"The gay community is usually first to jump onto what's smart and
new; they're usually the first to be ahead of the avant-garde.
Because the show is satirical and quite sort of catty and biting,
it amuses them enormously. And the characters are quite easy to
imitate."
Joanna Lumley of "Absolutely Fabulous" to The Advocate.

"Gay people ... were the first to find me, and they get
everything, they're so sharp. I'll look out in the audience and I see three or four gay guys right in the front row, or a couple of
lesbians, I know it's gonna be a good show. I know they're gonna
get it, whatever 'it' is they're gonna get the joke. And that's
wonderful and I relax."
Joan Rivers to Denver's Out Front.