Official Synopsis:

Season One:

Headed by a cast of eight fresh up-and-coming comedic actors, The Big Gay Sketch Show features a combination of traditional and music-based sketches, pop culture parodies and recurring characters, all from a unique LGBT perspective. Check out the "Gay Werewolf", "Tranny 911", "The Gay Facts of Life", "The Gay All in the Family", "The Gay Honeymooners" and more! Executive producers are Rosie O'Donnell, Dan MacDonald and Joe Del Hierro. 

Season Two:

Logo's The Big Gay Sketch Show is back with another season of the groundbreaking sketch comedy series! All eight episodes feature a combination of traditional and music-based sketches, pop culture parodies and recurring characters, all from a unique LGBT perspective. Check out Svetlana, sexy Naldo, Fitzwilliam, Chicago-style fitness with Latanya, and more! Plus over an hour of bonus material including new sketches, cast interviews, behind-the-scenes footage, Julie Goldman's Celesbian Interviews, and the complete digisode series of The Big Straight Sketch Show. Special guest include Chastity Bono, Kate Clinton, Amanda Bearse, Paul Vogt, Elaine Stritch, Christine Ebersole and Rosie O'Donnell.
  
Our Take:
 I may have enjoyed The Big Gay Sketch Show more if I enjoyed predictable, stereotypical humor or maybe if I wasn’t heterosexual, I don’t know.  While I might not get all of the cultural references, I can appreciate the talent of these performers.  They take aim at everything, including themselves, and their parodies of classic TV shows, like The Facts of Life and Dynasty, are hilarious. Unfortunately, the misses way outweighed the hits in these two seasons.

This show comes with a great pedigree having Rosie O’Donnell as one of the executive producers and Amanda Bearse of Married With Children fame directing several episodes.  Even Chastity Bono appears as herself in several episodes.

Each season includes loads of extras worth watching, including:

Season One:

* Big Gay Bonus Sketches (5 minutes).

* Interviews (22 minutes).

* Celesbian Interviews (20 minutes).

* Behind the Scenes (9 minutes).

* More Big Gay stuff, including Team Pimp's Sexy New Music Video (12 minutes).

Season Two:

* Big Gay Stuff including:  (38 minutes)

- The Big Straight Sketch Show: Half Hour Spin-off Special.

- Julie Goldman's Celesbian Interviews.

* Ten New Bonus Sketches  (35 minutes).

* Ten Interviews with all Cast Members and Director (21 minutes).

* Behind the Big Gay Scenes Footage including The Big Gay Bloopers (6 minutes).

This series is probably best for anyone who enjoys sketch comedy, gay or straight.  Alas, I am not one of them.

Overall Picture:
Season One:

Show: C
DVD: B

Season Two:

Show: B

DVD: B+

- Marcia Keefe
Staff Writer