In addition to this band of eclectic friends, the film also features Margaret Cho as the den mother of the otherwise all-male cadre staying at her house.īooster began his stand-up career opening up for plays in Chicago’s theater scene, before releasing his 2018 debut stand-up album, Model Minority (his new Netflix special is set to launch later this month). And it’s these misaligned goals that are at the center of some of the best scenes of Fire Island. The pair play best buds with very different goals about meeting people on Fire Island-Yang wants to find love, while Booster is looking for hot, meaningless sex. He also uses the movie as an excuse to throw a spotlight on his longtime friendship with standout “Saturday Night Live” cast member Bowen Yang. The film was written by and stars Joel Kim Booster, the openly gay stand-up comic who loosely based his work on Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice. On a broader scale, director Andrew Ahn’s new comedy Fire Island is about a group of multicultural gay men who travel from New York City to the Long Island-adjacent gay party community that has been a gay mecca since the late 1960-early 1970s.
