The segment, “What Would You Do?” places actors in real life situations to see how people react to uncomfortable circumstances.
In this episode of 20/20, two gay male actors were placed in a New Jersey straight sports bar to see how patrons reacted when the men were affectionate, and to see how they reacted to other placed actors who pretended to be homophobic. To the surprise of many, many patrons stood up to for the gay couple, with one man even saying “You are beautiful” to the couple.
Dipping into Maury Povich territory, Tyra recently talked to some gay guys who acknowledge that they are gay, but wish to have a wife and kids because they “hate gay people”. Don’t you worry– Tyra gets to the bottom core of this issue.
Zach Galifianakis is a comedian who’s been around for a while but I just caught his stand-up DVD on Comedy Central the other night. Is he gay? No, but his beard makes him a level 10 lumberjack.
Here’s a snippet of him and some of his newest “impressions”.
This quote from an article on The Fire Wire seems to describe him well:
Thickly bearded and unkempt (he jokes that he has the body of a third-grader who’s swallowed a panda), Galifianakis isn’t Hollywood at all.
“Everything is just kind of like performing in my basement,” said Galifianakis. “I just have this free-for-all on the stage that is hit-or-miss. … I kind of slam myself about that but probably the only way I can do it is just in an organized fashion somewhat. I don’t really know what I’m doing.”
Although Alec isn’t the Baldwin brother who graduated from Binghamton, (is that Billy or Daniel? and what’s the difference anyway) I still love him. He hosted SNL this past weekend, where he played a dad intrigued by the ‘technique’ of shaking a Wii-mote and also played a ‘cou-gay’, which you can see after the jump…
Well this is better than OAR and Reel Big Fish combined, and times ten.
Jon Stewart is coming to BU on March 27, with his 70 minute stand up act. Tickets will cost $26 will be “tentatively available” on Feb. 18 at the Events Center box office, or through its website.
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