Llie Jordan, Inic Gay Comedian, Dead at 67

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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

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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.

*BEAR-MAGAZINE.COM* GAY COMEDIAN KILLED IN CAR ACCIDENT

Llie Jordan, Inic Gay Comedian, Dead at 67.

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