Jamie Babbit
American director and film producerWikipedia
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Oct 2, 2026
Jess ZammitHOST
Um, all right.
Jess ZammitHOST
So But I'm a Cheerleader is a 1999 American satirical teen romantic comedy film directed by Jamie Babbit in her feature directorial debut, and written by Bryan Wayne Peterson.
Jess ZammitHOST
Natasha Lyonne stars as Megan Bloomfield, a high school cheerleader whose parents send her to a residential in-patient conversion therapy camp to cure her lesbianism.
Jess ZammitHOST
At camp, Megan realizes that she...
Jess ZammitHOST
[laughs]
Alice ClarkeHOST
Yes.
Alice ClarkeHOST
Uh, I found it really interesting also that J- like Director Jamie Babbit kind of lightly based it on the rehab facility her mother ran that she grew up in, which was for drugs and alcohol.
Alice ClarkeHOST
But like-
Brandie PoseyHOST
Nice.
Brandie PoseyHOST
This is Jamie Babbitt.
Brandie PoseyHOST
Who's Jamie Babbitt? I don't know who that is.
Brandie PoseyHOST
We're going to find
Babs GrayHOST
out, Kylie.
ChelsHOST
Also, if you like do the L word connection of it all, the map of it, you will see that like Andrea Sperling, who produced Debs and this and has produced Angela Robinson's other work.
ChelsHOST
Her then wife at the time is Jamie Babbitt, who directed But I'm a Cheerleader.
ChelsHOST
So it's literally just these characters.
ChelsHOST
Same handful of groups of queer people working in the industry, working together to make these projects.
ChelsHOST
Yeah.
GavinHOST
Yeah, you're exactly right.
GavinHOST
Jamie Babbitt was also a recipient of the Power Up grant before as well, too.
GavinHOST
So like, yeah, it's really interesting that like it all comes out.
GabbyHOST
And it first aired January 30th, 2007.
GabbyHOST
It was directed by, yoo-hoo, Jamie Babbitt and written by David Babb-Cock.
ZoeHOST
don't you know um right off the bat there was in the beginning of this episode we open with uh like a dinner emily's scene or rather the gilmore gilmore manse um and emily mentions that the thing the dish that they ate at dinner was quail mazatlan um And I was like, wow, what is...
ZoeHOST
And then she says that the best part was, like, the tequila cactus sauce.