Updated: Billy Crystal Doesn’t Want Gay People on TV to “Shove It in Our Face”

Billy Crystal recently said that sometimes gay scenes on TV are "too much for me."

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Billy Crystal probably did not intend for his comments to read the way they do. Nevertheless, he was toeing a fine line at a panel discussion for his new FX show The Comedians.

Crystal said regarding certain LGBT storylines that “Sometimes I think, ‘Ah that’s too much for me,’” then adding that “Sometimes, it’s just pushing it a little too far for my taste and I’m not going to reveal to you which ones they are.”

Crystal was actually one of the first people ever to play a gay recurring character on a TV series, which he did on the ABC comedy Soap from 1977 to 1981. Love scenes on television—LGBT and straight—have changed a lot since then, so it’s really not all that surprising that a 66-year-old man is going to be a little taken aback by some of what he sees.

Update: Crystal has elaborated on the comment following the controversy that arose from it:

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"What I meant was that whenever sex or graphic nudity of any kind (gay or straight) is gratuitous to the plot or story it becomes a little too much for my taste.”

We take it Crystal isn’t a Game of Thrones fan. 

[via Gawker/The Wrap]

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