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OnSunday,while promoting his fresh FX show "The Comedians" at a Television Critics Association Winter Press Tour panel, Billy Crystal was asked about playing a queer role on the ABC show "Soap" in the overdue '70s and how television has changed since that time.
In his response, the comedian talked about being uncomfortable with how sexualized some shows have develop and, in doing so, employed a few phrases enjoy "a little too far for my tastes" and "shove it in our face" that always trip my homophobia sensors and create me want to protest by grabbing every man in sight by whatever appendage is handiest and dragging them into a studio to stage a gay sex telethon that will be broadcast into the living rooms of every family in the world.
Still, I wanted to grant Crystal the help of the disbelieve and I initially went out of my way to find a way to excuse what he seemed to be saying. Maybe some kind of further context was missing? Maybe you had to be in the room to see his body language and hear the tone of his voice? Maybe he really wasn't separating his displeasure with viewing gay sex scenes from his displeasure with viewing linear sex scenes?
However, it didn't take prolonged for Cryst
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This article originally appeared on VICE UK.
Billy Crystal, the man who played one of the first openly gay characters on TV in the 70s, told the Television Critics Association a not many days ago that gay scenes aren’t “to his taste.”
During a panel interview, Crystal said: “I’ve seen some stuff recently on TV in distinct kinds of shows where the language or the explicit sex is really, you know, sometimes I get it, and sometimes I just feel like, ah, that’s too much for me. Sometimes, it’s just pushing it a little too far for my taste and I’m not going to reveal to you which ones they are. I hope people don’t abuse it and shove it in our face to the point where it feels like an everyday kind of thing.”
Crystal later felt the need to clarify his comments in the Hollywood Reporter, after, you perceive , getting more than a limited “shut up you pale aged homophobe” responses. “What I meant was that whenever sex or graphic nudity of any caring (gay or straight) is gratuitous to the plot or story it becomes a little too much for my taste,” he said in a statement.
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Billy Crystal thinks gay sex on TV "has gone too far"
Billy Crystal thinks graphic scenes of same-sex attracted sex on TV contain gone too far.
The 66-year-old star became one of network television's first lgbtq+ characters on the comedy Soap in the 1970s, but feels modern-day shows are guilty of "pushing it a little too far."
According to The Wrap, he said: "Sometimes, it's just pushing it a little too far for my taste and I'm not going to disclose to you which ones they are.
"I hope people don't abuse it and shove it in our face... to the show where it feels prefer an every day gentle of thing."
Billy admitted he encountered lots of cynics when he starred as Jodie Dallas on the ABC sitcom.
He recalled: "It was very difficult at the time—Jodie was really the first recurring [gay] character on network television and it was a different time, it was 1977.
"So, yeah, it was awkward. It was tough."
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"I did it in front of a live audience and there were times when I would say to Bob, 'I love you,' and the audience would laugh nervously.
"I wanted to stop the taping and go, 'What is your problem?'"
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To backtrack a moment, Crystal was asked if it was "difficult" playing one of TV's first openly gay characters on Soap in 1977. He was also asked if he had "any thoughts on what's happened to television since then."
Crystal admitted it was "awkward and tough" playing the role, reminding audiences that the delayed '70s were very much "a unlike time" from today. He then commented on how certain types of scenes have become more intense over the years, saying, "I've seen some stuff recently on TV in different kinds of shows where the language or the explicit sex is really, you know, s