National treasure Melissa McCarthy was on Conan O’Brien’s show last night to promote her television show Mike and Molly, which apparently is still on the air. She told O’Brien that she tried stand-up comedy early in her career, but the only audiences who liked her were—no shock here—gay men.
“I did stand up for like, you know eight months,” McCarthy said. “I didn’t know you were supposed to write… I was just like, ‘I guess I’ll just have a shot and get up on stage, that’s what they do, right?’”
Beyond not preparing, McCarthy couldn’t handle hecklers. “As you were just placing your foot on the stage,” she explained. “Somebody from the back of the room was always like, ‘Show us your boobs!’”
Things got easier when McCarthy started performing for different crowds. “Do you know The Duplex in New York,” she asked her Mike and Molly costar, comic Billy Gardell. “That place I loved, because it was all lovely gay boys… They didn’t want to see boobs.”
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At that point, Gardell interjected, “They wanted to see my boobs.”
redcarpet
No Billy. Just…no.
jimbryant
Oh, go away, Melissa McCarthy. Stop insulting gay men with your stereotypes. Maybe your comedy routine was awful and that’s why the general population didn’t like it.
Don’t you just cringe when these women attempt to use us as a cover for their complete lack of talent?
startenout
@jimbryant: Or how she was just relating a story about how much she preferred performing at the Duplex at that the gay men didn’t heckle her the second she got on stage. Yeah, SHE’s the bitch.
I cringe when I read all the jaded gay men on here just looking to bash something that was cute and funny. If these are the types of gay men with which people are familiar, no wonder they hate us. You probably loathe Ben Cohen for his “narcissistic” attempt to make sports inclusive for gays, too. I mean don’t you just cringe when they try to get us to catch a ball.