Comedian Matt Rogers Makes the Yuletide Gay

The latest in pop-culture news, recaps, and reviews, plus close reads, profiles, interviews, and more from Vulture.com. [Brand Logo]( comedy review [Matt Rogers Makes the Yuletide Gay]( The comedian’s special, Have You Heard of Christmas?, is the gift that keeps on giving. Photo: Scott Gries/SHOWTIME Just in time to celebrate this magical season of warmth and togetherness, a new Christmas special arrives to remind us of the most important truths about this very special time of year. In his new Showtime hour, Have You Heard of Christmas?, comedian [Matt Rogers](, dressed in a metallic tuxedo, stands onstage at Joe’s Pub to deliver his interpretation of the holiday’s central message. “Every year, Santa knows just what to say / When all of the elves claim the bag’s way too tight / And maybe we shouldn’t do this tonight,” he sings, his lips curling with naughty pleasure. “Nobody asks why Santa has so much lube,” he continues, nearly bent in half, eyes closed with mock horniness. It’s one of the first of Rogers’s original songs in the special, and like most of his numbers, it’s sung with the intense sincerity of a starlet who knows her entire cultural worth is tied up in her sex appeal. In the special’s opening number, a more upbeat banger, each verse is an ever-more explicit description of hooking up with someone: “Intoxicate / Alleviate / I want to feel you from inside.” And then comes the chorus, delivered with an arm flourish and a twirl: “Also it’s Christmas! Did I mention that it’s Christmas in this club?” [Read More]( [Holiday Sale: Save up to 70% and get two exclusive gifts]( with an annual subscription to Vulture and everything New York. The Latest TV Recaps • The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City: [Champagne Problems]( • Fleishman Is in Trouble: [The Odyssey of Toby]( • Gossip Girl: [School’s Back in Session]( • The Sex Lives of College Girls: [Toddler Tops (Ep. 5)](, [Late Night (Ep. 6)]( [Learn more about RevenueStripe...]( Stories We Think You’ll Like [The 10 Best Versions of ‘White Christmas’ Iggy Pop versus Otis Redding.]( By Emma Madden [35 Musicians Confess Their Favorite Christmas Songs Annie Lennox loves the Pogues. Santigold loves Otis Redding. Kacey Musgraves loves Kacey Musgraves.]( By Matthew Jacobs [Christine McVie’s Perfect Voice She was Fleetwood Mac’s most reliable songwriter, but the ache in her voice was just as important as her words.]( [The Music Industry Mourns Fleetwood Mac’s Christine McVie Even Bill Clinton said goodbye to the Songbird.]( By Bethy Squires [Amber Riley, Queen of Winning Things, Collects the Masked Singer Infinity Stone As the Harp, she beat out Wilson Phillips as the Lambs.]( By Jason P. Frank [Learn more about RevenueStripe...]( [Today’s Crossword]( 18-Across, Four Letters: Thing Admiral Ackbar wants you to know about. Photo-Illustration: Vulture; Photos by Theo Wargo/Getty Images for American Museum of Natural History, Taylor Hill/Getty Images for ABA and StarWars.com [Into It With Sam Sanders]( Photo-Illustration: Vulture Before his acquisition of Twitter, Elon Musk set his sights on another kind of media company: Thud. A longtime fan of the Onion — he once called it “the greatest publication in the history of all conscious beings, living or dead” — Elon helped two former Onion editors build a new satirical start-up. But Elon pulled out of the company before its launch and Thud shuttered in 2019. So what happened? [On this episode of Into It](, Sam chats with the Verge’s Jake Kastrenakes about Elon’s first foray into building his “intergalactic media empire” and what, if anything, it can reveal about his rule over Twitter. [Read more from Vulture]( [logo]( [facebook logo]( [instagram logo]( [twitter logo]( [unsubscribe](param=vulture-daily) | [privacy notice]( | [update preferences]( This email was sent to {EMAIL}. Was this email forwarded to you? [Sign up now]( to get this newsletter in your inbox. [View this email in your browser.]( You received this email because you have a subscription to New York. Reach the right online audience with us For advertising information on email newsletters, please contact AdOps@nymag.com Vox Media, LLC 1201 Connecticut Ave. NW, 12th Floor Washington, DC 20036 Copyright © 2022, All rights reserved