SNL Homowatch
SNL Homowatch: 4/10 (Tina Fey) … PLUS a very quick look back at some March reruns
Welcome back for another review of Saturday Night Live‘s propensity to make jokes about homos. Click here for my reason for doing this and also, please think twice about telling me to lighten up, because I already have. Anyway, this feature might soon have to snuff itself out. The Tina Fey episode was almost entirely…
Read MoreSNL Homowatch: 3/13 (Jude Law)
This is SNL Homowatch, where I track the number of haha-that’s-GAY jokes that the writers at Saturday Night Live deliver each week on their forlorn (for Lorne? haha) march toward 1 a.m. I laid (haha x 2) my mission statement out for this project in last week’s inaugural edition, including a “lighten up, Hank, why…
Read MoreSNL Homowatch: 3/6 (Zach Galifianakis)
For years I’ve been vaguely (in a teensy way) bothered by Saturday Night Live’s complete dependence on sketches that make fun of being gay. I don’t know exactly why. I’ve written a little about this before — “enlightened homophobia,” which is probably socially harmless (as is most televsion, really) but nevertheless irritates me. In the…
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