While I've yet to find anything as groundbreaking as That Mitchell and Webb Look (with its brilliant "Surgeon and Ice Cream Taster" and the Snooker Announcers discussing homosexuality), Serafinowicz's show looks to be fairly gay-inclusive.

There are a good number of throwaway gay jokes in the skits I've seen — the homoerotic process of changing a robot talk show host's battery, an incompetent detective's idea of a "gay man" disguise, a short visual gag about Hugh Hefner coming out — and they mostly avoid playing to homophobia. While I thought the "gay Sherlock Holmes" sketch used homosexuality for gross-out humor, I quickly found a companion sketch that did a similar joke with a straight couple. However, the most promising recurring character I've found is the flamboyant entertainment news reporter Kennedy St. King (pictured above), whose flamboyance is just a part of the character and not the reason to laugh at him.

My taste of The Peter Serafinowicz Show has me looking forward to seeing some full episodes. Still, I'm sure some of our British readers are more famililar with the show ... are there any gay sketches to look forward to? After the break you can catch a trailer for the show, which includes a number of gay gags.