Let's Discuss "Men on Film"

I loved those sketches. Didn’t think they were homophobic at all.

We just gonna do this thread every few months?

Can you imagine the outcry if they tried it today?

Personally, I found it hilarious - one of the few instances where they both laughed AT us and WITH us.

They were hilarious back in the day

The PC/Woke crowd would never allow this on the air today.

In Living Color was one of the funniest shows ever and these two hysterical. Jim Cary’s characters and freaks were off the chart funny.

Hilarious. Homophobic? No idea. Just enjoyed it.

Back in the 90s I worked at the Improv in DC and DAG was performing that weekend. I went into the manager’s office for some reason and he was there, just piddling. He actually lapsed into his Men on Film character and I just about died.

[quote] Personally, I found it hilarious - one of the few instances where they both laughed AT us and WITH us.

Exactly

R5, I don’t think anyone would care if it was done today.

Now if they made a sketch with “cis” men playing trans women that would be another story.

Still hilarious now

why does it have to be mutually exclusive? some things are both offensive *and* funny...

R13, exactly. If the joke doesn't challenge our preconceptions, it just isn't comedy.

Watch for the humor, stay for the Carl Lewis shade at the end.

Hilarious. Living Color was across the board funny.

I wanted to feel offended, but wasn’t. I still remember them calling Delta Burke a Delta 747 & I just died.

I always just assumed David Alan Grier was really gay, and that Damon Wayans was straight but so hot he'd have had enjoyed the opportunity of fucking the powerful and famous men in Hollywood who wanted him,.

I believe David Alan Grier went to Yale School of Drama

[quote]he was there, just piddling

Pics please.

The minses sketches were terrific; of course, that show also gave us that attention-whore JLo.

DAG's Damon Wayne's pronunciation and use of "menses" or "minses" always makes me laugh.

I thought they were hilarious!

I got a kick out of them back in the day.

Not sure how they would go over today. Not because of PC-ness or "wokeness" but rather because shows like RPDR have gone mainstream for 10 years now. These two seem tame compared to that. They would have to probably be more underground with the jokes.

Stefon was always hilarious on SNL.

Probably offensive but I found them funny. I'm certain in today's climate they'd be blamed for millions of trans deaths though. A literal genocide.

I have to give their costumer props for the clothes Blaine and Antoine wore. The little fascinators Blaine wore were hilarious.

It’s not offensive because we’re laughing with how ridiculous they are

Agreed - take them as a pair of pretentious queens rather than the writers' intending them as representing all gay men.