Monday 16 January 2012

Playing It Straight: Gay Spotting


David Williams, Channel 4's Entertainment Commissioning Editor, says he decided to bring Playing It Straight back for a second series because - hey! - all the straight dudes are even more metrosexual than six years ago; "a generation with more buff boys with a liking for moisturiser than ever before, making the task faced by our lovely lady more tricky than ever."
What a berk.
Tonight one of the tasks designed to separate the straight men from the gay boys was how they react to having tomatoes thrown at them.
Yes, really.
Cara, "our lovely lady", who has to try and find her dream real man amongst the many marys says afterwards;
"There was things I could pick up on but they're all like your stereotypical things and I'm not going to do it like that, cause that's absolute crap nowadays.
"Like jumping round like an absolute fairy cause there's tomatoes flying at you - it doesn't mean you're gay, just means you're a massive girl."
Genius.
Fagburn wonders if people in the future will view this programme with the same sense of baffled horror as we do The Black And White Minstrel Show?
Best enjoy it while you can - I know I am.

1 comment:

  1. very confusing - as they have really mixed up all the stereotypes - I think sam is gay and I think that Danny is straight - even though he seems gay - dean is gay - sven does not seem gay is most ways and probably is - ben is probably straight but both twins being gay would shock people

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