Why are there more Gay Male Comedians

And yeah I fucked up the whole title of my thread. It should read why AREN'T....

Gay men are overrepresented among comedians, as they are in other audience-dependent professions, such as actors and TV reporters. But unlike anchors and actors, gay comedians are not given big platforms.

Comedy is aggressive. Most gay men are not.

P.S. No GOOD comedian is good-looking. The hottest you'll ever get from someone actually writing jokes is like a Tina Fey or Anthony Jeselnik. They were 7s on their BEST days.

I’ve noticed this too. They’re nonexistent in the US, but in the UK they have hilarious gay male comedians like Graham Norton and Alan Carr.

In the US, we get unfunny lesbians like Ellen, Wanda Sykes, and Rosie O’Donnell.🙄

Well, I think things are slowly changing. Some of these blokes are bigger in the UK and while they might not be household names, they are successful... Joe Lycett, Simon Amstell, Nik Dodani, Mario Cantone, John Early, Joel Kim Booster, Julio Torres,

R4 I remember even Joan Rivers saying that Ellen was not funny at all, and she was correct. Joan also talked about Rosie back in the early 2000’s and Rosie had a meltdown and said Joan was ugly.

Why do you have a yaoi image? That's confusing.

That's not yaoi.

R3 - Jeselnik looked AMAZING in his last Netflix special. I watched it just to stare at him.

[quote]Comedy is aggressive. Most gay men are not.

I don't think anyone beats gay men when it comes to verbal aggression and cattiness.

While there's no stereotype of gay men as violent, there's definitely one for mean.

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R6

Joan should know; she wasn't funny either.

Jesselnik is either gay or bi. Puts his facepic on grindr. Amy Schumer talked about finding out her boyfriend was gay and was very, very non specific. I think he's fully out now just not advertising it in his act. Which is a shame because it probably limits his comedy.

Does this man ping at all?

I believe DL thinks John Mulaney is suspect

He pings harder than Jeselnik.

Jack Whitehall pings hardest, but he's merely British.

There were great gay wits in the old days. The milieu of these men were theaters, swanky hotel lounges, and elegant parlors. No one has been able to transition to smelly beer encrusted comedy clubs filled with rubes.

What would be his act about? Ellen did a recent stand-up special, but it wasn't centered about her and her lesbian relationships, but about her being a lesbian and yet how she managed to be relatable enough to become a successful and popular TV show host.

sorry, centered around ...

Lesbian comedians are a little funnier because they can talk openly about having crushed on hot looking men and it is seen as cute and funny. A gay male comedian can't really get straight people to laugh about that unless the comedian is trans or cross dresser with a ghetto sassy persona.

I think you have a too US-centric view, there are a lot of gay male comedians in the UK and I expect there are a lot in other countries too that I'm not aware of (I'm hypocritical I guess because have too much of a UK-centric view).

In the UK there's Alan Carr, Graham Norton, Tom Allen, Joe Lycett, Simon Amstell, Stephen K Amos, Julian Clary (though he tends to compere/host rather than do full stand-up shows and he's not very prolific these days).

r22, Apologies for being American. I didn't mean to offend your European point of view. I will now go in corner of this US owned site.

There are plenty of gay stand-ups, but many feel the need to closet themselves to appeal to straight men. I know because I dated a gay stand-up (not someone hugely well known to the general public but pretty successful in his niche)

Dane Cook is moderately attractive.

Dane Cook sucks

In what universe is Mario Cantone not “aggressive?”

I used to do standup. Strictly amateur, just for fun. I got sick of being around hostile drunks in the audience and douchey fratbros backstage. It's a tough and homophobic world, especially when you're starting out. It's amazing that seemingly gentle people like Mike Birbiglia or Maria Bamford have found success. (They're not gay, just the first names that came to mind.)