Jason Alexander: Cricket is gay

[Azul]

http://www.theage.com.au/sport/cric...es-for-gay-cricket-remark-20120604-1zqoh.html

Actor Jason Alexander has apologised for joking during a TV talk show that he considers cricket to be a "gay" sport.

http://www.theage.com.au/sport/cric...es-for-gay-cricket-remark-20120604-1zqoh.html

 

[medhurstISGOD]

Re: Cricket is gay

Not that there's anything wrong with that.

 

[ioppolo]

Re: Cricket is gay

As opposed to Baseball...

 

[Carbine Chaos]

Jesus Christ...

Gay has three meanings.

One is joyful.

One is homosexual.

The third, the one that everybody complains about, is lame/bad. I use it flippantly, and I have gay friends and have nothing against gay people.

PC gone mad, get over yourselves.

 

[djrossie16]

P****ingC

 

[Phone]

yeah the more concerning thing here is that Jason Alexander has been in comedy for what, 30 years, and can't think of a better way to finish a joke than to use the word gay.

 

[Phone]

it's pretty gay on his part

 

[DrVanNostrand]

I was watching the Craig Ferguson show the night he was on. I thought it was pretty funny. His demonstration of "the pitch" was great.

 

[Underarm]

Jesus Christ...

Gay has three meanings.

One is joyful.

One is homosexual.

The third, the one that everybody complains about, is lame/bad. I use it flippantly, and I have gay friends and have nothing against gay people.

PC gone mad, get over yourselves.

2 points.

1. in the context he was using, it was the 2nd one. he was reffering to the sports break for tea, and the girly 'pitch' that shane warne does.

2. point 3 started out as a dig towards point 2, you can't deny that. Initially when someone would say "that's gay" it would refers to something bad and at the time, gay = bad/stupid/immoral ect. The word hasn't evolved since then.

I liked his apology to the Gay community though. It wasn't some bullshit apology full of cliche's, but it showed his thought process as to why he didn't find it offensive, and how his Gay BFF's helped him figure it out that the offensive was over the connotation that Effeminite = gay = bad.

OTOH, the GLBT community can be over sensitive at times. No ones asking for him to apologize to cricket nuts.....

 

[Miqar_Baqfhied]

Hey Jason Alexander: thats not cricket mate

 

[ltdamn]

Left-arm legspinners are pretty gay, to be honest.

 

[Miqar_Baqfhied]

Left-arm legspinners are pretty gay, to be honest.

Ghey things about cricket off the top of my head

Brett Lee and his heel clapping
Steve Smith's bowling action and general awkwardness
Bryce Mcgains bowling action
Virat Kohli's perfect hair and posing
Dizzy Gillespie cutting his mullet off
Stuart MacGill's bowling action and lack of arm length
England players always wearing rubber bands around their wrists
Mark Nicholas
Big Bash cricket uniforms

 

[Cooldude]

Bit of a lick, grab in the ass and a bit of a dry root to celebrate a wicket, nothing gay in any of that

 

[alfy!]

I was watching the Craig Ferguson show the night he was on. I thought it was pretty funny. His demonstration of "the pitch" was great.

Me too, didn't find it funny at all, but neither did I find it offensive.

His apology was top class though.

 

[sherb]

Let's see him stand 22 yards away from someone bowling 145 kmph at him and tell us how "gay" cricket is.

 

[Wallaby]

Bit of a lick, grab in the arse and a bit of a dry root to celebrate a wicket, nothing gay in any of that

Let's be honest, cricket deserves it's own float at the Mardi Gras. Camp as a row of tents, the lot of 'em.

 

[frankrizzo]

Cricket fans should be grateful Americans think cricket is either gay or boring, if that lot got involved in our game it would make even the ipl look classy and reserved.

 

[Dipper]

Let's see him stand 22 yards away from someone bowling 145 kmph at him and tell us how "gay" cricket is.

Thye should show him footage of Michael Holding trying to kill a 45 year old Brian Close.

 

[estibador]

And here I was thinking comedians were the last remaining bastion against politically correct speech gone mad.

You could find something in every stand-up comedy routine in history to get offended by if you were that way inclined (no pun intended).