People everywhere are bound to be laughing their asses off or just plain pissed off when 'The Happiest Gay Couple' makes its television series debut tonight at 10 PM on LOGO, the "all-gay, all-the-time" cable channel.


The animated show centers around Rick and Steve, the show's title couple, and they're backed by a slew of lesbians and fellow gays (see above). The show is sure to offend some (think of it as a gay 'South Park') and please others with its very dirty (yet relevant) storylines and sensibility as well as a handful of gay stereotypes.

Add in the celebrity voices of out stars like Alan Cumming, Wilson Cruz and Peter Paige and (in my opinion) you've got a show that is both refreshing and pee-in-your-pants hilarious.

I spoke with the series' 34-year-old creator, Allan Brocka, who also wrote and directed the films, 'Eating Out' and 'Eating Out 2,' as well as the current gay fave, 'Boy Culture' (which will be available on video and DVD in August). We discussed, well, Rick, Steve, lesbians and everything else gay.

Read the interview and catch a sneak peek of the show ... all after the jump.

OK, let's you and I have a personal share, readers. Here goes:

I've always had a hankering for puppets. As a small kid, I'd put on elaborate puppet shows for my family. As an adult, I own 'The Muppets Take Manhattan' on DVD. Hell, I've always thought Guy Smiley was cute.

So mixing my pleasant passion for puppets with my still-high Tony Award fever, I paid a visit to 'Avenue Q,' the 2004 Tony winner for Best Musical. (Does the Q, by the way, stand for "quirky" or "queer"? Whatever.)

It was there where I sat down with one of the show's stars, Nicky (he's the upside-down green dude to your right) and his very talented handler and confidante, Christian Anderson.

You see, Nicky's roommate, Rod, is a puppet homosexual. And if that wasn't blasphemous enough, Rod has a same-puppet crush on Nicky, who's straight.

So I thought it might be interesting and fairly educational (I'm doing this all for you, readers) to ask a straight guy (um, puppet) what it's like to be the subject of a same-sex (er, puppet) crush. I mean, this very thing has happened to a lot of us, right? Um, anyone? Yoo-hoo!

Darn, I'm hearing crickets.

Well, OK fine ... it's happened to me. And with that, tons of questions ran through my mind:

- Did swishy Rod ever cause Nicky to "turn," maybe just a little, maybe just for an hour? (One can fantasize; Nicky's really cute in person.)

- Was Nicky supportive of his fey roomie and attend PFLAG meetings? (Um, that would be Puppets & Friends of Lesbians & Gays, people.)

- And what's it like, exactly, to have a dude's hand up his tush two hours a day, eight times a week?

Watch the video interview after the jump ...