Last night Logo premiered the latest in the Laughing Matters LGBT comedy series, an installment called "Next Gen". As you might expect, the special showcased an assortment of young, up-and-coming queer comedy talent in the form of six out-and-proud standup comics.

Pardon us while we get a bit braggy here, but among the comics featured was none other than our very own Daniel Leary, the host of the Mores for Gays video blog here on AfterElton.com. Now ... *sniff!* ... sorry, I just get a little choked up when I think of how proud we are of the little bugger! ... we'd have been thrilled to share the full special with you (Logo being our parent company) regardless, but it's even more exciting to be able to show off one of our very own doing his thing.

Is this what it's like to see one's child in a school pageant? Because if it means I get to skip packing into a gymnasium and elbowing fifty soccer moms for the best camcorder angle, I'll take it.

Go get 'em, tiger!

Check it out after the break!

Soon-to-be-wed Brad Altman and George Takei, under the watchful eye of Barbra Streisand

It's a big week for wacky gay uncle George Takei (and seriously, I say that with utmost affection). First, he appeared on The Howard Stern Show yesterday (as he often does) and discussed his pre-nup with fiance Brad Altman and took a "gay pop quiz" on various gay terms and slang and he did pretty well (better than I would have done, actually!).

Here's a choice tidbit from the show's official recap:

Howard played a clip from yesterday's Wrap-Up Show of George revealing that he has two paintings of his fiancé in the nude, one of a young Brad and the other more recent. Howard asked George why he didn't just have a photographer take a picture, so George explained that he was friends with the artists. Howard also wondered if George ever pleasured himself to the pictures, but George said no: “I can't see them from the shower.”  

Then last night George was roasted at the Friars Club, which must have been a blast. If you remember, George was one of the highlights of the William Shatner roast, where he sat quietly on the receiving end of countless gay jokes before laying into the Shat and the rest of the roasters mercilessly. (If you want to watch a clip, check out this one, which has some language that may be a bit spicy for work environs.)

Today Takei is back on Stern, where Howard and the gang are throwing him a bachelor party, and of course that means all sorts of perverted what-not. Still, pervy or no, gotta love Howard for treating his gay guests just like he does his straight ones, and bless Takei's heart and sense of humor.

More pics from George's roast after the jump!

There are a lot of things Jerry Falwell said, did, thought, and advocated in his life, but Bill Maher knows it's all about the gays. In a scathing little eulogy (do you still call it a euology when it begins "Death isn't always sad"?), he gets right to the heart of Falwell's legacy:

Now, I know that you're not supposed to speak ill of the dead but I think we can make an exception because speaking ill of the dead was kind of Jerry Falwell's hobby. He was the guy who said that AIDS was God's punishment for homosexuality and that 9/11 was brought on by pagans, abortionists, feminists, gays and the ACLU, or as I like to call them – my studio audience (wild clapping and screaming).

But I found it surreal this week watching people on the news praise Falwell, followed by a clip package of what he actually said. Things like homosexuals are part of a vile and satanic system that will be utterly anahiliated. If ... you're not a born again Christian you're a failure as a human being. Feminists just need a man around the house. There is no separation of church and state. And of course, everyone's favorite - the purple Teletubby is gay.

Jerry Falwell found out that you could launder your hate through the cover of God's will. He didn't hate gays. God does. All Jerry Falwell's power came from name dropping God. And gay people should steal that trick. You know what? Don't say you want something because it's your right as a human being. Say you want it because it's your religion.

The whole beautiful nasty snappy thing is, of course, on YouTube.

We came across a rather amusing April Fool's Day article that Reality Blurred ran yesterday about Bravo's gay-frenzied production slate. The joke article announces a new Bravo show called Project Top Gay, in which people of all sexual orientations compete to be the gayest reality competition personailty.

My favorite line:

Jonathan Adler will serve as a judge, primarily because he came up with the show’s witty new catchphrase, “Nanny nanny boo boo, you lose.” He’ll tell those who aren’t eliminated, “You’re so gay today, you can stay, hooray!”

All in good fun, I think -- someone's gotta be thinking, "Why didn't we come up with that?!"

"They really did remove your balls in the operation," said Wilhelmina (Vanessa Williams) to Alexis (Daniel's post-op transgendered sister, played by Rebecca Romijn) on last night's episode of Ugly Betty.

The episode entitled "Don't Ask, Don't Tell," while not about the military, was definitely chock-full of our favorite characters at MODE Magazine trying to disguise hidden agendas or pretending to be something they're not, and finding the cojones to be true to themselves.

At the show's opening, Bradford Meade (Alan Dale) attempts to block his former son-turned-daughter, Alexis, from becoming a part of the family's magazine business. While he's clearly uncomfortable with her new gender, mother Claire (Judith Light) reminds her husband that she in fact owns the magazine (he put it under her name as a tax shelter), and is making Alexis co-editor in chief with their son, Daniel (Eric Mablus). Did I mention mom is under arrest and handcuffed to a hospital bed?

In the meantime, Wilhelmina's gay assistant (and partner in crime), Marc (Michael Urie) gets his tighties all in a bunch because his mother, Ms. Weiner (played by Broadway diva Patti Lupone) has come to New York City for a cat show, and to visit her "heterosexual" son. He convinces Betty (America Fererra) to pretend to be his babe...

(More after the jump, or read our new article on this gay-heavy Ugly Betty on the AfterElton.com front page.)