1993

>1993
>Queer Nation protests the lack of gay guests on Arsenio Hall's show
>Arsenio proceeds to thoroughly blow them the fuck out
I wish modern talk show hosts had half the balls of this ebony brother

youtube.com/watch?v=T6W5_CSk044

>not knowing gus van sandt

Pleb.

>why is it that i can't do a gay character?

Guess Arsenio's fine with blackface.

who is this guy? he seems familiar

Arsenio's pretty cool, I think he would be fine with a white comedian doing a black character

Had his own talk show in the nineties. Been in all kinds of shit since, he was good on Celebrity Apprentice

He really did B them the FO though. Embarrassing for them.

Why are they even bitching at all? Did they assume he was a homophobe because he was black?

Was the thing staged?

Were SJWs a thing back in the early 90s?

> Making a thread about some irrelevant chat show episode from, what, 1993?

Jesus Christ, you Sup Forums folk really are scraping the bottom of the barrel

>Comments disabled for obvious reasons

What the fuck is obvious about that?

He did gay jokes/characters. At the time even the president made jokes about gays dying of AIDS and shit so militant vocal gays were rightfully angry. But like Arsenio said he's had Elton John on and other gay guests not out of the closet. Queer Nation was just pissed that he would make gay jokes but not have more openly gay celebs on.

Has nothing to do with Sup Forums you ignorant child. Nineties late night shows are fascinating and so much less generic and contrived than they are today. Get over it.

>You could actually stand up to the queers back then and not lose your job.

arsenio is gay himself....

Does being black shield you from the outcry of SJWs? Or are they quick to throw sensible black celebrities under the bus when they make a rebuttal like Arsenio?

>Does being black shield you from the outcry of SJWs?

It never did. Look at Clarence Thomas.

>At the time even the president made jokes about gays dying of AIDS
The fuck?

Dealt Prince drugs and killed him.

Arsenio definitely had a lot of clout at the time. His production company ran the show and it was really popular back in its heyday.
In fact, Arsenio killed his own show when fans got pissed that he soft-interviewed Louis Farrakhan.

Farrakhan a murderous scumbag who probably threatened arsenio just to be on the show

>implying the gays POZing each other isn't hilarious

>In fact, Arsenio killed his own show when fans got pissed that he soft-interviewed Louis Farrakhan.
I can't fathom anyone who actually subscribes to the NOI. Even my Muslim buddies from college hated those guys.

pozing is kinda hot tho

>cuck van sant

it's literally a down low black power bunch of racist we wuz kangz bullshit and they do their absolute best to hide how racist they are

Arsenio should have been the black Morton Downey Jr, he would have blown Oprah the fuck out.

Coming from a gay man, meaning me, Arsenio was on point with this. The agenda pushers make me fucking sick and I blame the trannies for breathing life into a self-destructive practice that only gives ammunition to the haters. Hysteria fags are literal cancer.

>Were SJWs a thing back in the early 90s?
They've always been around. The Internet gave them an outlet to reach a global audience and congregate with other like-minded individuals in echo chambers.

Yep, they were called moralists back then.

> I'm not homophobic I have loads of gay friends

I don't think he'd have a problem with impersonating a black person, but black face is often just making fun of black people being black, not of how they act.

this

majority of them were too dumb/poor to ever get noticed and nobody took them seriously because they went to such extreme lengths to get noticed they always seemed a tad crazy to begin with

think of how many people get to @ donald trump now when they'd never be able to afford a ticket to NYC and get close enough to swear at him without his security escorting them off park avenue in the 80/90/00's?

maybe 1-5% of the entirety of #murica

social media gives loser the ability to mouth off to more successful people who would never be in the same zip code IRL let alone close enough to speak

>why don't you go to the Johnnie Cochran show and ask him that question?

Arsenio is gay and in the closet. This was staged.

that's what I always thought....arsenio is gay, right?

>there aren't enough x on y!
They're like a fucking broken record, 13 years and not a single new thought in their heads, sad.

I don't get why this isn't meant to be a valid rebuttal, why would a homophobe have gay friends? Obviously if they're willing to be friends with gay people they can't have that many problems with gay people.

>13 years

>I can't be homophobic because I'm black

OH FUCKING WHO CARES?

Stop making an issue about men who like other men you fucking idiot. Like he said its none of your damn business.