'Joey, You're Gay!': Insi The Surprisg Friends Joke The Wrers Deleted | Celebry | Grazia

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• JOEY OM “FRIENDS” WAS GAY & CLOSETED JOKE CUT OM SEASON 4 FALE
• ‘JOEY, YOU’RE GAY!’: INSI THE SURPRISG FRIENDS JOKE THE WRERS REMOVED
• FRIENDS WRERS CUT A JOKE ABOUT JOEY BEG SECRETLY GAY

JOEY OM “FRIENDS” WAS GAY & CLOSETED JOKE CUT OM SEASON 4 FALE

A joke about Joey Tribbiani beg gay was cut om an episo of Friends, an early versn of the script revealed.

Reported that a draft script for the season four fale, “The One Wh Ross’s Weddg, ” had a joke where Phoebe said that Joey is gay. Related: Was Chandler om “Friends” meant to be gay? But the draft script, she adds another joke: “Or ‘Hey, Joey, you’re gay.

Friends has faced cricism recent years due to the show’s negative portrayal of LGBTQ people, cludg the humanizg way Chandler’s transgenr parent was treated, the immature lbian jok Ross’s ex-wife Carol was the butt of, and the nstant fear male characters the show lived of beg thought of as gay, g them to fear and lgh at boys and men who dance, take re of children, or play wh dolls (gay, gay, and so gay that ’s OK to be mean to your own child over). What’s unual about Phoebe’s cut joke is that was ually Ross and Chandler who were spected of beg gay, not womanizg Joey.

‘JOEY, YOU’RE GAY!’: INSI THE SURPRISG FRIENDS JOKE THE WRERS REMOVED

And perhaps that’s why the joke didn’t make the fal ed: ’s possible that Joey’s entire character was a refully nstcted fa for a closeted gay man, but that’s a long, arduo path for a s to go down jt for a rather un-funny zger that isn’t even need bee immediately followed one that ma the same pot.

FRIENDS WRERS CUT A JOKE ABOUT JOEY BEG SECRETLY GAY

Gay Republin group touts support for anti-trans legislatn & mocks out sger T. Much has been wrten about the legacy of Friends and how, viewed hdsight, was problematic how picted and diststed homosexualy particular.