Saturday, 29 October 2022

Daily Mail: Moment transgender singer strips NAKED live on Channel 4

Story from Daily Mail:

This is the moment a transgender comedian stripped completely naked mid-song before playing the keyboard with her p**** on live television.

Jordan Gray, who was assigned male at birth and has been open about undergoing her transition, appeared on Friday Night Live on Channel 4 yesterday.

In her sketch, she sang an expletive-filled song about her experience as a trans woman.

It was part of the one-off return of the popular 80s standup show, originally called Saturday Live, which Channel 4 aired as part of its 40th birthday celebrations.

The show included comedians who appeared in the original version of the show, such as Jo Brand and Harry Enfield, as well as new talent like Gray and Rosie Jones, and was hosted by Ben Elton.

Before the performance, Gray, who was the first transgender singer on talent show The Voice in 2016, told her Twitter followers: 'Tonight we make history.'

'I haven't had a Yorkie bar in five years,' she said at the start of her set, in a refence to the chocolate brand's former slogan 'it's not for girls'.

Gray took to the keyboard in a bright pink suit, telling the audience: 'This is the coolest night of my life, you're watching me experience the coolest night of my life.'

She opened the song with the lyric: 'I look out in the faces in this room, and wish that I could crawl back in the w***.

'And start again, against God's plans, with different glands and smaller hands.'

The dark curly-haired comedian added: 'I wish the world could finally understand: I'm more than just a female Russell Brand.'

She then launched into the comedic song referencing the Chuckle Brothers' 'to me to you' skit before saying 'now back to me - this song's about me'.

The song moves into her own version of Do-Re-Mi and increasingly intense keyboard playing.

As the song draws to a close, she tells the audience: 'You know the best thing about live TV? I can do stupid stuff like this!'

She then jumps up from the piano before counting down 'one, two, three' and ripping off her suit and exposing herself entirely.

After dancing around stage the naked comedian returns to the keyboard, shouting 'see you Friday at the London Palladium b*****s' and briefly plays a few keys with her p****.

She jumps on top of the piano seat to a huge applause from the audience before leaving the stage.

After the sketch, host Ben Elton quipped 'now that is what I call a k** gag'.

The 90-minute show, which aired at 9pm on Friday, also featured appearances from Julian Clary, Stephen Fry, Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders.