![]() ![]() But including a member of a group isn't always tokenizing. I’m not advocating for a token gay comic on the dais. In case you don’t know, Todd Glass is a respected, openly gay stand-up comedian who only recently came out in the past few years. I found myself wondering what the presentation would have been like had the good people at Comedy Central thought to include, say, Todd Glass among the panel of Franco’s faux-detractors. While watching Franco’s roast, I had a lot of time to think between actual laughs. But, just as with the music I grew up loving, what really bothers me is how reducing homosexuality to a label, insulting or otherwise, limits the possibilities of inclusion and perspective. While the tactic is hardly exclusive to hip-hop culture, assigning gayness as a way of instantly impugning another’s character, worthiness or talent doesn’t shock me. ![]() Come on, son! I’ve been listening to rap music my entire life. Did I think the humor was lazy? Even without the homophobia, the festivities felt awkward and forced - especially on my end without the benefit of the weed in which nearly everyone on the dais seemed to have partaken. ![]() The exact quantity and quality of gay jokes can be found all over the Internet, including here.ĭid I think there were too many gay jokes? Way too many. Come to think of it, that was just Seth Rogen’s routine. That didn’t stop the nine comedians lined up to lampoon the handsome overachiever during last night’s “Comedy Central Roast of James Franco” from lobbing lowbrow accusations of male-on-male fellatio, fisting and anal sex at him. ![]() The exact number of us everyday folk with access to Franco’s celebrity genitalia would be unlikely to change for our benefit were his sexual orientation to be other than what we have always believed. Well, that bit of trivia, once revealed, would be mostly unremarkable and largely inapplicable to our lives. What if James Franco was gay? I mean - damn! - that would be. ![]()
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