- Welcome back.
So throughout the season
I shared a lot of personal stories of my own
and so I'm very thrilled
to have my own friend Todd here tonight
because he wants to share one of his.
Todd, can you tell us your experience about coming out?
- No.
First off all, let me say out of paranoia
that I don't want it to be like my identity
but you know this show you talk a lot about sexuality a lot
so I guess it comes up.
- Yeah.
- But the person I'm with now is very
he is like how I was fifteen years ago
so I don't mention his name or anything but he's really cool
and he's got a cool beard and he's great.
(audience laughter)
- You can tell them.
Tell, okay say it to me.
- But, that was locked and loaded for about an hour.
You know, long story very short
I had a small group of friends that knew,
all my comedian friends knew,
but then not to get too serious
but there were, there was like a, it was always happening
but in the news a lot because there
were a lot of younger kids you know killing themselves.
- Yeah.
And I thought that if I don't be honest about this
then it gives validity to something worth hiding.
- Right.
- So I was like, just about two years ago, you know let me
just be honest about it and just come
and life is just so much better now
life was good before but its so much better now
its so much better now. You know?
- Yeah.
(applause)
- Do you feel like people treat you differently now
that they know you are an opening gay man?
- Watch your mouth.
You know, the only one thing is that
people will be like, look at Todd
he's good at having parties, he's good at design
and once they found out, that I came out, I do,
I feel like they're like, I don't get credit for it anymore.
They're like "well of course, because he's you know gay."
I said it.
That, that's just a given.
- Yes.
- That everybody gay is just great at parties,
has an eye for design when it not true.
- Yeah
- Like Nick is straight but if he, just for the fun of it
said he was gay, everybody the next day
in the comedy world would go "I had a feeling."
- Honestly, I had a feeling.
(applause)
- Well, there are just still a lot of preconceived notions
out there about gay men so before the show
we asked our audience to write down some of theirs.
So we are going to go through them
and Todd, I would love it if you would
shed some light on these.
- Yeah and watch me sweat profusely as I do it.
- I love how fired up you are about these.
Okay, So Todd help us Debunk
the junk. - Bring them on!
(applause)
- Here we go.
Okay Todd.
Are you ready?
- Yeah.
- Gay men are always ready.
Okay.
- Sorry
- Just kidding.
Okay, gay men go to the gym a lot.
- Okay, here we go.
First of all, its going to change
because gay people didn't traditionally have children
when they hit 40 years old where most people are 30
would not be going to the gym because they have kids
they were at the gym more because they didn't have kids
its not in your DNA, so fuck that.
- Love that.
That's smart.
- And as you see, people that are gay now that have kids
you're going to see, maybe a little less at the gym.
- Gay men all like musicals.
- Well thats a great one and I called my friend Daniel today
and he's not gay, and I go
"Daniel what is there any t-."
He goes, "Well I got a gay friend
"and he doesn't like musicals, you don't like musicals.
"I don't like musicals. So there you go."
- There we go.
- What about Chicago though?
They all like Chicago, right?
I mean is it true though
that gay guys do like getting their dicks sucked?
(laughter)
Because that I don't want to stereotype but I feel like
- Come on bring them on, bring them on.
- Barbra Streisand.
- What the fuck!
And just two seconds ago, one of your producers
said fuck is the only word they have to edit out.
I don't know what else to say.
- Yeah.
- I don't like Barbra Streisand
I'm not saying she's not talented
although to tell you the truth
every ten years she comes on TV go
"I'm so afraid to sing, I'm so afraid."
I go, you know what, don't!
Don't, I don't give a shit!
Oh, oh, no one knows I-
Go on give me, give me one.
- Gay men have a lot of bathroom sex.
- Okay that is not, that is the biggest misconception
is gay men versus men.
Its not gay men, its men, If women would fuck in bathrooms
straight men would fuck it bathrooms.
Its not the straight men that are not doing that
its because they can't.
- Okay, they are constantly trying
to turn straight guys gay.
- First of all that's men again.
That's men again.
Men don't respect sometimes
because they have to be the aggressor
don't respect boundaries.
So its the same thing that a straight guy
would hit on a woman even though she is giving no signs
that she likes him, that's what its about.
- It's a little bit like The Sting
where you are Robert Redford
and your trying to con them into fucking you.
- Exactly.
- Yes.
- He gets it.
- No no, I meant to go a different way.
I meant to go a different way.
- Okay this is a-, they know about a secret tailor
that makes their suits look better?
- That's, that is true.
- Okay. That is true.
- You are right, that is true.
- Alright thank you Todd
thank you for clearing some stuff up.
That's all the time we have for Debunking the Junk.
I'd like to thank my friends
Nick Thune and Todd Glass for being here tonight.
Nick is on tour right now, check out dates at nickthune.com
Todd will be Sarah Silverman in June.
We will be right back, you guys.
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