If David Beckham and Rip Torn had a love child, his name would be Jonny McGovern. Also known as the Gay Pimp, this in-your-face comedian is quickly taking the world by storm. From comedy and music to television and night life, there seems to be no realm McGovern hasn't conquered.

His popular podcasts, Big Gay Sketch Show characters, and musical spoofs of heterosexuality (including the insanely catchy and hysterical viral video smash "Soccer Practice") make him a one-of-a-kind entertainer. Not only does he embrace his sexuality, but he's made a career of it. AfterElton.com recently caught up with the ever-busy McGovern to get to know the man behind the pimp.

AfterElton.com: First off, how great is your job?
Jonny McGovern: It's pretty great, baby. All my different jobs are pretty nice. I've been able to surround myself with the gayest people possible. I love the fame and the glamour of being on TV. And doing the podcast lets me reach out to a younger generation of gay teens who listen to the show a lot. I love making them laugh, but also showing them you can be as a gay as you want to be and still grow up just fine. That's enjoyable — to be able to put myself out there as role model. You can be a big fag and grow up to be real successful and secure with yourself.

AE: And there's an added bonus of all the naked guys you surround yourself with …
JM: Oh let me tell you, that is very lovely. I created that life. I call myself the Gay Pimp for a reason, baby. I like to be surrounded by nude dudes. That's the thing: confidence. If you say you're the Gay Pimp, people will believe you. It worked. It helped that I wore rhinestone jeans and had choreographed dances to do.

AE: Did you always want to do this?
JM: I went to acting school after I finished high school. I was a big theater fag, of course, in high school. When I first moved to New York, I started to pursue a regular career in acting. But I soon realized it was boring waiting around for people to give you the part.

I also realized as I got older that I was less interested in being what someone else wanted me to be than I was interested in being my gay big self. I wanted to put that and my feelings about that and my point of view in mainstream pop culture. So I started doing one-man shows. I was working with a group called Grindhouse A Go Go, which is where the Gay Pimp was created in a show called The Wrong Fag to F--- With.

AE: Where did the Gay Pimp come from?
JM: It started off with Eminem. I was appalled by him ripping on fags and talking mad s---. People were protesting, but how could you protest a pop star? I figured my best way of protesting was to write a big, flashy, glamorous, funny show that I worked on with Martine, who co-hosts my podcast with me.

We wrote a show called The Wrong Fag to F--- With: The Gay Pimp vs. Eminem. It was where the Gay Pimp was a pop star/superhero who came out at the MTV awards to battle Eminem. Of course it did end with Eminem getting it up the butt and being humiliated while all the gay teens were set free.

And then the songs that were part of the musical were getting play around town in New York City. I started performing as if Gay Pimp was really a pop star with dancers and trannies and all the stuff that eventually came in the video. One time I was performing at a place called PS 122. We were doing a show called Dirty Gay Teen Pop Superstars, and this producer, Richard J. Alexander — who directed Barbra Streisand tours and Bette Midler's Kiss My Brass tour — he saw it and said: "You were pretty good, kid. What do you want to do next?"

I said, "I want to make a video." So he produced a video for me, and it started from there.

AE: Critics of the character might be concerned with the way that it reinforces negative stereotypes of gay men as sex-crazed heathens. Are you spoofing this stereotype or embracing it?
JM: It's a little bit of both. We are men. There is a reason gay guys get with each other. Men like sex. There's an aspect of sexuality being a positive thing, which is part of the video. Also the Gay Pimp character isn't some slave to some straight man's identity.

AE: How different are you, Jonny, from the character?
JM: I don't dance into every room. I usually don't pop up in locker rooms and sing songs. But we have the same confidence. We have the same sense of humor. And I am surrounded by nude dudes a lot. I throw a party every Saturday night here in New York City called Boys Gone Wild. So every Saturday night you can find me with half-naked dudes dancing around dressed like pretend Abercrombie & Fitch frat boys.

AE: Can you talk about the experience of Big Gay Sketch Show? What have been the biggest challenges in getting the show off the ground?
JM: It's been a long journey. We all auditioned tons of times. Then we did the pilot episode, which was more of a presentation based on what we'd do for the show. We worked on it in the MTV offices. and Rosie [O'Donnell] would come in and see it. Getting it to that point, we were all working hard and were all nervous. We all thought, "Today's the day we're going to get fired." We never did.