Yang talks about the origins of that joke in Fire Island with Joel Kim Booster.
Warning: This article contains a minor spoiler fromFire Island.
“I was like, ‘Is it obnoxious if my character referencesSNL?
Joel Kim Booster and Bowen Yang discuss the “Gays in Space” bit in ‘Fire Island.'.Searchlight Pictures; Dana Edelson/NBCU Photo Bank/NBCUniversal via Getty Images; Searchlight Pictures
Does that seem so masturbatory?’
But Joel was like, ‘No!
We have to keep this in.’
This is because this is how we talk as friends.”
“It was actually cut down, too,” Booster separately tells EW of that moment.
“There’s an even more extended version where we talk in depth about Gays in Space.”
“As comedians, we’ve talked about formative comedy.
We would watch Gays in Space on a slow, boring night when we would just hang out.”
Booster now stars on Apple TV+ sitcomLootwith Rudolph, and he says they bonded over Gays in Space.
He considers her “a gay icon.”
“It was so funny to go straight fromFire Islandto working with Maya,” Booster remarks.
I feel like I’m a witch.
I don’t even know how I got so lucky."
Fire Islandis currently streaming on Hulu.
