Jaboukie Young-White biked across the Williamsburg Bridge to meet me at an East Village restaurant. It’s the Tuesday before Labor Day weekend, summer’s final gush. He approaches wearing maroon shorts and a bright-green helmet obscuring his signature curls, currently tinted blond because, he later says, “There’s that thing where every gay man has to dye his hair blond before he turns 30.
Young-White is determined to be more than just himself — so determined that he agreed to play a hyperromantic straight guy named Milo. Even if Dating & New York defies the version of Young-White the public thinks they know, it has enough rom-com hallmarks to ensure he remains an object of our affection: cute sweaters, sly dimples, a quest for “true love’s kiss.
Photo: Courtesy of IFC Films Young-White has had practice. When he dropped out of DePaul University in Chicago to pursue comedy in New York City, he left his parents in the dark. Along the way, he flew to Los Angeles to perform an unpaid showcase set at his agents’ recommendation. A few important things happened there. First, he bombed, opening with “raunchy dick-sucking jokes” when everyone else was doing “TV-clean” material.
Young-White is adopting the Lil Nas X school of celebrity representation. His experiences belong to him, however much he might milk them for public consumption. That’s part of why he isn’t interested, at least not yet, in writing a script based on his own life or in helping other writers to check off a diversity box on their casting rosters. “I actually never want to play myself,” he says.
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