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Sewers of Paris: Beauty in Trash (Ep 309 - Bruce Vilanch)
🕑 Added 2025-03-06 17:00:12 +0000 UTC
With the Oscars this weekend, we’ve reached the culmination of the year’s awards season. And for this week’s Sewers of Paris podcast, we’re diving into the archives to revisit my 2017 chat with an awards show legend: Bruce Vilanch, who's been slipping sly queer comedy into our entertainment since before some of us were even born. Starting out as a joke writer for great divas of the 1970s and then moving on to variety shows, the Academy Awards, and a notorious holiday special, Bruce provided a subtle queer infusion into American showbiz for decades.
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Matt Baume
It's such a relief that he likes talking about it, and isn't like "oh no, not this again"!
David Garcia
I love this episode, especially when the idea of talking about the Star Wars Christmas Special comes up, and he says, "we must". If people said, "we must" more often the world would be a better place. I also love how he makes sure to clarify that his culture loving aunt wasn't much like Mame, but that he was.
Jim
Loved that! Bruce is gay culture, at least part of it!
