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Ben Stiller in AIDS Comedy? On Broadway?

Gays! Gays! Everywhere Gays! / Dustin Rowles

Trade News | October 17, 2008 | Comments (29)

This item is completely fucking random, but whatever. In a recent issue of GQ Magazine, Elton John started talking about all the projects he has in the pipeline, like anyone under the age of 50 gives a shit what Elton John does these days. But the one interesting nugget he dropped was a Broadway production he was writing for Ben Stiller:

“It’s about a guy on Broadway who is gay, has HIV and AIDS, and has to go back and face his wife and his kids that he left. It’s very funny. The premise doesn’t sound funny, but it is. All right?”

Ha! No. That is funny, Elton. I mean: He’s gay, has HIV and AIDS. And he’s played by Ben Stiller? Hilarious!

The fuck, dude? It’s not the 80s anymore. Or even the 90s. AIDS-themed stories have absolutely no resonance in 2008. Did you know, for instance, that in large swaths of America, they don’t even care if you’re gay anymore. No. Seriously. In fact, even if you’re straight, it’s totally acceptable now to admit raging, hard-core man crushes. Not that I’d know.

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Comments

hee you made me giggle in my coffee.

*sigh* now I get to go slog through downtown traffic to work.

Posted by: Stella at October 17, 2008 8:12 AM

Everyone has AIDS!
My grandma and my dog 'ol blue (AIDS AIDS AIDS)
The pope has got it and so do you (AIDS AIDS AIDS AIDS AIDS)
C'mon everybody we got quilting to do (AIDS AIDS AIDS AIDS AIDS)

Posted by: Dangle McGee at October 17, 2008 8:22 AM

I'm sorry, we're judging comedy off of the man who made Lestat: The Musical? The musical that took an unispired vampire tale (with sexy results) and made it complete incomprehensible using live shaky-cam (stay with me people) with awful gyrating red lights, computer screens, and overused pyrotechnics? I didn't know who died, undied, or got raped by the end of it. I think there was even a unicorn at one point and a kickline.

Really? He thinks he can make AIDS funny? Have at it, then. One less show for me to see.

Or, thought forbid, another show to make me lose faith in the Tony Award voting comittee (cough Spring Awakening cough).

Posted by: Robert at October 17, 2008 8:38 AM

If James Cameron could make "Titanic" hilarious Elton John can turn AIDS into the new Palin.

Posted by: Sofía at October 17, 2008 8:52 AM

AIDS can totally be funny. Like isn't it funny when someone with AIDS cuts himself on a sharp piece of glass when a bottle breaks at the bar...and he doesn't miss a beat saying "Anyone got a band-aid? I have AIDS." Or what about when the immune system starts to break down and pneumonia sets in. That louds gurgling cough? You guessed it! Best Jabba the Hut impressions EVER! Oh...and how bout the skin lesions?! I knew one dude once who had a skin lesion on his neck, but when he was weak and couldn't lift his head off his pillow, right where the lesion met with a couple of the smaller wrinkles in his neck looked JUST like Tom, from Tom and Jerry...but 70's Tom, not the good Tom drawn in the 50s. See...it was funny cuz he TOTALLY hated Tom. He was more of a Jerry guy. Not a big fan of cats at all really...which was funny. Cuz he had AIDS! Just say it... AIDS!! I laugh my ass off at how easily it can be used to bring humor.

"Don't drink that coffee Dave...it's got the AIDS."

While at the zoo, looking at a Zebra: "Be away from that Striped horse Dave...it's got the AIDS."

Is it wrong that I find all of this funny? OH! And I LOOOOOOVE Elton John's new work. It pisses all over what he did in the 70s. His music has only gotten better...liike Billy Joel, Bon Jovi, and Billy Ray Cyrus.

Posted by: PissBoy at October 17, 2008 8:56 AM

I heart you Pissboy!

Sweet Zombie Jesus, how big of an asshole do you have to be to write an entire goddamn broadway musical around AIDS jokes? Fuck off Elton. I'd tell him to shove the musical up his ass, but, well, he probably already did.

Posted by: Jeremy Feist at October 17, 2008 9:26 AM

Aw, Pissy, if I weren't a married lady, I'd totally propose to you right now.

Posted by: Pea at October 17, 2008 9:30 AM

Whoa! Whoa! Hang on a second...I was just trying to bring light to the fact that Elton John's talent isn't exactly firing on all 8 cylinders lately. I'm fairly confident that an entire broadway musical could be made around AIDS jokes. Hell...Matt Stone and Trey Parker made AIDS one of the drop-dead funniest effing things ever. Writing a comedy doesn't make him an asshole. i just imagine his humor to be ham-fisted, Disney Channel, "has a message" humor.

Hell...i could write an entire broadway musical around AIDS jokes.

Why did the chicken cross the road?

...cuz he had AIDS.

It practically writes itself!!!

Posted by: PissBoy at October 17, 2008 9:33 AM

I cannot think of one thing that would make me want to watch Ben Stiller "act". Funny? He's a disgrace to his parents.

Posted by: Cindy at October 17, 2008 9:37 AM

I cannot think of one thing that would make me want to watch Ben Stiller "act". Funny? He's a disgrace to his parents. (who, by the way, they are funny)

Posted by: Cindy at October 17, 2008 9:38 AM

So much for adding on to a comment.

Posted by: Cindy at October 17, 2008 9:38 AM

Damn...Beaten to the Team America punchline

Posted by: Miz Misanthrope at October 17, 2008 9:51 AM

Well I hope Hussein Obama taps Sir Elton John
for Secretary of Interior Design or maybe the President of the National Council on the Arts!

How brilliant, Ben Stiller, a straight man, acting like a homosexual with a disease, confronting his hetero life mate....brilliant, just brilliant...I smell Tony!

Posted by: Chuck at October 17, 2008 9:57 AM

Hell...Matt Stone and Trey Parker made AIDS one of the drop-dead funniest effing things ever

Pissboy, are you HIV positive about that?
Well, I'm off to Hell now.

Posted by: Dangle McGee at October 17, 2008 9:59 AM

StationEry

Posted by: Jay at October 17, 2008 10:23 AM

are you HIV positive about that?

Ha!

Posted by: Julie at October 17, 2008 10:24 AM

I am HIV positive about that Dangle.

And I've discovered the cure for AIDS too.

CASH!

Lots and lots of CASH in high doses!

Posted by: PissBoy at October 17, 2008 10:25 AM

Maybe this is just me, but the only thing tackier than this idea is if someone wrangled Sarah Palin onto SNL. Oh, wait...

Posted by: Brian at October 17, 2008 10:26 AM

The only way Elton could make this worse than it already sounds is to have M.O.D.* open the show... Actually, that might make it better...

*yeah, I'm old - suck it - props to anybody that knows what the hell I'm talking about, though...

Posted by: Skitz at October 17, 2008 10:30 AM

Movies On Demand?

Posted by: PissBoy at October 17, 2008 10:35 AM

Monkey On Donkey? That does sound like it would make the whole production better. Classier even!

Posted by: Dangle McGee at October 17, 2008 10:37 AM

Method Of Destruction?

Mary's Obtuse Disposition?

Ministry Of Defense?

Mom's Octagonal Dildo?

Posted by: PissBoy at October 17, 2008 10:37 AM

I would totally go see the show if Mom's Octagonal Dildo was opening. I love my mom. The smell of Astroglide makes me think of home.

Posted by: PissBoy at October 17, 2008 10:39 AM

Pissboy had it with "Mom's Octagonal Dildo" - it was sloppy, it was perverse, it was extremely unsanitary, but whenever the family reunions started getting dull, it certainly livened things up!

Just ask Connie, Doucherad!

Posted by: Skitz at October 17, 2008 10:42 AM

I was totally going to play, but Mom's Octagonal Dildo is just too good.

Posted by: Julie at October 17, 2008 10:49 AM

http://www.acronymfinder.com/MOD.html

Skitz: I have no idea what you are talking about and I'm old.

Posted by: BWeaves at October 17, 2008 11:45 AM

Mother of the Damned?

Posted by: jack at October 17, 2008 1:01 PM

And I say that as a completely straight man who'd never touch Ryan Reynolds' hard, sculpted abs if offered the opportunity.

You are a fucking liar Dustin. For shame, sir, for shame.

Also: I think all threads need a minimum of 3 Pissboy comments. That shit is like liquid gold, if liquid gold had AIDs.

Posted by: the_wakeful at October 17, 2008 7:59 PM

Mr. Elton John is making quite the skeptical of himself this time.

Posted by: Mrs. Malaprop at October 20, 2008 7:17 AM