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July 25, 2003
'Queer Eye for the Straight Guy' a Total Riot
If you haven't seen the new show on Bravo called Queer Eye for the Straight Guy, you're missing some fairly hilarious stuff. In fact, I'm surprised this isn't airing on Comedy Central.
Queer Eye for the Straight Guy features five gay guys (the "Fab 5") who "make over" willing straight guys wanting to spruce up their looks and lifestyles. They remodel the fellow's apartment/house, redo his wardrobe, teach him some basic culinary skills, address his personal grooming (or lack thereof), and generally make sure he's down with all the latest trends.
While I'm certainly no fan of "reality TV," this is creative enough to make me forget it's part of that otherwise feeble genre. A list of upcoming episodes of Queer Eye can be found at the Bravo website. In case you want to hear more about this interesting show, NPR covered it as well (RealAudio required). And, to top things off, in what I'm is a sure sign that the apocolypse is nigh, NBC actually aired a 30-minute episode of the program last night (it normally runs 60 minutes on Bravo). Wow...can NBC get any more hip?
Posted by Craig in Popular Media
Comments
I watched this the other night and immediately added it to the TiVo's season pass list. Funny schtuff! The one I saw had this immature ultra-slob cleaning up his act so he could ask his girlfriend to move in. After all the trouble and what I thought was a rousing success, the girl was an absolute road whore! If that guy wanted to clean up his life, she should have been the first thing to go. :-)
Posted by: Mitch at July 29, 2003 8:57 AM
No kidding. There have been a couple others aired -- one was this middle-aged Jewish guy whose house had been completely taken over by his kids' toys. The transformation was phenomenal...especially when they were waxing off his ear-hair. Eewww!
Posted by: Craig at July 29, 2003 10:00 AM