‘Fashy Traggots’ a Night of Queer Comedy Ahead of Its Time #ThrowbackThursday

It was a night to forget—for me anyway.

Tuesday April 14, 2015 saw the opening night of a comedy show I produced, directed, and promoted: ‘Fashy Traggots’ at the hipster club Warsaw in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.

Headlined by gay stand-ups Matteo Lane, Sampson McCormick, and Kenny Neal Shults, it was M.C.’d by lesbian Palestinian comedian Sabrina Jalees, and scored by Cazwell.

Sponsors included a magnum of Grey Goose and cocaine.

Los Angeles Magazine called it “edgy.” While NYC gay nightlife guide NEXT said they had had seen the future of queer comedy and it was “fashy!”

Armed with a BA in English and the year (2000-2001) I studied with the NY based improv comedy troupe Upright Citizen’s Brigade, I’d originally conceived of it as a sort of queer ‘Kings of Comedy’ meets Def Comedy Jam—recorded live—we hoped it would become a thing. It went whatever the opposite of viral is and opened and closed the same night.

I still want to revisit the idea one day.

Popular gay YouTuber (at the time) RexYouUp did the promotional video below.