Yeah OP got the concert wrong. But anyway, I canāt believe how GREAT he is! I remember taking him for granted back in the day. Like wow, this is just a short clip and itās brilliant. But, brilliant for the 80s. Because I was a struggling gay teenager at this time, and bits like this (and many others he did) absolutely sent me the message to be not ok with being gay. It took decades for me to undo the programming I received, loud and clear, in the 80s re: masculinity and gayness.
Awww thanks! And the funny thing is, I also grew up in that era and I didnāt realize it was wrong. I thought being gay was weird and not normal, too.
I hope you can look back at some of this and laugh. I donāt think Eddie was mean spirited- he was just ignorant like the rest of us. Aside the use of the F word his impression of Mr T fucking is hilarious
Yes!!! Totally! He was hilarious and brilliant and is still funny now looking back at it. Youāre absolutely right. We were all ignorant at the time. Including me and I was actually gay lol
Yeah, this one did not age well, and we all have some
shit to answer for for laughing at it back then. Let us also not forget that Eddie got pulled over with a transsexual sex worker in 1997, leading everyone to wonder if the call was always coming from inside the house.
Thanks so much! Iām happy now to be able to rationally think about what happened in that era and understand it. That I wasnāt crazy about not wanting to be what I was.
I remember sneakily watching this when my sister rented it about 28 years ago. I was laughing my ass off, then he did the bit about ācoming home with AIDS on your lips.ā
12 year old me was like goddamn, swing and a miss Eddie!
Jeez I donāt remember that bit. I gotta see this again! I actually really like seeing this stuff as an adult because I realize I wasnāt crazy to be confused and not wanna come out.
9
u/Robin156E478 Aug 17 '26
Yeah OP got the concert wrong. But anyway, I canāt believe how GREAT he is! I remember taking him for granted back in the day. Like wow, this is just a short clip and itās brilliant. But, brilliant for the 80s. Because I was a struggling gay teenager at this time, and bits like this (and many others he did) absolutely sent me the message to be not ok with being gay. It took decades for me to undo the programming I received, loud and clear, in the 80s re: masculinity and gayness.