Monday, October 17, 2011

Craig Ferguson asks Liza Minelli: Are you a C.I.A. operative? Later, Happy Ending's Adam Pally mocks gay fans

Wow, this is a question [at 6:55 here] that never would have occurred to AKSARBENT. Faked ditzyness would be a great cover! Suspiciously, we noticed that Ms. Minelli evaded the question, responding coyly, "Wouldn't that be fabulous?"
     Hmm, if the OSS recruited Julia Child, why couldn't its successor enlist Liza?
     Later, Minelli sang a few stanzas from her new CD, Confessions. Sample:
I always go to bed at ten.
Now isn't that a bore?
I always go to bed at ten.
Then I go home at four.
Ferguson's next guest on the same show (last Friday) was Adam Pally, the actor who plays gay character Max on ABC's Happy Endings.

[At 8:05 here] Pally: This has gotta be like, one of the gayest shows you've ever had, to have me and Liza Minelli
Ferguson:  Not even close. Hey Geoff...
Geoff: Trust me, it gets a lot gayer.
Ferguson: This is like the LEAST gayest show we're ever done...

Pally: [On the difference between Friends and Happy Endings] ...There's also an openly gay character on our show that I play... and all the characters on Friends were in the closet still.
Ferguson: Do you get a lot of gay men hitting on you because they think you're gay because your character is gay or are you in fact gay?
Pally:  Uh, I am not in fact gay but I do get a lot of gay men, uh, approaching me and they always think they are the character that I play, like, I play a character who's like the opposite of what you would think would be on television. I'm not very effeminate, I'm a slob, I'm into sports, and so a lot of fans that watch the show, they come up to me and they're like [affecting effeminate speech], "I am so Max... I'm a slob, I love sports, I'm the antithesis of what you would think a gay man would be." And I'm like, "Okay, Darrin."

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