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Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski
My kids loved when we turned them on to Seinfeld. You gonna show her that when she’s 15, or does the Michael Richards’s melt down makes that a no go?
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I let my kid watch
Delirious. As to the gay jokes, many are mean and dumb, such as Murphy talking about how he dislikes gay men checking out his ass. (Curious also, given he was once found in the company of a transvestite prostitute.) But the
Honeymooners as a gay couple ("Norton... Norton my friend... How would you like to fuck me up the ass?") routine is as side-splitting today as it was in 1983. Why? Because it's clever. Murphy's imitation of the Norton and Ralph Cramden are spot-on, and the idea of them having anal sex, and Murphy's acting out what it'd be like, are so absurd it's impossible not to laugh out loud.
BUT, we added the caveat for the child that, "There's some homophobic stuff in here that Murphy himself would disavow today." It was a different time. But Murphy was a genius comic, and only a fool rejects art because some part of it is offensive, or the artist is offensive. Art stands on its own.
