Paul Lynde, Charles Nelson Reilly and Rip Taylor “get a cursory mention in a new documentary about queer stand-up, but they were groundbreaking.”
… these Stonewall-generation funnymen with dippy but dark-edged sensibilities … were shaped by decades of self-hatred and fear the likes of which a 20-year-old today cannot fathom.
If you grew up with Lidsville, Hollywood Squares, Bewitched, Match Game, read this and think about what you knew & did not know about Lynde, Reilly, & Taylor, & how you knew what you knew without anyone saying anything, and how much was lost because no one said anything.