Frosted flake
Tim Allen is defending a gay crack in the pilot of his new ABC sitcom, "Last Man Standing," in which his "macho" (who knew he could act?!) character says he thinks his grandson should go to a different preschool or else he will end up "dancing on a parade float."
"I think it was a funny joke," Allen told a reporters yesterday. "So I believe the network will probably leave it in there."
This sounds like cat nip for GLAAD -- are you on it yet, Rich? -- but frankly the homophobic aspect is fairly low on my list of complaints.
What offends me more is that this tired-ass "joke" is still the best you and your considerable resources can come up with even after a dozen years off the air. (Is there a GLAAD-like organization for comedians where they can register complaints about their peers being successful without actually being funny?) Thanks for reminding me why I never watched your old show -- and why I won't be watching this one. That line wouldn't have been much funnier in the '90s, but then again neither were you.
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I never watched his old show either - and I won't be watching his new one. His "macho/manly" sense of humor quickly wears thin for me.
His stand-up right out of prison was funnier and anything gay in it happened to him there. the T.V. show was pretty mediocre except for the boys grew up. It looks like he may be doing his own hair and screwing it up the way he did all the projects on the show.
You know what's REALLY effeminate on a man? Getting a facelift.
I didn't realise Jiminy Glick was getting a new TV show.
Lighten up. It's just a character speaking. It doesn't appear that the writers are investing Tim Allen's character with the Voice of Wisdom or anything like that. Innumerable men of that generation actually do dread that their son or grandson will turn out gay. Portraying that point of view, without or without folding humor into it, doesn't constitute an endorsement of such opinions.
I agree with Mark. There has to be room for comedy and the LGBT community.
Besides, was dancing on a float gay when Ferris Buller and his friends did it?
Mark and Anonymous: But you're missing my point. It's not funny.
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