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Little Britain Touches Up Uncle Sam

By Mark Simpson (Guardian, 20 October, 2008) ‘What other culture could have produced someone like Ernest Hemingway,’ waspish bisexual American exile Gore Vidal once asked of America’s favourite so-butch-he’s-camp writer, ‘and not seen the joke?’. The answer, was, of course, that only a culture that couldn’t see the joke could produce a Hemingway. I don’t …

October 20, 2008 – 7:12 pm | By Mark Simpson | Posted in bisexuality, comedy, commentary, masculinity, television | Tagged , , , , , , , , | Comments (7)