The fifth annual Las Culturistas Culture Awards are set to simulcast on Bravo and Peacock on Wednesday, June 17 from 9-11 p.m. ET/PT. Hosted by comedians Bowen Yang and Matt Rogers, the comedy variety special will include more than 100 unique award categories, live musical performances and unexpected celebrity encounters.
Last year marked the first time the show was televised. Former Billboard Pride editor Stephen Daw wrote of the show: “What started as a bit on the pair’s hit podcast Las Culturistas, in which Yang and Rogers would spontaneously make up ridiculous awards categories for their audience’s entertainment, was transformed into a high-production-value send-up of the glitz, glamour and self-seriousness of shows like the Grammys, Oscars and Emmys.
“ … Yang and Rogers wasted no time in skewering the award show format, proving definitively that ‘every podcast should also be TV,’ and that ‘everything on TV should be a gay fever dream,’ as they pointed out in their opening monologue.”
Guests on last year’s show included Oscar-winning actors Allison Janney and Jamie Lee Curtis, as well as the main cast of The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City, an indication of the show’s signature mix of high and low culture. Other guests on last year’s show were Jeff Goldblum and pop stars Reneé Rapp, Jensen McRae and Lucy Dacus.
This year’s show will tape on May 30 at the United Theater in downtown Los Angeles. Promoted by Live Nation, tickets will be available beginning with presales on Friday (April 24) ahead of the general on-sale Monday (April 27) at 10:00 a.m. local time. For tickets, click here.
The Las Culturistas Culture Awards is produced and distributed internationally by Lionsgate Alternative Television. Rogers and Yang serve as executive producers, alongside Lauren LeMieux, Jonah McMichael and 3 Arts’ Olivia Gerke and showrunner Jane Mun.
