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IS GARRY SHANDLG GAY?
Is Garry Shandlg Gay? Come and disver what has been said lately about this and what is Garry Shandlg sayg about this. * was gary shandling gay *
How The Larry Sanrs Show told stori about the growg acceptance of homosexualy. The '90s were a time when gay characters were beg more prevalent on televisn, but nobody que knew how to tell stori about said characters, which led to lots and lots of scen where the joke seemed to be that someone mistakenly thought the ma character was gay — not that there's anythg wrong wh that. Sce s protagonist (played by Shandlg) is a talk show host, the guy he's nvced is gay and has a csh on him is a major celebry — David Duchovny.
PUTTG THE 'GAY' BACK LIGATN
Even if he wasn't gay, he somehow found Larry credibly attractive, and the show med that for edy. What you'll notice om watchg the clips above is that the joke isn't about someone beg gay, as was on so many of The Larry Sanrs Show's ntemporari. Simply beg gay isn't herently funny; tryg to navigate a world where you know you're supposed to be okay wh homosexualy but also aren't sure how to get to that place is funny.
(And, for what 's worth, Larry Sanrs had one regularly recurrg gay character Brian, played wh acidic w by Stt Thompson. As much as some voic the field of munitn and ter have speculated if Garry Shandlg is gay, there is no kd of evince that n rroborate this.