Comedy Central Presents: Scott Kennedy

Scott Kennedy spends his half-hour on stage dismantling expectations. Looking and sounding like a Texas football player, he uses his hyper-masculine persona to pivot into observations about being an openly gay man. His main bit targets the confusion people feel when his appearance does not match their preconceived ideas of gay culture.\n\nFilmed at the Hudson Theatre in New York City, this 2004 episode of Comedy Central Presents came at a busy point in Kennedy’s club career, shortly after a successful run on the network’s showcase series Premium Blend. Kennedy spent much of his early career co-founding the \”Gay Comedy Jam\” tour, and here he brings that same material to a national television audience.\n\nKennedy recounts the bizarre logistics of opening a comedy set for a troupe of male strippers and details his obsessive plan to meet the pop-punk band Blink-182. There are also riffs on the absurdity of reality television police programs, where he notes how suspects behave when they realize they are on camera.