His 1994 appearance on “The Tonight Show” is wily regard as the first by an openly gay ic. But Lou Gehrig’s disease cut his stand-up reer short.
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BOB SMH, GROUNDBREAKG GAY COMEDIAN, IS DEAD AT 59
* gay comedian killed in car accident *
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.