Gay of Thrones is a comedy/parody Web Video show created for Funny or Die by Jonathan Van Ness, which answers the eternal question: what if Chester A. Bum was a gay hairstylist — and only watched one TV show?
Each episode, hairstylist Jonathan Van Ness recaps the previous night's episode of Game of Thrones (starting from Season 3 until the series finale) for a cast of rotating customers, intercut with footage from the show, rapid-fire comedy, giving everyone in the GoT cast ridiculous nicknames, and bantering with the customers about unrelated topics.
This series contains examples of:
- As Himself: All the customers appear either as themselves or as a character sharing their first name.
- Eating the Eye Candy: Jonathan and the customer will go off-topic to talk about how hot the men in the show are.
- Giver of Lame Names: Jonathan lampshades that Tyrion giving Bran the title Bran the Broken just seems really unfitting and uncreative for a functionally omniscient seer who can possess animals at will.
- Hypocritical Humor:
- A Running Gag is that Jonathan says he doesn't follow a certain show because it has too many characters, when Game of Thrones has one of the largest ensemble casts on TV.
- Jonathan in the finale claims that "unnecessary nicknames are so obnoxious", despite giving multiple nicknames to every character in the show.
- Imagine Spot: In "Serving 100% Brother D", the customer has zero interest in the show, so Jonathan spends the video daydreaming about recapping the show to her, with very enthusiastic feedback.
- The Nicknamer: Jonathan rarely refers to any of the characters or locations by their actual names.
- Arya Stark is "Baby Kristen Stewart". Ramsay Bolton is "Evil Elijah Wood".
- Cersei Lannister is referred to as "Blonde Cher". After she experiences a Traumatic Haircut, she becomes Mia Farrow.
- Parody Assistance: Alfie Allen (Theon Greyjoy), Esmé Bianco and even George R. R. Martin himself have appeared on the show.
- Revenge via Storytelling: Invoked for parody purposes. In Jonathan's version of the story, Brienne writing about Jaime at the end includes a long passage about how he fell in love with a leggy, powerful blond warrior woman but couldn't handle what a great lay she was and ran back to his sister. It's signed "Impartial Historian".
- Sign Off Catchphrase: "Where are...?" followed by "…my dragons?", borrowed from the GOT episode where Daenerys Targaryen finds her dragons have been stolen.
- Spoiler: Parodied in each video's description. "Warning: The following video contains vague references and confusing plot analysis, which are not really spoilers."
