Mark Simpson pays tribute to Lewis & Martin, ‘the hottest male comedy double-act of all time’ (Originally appeared in Out, May 2009) Forget hair whorls, genomes, amniotic fluid, older brothers, domineering mothers or disco. I can reveal with absolute, religio-scientific certainty that the cause of my homosexuality was just two… Read More »Jerry Lewis & Dean Martin’s 50s Love Makes Today’s Bromance Look Like Bromide
This month’s Outfeatures a column by yours truly, called ‘In Defense of Jerry Lewis‘, explaining how my childhood love for early Lewis made me the man I am today — and why his anarchic comedy partnership with Dean Martin in the ‘repressed’ 1950s was a kind of queer punk rock… Read More »Lewis & Martin’s 50’s Love Makes Today’s Bromance Look Like Bromide
Thanks to my Canadian friend Elise for forwarding this gem: A (late 1960s?) TV skit starring Jimmy Stewart, Dean Martin and Orson Welles, no less, at the hair salon – making mock of feminine vanities. The jokes then of course depended on the absurd gender reversal/confusion of three chaps taking… Read More »Wouldn’t You Just Die?