I realize this may get me banned from the entire internet. I realize he’s beloved.

BUT THOSE ARE ALWAYS THE WORST ONES.

I’m probably wrong. I hope I am. I’m not saying it’s true. I’m literally only saying what I’m saying, which is that every time I’ve watched interviews with him (e.g. on Conan), he gives me the willies a little bit.

Edit: Just realized “gives me the willies” is an unintentional pun. Giving 10/10 points to myself retroactively.

  • Davel23@fedia.io
    8·
    5 days ago

    Wilder wasn’t gay, or at least not exclusively so. He was married to Gilda Radner for many years.

    • paultimate14@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      5 days ago

      Oh thank you for the correction ! I guess I was just going off of what other people had told me, and how he was so well beloved by LGBT+ communities. For what it’s worth as I’m looking into it now it seems there were some rumors, including a very complicated relationship with Richard Pryor who went on the record describing Wilder with a slur.

      I also may have been confusing Gene Wilder with Oscar Wilde.

    • DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.socialEnglish
      3·
      5 days ago

      Literally means nothing to his generation, especially to a celebrity, but by all accounts that was real even if his other marriages were out of social obligation.