Forget Bruno.
We haven’t enjoyed a gay persona on TV this much since Paul Lynde‘s center spot hegemony of the old Hollywood Squares game show.
Of course we’re talking about Saturday Night Live‘s Bill Hader and his outrageous club kid creation Stefon.
Announced as Weekend Edition’s latest city correspondent, Stefon took his seat aside Seth Meyers once again, ready and willing to supply Meyers with a list of hot Hot HOT spots for the soon-to-be roaming masses of New York tourists.
Seth of course wants to know all of the great family-friendly destinations the rubberneckers might explore. But a three-day sleep-deprived Stefon can only suggest his kaleidoscopic array of kink-themed discotheque events. Late night gay raves that include a netherworld of K-holed denizens: Twinks, gypsies, dreadlocked midgets, puppets in disguise and a black George Washington.
Did we reveal too much? Nope, Stefon is inexhaustible and we love him for it.
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He’s the best thing the show’s featured in YEARS.
Hysterical. Never seen anyone imitate someone x-ing their brains out so well.
I love this because I know tweakers in LA exactly like this.
I like that he can’t help but laugh at himself during the act.
The best classic scenes from SNL in my lifetime are when Jimmy Fallon used to crack up at himself during Lovers sketches with Will Farrell and Rachel Dratch. SNL is kinda lame and unprofessional nowadays; it seems like the cast is just too lazy to come up with fresh material and usually tries to run for 5 whole minutes on the same joke.
I know it wasn’t intended, but he was a funnier character when he was more smiley and started laughing and when he congratulates himself at the end. If he could work that into the character it’d be sweet.
>>”when Jimmy Fallon used to crack up at himself during Lovers sketches”
Um, Jimmy Fallon used to crack up at himself during every goddamned sketch he was ever in. It was never a matter of if he and Horatio Sanz would crack up and break character–it was always a matter of when.