Ep. 308 | ‘Episode 8’
Dancer Svetlana appears in a Beyonce music video, a mysterious farter disrupts a yoga class, and Arnaldo helps a group of horny men move. Appearances by Rosie O'Donnell & Sharon Osbourne.
Ep. 307 | ‘Episode 7’
Music group Sappho's Lips performs at a Bar Mitzvah. Liza Minnelli, Dr. Phil, Amy Winehouse, and Raven Simone appear on the game show "Guess What I Had for Lunch!" James Lipton interviews actors with Botox. Appearance by Rosie O'Donnell.
Ep. 306 | ‘Episode 6’
Suze Orman gives financial advice to shoppers, an obsessive-compuslive television host roasts a turkey on her cooking show, and a couple spends the day assembling an IKEA bookcase. Appearances by Rosie O'Donnell & Sharon Osbourne, guest star Rachel Dratch.
Ep. 305 | ‘Episode 5’
The women of The View discuss gay divorces, an Afghani girl celebrates her 16th birthday, and Fitzwilliam appears on the Dr. Phil show. Appearances by Rosie O'Donnell & Sharon Osbourne.
Ep. 304 | ‘Episode 4’
Tyra Banks hosts Canada's Next Top Model, The L Word commemorative plates prove to be popular among lesbians, and an offensive lounge singer disrupts patrons. Appearances by Rosie O'Donnell & Sharon Osbourne, guest stars Andre Leon Talley.
Ep. 303 | ‘Episode 3’
The ladies of The View chat about their experiences going gay for Gay Pride Month, folk group Sappho's Lips performs at a hot dog eating contest, and an accident-prone wedding planner ruins a wedding. Appearances by Rosie O'Donnell & Sharon Osbourne, guest star Julianna Margulies.
Ep. 302 | ‘Episode 2’
RuPaul returns with a fresh batch of competing queens , a new vodka dazzles its drinkers, The Real Housewives of Warren Jeff show the wild side of Mormon housewives, and a recording session with Glenn Close becomes difficult. Appearances by Rosie O'Donnell & Sharon Osbourne with guest stars Isaac Mizrahi, Andy Cohen, and Bethenny Frankel.
Ep. 301 | ‘Episode 1’
The Amazing Race features celebrity heterosexuals and their companions as contestants, Afghani women star in a reality series and Barbara Walters interviews celebrities. Appearances by Rosie O'Donnell & Sharon Osbourne.
The irreverent sketch comedy series from executive producer Rosie O'Donnell is back for a new season with returning cast members Paolo Andino, Colman Domingo, Julie Goldman, Stephen Guarino, Jonny McGovern, Kate McKinnon and Nicol Paone. In this season of The Big Gay Sketch Show, will Fitzwilliam finally get a vagina? Will Chocolate Puddin' make the cut in RuPaul's Drag Race? All your favorite characters are back with guest stars that include Rosie O'Donnell, Sharon Osbourne, Isaac Mizrahi, Andy Cohen, Bethenny Frankel, Julianna Margulies, Andre Leon Talley, and Rachel Dratch.
- A first generation Cuban American from Miami, Paolo is a regular cast member of Logo's "The Big Gay Sketch Show" and was recently recurring on "One Life To Live" as liver specialist Dr. Harrison. The independent film "Choking Man", which played at the Tribeca Film Festival, can be seen on Sundance Channel. "Shut Up and Do It", another indie, received much praise at the New York Latino Film festival and a nomination from the American Latino TV Awards. His regional works include Palomo in "Anna In The Tropics" and Serge in The Old Globe's production of "The Food Chain". New York/Off Broadway: "Suite In Two Keys", "Earthquake Chica" at the first annual New York's Summer Play Festival, "Hermanas" as the charmingly self-involved and slightly dyslexic Eduardo for The New York International Fringe Festival. Paolo has appeared on "Ed", "All My Children", "One Life To Live" and "Law and Order". He can be seen and heard in commercial spots for DHL, Old El Paso, United Way, Verizon, Disney, the video game "True Crime II" and the audio book "Heat". Paolo holds an MFA in theatre from UMKC and sells his delicious gourmet cookies from his kitchen in Hell's Kitchen.
- Colman Domingo has starred on Broadway in the Tony Award winning, "Passing Strange" and Lisa Kron's "Well." Off-Broadway: Kander and Ebb's final collaboration, "The Scottboro Boys" (Vineyard Theater, dir. Susan Stroman) , "A Boy and His Soul" (Vineyard Theater), "The Wiz" (City Center), "Passing Strange" and "Henry V" (NYSF/Public), and "Bright Ideas" (MCC). Regional: "Coming Home" (Long Wharf), "People's Temple" (Guthrie/Berkeley Rep), "Well" and "Journey to the West" (Huntington), "Fences," "Amadeus," and "Blues for an Alabama Sky" (Theaterworks). Film: Passing Strange (dir. Spike Lee), Miracle at St. Ana (dir. Spike Lee), King of the Bingo Game, Freedomland, Kung Phooey, Around the Fire and True Crime (dir. Clint Eastwood). Television: Law & Order: Criminal Intent (dir. Mario Van Peebles), Law & Order: Trial By Jury, Law & Order and recurred on Nash Bridges. Awards: OBIE, Connecticut Critics Circle, Bay Area Critics Circle, 2010 GLAAD Media Award nomination and a 2010 Black Reel nomination.
- Julie started performing stand up comedy at age 15 at the "Comedy Connection" in Boston. In 2004 Julie was contracted to co author the pilot and co-star in "The Big Gay Sketch Show" on Logo where she is still an ensemble member of the first ever gay sketch comedy show. Julie also appears on Comedy Central with her featured stand-up "Live at Gotham" and online in Lewis Black's "Root of All Evil". An award winning comedian, Julie won the 2007 MAC award for Headlining Comedian in NYC, and in 2008 won the New Now Next Award for Brink of Fame Comic. You can catch Julie on Autostraddle.com starring in her own vlog, "In Your Box Office", and at AfterEllen.com where she launched her web series "The Julie Goldman Celesbian Interview Special Specials", with her very special co host Kate McKinnon. She's lucky to be mentored and guided by the great Eve Ensler, who co produced her live monthly all female comedy line up "Julie Goldman's Offensive Women" where she enlisted the most outrageous female comics in the world. Julie is currently working on her own feature film, co written with Brandy Howard, "The Nicest Thing" starring Sharon Gless, Tammy Etheridge and of course, Julie Goldman. Julie attended the prestigious Emerson College in Boston, majoring in Theatre Education. Julie was a member of This is Pathetic comedy group for 4 years, won the Funniest College Student comedy contest from Nick's Comedy Shop, was featured in PBS's first all women sketch comedy show, "The World According to Us", and then moved to NYC where she honed her craft. In 2008, Julie moved to Los Angeles to further pursue her career as a comedienne, writer and comic actress.
- Stephen Guarino is from the great city of Orlando and is mostly known for his work on Rosie O'Donnell's The Big Gay Sketch Show (Logo) now in its third season. Since nobody on Broadway cared if he lived or died he did some movies and TV: Disney/Jerry Bruckheimer's Confessions of a Shopaholic (2009); Nia Vardalos's I Hate Valentine's Day (2009); BBC's An Englishman in New York (2009); and (wait for it) Tyra Banks' The Clique (2008); plus a few killer straight-to-DVDs. Television: FOX's 'til Death, Wedding Bells; NBC's Law & Order: SVU; and The Extended Family on Sundance Channel (co-creator). Off-Broadway: "The Nuclear Family," "Carrin Beginning," "The Awesome 80's Prom." He is a member of Sak Comedy Lab (Orlando), Dad's Garage Theatre (Atlanta), and the cult classic "The Nuclear Family," a fully-improvised musical that debuted Off-Broadway in 2005 and has toured to over ten regional theatres! Look this summer when he stars in his newest feature - the very hairy and gay romantic comedy BearCity (2010).
- Jonny McGovern first gained New York City notoriety with his multi-character, one man show "Dirty Stuff" which was nominated for a GLAAD Media Award for Best New York Theater Production and was recently revived for a critically acclaimed run at NYC's International Fringe Festival. As 'The Gay Pimp', an entirely original character persona, Jonny recorded the popular CDs "Dirty Gay Hits" and "Gays Gone Wild". starred in the international hit, comedy-music videos "Soccer Practice", "Lookin' Cute/Feelin' Cute","Somethin' for The Fellas (That Like The Fellas) and "Don't Fall in Love with a Homo ( A Song for the Ladies)" which were downloaded over a million times, received worldwide video airplay on MTV Europe and Asia and each spent multiple weeks at #1 on MTV/Logo's Click List Video Countdown. Jonny has headlined at Carolines', had his shows produced Off Broadway, at various theaters around this gay nation and been published by Dramatic Publishing Company. He was a featured performer on Comedy Central's "Out On The Edge" , numerous Vh-1 specials including "Totally Gayer" and "My Coolest Years", Tru Tv's "Smoking Gun" series and was a correspondent for the final season of the ever classy "Ricki Lake Show". Jonny is also the host of iTunes #1 LGBT podcast "Gay Pimpin' With Jonny McGovern" which has more than 20,000 listeners weekly and star of the popular web series "3 Dollar Bill". He is delighted to be a cast member of LOGO's Big Gay Sketch Show (in it's 3rd season) and is performing around the country with his new standup show 'Feelin' Really Faggity".
- Kate McKinnon is an actor and comedian living in New York City. She was a cast member on the Logo's The Big Gay Sketch Show for three seasons and has voiced various characters for Adult Swim's Venture Brothers and Robotomy. She performs regularly at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theater on the house sketch team High Treason and in the solo shows Disenchanted and Best Actress. Kate won the "Brink of Fame Comic" award at the 2009 Logo NewNowNext Awards and was nominated for the "Emerging Comic Award" at the 2010 Emerging Comics of New York (ECNY) Awards
- Nicol Paone is an actress/writer/comedian who lives in Los Angeles. She began her comedy career at The Groundlings Theatre in Hollywood, which is training ground to comic greats such as Will Ferrell, Kristen Wiig and Lisa Kudrow. Nicol quickly secured a coveted spot in The Groundlings Sunday Company, which proved to be an amazing showcase leading to roles on "Punk'd," "The Minor Accomplishments of Jackie Woodman" and three seasons on "The Big Gay Sketch Show." She does sketch and stand-up all around Los Angeles, mainly at The Upright Citizens Brigade Theater, Groundlings, Comedy Central Stage, The Improv, The Laugh Factory and Akbar. Her film credits include: The Heartbreak Kid, Eagle Eye and most recently she played Adam Sandler's sister in Judd Apatow's Funny People. Her latest film, which she has the lead role in, Cried Suicide has just been accepted into the Tribeca Film Festival for 2010.
Posted 3/5/10