To Jay Leno: Your Gay Jokes Aren't Funny...

[OneFinger]

Jeff Whitty, the gay author of the hit Broadway play Avenue Q, grew tired of hearing Jay Leno's tired gay jokes. So he decided to let the host of NBC's Tonight Show know exactly why those jokes are in poor taste. What follows is a letter he sent to Leno this past week:

 

http://www.advocate.com/news_detail_ektid30116.asp

 

Very powerful letter! I'm going to be interested in seeing Leno's response.

[VaHawk]

Well, If Leno is a regular poster on this board, then I'm sure he'll justify his anti-gay jokes as being funny! WTF, if we're all lucky, then maybe he'll add some pics of gay stereotypes to his written jokes! :7 HILARIOUS!!!!

[mmk]

that is a very powerful letter that has such truth to it. I do not think that Jay will even respond though. He does not have that much class.

[VaHawk]

Seemed rather banal in the "I'm a victim" vernacular to me! :-(

 

Hey, no problem here! Just the opposite, as I just love how all the "outraged" responses to Jay Leno's jokes involving gay stereotypes, are proving the point that I tried, in vain, to make about Steven Draker's tired, racist, African stereotype joke, that he just recently posted on this VERY site! :-(

[FinFangFoom]

The guy's a nutcase. He begins his "When I think of gay people..." list with a recitation of attacks against gays. This guy needs to lighten up. I don't know how people make it through life if they're consumed with playing the victim.

 

Rather than offering a cogent case why Leno shouldn't do gay jokes (and frankly, I can't think of one) he instead has a nasty faggot hissy fit.

 

His behavior does us more damage than any joke Jay Leno has ever used.

 

Jeffy Whitty, do us all a big favor and put a sock puppet in it.

 

Topically yours,

 

FFF

[RockHard]

"I don't know how people make it through life if they're consumed with playing the victim."

 

"Rather than offering a cogent case why Leno shouldn't do gay jokes (and frankly, I can't think of one) he instead has a nasty faggot hissy fit."

 

Fin sure hit the nail on the head. Playing victim is a career for some, especially homos in too much pain. And telling a famous comedian to change his humor material is, well, laughable.

 

There aren't many famous network comedians that would have given Ross the Intern a golden opportunity to shine. Do they get any more gay than Ross? In fact, I can't think of no one other than Jay Leno. Even though I've met Jay many times, I usually don't watch The Tonight Show. But when Ross the Intern has a guest spot, I tune in and enjoy a hearty laugh.

 

"Jeffy Whitty, do us all a big favor and put a sock puppet in it."

 

I like Jeff but this was a funny line.

[+ Tom Isern]

Well, "playing the victim" is a line that comes "straight" out of the un-wiped and over-ripe asses of people like Rush Limbaugh. But here it's been magnified: some people are CONSUMED with playing the victim. Did you boys forget to douche this morning? Oh my! The world must be all set up to cater to your privilege and happiness. Congratulations, boys! Where do I send flowers?

 

The nastiness of your hardly-original rhetoric is that it denies that there are real victims of social injustice--they are merely play acting. Real victims are a thing of the past. It also denies that there are heroes who resist--they are simply whiners and agitators.

 

This is ugly political language of a rather insidious kind. The banter enshrines the status quo at the expense of those who suffer (who don't, after all, even exist--who CAN'T even exist--by definition! Presto!). It's the kind of language I've come to expect from people who can't think, pull their one-liners off of right-wing radio, have never read a novel in their lives, have never been exposed to philosophy of any kind, and spend their entire day shopping on fat money from their trust fund. It's insensitive (to put it mildly), arrogant, ignorant, and stupid.

 

 

P.S. Ignorant and stupid have different connotations. These last two posts, however, magnificently fleshed out the semantic terrain of both words.

[Yeswell]

It's not just that Jay Leno's gay jokes aren't funny: none of his jokes is funny. I would hate to think that there are people so desperate for late night entertainment that they would watch his show.

[Guest Dan]

>It's not just that Jay Leno's gay jokes aren't funny: none of

>his jokes is funny. I would hate to think that there are

>people so desperate for late night entertainment that they

>would watch his show.

 

Ditto. If I were to watch network TV, I'd watch Letterman or Nightline. Leno bugs.

 

Dan Dare

http://www.geocities.com/dandare_laca/DanDare4Hire.html