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Courtesy of Griffin Nagel/NBCUniversal SPOILER ALERT: This article contains spoilers for Bravo’s Las Culturistas Culture Awards, now streaming on Peacock.
It’s culture’s biggest night! Comedians and “Las Culturistas” podcast co-hosts Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang brought their annual Las Culturistas Culture Awards back for the fifth time on Wednesday, marking the second year the comedy variety special has been televised on Bravo.
Honoring all things pop culture, the evening featured a number of splashy performances, celebrity appearances (Will Ferrell, Hannah Berner, RuPaul, Hannah Einbinder and more were in attendance) and, of course, laughter.
“We’ve been packing into the gills in our free time, which has been really nice,” Yang told Variety on the carpet. “I love getting lost in the process, losing track of time.” The key to the humor, though, might just be the spontaneity of it all. “We rehearse enough — but you don’t want to do it too much,” Rogers told Variety. “You want to keep it fun and fresh, and in a way, but not lose what’s good about the things.”
Courtesy of Monty Brinton/Bravo The clear superstar of the evening was Miss Piggy, or the “the grand dame diva of culture, divehood, & porcine glamour,” per Yang and Rogers, who received both a standing ovation and, undoubtedly, the strongest applause of the night. In preparing for the evening, Yang and Rogers told Variety they’d been able to spend a good amount of time with heR. “She is so classically an old and new Hollywood diva — she’s gonna hate that I said old — but she’s a diva for all time, eternally a diva, and I think she is a professional,” said Yang. “She’ll say the line, she’ll hit her marks like a pro.” “She’s the biggest star in any room, truly, and she will be tonight,” added Rogers.
Below, Variety breaks down the night’s biggest moments.
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Rogers and Yang open the show “Heated Rivalry”-style
Image Credit: Courtesy of Monty Brinton/Bravo Could it really be considered culture’s biggest night if “Heated Rivalry” weren’t included? The answer was decidedly “No” during the awards, which opened with an incredibly entertaining ode to the Crave-HBO Max series.
In a spoof on one of the show’s many text-message montages, the screen displayed humorous takes on Ilya Rosanov and Shane Hollander’s chats, including “What’s a girl to do on a lonely night in Los Angeles” and “It feels better without a mouth guard.” Rogers and Yang — clad in hockey jerseys — performed t.A.T.u.’s “All the Things She Said,” featuring backup dancers in full hockey attire. Plus, “The Hunting Wives” stars Brittany Snow and Malin Akerman took to the stage and enjoyed an impassioned smooch before joining in on the performance.
