“Who’s the Piggy” with Blake Lee and Ben Lewis?

Homophilia

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Comedy

4.4 • 926 Ratings

🗓️ 16 September 2022

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Matt and Dave talk to gay Hollywood power couple Blake Lee and Ben Lewis about the Emmys, high-end grocery stores, What We Do In The Shadows, what Ben did in the shadows of a Toronto gay club when he was 16, the pressures of the closet on a relationship, the Kermit-Miss Piggy power dynamic, the lies we tell our parents, and the gifts Blake’s parents gave school administrators to keep him from getting thrown out. Also: Dave has a Catholic college queer homecoming to get to.

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0:00.0	And the Oh, Dave Holmes, hello.
0:25.0	Hello.
0:28.0	Matt Maconkey, you're looking fabulous.
0:31.0	Thank you so much.
0:32.0	How are you? I'm great. I've never been better. We are going to Boston early, early tomorrow morning. We're going up there for a wedding. And then it turns out, because I was just like, oh, you know, we got a free morning on Saturday morning,
0:45.8	and I thought, you know, Holy Cross where I went to college, it's like 45 minutes away, we'll have a car.
0:50.9	I thought, oh, I wonder if it's like a home game. We can go and
0:53.8	tailgated and show Ben campus. Turns out it's homecoming weekend, A. B, there is now
1:00.9	at this super homogeneous conservative Catholic College there is now like an
1:05.4	LGBT students group and an alumni group and they are having their own tailgate
1:10.4	also which is absolutely unheard of. So we're going to go and see what that's all about. It might
1:17.4	be great. Either way, we'll get to wear sweaters and Tweed and you know have that experience but wonderful it's going to be interesting
1:27.1	They're gonna be so excited to see you. Oh they won't know who I am that's
1:30.7	Absolutely they will they absolutely will not know who I am. That's fine. They will.
1:33.0	They absolutely will not know who I am.
1:34.0	And that's a hundred percent okay.
1:36.0	But it should be nice.
1:37.0	It's just going to be a nice little getaway for a few hours.
1:41.0	And then the game will start and we'll leave.
1:43.0	Hmm. Well, you know what else is nice?
1:47.0	Is there a segue coming?
1:50.0	The fact that we finally have these two on the show.
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