Joel Kim Booster Is Deeply Frustrated by the Lack of Gay Male Standup Comedy Stars
SXSW/GettyJoel Kim Booster likes to play the “hot idiot” on stage. But as you will quickly learn by listening to this episode of The Last Laugh podcast, he is actually quite insightful when it comes to the unique challenges he has faced on his path to becoming one of the funniest young comedians working today.To kick off Pride Month, the stand-up comic and co-host of the Flameout podcast on Spotify opens up about growing up with his adoptive Evangelical Christian family, how he gave up self-deprecation to embrace over-confidence, and why there hasn’t been a gay male stand-up comedy superstar on the level of Ellen DeGeneres, Wanda Sykes, or Tig Notaro. He also reveals some exciting news about the status of his big gay rom-com Trip co-starring SNL’s Bowen Yang.“The question is always asked, why hasn’t there been a gay male Ellen or something like that,” Booster says, adding that it’s “definitely true” that no gay men have “really broken through” in the way many gay women have. “I think part of it is a general discomfort with the way that gay men have sex. I think that it’s really hard to look at a gay man and not think about anal.”Read more at The Daily Beast.
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