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Miss you Andre (lemmy.world)
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[-] GabrielBell12fi@lemmy.world 127 points 1 month ago

"You have a face only a mother can love, but two dads."

[-] SkyezOpen@lemmy.world 18 points 1 month ago

This reminds me of my favorite game show idea.

[-] feedum_sneedson@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

It's good, I'd watch it. I mean, I wouldn't because I don't watch TV, but I like the idea.

[-] teft@lemmy.world 60 points 1 month ago

This scene has one of my favorite jokes in B99. About the officiant being efficient. It’s so dumb but the way Kevin delivers it makes me crack up.

[-] Stamets@lemmy.world 49 points 1 month ago

Kevin was the reason I have started to recently watch B99 for the first time. I thought he was HYSTERICAL in The Good Place and equally as charming in the Good Place podcast. I knew he was playing a gay guy but sort of forgot about it by the time I started. Finding that out personally was a huge pleasure. As well as Holt. Between The Good Place and B99 I can't think of a single bad take on gay jokes or gay characters. All of them hit for me.

[-] BarrelAgedBoredom@lemm.ee 14 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

My headcannon is that Kevin is Shawn following in Michael's footsteps as an attempt to grow past his demon-ness

[-] FordBeeblebrox@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago

The whole episode is gold but Kevin and Jake as weird perverts never fails to crack me up.

You know the writing is brilliant when Kevin is the ‘straight’ man to Holt and his wild emotional swings

[-] ech@lemm.ee 9 points 1 month ago

Marc Evan Jackson is so funny. First saw (heard?) him on the Thrilling Adventure Hour and I'm always delighted when he shows up in something else I'm watching.

[-] MajorHavoc@programming.dev 3 points 1 month ago

Omygosh!?

The Hero of Mars is also Kevin on B99?!

This made my day.

I've been a huge fan of his film and voice work for years, but somehow I never made the connection.

[-] ech@lemm.ee 2 points 1 month ago
[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 52 points 1 month ago

This reminded me of a friend I had in high school who ended up going to the same university as me, but we rarely talked. I found out that he got married to a guy before gay marriage was legal in a public ceremony. I ran into him a few months later and I asked him how his marriage was going and he said something like, "him? I didn't even like him, it was just to protest gay marriage being illegal. We ended that right away." Fair enough.

He died a few years later of cancer. I miss you, David. You were a weird fundie Christian who was still a weird fundie Christian when you came out of the closet, but you were always a nice guy. Even when you told me I was going to hell for being Jewish, it was like, "hey man, I like you a lot, I think you're cool, it's just that my pastor says Jews are going to hell and I can't do anything about that." And then later, "good news! We got a new pastor and he says Jews are the chosen people, so now you're going to heaven!" Like I said, weird fundie Christian. But a nice guy I wish I could still talk to.

Apologies for rambling, I haven't thought of David in some time (apart from telling that last bit as an anecdote occasionally) and the memories came flooding back.

[-] xantoxis@lemmy.world 17 points 1 month ago

I liked the story about David, thank you :-)

[-] billiam0202@lemmy.world 48 points 1 month ago

It's because him being gay wasn't the punchline of the joke, it was the setup.

[-] itsgroundhogdayagain@lemmy.ml 47 points 1 month ago

Captain Holt is one of my all-time favorite tv characters.

[-] runjun@lemmy.world 16 points 1 month ago

Just Kevin’s hot piece of ass.

[-] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 36 points 1 month ago

one of the fun parts of being subbed to 196@blahaj is that there's a shitload of LGBT jokes that I can enjoy, as a cishet person.

I appriciate the novelty of this comedy that is new to me.

[-] TheWordBotcher@lemmy.world 24 points 1 month ago

Whenever I see "cishet" I pronounce it in my head "sishay", like how one pronounces sachet. Makes being cishet sound pretty fabulous.

[-] Zink@programming.dev 3 points 1 month ago

Same. Demographically I’m almost as vanilla as they come (middle aged white suburban dad) and I love this community. It’s just fellow humans posting funny stuff, even if a lot of people that look like me would have a problem with it for very stupid reasons.

[-] Chocrates@lemmy.world 31 points 1 month ago

I loved Andre Braugher in B99. I haven't really seen him in anything else (the Mist!) but he was great. So sad he passed so young.

I am not LGBTQIA+ so I can't comment, but the B99 jokes usually punched up. It is one of the few shows that generally made LOL on first watch.

[-] itsgroundhogdayagain@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 month ago

He was excellent in the show Homicide. Law and Order ended up importing a couple of their characters.

[-] ninjabard@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

I'm fairly certain he was a private eye in an episode of Law and Order.

[-] frostysauce@lemmy.world 27 points 1 month ago

My favorite B99 joke is the simple fact they made the "straight man" of the ensemble a gay man.

[-] sigmaklimgrindset@sopuli.xyz 27 points 1 month ago

Dude, Andre Braugher was so talented. I saw him at a performance of Hamlet at Central Park for a school trip and I don't think anyone has ever seen primary school kids enraptured by Shakespeare like that. Even my teacher was surprised.

Rest in Power, king o7

[-] teft@lemmy.world 28 points 1 month ago

It's because he has gravitas.

[-] slumlordthanatos@lemmy.world 17 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

That's kinda what I want my wedding to be like.

"Okay, here we go! The short short version: Do you?!"

"Yes!"

"Do you?!"

"Yes!"

"Good! You're married. Kiss her!"

[-] Annoyed_Crabby@monyet.cc 6 points 1 month ago

Dude be skipping dialog like a speedrunner

[-] FordBeeblebrox@lemmy.world 17 points 1 month ago

Are you really playing the gay card right now?

[-] JimVanDeventer@lemmy.world 14 points 1 month ago
[-] UpperBroccoli@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 1 month ago

How dare you, detective Diaz!

[-] Tja@programming.dev 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

BOOOOOOONNEEEEEE

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