The New York Times had an extensive article in the Sunday Magazine yesterday about your boyfriend, Jeff Dunham. It is a pretty interesting read for both the Jeff Dunham fan and the Jeff Dunham opposite-of-fan. It describes his career trajectory... CONTINUE READING WHAT WE TALK ABOUT WHEN WE TALK ABOUT JEFF DUNHAM»
Posted on November 2, 2009 in
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Tags: Homophobia | Jeff Dunham | Misogyny | New York Times | Puppets | Racism | The Decemberists
Before I talk about last night's premiere of The Jeff Dunham Show on Comedy Central, I would first like to issue a couple of apologies. I'm sorry, Jay Leno, I was wrong. Your comedy is hackneyed, aggressively middlebrow, toothless, and... CONTINUE READING THE JEFF DUNHAM SHOW IS THE WORST THING IN THE ENTIRE WORLD»
Posted on October 23, 2009 in
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Tags: Assholes | Brooke Hogan | Homophobia | Jeff Dunham | Misogyny | Puppets | Racism | The Jeff Dunham Show
Tom Cruise walked into the ice cream shop with his hands in his pockets. You always see these gay guys walking around with their hands out of their pockets, hanging by their sides or something. They're all like, Ooh, I'm... CONTINUE READING YOU CAN MAKE IT UP: TOM CRUISE GETS SOME ICE CREAM»
Posted on October 22, 2009 in
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Tags: Homophobia | Homosexuals | Ice Cream | Tom Cruise
I don't watch American Idol. For one thing, I am 102 years old. What is there for me in American Idol? Is there medicine in it? How about a comfortable place to sit away from the window because it's too... CONTINUE READING SIMON COWELL TO END LAZY GAY JOKES IN HONOR OF GAY WOMAN»
Posted on October 19, 2009 in
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Tags: American Idol | Ellen Degeneres | Homophobia | Homosexuality | Randy Jackson | Ryan Seacrest | Simon Cowell | Yuck
Mike Tyson Pro-Tip For A Successful Weekend #11: We all like to have fun, but sometimes things get out of hand, and it's important to keep your head on straight. A successful weekend often means hanging out with friends... CONTINUE READING MIKE TYSON PRO-TIPS FOR A SUCCESSFUL WEEKEND»
Posted on August 21, 2009 in
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Tags: Homoeroticism | Homophobia | Homosexuality | Huh? | Mike Tyson
Unlike for Sexman, Bruno met all of my expectations. I expected there to be really funny parts in the movie, and there were! And I expected certain aspects of the movie to leave me feeling kind of uncomfortable and confused,... CONTINUE READING THE VIDEOGUM MOVIE CLUB: BRUNO»
Posted on July 13, 2009 in
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Tags: Bruno | Homophobia | Homosexuals | Ron Paul | Sacha Baron Cohen
Oh no, Michael Jackson died! Meanwhile, Sacha Baron Cohen, as Bruno, appeared on the Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien last night to promote his upcoming movie, Bruno. While the debate about the movie's moral responsibility continues to RAGE on*, I... CONTINUE READING BRUNO PUTS HIS BALLS IN CONAN O'BRIEN'S LAP»
Posted on June 26, 2009 in
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Tags: Bruno | Conan O'Brien | Homophobia | Homosexuals | Michael Jackson | Sacha Baron Cohen | The Tonight Show
A year ago, I wrote a post about the Bruno movie's moral quandary. A year ago! Time flies when you are having BLOGS! (You have no idea how sorry I am. For everything.) The post concerned what seemed to me... CONTINUE READING THE BRUNO MORAL QUANDARY»
Posted on June 11, 2009 in ,
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Tags: Bruno | Homophobia | Homosexuals | Sacha Baron Cohen
Yesterday, the California Supreme Court upheld Prop 8. Well played, Judges. Pop champagne. Obviously, the law is a complicated thing, and I'm willing to believe that the justices were simply ruling as they felt they were bound to do as... CONTINUE READING EVEN ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER KNOWS THAT PROP 8 NEEDS TO BE TERMINATED (SORRY)»
Posted on May 27, 2009 in ,
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Tags: Arnold Schwarzenegger | Homophobia | Jay Leno | Prop 8
Hey, remember this asshole? Excuse me, that was rude. Hey, remember your boyfriend? There we go. Still out there, just saying stuff. Ever wondered what some plumbing contractor from Ohio with a made up name who got momentarily disoriented about... CONTINUE READING CHECKING IN WITH JOE THE PLUMBER (FOR SOME REASON)»
Posted on May 15, 2009 in
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Tags: Homophobia | Joe The Plumber | Politics | Vampire Weekend
I have been struggling all day with whether or not to post this video of a vlogger insisting on his heterosexuality, because the truth is we have RULES here about who we make fun of, and I still don't trust... CONTINUE READING THIS GUY ISN'T THE ONLY ONE WHO'S PAINFULLY CONFUSED»
Posted on April 17, 2009 in
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Tags: Homophobia | Homosexuality | Homosexuals
The following video is basically NSFW. So quit your job because you need to watch it. Oh, shoot, I should have mentioned this beforehand, but you're gay now. Yeah, sorry. From ChristWire (via GoldenFiddlr): The Gays Use Japanese Music and... CONTINUE READING THE GAY AGENDA IS GOING VIRAL»
Posted on February 27, 2009 in
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Tags: Fred Phelps | Homophobia | Homosexuals | Japan | Tyson Bowers III
In the earliest days of Videogum I demanded that A.D. Miles be made President of Entertainment, and while I know that it's going to take about as long for that to happen as it is for the bigots to... CONTINUE READING A GAY MARRIAGE PRIMER»
Posted on January 8, 2009 in ,
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Tags: A.D. Miles | Homophobia | Homosexuals | Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Bromance makes me wish that I was smarter. I know that Liz Lemon and Jack Donaghy say that graduate students are the worst, but if I was better at critical thinking and dialectical argumentation, I would totally go back to... CONTINUE READING BROMANCE IS THE MOST IMPORTANT EXAMINATION OF MODERN MASCULINITY EVER»
Posted on January 6, 2009 in ,
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Tags: Brody Jenner | Bromance | Homophobia | Homosexuality | Masculinity
I happened to see this last night on mute with closed captioning subtitles and knew that it was great. It's even better with sound. (via FourFour) I think there's something to take heart in about this beyond the simple fact... CONTINUE READING KEITH OLBERMANN SPEAKS OUT AGAINST PROP 8 POLITICS»
Posted on November 11, 2008 in
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Tags: Homophobia | Homosexuality | Justice | Keith Olbermann | Prop 8
UGH. I totally recognize that as a parent you want to instill your children with the same moral compass that you yourself use to make sense of the world around you. And I totally recognize that we will never... CONTINUE READING TWO CHILDREN WERE HARMED IN THE FILMING OF THIS PRO PROPOSITION 8 VIDEO»
Posted on October 29, 2008 in ,
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Tags: Election 2008 | Homophobia | Prop 8
Radar dug up some pretty sweet videos, bro. They're all about California's ballot measure for a constitutional amendment defining marriage as between a man and a woman. And that's fresh. The thing is, though, a lot of people might not... CONTINUE READING HOMOPHOBIA IS SO CHILL (NOT!)»
Posted on October 21, 2008 in
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Tags: California | Election 2008 | Gay Marriage | Homophobia | Prop 8
Prepare yourselves for the mind explosion. This is a totally well-intentioned campaign with a good message, but also WHAT? For starters, those girls would not be calling those tops "gay." That's like making a global warming PSA in which a... CONTINUE READING HILARY DUFF'S "THAT'S SO GAY" PSA IS SO GAY»
Posted on October 8, 2008 in
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Tags: Beastie Boys | Bonnaroo | Coachella | Hilary Duff | Homophobia | Superchunk
We are a little bit late on this story, but it is incredible and your mind is about to be blown. Get a bucket. For the mind bits. From the Human Rights Campaign: Last week at a Senate hearing on... CONTINUE READING I NOW PRONOUNCE YOU CHUCK AND LARRY CONTINUES TO HURT PEOPLE»
Posted on October 1, 2008 in
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Tags: Adam Sandler | Homophobia | Howard Wiezmann | I Now Pronounce You Chuck And Larry | Kevin James
There was quite a bit of discussion last week over my argument that the True Blood vampire-homosexual metaphor was both outrageous and mildly offensive. Almost everyone uniformly agreed that I was ridiculous and stupid and the worst and that I... CONTINUE READING TRUE BLOOD: I WILL EXPECT MY APOLOGY IN WRITING»
Posted on September 29, 2008 in ,
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Tags: Alan Ball | Anna Paquin | Homophobia | Homosexuality | True Blood | Vampires
Milk is the new film from Gus Van Sant about Harvey Milk, the first openly gay man elected to public office as a city supervisor in San Francisco. He was also murdered (natch, America is #1!) by a fellow city... CONTINUE READING I AM MILK TRAILER»
Posted on September 3, 2008 in
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Tags: Gus Van Sant | Homophobia | Homosexuality | James Franco | Josh Brolin | Milk | Sean Penn
Homophobia is horrible and I genuinely believe that the issue of gay rights is one of if not the most critical test our generation faces in terms of human rights and social progress. But misplaced homophobia can be kind of... CONTINUE READING HATRED IS SO CONFUSING»
Posted on September 2, 2008 in
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Tags: Homophobia
Even before I started working my way through the first season of Gossip Girl (I just finished the Christmas episode, and frankly I find it hard to believe that Serena would spend Christmas morning prancing around in a red negligee... CONTINUE READING LOOK AT THESE TWO GAY GUYS BEING SO GAY»
Posted on August 21, 2008 in ,
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Tags: Chace Crawford | Ed Westwick | Gossip Girl | Homophobia | Homosexuality | Homosexuals
Now that the offensive Snickers ad in which Mr. T shoots an alleged gay with a gatling gun from the back of a pickup truck has been pulled from circulation, it's time for the former wrestler, member of the A-Team,... CONTINUE READING SNICKERSGATE: MR. T PITIES HIMSELF»
Posted on August 8, 2008 in
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Tags: Bill O'Reilly | Homophobia | Modest Mouse | Mr. T | Snickers
This is an ad for Snickers (via Gawker). We'll talk about it in a second. Bzzzzzzzzt. Something in my brain just exploded. Exploded to the MAX. On the face of it, this ad is crazy homophobic, but then the tagline... CONTINUE READING SNICKERS SATISFIES HUNGER FOR CONFUSING BIGOTRY»
Posted on July 25, 2008 in
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Tags: Homophobia | Mr. T | Snickers