Some of you have asked: “your blog claims to be ‘one third political, one third cultural, and one third gay,’ but recently there’s been a lot of politics and not a lot of gay. What gives?”

By popular demand, I’m addressing the lack-of-gay in today’s post.

Nothing is gayer than a Broadway showtune. Here’s a clip from the cartoon series Family Guy, where (in keeping with the style of the show) they take a joke waaaaay beyond the logical stopping point and the result is hilarious. Er, I mean the result is fabulous! The spoofed song — “Shipoopi” from the show The Music Man — contains some of the most absurd lyrics since someone left Donna Summer’s cake out in the rain in the 1970’s: