S3E21.5: The Birdcage
Added 2024-06-20 22:53:26 +0000 UTCThis week, it's the RARE COMBO of Just Abi and Devon! We've just noticed that its Pride, so for this first of three gay ass movies, we're talking about Abi's pick- The Birdcage! Robin Williams and Nathan Lane star as a queer couple who have to pretend to be normal for one night when their son's girlfriend's republican parents come round for dinner. It rules
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Comments
Depictions of gay people doing off depictions of what straight people are like is a lot of fun, like when Andre Braugher's Captain Holt from Brooklyn 99 (I know it's copaganda but I love Andre Braugher enough to muddle through) who is an autistic gay man has to play a neurotypical het, he just skewers that demo, lol. He talks about how he loves philandering with his mistress because she has such heavy breasts. Take that, NT straights!
Australian Estuary Pirate
2025-11-09 02:33:45 +0000 UTCNathan Lane is so precious and lovable in this movie.
NowhereMan661
2025-10-26 00:22:27 +0000 UTCWhen yall were talking about the flat lifeless story the politician was telling and how people suppress and kill the queer parts of themselves to perform conservative politics I couldn't help but think of the news clip I saw recently where JD Vance couldn't even give an answer about what makes him smile. It was momentarily hilarious but in the way that gives way to a sort of creeping sadness at how depressing that is
Stupid Weasels
2024-08-09 15:54:16 +0000 UTCI saw the French version of this first and found that to be better as the Holywood verson was to much probably due to Williams being in it and doing what he does best.
Kerri Green
2024-08-02 15:38:03 +0000 UTCI watched the movie after listening to this episode, and honestly I think that John Wayne walk was accurate, and the "I just didn't realize John Wayne walked like that" is unironic
Andrew Dunn
2024-07-26 10:21:51 +0000 UTCI enjoyed this episode. I saw the Birdcage when it came out in theaters. Sad to think it's faded into obscurity that quickly
Jay P Hailey
2024-07-20 02:16:27 +0000 UTCMy closest family growing up were hotel restaurant folk and consequently a lot of the people who were around us for events were this old school queer. Watching this movie with my mum was so nostalgic. Hearing it again on my fav podcast is this all over again.
Name one robot in The Hobbit that isn't shaggable
2024-07-20 02:13:14 +0000 UTCThis is one of my all time favorite movies and I'm so glad y'all watched it 💖 Also my family and I have always referred to Nathan Lane's drag character in the dinner scene as Barbara Bush drag.
bibarbarian
2024-07-10 21:46:01 +0000 UTCI’m 47, nonbinary and watched this movie a dozen times as a teenager. So glad you covered it. As a kid I didn’t even know what attracted me to it so much. Being a queer wasn’t an option in my world but there I was.
J. Schuberth
2024-07-08 04:57:35 +0000 UTCAlso, I am convinced, based on my interactions with hysteric rich boomers of all genders and sexualities, that they’ve had the Pirin treatment by at least one servant growing up. They all have a weird relationship to OTC meds.
John Leavitt
2024-06-24 00:28:12 +0000 UTCThe greatest compliment I (an Assigned Jester At Birth trans man) have ever received was while watching this flick with the squad. My bestie looks at me and tells me that he watched it alone recently and couldn’t tell why Armand (Robin Williams) was so familiar—and he points at Armand in full hairy little glory and goes “He’s you!” This film is so important to me fam
CaesarVulpes
2024-06-23 19:52:44 +0000 UTCThis is my favourite film, I watched it to death in the 90s and I still love it. For pride season films I recommend watching Jeffrey it's got sir Patrick Stewart as one of the main characters. As an older queer trans guy this film was one of only a few films that I had access to as a young confused person and it has a special place in my heart. Thank you for including this in your show💜
Will
2024-06-23 03:05:25 +0000 UTCAmazing movie. I've spent most of my life not knowing how to dress, then I saw Robin Williams' fits in this and was like "that's it. That's what I want to look like". Changed my life
Luca
2024-06-22 23:46:11 +0000 UTC
