"Straight Plan For The Gay Man"

[La_Serpiente]

A new show by Comedy Central

"Straight Plan For The Gay Man"

NEW YORK, January 12, 2004 -- Boys will be boys but thanks to COMEDY CENTRAL's "Straight Plan For The Gay Man," three gay men will achieve their dreams of becoming a blue-collar meatpacker, competitive basketball player and bar hopping, smooth talking babe magnet. COMEDY CENTRAL is in production on three one-hour long episodes that mock and shatter the straight male stereotypes while "embracing" the phenomenon that has swelled over "Queer Eye For The Straight Guy." "Straight Plan For The Gay Man" will air on February 23 at 10:00 p.m.
COMEDY CENTRAL's "Straight Plan for the Gay Man" has four straight comedians, the "Flab 4" (Curtis Gwynn, Billy Merritt, Kyle Grooms and Rob Riggle) working with a gay man to achieve his small but important dream of pulling the wool over the straight world's eyes for a day. In the three one-hour episodes, viewers will meet three different gay men and learn about that one thing they've always wanted to check off their life's "to do list."

The gay men include: Jonathan, an upscale fashion salesman who's always wanted to better understand the life of a blue collar worker; Roger, a quirky yoga instructor who has always dreamed of competing in a pick up basketball game; and Stephen, a hip singer/dancer with tons of female friends, who's always wondered if he'd be a smooth straight man when it comes to picking up the ladies.

Over the course of each episode, our "Flab 4" comics take their new gay friend under their wing and give him a crash course on the secrets of straight male life -- a life that inevitably requires uglier clothes, a bare kitchen and a healthy dose of false egotism to cover for all personal failings -- of which there are many. At the end of each episode, the straight comics go undercover alongside their gay subject to see if they too can "pass" their tests: with Jonathan, they attempt to get hired at a meatpacking factory; with Roger, they square off in a competitive NYC street ball game; and with Stephen, the guys go for a night of speed dating.

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"Straight Plan For The Gay Man"

[arwalden]

1. Oh My Gay Stars!!! I Can Pass For Straight, Girlfriend!!

Don't be tellin' me how to act Miss Thing!

-- Allen

[David__77]

2. Passing for straight.

I've never had the desire to be honest. But I've always been on the "alternative" side in terms of style, and so some convetional people just assumed I was "different" rather than gay. And it's not like I'm "flaming" per se. It's surprising that so many don't assume I'm gay actually.

[arwalden]

3. Oh I could tell right off... your perfect spelling. Excellent grammer.

And your spacing was always so neat. The curves of the S and the straight lines in the M and N and I were so perfect.

You just HAD to be gay. I knew it all along.

-- Allen

[Fenris]

4. Hmmm..."blue-collar meatpacker"

Interesting.

[arwalden]

5. Stop! Just Stop!!

Don't go there!

-- Allen

[grannylib]

6. *lol* too funny....but it's so easy, ya know???

:loveya:

[La_Serpiente]

7. Oh my gawd

stop, lol.

Thanks for the good laugh :thumbsup:

[Loonman]

8. That scene in The Birdcage

Where Robin Williams is trying to teach Nathan Lane to be "manly" is friggin' hilarious.

One of the funniest parts of the movie.

[nostamj]

10. it is MUCH funnier in the original French film

La Cage Aux Folles

IMHO, of course.

[beyurslf]

9. I can't wait. I think it sounds to funny.

Every once in awhile i meet someone who can't tell I am gay... but I figure they are just so naive they wouldn't know what gay dar was if I told them. :)

[Kamika]

11. That would OWN (my ideas for the show)

We'd start with a gay guy in his clean house, his fashionable clothes and all

Then after 2 days His house would be a MESS, he would have a short beard, his hair would be greasy, atlest 10 pizza boxes on the floor, with some girly mags, and he would sit in the sofa watching basket uttering phrases like "Damn they play like SISSIES!".


"-Wow! are you guys trash collectors?"
"no Sir, we're just Straight"

[geniph]

12. "A healthy dose of false egotism

to cover for all personal failings"? Oh my word, that is NOT limited to straight guys! I think that's damn near universal across all persuasions and variations thereto!