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WTF is wrong with the Tonight Show host? Has he so little creativity that he has to stoop to lame humor like this over and over? Melissa:
Last night, Ryan Phillippe was on The Tonight Show, which gave Jay Leno the opportunity to do one of his favorite things: Laugh at gay men!Now, Phillippe isn’t gay, but he played Billy Douglas on One Life to Live, which was the first out gay teen character on American daytime television-and Phillippe was once naked in a jeans commercial, so that’s good enough for Jay. Says Andy (who’s got the video): “[T]he first topic Leno brought up was Phillippe’s first acting role as a gay teen on One Life to Live. No matter that the role was a serious one in which a gay son came out to his father. Leno had to squeeze as much of a joke out of the fact that his first acting role was a gay part, even asking Phillippe to look into the camera and give his ‘gayest look’.”
Avenue Q scribe Jeff Whitty actually wrote an infamous missive to Leno to clue him in that the late-night host’s homo-humor is, well, not amusing in the least. A snippet is below the fold.Jeff Whitty in 2006:
I know you know gay people, Mr. Leno. Are they just jokes to you, to be snickered at behind their backs? Despite the angry tenor of my letter, I suspect you’re a better man than that. I don’t bother writing letters to the “God Hates Fags” people, or Donald Wildmon, or the pope. But I think you can do better. I know it’s The Tonight Show, not a White House press conference, but you reach a lot of people.I caught your show when you had a tired mockery of Brokeback Mountain, involving something about a horse done up in what you consider a “gay” way. Man, that’s dated. I turned the television off and felt pretty fucking depressed. And now I understand your gay-baiting jokes have continued.
Yes it has, even after Whitty had a phone chat with Jay and was convinced the TV night owl wasn’t a homophobe back in 2006.
The other night Ryan Philippe was so appalled by Jay’s lame Brokeback appeal to give his gayest look, that he said “Wow. That is so something I don’t want to do.”
Jeff had this to say this on his web site today:
I’ll back off. I received some criticism for being too heavy-handed with my last letter, so I won’t mention this gay face or this gay face or this gay face or this gay face or this gay face or this gay face or this gay face or this gay face or this gay face or this gay face or this gay face or this gay face or this gay face or these gay faces or not to forget this gay face. Which one’s the gayest to you?
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I think I know what it is…Jay did too many Larry Craig jokes during the monologue.
Who?Who’s Jay Leno?
Everything that ever needed to be said about Jay leno…was said by Bill Hicks A LONG TIME AGO.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v…
sorry, this is the one.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v…
wowYou mean the hack that makes fun of British and Aussie accents tells stupid gay jokes? I’m shocked. The only thing Jay does that’s actually funny is the Headlines segment, and those are not created by him at all.
I’ve been writing lettersto Leno and Conan O’Brian for years — literally — about their anti-gay jokes.
I can’t watch any of the late night shows due to the risk of getting so pissed off I won’t be able to sleep.
kd lang on lenokd lang is on Leno on Friday. Let’s hope he squirms.
Leno? I thought he was on that forgotten show Saturday Night Dead.I never watch him–he’s always sounded to me like the little kid whose parents think he’s hilarious and always make him do his shtick at parties, etc. There’s always something forced about his presence, his humor. I look at him and I think, “Doofus who never grew up.”
Collecting Gayest LooksInspired by Jeff Whitty’s “gayest look,” I offered my “gayest look,” and then the Shakers started sending in their “gayest looks.” We’re starting to get quite a collection!
I’m going to keep updating the post as long as people keep sending in their gayest looks, and then I’m going to send it on to Jay. If anyone wants to send their “gayest look” my way, I’ll happily add it to the collection, too.
…getting a collection.But as of now JEFF's is still way far the best.
…ohhhhThat could be very interesting.
Let’s hope she confronts him on the airLet’s hope non-gay celebrities confront him, too.
I hope GLAAD issues a statement.
And I hope Leno responds.
David Letterman can certainly be obnoxious, but I think he understands things enough to not do something like that.
I still can’t believe a bit I saw of Conan O’Brien going to Iceland (I think) seeing the name Fagerstrom on a name plate, laughing at that name, and then mock-harassing the resident, “Hey, Fagerstrom!” It was astoundingly offensive.
Leno may be a “hack,” but millions of people view his program, and millions of people have their brains affected by it. This incident is well worth a shout.
Jeff’s says it allIMHO
GLAADgave Leno one of their damnfool media awards a few years ago. There is no chance they’ll stand up to him.
Ross MathewsIs his overly feminine intern/celebrity interviwer Ross Mathews really Gay? Or is he just an act?
These images should be sent to every state legislatorin every state, every governor, every lt. governor, every State Representative, every Senator, especially here in Oklahoma. Put a human face on the “other”. Force them to SEE how words hurt. Let the pictures speak.
Since most (if not all) electronic contact will not accept links or images, insert the images into a letter and snail mail it with links to more compilations.
So long as they don’t have to put a face to the people they are hurting, they don’t have an emotional connection and they can continue telling themselves lies. Civil Rights lobbyists/activists should also be armed with the images. As the saying goes, a picture is worth a thousand words.
He’s obsessed with everything sexualIt’s not just his sophmoric anti-gay “humor”, he seems to be obsessed with EVERYTHING sexual. He is constantly finding sexual inuendo in his conversations with the band leader as well as his guests. He also makes lots of inappropriate comments that are sexual in nature to his female guests. I can’t watch him anymore because he’s just too pervy and creepy.
Really!I am happy to say I honestly cannot recall a time when I ever watched the Tonight Show with Leno on it. The guy has always given me some strange heebie-jeebie, I’ve never thought he was funny or interesting. And I was done with the Tonight Show when Carson left anyway.
Short answerWTF is wrong with the Tonight Show host? Has he so little creativity that he has to stoop to lame humor like this over and over?
Yes.
Next question?
TiVo is my friend…this outta be good.
GLAAD condemns and seeks apology from Lenohttp://www.glaad.org/media/eot…
The show ofThe show of Jay Leno has been visited by the most influential man of today. Pres. Obama was seen on Jay Leno. Instinct might be to ask why Obama is on Jay Leno; doesn’t he have a country to run? However, that isn’t the point. The point is that when the only sitting president to appear on the Tonight Show did so, he went there to talk straight, first about the personal loans that the government made to the banking system. First on the agenda was the fact that funds were already going there and next that there is an end in sight of bailout funding. He also talked a lot about energy technologies, and how he wants to bring that knowledge and expertise back home. If it does some good somewhere, then that is an acceptable reason for there to be Obama on Jay Leno, instead of Obama at the desk in the Oval Office.