While promoting his upcoming new FX series, professional Oscars host Billy Crystal recently launched into a homophobic tirade about all the icky gay sex happening on TV lately, telling Television Critics Association, “Sometimes I think, ‘Ah that’s too much for me.’ Sometimes, it’s just pushing it a little too far for my taste.”
After receiving criticism for his remarks, the 66-year-old doubled-down, later commenting:
I don’t understand why there would be anything offensive that I said. When it gets too far either visually … now, that world exists because it does for the hetero world, it exists, and I don’t want to see that either. But when I feel it’s a cause, when I feel it’s ‘You’re going to like my lifestyle,’ no matter what it is, I’m going to have a problem, and there were a couple of shows I went “I couldn’t watch that with somebody else.” That’s fine. If whoever writes it or produces it … totally get it. It’s all about personal taste.
Now, actor Michael Urie has responded to Crystal’s comments in the best way possible.
Speaking to the blog NewNowNext, Urie said: “I don’t think it’s overexposed. If gay sex on TV is too much for you, change the channel and don’t watch it.”
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“I think there is far too much football on TV,” he continued. “But I’m not going around saying they should take football off the air; I’m changing the channel.”
We couldn’t have said it better ourselves.
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PLAYS WELL WITH OTHERS
Memo to Billy Crystal: There are a lot of abhorrent, vile, noxious, hate filled pigs that complain about “all the Jews on TV”. Your comments pretty much make you an abhorrent, vile, noxious, hate filled pig………
Kudos to Michael for calling out the hate filled twisted old relic………..
corey
if it werent for too much icky gay stuff on tv, mr. crystal would never had his start in tv, what a great way to lose a possible come back to tv ass hole
Charlie in Charge
Amen Michael Urie!
He’s right, when Crystal says “when I feel it’s ‘You’re going to like my lifestyle,’ no matter what it is, I’m going to have a problem” he’s contradicting himself because he wants to tell other people what should and should not be on television. Why do we need to cosign on his lifestyle?
Kieran
Isn’t this whole discussion basically moot anyway? Talk about a comedian who has jumped the shark. Wasn’t Billy Chrystal’s career basically eclipsed by the rise of Neil Patrick Harris years ago?
man5996853
@PLAYS WELL WITH OTHERS: Brilliant. Great post.
PLAYS WELL WITH OTHERS
@man5996853:
tyvm!
Cam
And to all of the people who were flipping out when anybody dared suggest that Michael Urie should come out, saying “What difference does anybody coming out make?”
Well, that’ what difference it makes.
orcanyc
Love you Michael Urie, perfectly said.
Silent_Joe
@corey: I was about to say, didn’t he get his start in the sitcom, Soap, where he played an openly gay character?
blackberry finn
BC was one of the first actors to play a recurring openly gay role on TV back in the 1970s. At the time, he and the show received lots of flack from people who thought the gay thing was being overexposed. That role, as it happens, pushed him into stardom. Now, 40 years later, he’s complaining about gay overexposure. It’s a generational thing, but I wouldn’t have expected it from him.
JaredNorthcutt30
Am I missing something? Wasn’t this the entire point of Crystal’s quote? I’m guessing if it doesn’t align with Crystal’s tastes, the logical conclusion would be that Billy Crystal changes the channel. Why the hyperventilation? Another faux controversy to drum up unique page views, perhaps? How many degrees separate Queerty and Gawker-types from Fox News? I need more Al Jazeera and NPR in my diet. F this S.
jwtraveler
@blackberry finn: Well, I believe it was the sex that he was referring to, not gay people on TV in general. Still, it is very surprising coming from him, given his role on “Soap”, which I absolutely loved. And he was very cute.
jwtraveler
@orcanyc: Yes, short and to the point.
Greg
@Silent_Joe: Billy Crystal’s character on “Soap” was a homosexual who was dating a tennis pro. But his homosexual character thought that the solution would be to have a sex change operation so he could be with his lover legitimately and not be embarrassed, ashamed, or whatever he thought was the problem with being gay. Which I thought was stupid. Why would a gay man want to become a woman? If he became a woman, the gay boyfriend wouldn’t have wanted him anymore. Duh! But anyways, Billy Crystal has himself to thank for all the gay sex on TV today. You were so cutting edge back in the day. Remember all the protests about the show? Now it’s a little bit too much for him? Ha ha. Too bad. The Genie is out of the bottle. Thank you Billy.