Long before Booster was a Pride month staple, he was seeking out the very content he finds himself now making. That’ll be the watershed moment of my career, mounting something in July.”
“I think I will know I’ve finally made it when a company wants to release something of mine not in Pride month. “I quite honestly wish it would spread out a bit more,” he admits. He’s on mile twenty-ish of a marathon press cycle that’s seen him volleying from Fire Island to his new Netflix comedy special, Psychosexual and the Apple TV+ Maya Rudolph-led comedy series Loot, the latter two of which premiere just days apart this week. (It’s a great speedo, it should be noted, with plenty of bulge supremacy courtesy of the “gender-optional” brand R.Swiader.) Joel Kim Booster admits it’s weird going from relative obscurity as a “very niche figure in the comedy world” to, suddenly, having a bunch of people gazing up at him in a speedo for 90 minutes in his debut feature film, Fire Island-which he wrote, executive produced and stars in.