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Be it onComedy Bang!
Bang!,Historical Roasts With Jeff Ross, or his new podcastThe Underculture,James Adomianis not understated.
Behind the big performances, however, his cultural critiques are thoughtful, nuanced, and incisive.
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Thats up there withDie HardandGalaxy Quest.Mediocre movie, A-plus performance.
There are straight and/or masculine bad guys, but there are almost no feminine and/or gay male good guys.
And theres so many examples that were tried out at early versions of the joke.
People would always be like, What about Jafar inAladdin?
Im like, I know hes one.
He didnt make the cut for the album, but he was in an early version.
Scar from theLion Kingtoo.
Kaa I believe is that classic Disney actor Sterling Holloway.
What a great performance.
If theres a gay character, hes got ulterior motives, and hes treacherous.
A lot of its done as an homage to some earlier gay villain.
You go,Well, we need a bad guy.
I think theres very little actual malice; it was mostly laziness.
Or somewhere between homage and lazy, which is what a trope is.
How did the Transformers come into it?I had to do Transformers.
Theyre like gods to me.
Theyre almost like minor deities in a religion that I have.
Are we going to do some voice-overs?
Make the bad guys sound like drag queens.
Good guys, theyre going to sound like baseball players.
Okay, dads are done.
Theres so much joy in your impression of Ursula the Sea Witch fromThe Little Mermaid.
Did you model her on someone specific?Everyone I know has a theory.
I was hanging out a lot there when Ursula entered the gay villains bit in New York.
I dont want to speak for Rebecca and her sexuality.
I dont know if she comfortably falls into the gay villains milieu.
Ursula does have short hair.
Shes her own boss, she has power without a man.
Thats why they have to make these characters like bisexual predators: You understand, Mr.
Bond, I am largely gay.
The character Raoul Silva is gay Julian Assange.
And that was my bit theyre trying to turn WikiLeaks intoSpectreand turn Julian Assange to a Bond villain.
To accomplish that, they made him gay.
Raoul Silva hits on Bond, and who wouldnt love to see Javier Bardem and Daniel Craig?
What a fuck that would be.
Why did they have to tease it?
James Bond is tied up.
Oh, do you know it would be my first time?
Fuck him, fuck him right there!
And if he unties him, thats a better movie.
If Javier Bardem was like, I want to double-check that youre enjoying this too, Mr. And then they report back to M16, like, Were going to have to figure this out.
Its desensitized me in a way I might never get over.
I want to talk about gay men specifically.
The patriarchy is uniquely threatened by male homosexuality.
Where are the stand-up specials, the castings, the romantic comedies?
We have broken through a lot of barriers.
