Comments on: Something’s Rotten in the State of Heterosexual Love?

By: Something’s Rotten in the State of Heterosexual Love? | Antenna | Unmuzzled Thoughts (about Film, Television, and Shakespeare)

Mon, 12 Apr 2010 18:27:07 +0000

[…] Shakespeare’s tragedy would have ended much differently “if Ophelia had a Sassy Gay Friend.” Read more at Antenna Share / Print / […]

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By: Something’s Rotten in the State of Heterosexual Love? | Antenna « Kelli Marshall

Mon, 12 Apr 2010 18:23:32 +0000

[…] In March 2010, The Second City, the renowned Chicago- and Toronto-based comedy improv company, released on its YouTube network “Sassy Gay Friend: Hamlet.” The short video, which has received over 1 million hits to date, mocks Shakespeare’s most well-known play, specifically the character Ophelia who grows mad and ultimately drowns herself because her lover, Hamlet, has forsaken her. The video claims that Shakespeare’s tragedy would have ended much differently “if Ophelia had a Sassy Gay Friend.” Read more at Antenna […]

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By: Kelli Marshall

Mon, 12 Apr 2010 17:51:25 +0000

Thanks, Diane! I couldn’t help but also think of Tina Fey’s “Brownie Husband” sketch on SNL this past weekend: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BwGf0RgHr7w

PS. I really enjoyed your post on Sandra Bullock and the “mancession.”

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By: Diane Negra

Mon, 12 Apr 2010 15:28:17 +0000

This is excellent Kelli — your reasoning regarding Sassy Gay Friend as a manifestation of a culture marked by deep uncertainties about heterosexual couplehood is persuasive. In addition to the rash of high-profile celbrity breakups and the bromance, I’dd only that the chick flick demonstrates on a nearly weekly basis a propensity for staging transparently unconvincing couple closures (e.g. The Bounty Hunter).

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