a strange loop is your baby. it s your play. it won the pulitzer prize in 2020, and now it s on broadway. the tagline is big, black, and queer as american musical. why did you set out to create that kind of musical? because i felt unseen, unheard and misunderstood in the world. and how he sort of made sense of my place in the world is through writing. i wanted to represent something that fully sort of capture it as much as i could the feeling of what it felt like avoided fell to be big, black, queer and alienated. part of the power of sitting in the audience from your debut was sitting in the power of the knowledge that broadway has literally never seen anyone like you before. out, gay black man, overweight black man. in a leading role. talk about what that meant free? it s a blessing.
in the democratic party is simply this. the democratic party, you saw malcolm kenyatta tonight, who ran an amazing race even though he got 10% of the vote. malcolm kenyatta is a very, very young candidate. he s an awe-inspiring candidate. gay black man who ran extremely strong in philadelphia. what s happening is the democratic party has already consolidated around fetterman. we re going to go out there and do whatever we can around fetterman. this race is going to boil down to whether or not black folk can come out and vote in philadelphia and the surrounding areas. and i believe they will. the difference, though, is fetterman can do something that other candidates in pennsylvania have not been able to do, which is that fetterman can speak to rural white voters. he simply can. and i think dave mccormick s going to have a problem because a hedge fund guy who all of a sudden is a common man? that s a hard sell. regardless of what people are saying. it isn t that hang on. go ahead.
let the good times roll. a mardi gras new year s parade. the reason we did this, anderson, you know i have a connection to new orleans and louisiana, i grew up here, and your family has connections here as well. okay, we re moving. and we re off. introducing fabulous, lovely and talented, very funny comedienne, chelsea sloan. welcome to cnn s new year s eve . this is the third time confuse had me on, every year i think i m going to get fired. you re not cool unless you re either on the verge of being canceled didn t you tell me i could be canceled? you can t be canceled, you re a gay black man. a lot of people have tried.
eugene, like, thousands of emails he sent me over the year, commenting on my outfits or just sending love, willie. yeah, he was love, wasn t he? some people just have a presence. andre had that. when he walked into any room, your eyes went to him. the gravity of the room shifted toward him. his story is extraordinary. eugene daniels, i mean, he grew up in the segregated south. a gay black man in durham, north carolina. living with his grandmother. you can imagine what that was like for him in the segregated south back then. yup. he had a vision, an escape. he d read the pages of vogue magazine. he said, i want to get to wherever that is someday. i ll be dammed if he didn t do it. one of the things, growing up as a black gay person who wanted to be a reporter, you didn t see a lot of people who look like you, who loved like you, in any