Kylie's Trick In Getting A Shining Knight

queerguru loves T.V. shows that do not take themselves too seriously, and we have found a new one that we have fallen in love and with and put on the top of our 'must-see' list from now on.   When ABC's parody fantasy/fairytale musical sitcom Galavant was renewed for a second season despite it's poor ratings it came back this weekend with a very tongue-in-cheek series premiere entitled "A New Season aka Suck it Cancellation Bear".

It opened with a very funny song called 'A New Season' that asked the audience to 'screw all those apprentices and every batchelorette" and went in to boast of an upcoming roster of "new guest's who'll cost the network a fortune".

The first of these guests (who may or may not have indeed cost that much) was the wonderful Kylie Minogue who was even more outrageously camp than usual (hard to believe, we know). Kylie played The Queen (!) owner of the Enchanted Forest's resident gay bar who flirts with the (very hot) Galavant (Joshua Sasse) ordering him to either remove his shirt or be thrown to ‘The Bear’.

She sings to the knight: “You trespassed upon my kingdom, and now you’re in my sway. Which basically means as Queen of all queens, I’m going to make you pay. One thing for sure will settle the score, and trust me it’s more than fair. Off with his shirt! Strip him down. Don’t be shy boys, go to town.”

P.S. Like all fairytales, this one has a very happy ending.  Since the scene was filmed in L.A. in September the petite Australian 47 year -old diva and the hunky 28 year-old Brit actor have very much become an "item".  Here are pics of them (courtesy of Getty Images) on the happy couple celebrating at a rugby match.   Just like her big 1998 hit single 'I Should Be So Lucky' , we say that Kylie so deserves to be exactly as that.

Top Ten Campest Christmas Movies EVER

Christmas is the campest of all the holidays we celebrate : it is all shopping, tinsel and sparkly baubles and the season of both joy and sheer excess, and should always be a total blast. To help you plan to have a gay old time this December 25th, we have trailed our extensive queerguru Movie Library to give you our pick of the Top Ten Campest Christmas Movies Ever.

À l'intérieur (Inside) If you are big fan of horror flicks, then this is a real sick Christmas one for you. If this not a genre you like then STOP READING NOW. This exceedingly nasty French movie made in 2009 starts with a baby dying in utero in a car crash on Christmas Eve. This becomes one total bloody fest as one very pregnant woman attempts to stop a stranger in her manger from cutting her unborn baby out of her tummy before it’s fully cooked. It’s on this list as it is as camp as hell. Literally. Click Here to Buy.

A Merry Frigging Christmas:  This is one of the last movies that the late great Robin Williams made, and although is is not one of his finest performance, the film’s mix of elements of “National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation” and “Bad Santa” is very amusing This mad-cap comedy also stars Candace Bergen, Oliver Platt, Lauren Graham, and Jeffrey Tambor. Click Here to Buy.

Ernest Saves Christmas. Santa travels to Orlando to pick his successor before his magic runs out. When he arrives, he just happens to meet Ernest, a bumbling taxi driver who is filled with holiday joy. Ernest drops Santa off so he can meet with the next Santa, Joe Carruthers but forgets Santa’s magic bag in the trunk. This very silly comedy is a great way to just laugh that excessive Christmas Day dinner off.   Click Here to Buy.

Go. This is a wonderfully funny action flick that follows several separate storylines on one very strange Christmas in Los Angeles and Vegas. For purposes here it’s worth noting that the most Christmassy of the storylines involves insanely hot Timothy Olyphant as a drug dealer in nothing but sweatpants and a Santa hat who holds Katie Holmes hostage.   Click Here to Buy.

Gremlins. The star of this movie is the mogwai who is a small, furry, fictitious creature that looks something like a cuddly teddy bear with the ears of a rabbit, a Bambi-like nose, eyes as round and deep and dark as glass buttons, a sweet disposition and a physical nature more unstable than hydrogen gas. When Rand gives one to his son Billy (who fervently does not believe in Santa) as Christmas gift, all hell lets loose in their small town.  Silly fun. Click Here to Buy

Meet Me In St Louis. Christmas without Judy Garland would be unthinkable and the best one of her movies we think you should watch over the holiday is this classic film, which is one of her very best. After all. MGM promoted this as ‘Technicolor Romance of Gaiety and Song’. Exactly!    Click Here to Buy.

Miracle On 34th Street. The original version made in 1947 (and the ONLY one worth watching) earned this Santa Claus played by Brit Actor Edmund Gwenn, a Best Supporting Actor Oscar (one of 5 Academy Awards the movie picked up)  and it still never ever leaves a dry eye in the house.   Click Here to Buy

The Nightmare Before Christmas. In Tim Burton’s delightful animated movie Jack Skellington, king of Halloweentown, discovers Christmas Town, but doesn't quite understand the concept. A wee gem of a film.  Click Here to Buy  

The Silent Partner. This camp almost forgotten Canadian gem from 1978 stars Christopher Plummer as a very hammy psychopath Santa Claus whose attempt to rob a Bank is foiled when the timid Teller (a very young Elliot Gould) beats him too it. Also stars an almost unrecognizable John Candy and Suzannah York. Click Here to Buy. 

White Christmas. This list would not be complete with one of the all-time camp Christmas movies that in 1954 Paramount claimed was ‘the most fabulous music and mirth show in motion picture history’. Starring Bing Crosby & Danny Kaye but our favorite track is Rosemary Clooney and Vera-Ellen singing the original version of "Sisters".    Click Here to Buy.

Marie's Crisis : Show Tunes Heaven

When Show Tune Queens click their heels three times and pray for home we know that they don't mean Kansas with Toto, but the one place in the world which is the nearest they will ever get to heaven. It's called Marie's Crisis Cafe and for the past 40 years (and maybe more?) it's been New York's most treasured piano bar where local gay men and musical theater performers gather round the keys nightly and sing their hearts out to their favorite Broadway show tunes. What they lack in talent (!) is made up for in boundless energy and passion.  As the pianist says each night 'Welcome to Marie's Crisis, where showtunes come to die!'

It's a little like stepping back in time as you enter and walk downstairs as after all there has been a bar there in the West Village since the 1850's. Initially it was a prostitutes den, then became a boy bar in the 1890's and it lasted right through Prohibition.  It's curious name came from The Crisis Papers by Thomas Paine who died in the house, not it must be said from an overdose of sentimental renditions of numbers like 'You're The Top' or 'Climb Every Mountain'. 

Now the American Theater Wing has produced this rather wonderful tribute to one of New York's most venerated venues.  As bartender Doug Thompson (pictured above) aptly sums up “Marie’s is the island of misfit toys for people who love show tunes,”   And don't be confused by the fact there are women in the video, Marie's has always been a hetero friendly place too. 

Capitol Hill is simply capital!

One of our favorite campy queer web series CAPITOL HILL is back with Season 2.  Set in Seattle 'the greatest city in the world' it is a perfect parody of some classic  O.T.T. T.V. series of the 1970's and 1980's. It follows the fortunes of Rosie Smells (played by Waxie Moon) a young innocent girl who has escaped the backwoods of Portland Oregon and lands herself a job as a TV presenter on her very first day in the City (it's a Fairy tale after all!)  Written and directed by Wes Hurley, each episode is introduced by Ben de La Creme who was Miss Congeniality on Season 6 of Ru Paul's Drag Race.

For the second season the Cast will also star  Drag performer and RuPaul's Drag Race season five winner Jinx Monsoon, with appearances from Big Brother contestant Kenny Brain (of the infamous leaked Grindr photos too that showed ALL his huge talent) and adult film star Colby Keller.

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