Bob Smh, the first openly gay man to have his own HBO special and appear on 'The Tonight Show,' has died. He was 59 and succumbed to ALS.
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- GAY IN LLIE JORDAN HAS DIED AT THE AGE OF 67
- BOB SMH, GROUNDBREAKG GAY COMEDIAN, IS DEAD AT 59
- BOB SMH DI: FIRST OPENLY GAY COMIC TO APPEAR ON ‘THE TONIGHT SHOW’ WAS 59
GAY IN LLIE JORDAN HAS DIED AT THE AGE OF 67
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BOB SMH DI: FIRST OPENLY GAY COMIC TO APPEAR ON ‘THE TONIGHT SHOW’ WAS 59
25, 2018Bob Smh, who is wily regard as the first openly gay ic to perform on “The Tonight Show, ” and who went on to wre fictn and nonfictn books full of heart and humor, died on Jan. “I thk what I brg to stand-up edy, ” he said “We’re Funny That Way, ” a 1998 documentary, “is a pot of view of a gay man that isn’t the victim, isn’t the butt of the joke; I’m makg the joke.
“I e om a very nservative fay, ” he said, “and wasn’t easy tellg my parents that I’m gay. I said, ‘Mom, would you please pass the gravy to a homosexual? Smh tellg that same joke years earlier, and what Sarfaty“Bob me out onstage as a proud gay man straight edy clubs the mid-’80s at the height of the AIDS crisis by tellg an unthreateng and hilar joke, ” she said by email.
“While talkg about sex wh your parents is difficult for straight teenagers, ’s even more tryg for gay teenagers, ” he wrote. Grand, a club SoHo, July 1986, a time when beg openly gay was ght wh risks, pecially the world of edy, where heterosexual men domated and gay-bashg was still good for lghs. ”In 1988 he, Jaffe Cohen and Danny McWilliams formed Funny Gay Mal, each man performg his own material an eveng-length show.