StreetLaughter

“Physical Culture”, body-building, call it what you will. Is it just a desire to build up a more manly physique to attract the ladies, or do...

Private Eye, 29 September 1967 Bill Tidy Private Eye, 5 November 1982 Marc Boxer The counterapart to the sissy, effete male athlete ...

Punch, 11 February 1976 Wup-wup-whooppeee! (Twirls finger in air like a tiny pixie about to throw a lasso.) Thank god my TV’s partly br...

Contemporary with the last sketch by National Lampoon, though not a parody, is this more whimsical riff from the humorist Kurt Andersen’s 19...

Christopher Street National Lampoon’s White Album (1979/1980?) http://www.myspace.com/music/player?sid=40329502&ac=now Like Batm...

Osbert Lancaster Daily Express, 1 July 1960 A nifty exemplification of the hypocrisy underpinning the arguments about the illegality of...

Punch, 18 May 1983 Mike Dickinson From nearly thirty years ago, some cartoons about what a gay scout might be. “Scouting for Boys” is...

Playboy, January 1975 Heartburn, Nora Ephron 1983: “I picked up the remote control unit and turned on the television set. There was ...

“12 + 1” Directed by Nicolas Gessner and Luciano Lucignani Written by Marc Behm, Nicolas Gessner, and Dennis Norden Jackie: Tim Brooke-...

The Melting Pot, 1975 Written by Spike Milligan and Neil Shand A brief gay guardsman gag from Spike Milligan’s infamous cancelled 1975 si...