Bowen Yang Talks 'Dicks: The Musical' at LA Premiere

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“Saturday Night Live” comedian Bowen Yang stops by on the carpet premiere of “Dicks: The Musical” to chat about playing God, the Actors Strike, and the infamous Sewer Boys.

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00:00 I love the matching necklace.

00:02 Thank you.

00:04 My stylist gave me a Wellbutrin necklace, even though it's not the drug for me.

00:09 I was on it, it was getting me a little too up, and I don't need it.

00:14 Anyway, there's some background on that.

00:17 Can you give us a little medical advice?

00:19 Of course, of course.

00:20 What does it mean to you to be standing on the carpet with everything going on in Hollywood right now?

00:28 It means a great deal. It means gratitude, mostly.

00:31 I think we're extremely grateful on a lot of levels to SAG, to A24,

00:36 but especially to both of those entities for showing us a paradigm of how it can be done.

00:43 This is the whole reason for the interim agreements, is that we can show Hollywood,

00:48 we can scale this up and make this pretty universal, and once that happens, the strike is over.

00:53 I think this is a nice visual, especially during the strike, that it can keep going on this scale,

01:00 but it can keep going on any scale as long as a studio is willing to meet the union's wishes.

01:06 I'm so excited that it is a queer film that we're showing during all of this time.

01:12 On a scale of one to gay, how gay is this movie?

01:15 This breaks the meter. This is G-A-I-E-Y-L-L-E. It's everything. It's a lot of letters.

01:29 We wanted to ask, how does it feel to go from playing an iceberg to playing God?

01:34 I feel like they're pretty sort of like, they're within the same neighborhood, right?

01:39 These things that can be anthropomorphized if you really think about it.

01:46 The iceberg's a little bit more annoyed that he has to circumvent what he's known for,

01:54 and God is sort of like, "Yeah, I'm God. Let me spin you a yarn.

01:59 I have a story to tell you about these two boys, Craig and Trevor, and you're going to listen,

02:02 and here's why it's important." God has more of a purpose. His PR is a little bit better.

02:07 What was the craziest thing that you witnessed on this set?

02:10 Craziest thing I witnessed on the set was the sewer boys, probably.

02:15 I didn't even see them in action, but even just looking at their puppets was really shocking.

02:21 And by their puppets, I mean their real bodies, but they were just sort of in repose.

02:25 But that was pretty crazy.

02:27 Do you just have a short little message for anyone in the LGBTQ community?

02:31 Yeah. Be gay, but do crime only if it won't land you in maximum security prison. Yeah.

02:41 [MUSIC PLAYING]

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