Contents:
- FIVE STRAIGHT COMEDIANS WHO TOOK THE ‘GAY JOKE’ WAY TOO FAR
- LGBTQ+ AFFIRMG THERAPISTS CHEVY CHASE, MD
FIVE STRAIGHT COMEDIANS WHO TOOK THE ‘GAY JOKE’ WAY TOO FAR
Perhaps most disturbg is an cint that volved Terry Sweeney, the first show’s openly gay st member.
Chase also suggted Sweeney play a gay man dyg om AIDS who gets weighed every week on the show. Related: Five Straight Comedians Who Took The ‘Gay Joke’ Way Too Far.
LGBTQ+ AFFIRMG THERAPISTS CHEVY CHASE, MD
") and was relentlsly hateful to Terry Sweeney, suggtg that SNL's first openly gay st member star a sketch where they weighed him every week to see if he had AIDS. "[Tom] said, 'People say you're gog to be the next Cary Grant, ' and I said, 'That's crazy, there's nobody like Cary Grant and there will never be another Cary Grant and I unrstand he was a homo, '" Chase relled to that 1980 appearance, Chase had followed up wh, "He was brilliant.
The se was reportedly settled urt and, though neher actor mented on the settlement, is reported Chase paid $1 ln the Sunday episo of "Club Random, " Chase add: "By the way, I don't thk Cary was gay. Acrdg to Chase, the biggt blunr of his reer was durg a 1980 terview wh NBC’s Tom Snyr when Chase tegorized legendary screen actor Cary Grant as a “homo. “[Tom] said, ‘People say you’re gog to be the next Cary Grant, ’ and I said, ‘That’s crazy, there’s nobody like Cary Grant and there will never be another Cary Grant and I unrstand he was a homo, ’” Chase tells Maher of the appearance, durg which he also said “what a gal” about Grant.