Release the Tapes of Lena Dunham’s Rehearsal Dinner Speech
Now that the Tayvis wedding noise has died down, a paramount question remains: What the hell happened during Lena Dunham’s rehearsal dinner speech? And why did it quote-unquote divide the room?
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The Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce wedding/post-discourse hangover is settling at long last, but not without a few stray quandaries and queries, including but not limited to: Where, oh where, will the newlyweds honeymoon? And did they actually invite an ICE contractor to the nuptials? Above the noise—rumors, truths, and all—remains a paramount unanswered question: What the hell happened during Lena Dunham’s rehearsal dinner speech? And why did it quote-unquote divide the room?
This rumor was based on insider info first reported by the Daily Mail, in which a source claimed that Dunham’s speech at Thursday’s rehearsal elicited GASPS from Swift’s and Kelce’s closest family and friends. That’s how you know you’re a generational talent! Hearing the news that Dunham made a room full of people gasp at the wedding was meaningful for me, specifically, because I once told a group of people in an academic setting that my favorite writer was Lena Dunham, and they, too, gasped. Full circle.
According to the source, the joke was something along the lines of “American football is just straight guys reenacting gay porn.” Clearly, the person redelivering the joke to the Daily Mail failed to capture Dunham’s signature cadence and overall vibe, but added that the joke was apparently “a talking point” of the night that “divided” the room between “gasps and laughs.” Still, Taylor called Dunham a genius afterward. Taste!
On Sunday, Dunham posted a wedding dump to Instagram with the caption, “Available going forward for weddings, bar and bat mitzvahs, and sweet sixteens (gay ones).” She must have been getting a lot of positive reviews from the crowd in that case…
I’m not asking for much, but it’s been a few days, and the wedding news has winded down. So, maybe it’s time to release the tapes of the speeches. Or just Lena’s.
I don’t care what the dress looked like. I don’t care what the first dance was. I don’t even care if I never see whether my prediction that Ice Spice and Paul McCartney got down on the dance floor was correct. All I’m asking for is Lena’s speech. Sincerely, a girl who just finished Famesick, and wants more.
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