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I didn't get Schlitz Gay at the time because it was so. Not to mention the John Waters episode of the Simpsons, which is hands down top three Simpsons eps for me.
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Having an unabashedly gay character who was not the joke on TV was amazing. Nelson, Kids in the Hall is part of my comedy foundation, and as a young queer Buddy Cole (and Scott Thompson by extension) was surprisingly important to me, even if I didn't realize it (I was in fifth grade when the show was cancelled, and in middle school when the reruns on Comedy Central were running heavily). The kids are watching and paying attention. I don't know where I'm going with all this except to say that even how our society handles humor matters so much. I don't actively remember seeing it but man, is that song about Mickey's fear of not being accepted painful (and there's the subtle implication that she's "really" a man named Mike-how that would have played into all my 10/11 year old terrors!). It was also the same era as Mickey the Dyke, though, and I can see how they're reaching for progressivism in the skit but failing. It would take another two decades for me to untangle my own transness in light of my attraction to men and things like this were problematic puzzle pieces, definitely. That and Rocky Horror were pretty much it, even though I definitely knew gay guys were out there. I will say that the Ambiguously Gay Duo right when I was on the precipice of puberty (I specifically remember the one shown here, where they're writhing together while suspended from cables :P ) and I'm pretty positive it was the first time I saw queer masculine sexuality in any form. Maybe it won't work for people now, I feel like I have to put in a trigger warning for the f-slur. Mostly because it seemed to come from out of nowhere on early 90s TV, at least in America, and it reached young gay me at a very needy moment. Why not have toys for sensitive boys?Ĭheating because it's some other Lorne Michaels show, but Buddy Cole - Dinosaurs (Scott Thompson) is the funniest gay thing I ever saw on TV. The father a little bit, but the real joke is really on us, the audience. What makes it work is the sensitive boy is not the butt of the joke. And "It's Pat" was clearly offensive and stupid even at the time it was being done. That Dana Carvey thing is just, wow, that was funny? He doesn't even play camp well. Was there less offensive gay caricature stuff on SNL than I'm remembering? Or did this author mostly skip over that to try to highlight some stuff that wasn't awful? I feel like "Straight Guys Playing Gay as Funny" could be any episode from 1975 to 1990.