where’s the interview w/ andy samberg where the interviewer asks about why there’s no jokes made around holt being gay and andy’s face twitches like “don’t do it.” and the interviewer goes on like “we live in such a weird PC culture though!” and andy laughs so uncomfortably i need it for science
His eyes in that last frame say, “I have lost any respect for you I might have had and I do not like you.”
I was thinking about this last night and Brooklyn Nine-Nine does have lots of jokes about Holt being gay. It’s just that they are not at his expense. The jokes aren’t LOL look at the gay guy calling everyone ‘girlfriend,’ caring about his
appearance a lot and acting stereotypical ‘gay.’
There was Holt not waiting for the priest to finish speaking before saying, “I do,” at his wedding because he’s scared that the law finally allowing him to marry the man he loves will be rescinded.
There’s the time Holt and Jake manage to break out of prison because a cop is homophobic and the joke is; look at how small minded this cop is rather than LOL gay people!
Holt talked about an old partner and said something, “He wasn’t racist but he was homophobic. He was a good partner.” The joke is that he had a partner who only disliked one part about him that he couldn’t change and had no control over and that was a win.
The there are lots of jokes about Holt being gay but they are about how messed up the world is in its treatment and view of gay man rather than have Holt be stereotypical gay.
The two Jehovah’s Witnesses that always come to my door are alarmingly buff. Like, muscles-straining-through-their-white-dress-shirts buff. I don’t even have a joke to make about this, guys. I just feel like you should know that I am plagued by these righteously jacked proselytizers and that, for whatever reason, I’m constantly running into them at the grocery store and they always ask me how my cat is doing. It’s really somethin’.
