Paul Lynde and The Greatest Sissies of All Time
Feast of Fun: Gay Talk Show
Fausto Fernós
4.4 • 834 Ratings
🗓️ 12 November 2020
⏱️ 79 minutes
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Summary
But this isn’t always the case when its comes to comedy: sissies are heroes because they are the mistfits who have the courage to tell it like it is.
Today the faaaabulous Brian Sweeney joins me to take a look at some of the greatest sissies in culture and entertainment. Listen as we sissy that walk down memory lane as we look at Frank Nelson, the yeeeeeess man from the Lucy Show to Scott Thompson’s Buddy Cole from The Kids in the Hall.
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Plus—
➤ “Won’t You Be My Neighbor?” the long awaited documentary on Mr. Rogers is out. What happened when one of his cast members came out as gay in the late 60s?
➤ Why sassy drunk gay guys stole the show in talk shows and game shows from the 70s and 80s.
➤ The Paul Lynde Halloween special showbiz train-wreck.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | In most films, effeminate men are portrayed as villains. |
| 0:10.3 | Sissies who are morally weak because of their homosexuality. |
| 0:15.9 | But this isn't always the case when it comes to comedy. |
| 0:19.0 | Sissies are heroes because they are the misfits who have the courage to tell it like it is. |
| 0:24.0 | Today, the fabulous Brian Sweeney joins me to take a look at some of the greatest sissies of all time. |
| 0:33.4 | Listen as we sissy that walk down memory lane as we look at Frank Nelson. |
| 0:39.3 | The yes man from the Lucy show to Scott Thompson's buddy Cole from the kids in the hall. |
| 0:47.0 | All that fuss over a few extra assets. |
| 0:51.4 | Plus, won't you be my neighbor? |
| 0:53.6 | The long-away documentary on Mr. Rogers is out in theaters. |
| 0:57.4 | What happened when one of his castmates came out as gay to him in the late 1960s? |
| 1:02.9 | Why Sassy Gay, Drunk Guys stole a show and talk shows and game shows in the 70s and 80s? |
| 1:09.7 | And the Paul-Lenn Halloween special, showbiz train wreck. shows and game shows in the 70s and 80s and the |
| 1:10.8 | Paul Lynn Halloween special |
| 1:12.9 | showbiz train wreck |
| 1:15.0 | I'm Fausta Furnos |
| 1:17.0 | I'm Brian Sweeney |
| 1:18.9 | and this is Feast |
| 1:21.1 | of Fawn |
| 1:23.1 | Oh my |
| 1:24.2 | Go fetch me something to drink faster and make it wet |
| 1:31.8 | You Nimmie, why you, pusillanimous Pip's Week |
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