Toronto Fringe Review: Blake & Clay's Gay Agenda

Blake and Clay’s Gay Agenda, the follow-up to last year’s Fringe breakout hit, Gay for Pay with Blake and Clay, features the return of the titular characters presenting their new book, The Gay Agenda, a definitive guide to all things queer.

The Gay Agenda covers topics such as normal gay families with normal (exceedingly rich) gay parents, pressure to have a total lack of personal sexual boundaries, self-caring your way out of any form of accountability, and more. From queer shame to corporate pride, Blake and Clay have a quip for everything.

Daniel Krolik and Jonathan Wilson are engagingly funny performers. Their comedic timing is perfect and their characters are endearingly sarcastic. They have strong chemistry as a duo. Sometimes they don’t even have to say anything to be funny – a pointed look is enough to make the audience burst out laughing.

As a fellow queer who uses the internet, I was pretty familiar with most of the topics they tackled in their show. While I got some good laughs out of it, I didn’t feel that they offered an especially new perspective on the LGBT intracommunity issues they were poking fun at. Some of the jokes felt a little old to me.

I think there is a really good point to be made about divisiveness in the LGBT community and how it only benefits our oppressors for us to be fighting amongst ourselves. I wish they had brought that angle up sooner in the show. I felt like that part only really came up at the very end.

Overall, Blake and Clay’s Gay Agenda is a fun, well-executed sketch show. No matter how you feel about these hot button issues, you can’t help but laugh along.

Blake and Clay’s Gay Agenda is on now until July 14 as part of Toronto Fringe. Show times and tickets here.