With the exception of nepotism babies born to Hollywood power couples, launching three major projects in film, TV, and standup on three of the leading streaming platforms in the span of a month doesn’t just happen. The month of June, much like Fire Island’s fabled underwear parties, is going to see a lot of Joel Booster, which is pretty monumental. Three days later, he caps off his hot streak honoring “the grand tradition of gay comedians” by playing a rude, gay assistant in the AppleTV+ series Loot, alongside Maya Rudolph and MJ Rodriguez.
I just wanted to show, and this is so corny, gay joy.” As if dropping his biggest and most personal project yet weren’t enough, Booster will also return to standup on June 21 with a Netflix special, Joel Booster: Psychosexual. “That was the driving force behind the project. “Some of the happiest moments of my life have been on that island,” he recalls. As the star, writer, and executive producer of the film, it’s giving major “Bradley Cooper’s A Star Is Born (2018)” vibes in all the right ways, but it’s also a love letter to his experience on the famed gay locale off the coast of Long Island. The first is Fire Island, which drops on Hulu on June 3. Call it luck or chalk it up to God smiling down on the gays for once, but the comedian is on the cusp of a big break thanks to the release of three major projects in as many weeks.
