In Vanessa Bayer’s new Showtime comedy, I Love That For You, Rogers stars as Darcy, who’s quick to introduce himself as a “senior associate”- not an assistant-to the Special Value Network’s head honcho, Patricia (Jenifer Lewis). In fact, the first role he ever booked was as the assistant to Jerry Seinfeld in an episode of the web series Comedians In Cars Getting Coffee, and he’s spotted the trope in countless scripts in the years since. It’s a position that actor, comedian, and Las Culturistas podcaster Matt Rogers knows well. Well-dressed, dependable, and always ready with a cutting remark-and a latte-at a moment’s notice, they might provide comic relief, but it’s rare they get to be anything other than in service of others. Photo: Nicole Wilder / SHOWTIMEĪs long as we’ve had out, queer characters in media, we’ve had the trope of the sassy gay assistant.
