Were morecambe and wise gay

Abingdon: Routledge, — Columbus: Ohio UP. New Generation. This bibliography lists all texts cited in this book. Google Scholar. Anderson, Clive, inter Loose Ends. The ‘ticklishness’ and the discomfort these images of queerness produce is always released (and denied) in laughter: How absurd it all is, thank god, the audience says aloud by laughing, and how absurd of me to think that there was anything funny.

Article Google Scholar. Palgrave Macmillan. Chesler, Phyllis Women and Madness. Morecambe and Wise were not ‘gay,’ but they weren’t conventionally ‘straight’ either. Asher, Robert, dir The Intelligence Men. Routledge, — MR Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars, — Brandon, Johnny One More Step!

Institutional subscriptions. Lesbianism, dragging up as Marlene Dietrich, gay marriage, queer aesthetics, and more emerge as ripe subjects for a queer humour that helps to normalise homosexuality. Gifford, Denis Reveille Extra. BBC Radio. Hitchcock, Alfred, dir To Catch a Thief.

Unless otherwise indicated, the place of publication is London. This book offers the first sustained analysis of the 20th Century’s most successful double-act, Morecambe and Wise, contextualizing the duo’s work within British comedy, Shakespeare criticism, the history of sexuality, and their own historical moment.

Eric Morecambe (born John Eric Bartholomew; – 28 May ) and Ernie Wise (born Ernest Wiseman; 27 November – 21 March ), known as Morecambe and Wise (and sometimes as Eric and Ernie), were an English comic double act, working in variety, radio, film and most successfully in television.

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Over the course of a forty-four-year career (), Eric Morecambe & Ernie Wise appropriated snippets of verse, scenes, and other elements from seventeen of Shakespeare’s plays more than. Brighton: Book Guild. Given that Laurel & Hardy weren't meant to be a gay couple, and both even had wives in some episodes, why is it that they 'slept together'?.

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