Las Culturistas Culture Awards 2025: 5 Best Moments From Pop Culture’s ‘Gay Fever Dream’

For all the readers, publicists, Kayteighs and finalists of the world, Tuesday night (Aug. 5) was the moment of culture that made us say culture was for us.

For the first time, Bowen Yang and Matt Rogers‘ annual, sardonic take on pop culture awards ceremonies — the Las Culturistas Culture Awards — was televised to the world on Bravo. 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 utter self-seriousness of shows like the Grammys, Oscars and Emmys.

It certainly helped that the pair pulled in a stellar list of celebrities to come celebrate with them, including legendary actors like Allison Janney, Jamie Lee Curtis and Jeff Goldblum; beloved pop girls Reneé Rapp, Jensen McRae and Lucy Dacus; and even the main cast of The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City.

Those stars were there to see who would win the evening’s biggest awards, ranging from the Pop Crave Award for Excellence in Journalism (which went to Amelia Dimoldenberg of Chicken Shop Date fame) to the Titanic Award for Monoculture (rotisserie chicken won in a stacked category that included the The White Lotus, the letter “S,” Miss Piggy, and Wicked).

When it came time for the actual festivities to begin, 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.

With the ceremony now available to stream on Peacock, the question remains; which of the evening’s buzzy bits managed to outshine the others? Below, Billboard looks back at the first televised Las Culturistas Culture Awards and picks the five best moments from a night celebrating excellence in pop culture.