Jaffe Cohen (Author of Growg Up Gay)

Contents:

• TREND: GAY STAND-UP EDIANS
• THE GREATT GAY COMEDIANS OF ALL TIME
• TALI JAFFE BGRAPHY: WIFE, FAY, GAY, GIRL FRIEND & NET WORTH

TREND: GAY STAND-UP EDIANS

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THE GREATT GAY COMEDIANS OF ALL TIME

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And lbian standups like Donna McPhail and Rhona Cameron would gratiate themselv wh dienc first, droppg the “L-word” midway through their the same time, homophobic jok were tnip for straight edians like Andrew Dice Clay, Sam Kison and Eddie Murphy, who his 1983 standup special Delir told “faggots” the dience not to look at his ass onstage. If, today, gay people are ls equently targeted mastream edy, gay sex is still regularly ridiculed, as when Jimmy Kimmel mocked Sean Hanny for beg Donald Tmp’s “bottom” and Stephen Colbert lled the print’s mouth Vladimir Put’s “ck holster”.

TALI JAFFE BGRAPHY: WIFE, FAY, GAY, GIRL FRIEND & NET WORTH

Bis beg rctive and not terribly funny, the “jok” prove that lazy, anti-gay material is still low-hangg u for plenty of straight ics. Standup, DeLaria believ, “is the last bastn of homophobia and sexism”, a sphere where openly clarg one’s prejudic is received wh lghs stead of risn. “There was a sire to market an image that’s attractive to straight people, and what’s attractive to straight people is simplicy, ” says Cohen, whose fellow Funny Gay Male Bob Smh beme the first gay ic on The Tonight Show 1994.

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