Yes, this includes you, mister hot shot SNL cast and writers. The joke that Mike Pence or any other anti-LGBTQ person is a closeted homosexual is hacky, lazy comedy that only comes from the mind of a lazy, hacky, unoriginal comedy writer. But let me take a different tack with it. Just about every think piece writer in the LGBTQ community has beaten on this dead horse at one point or another. And I’m sure I or some other writer has written about how offensive the concept of a closeted conservative is, which hurts real closeted folks. Look, this is an LGBTQ website that talks about LGBTQ issues. Which, as you know, is not merely offensive to gay people, but the premise was already cliché in the 1990s. I feel it’s a bit stagnant and even regressive in its comedy, kind of like its obsession with playing Vice President Mike Pence as a closeted camp gay. Like everyone who’s watched SNL, I have my favorite period, which was the late '80s to mid-'90s, with Phil Hartman, Chris Farley, Adam Sandler, Mike Myers, Cheri Oteri, Molly Shannon, and more. I even get into the deep cuts like Ernie Kovacs, Your Show of Shows, and more, including a very deep appreciation for Saturday Night Live and the original “Not ready for prime time players,” like Gilda Radner, Bill Murray, and John Belushi. I love watching Monty Python with its countercultural '60s aesthetic, and Laugh-In was the king of kitschy Hollywood cocktail party humor. As someone who loves comedy, I have an appreciation for “old” sketch comedy.
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