The actual music video for this song had Bowie in three different drag guises and it still wasn't near as gay as this.

@user-nr5zo5os2d

2 ай бұрын

true 😂

What did I just watch and how have I never seen this before? 😱😂😱😂😱😂😱😂😱😂

@peacetoall1201

5 жыл бұрын

Ha Ha ... I know, this is the gayest thing I've ever seen!! lol

Captain Kangaroo's shocked expression says it all

I've been Googling for 20 minutes to confirm to myself that this is actually an adult swim clip because it has to be, right?...

"breautube"!! Whahahahaha, hilarious. was just searching for covers from Bowie's hit, but this gem succeeded all my expectations! :-) shamelessly camp and gay, love it

5/29/1985 airdate, a CBS special called How to Be a Man, as per a web search. THis was about six months after Captain Kangaroo ended its long CBS run.

Rex still sporting his Jesse Mach / Street Hawk hair style. This is a year after Street Hawk.

Oooh, phuck this was bad... And yet,l stayed and watched the whole dam thing😔

@laurakusa1180

3 жыл бұрын

I totally agree yet some force just kept me glued to it, not sure what that says about me...haha.

The glory of youtube

I’ve never seen anything so “ambiguously” gay that wasn’t a comedy sketch. The “what the F is happening” look on the nameless, voiceless “wife” straight from central casting as she watches Rex Smith skip off to Bob Fosse’s Porkchop Hill sums it all up.

@DailyBrusher

Жыл бұрын

"Bob Fosse's Porkchop Hill" - You win!!

@Chicfan1

Жыл бұрын

“Best comment” award goes to you!

@psoasiwassaying

Жыл бұрын

The woman you refer to is actually Nicole Fosse, daughter of Bob Fosse.

Bowie's song had serious gay undertones ("other boys check you out"). Rex's version brought that to life.

Is this from the IT crowd's "Gay, a gay musical"?

@annespan65

3 жыл бұрын

ROTFLMAO! Rex, I hope you fired your agent right after the cameras went of!

The song is called "Boys Keep Swinging". Bowie would be appalled!! (As I am after watching... whatever the heck THIS was!!)

@jamesaitken5653

Жыл бұрын

I think he would have found it as hilarious as we do

@anonyarena

Жыл бұрын

@@jamesaitken5653 I agree, if you know what Bowie's personality was like, you'd know he literally would've positively adored every moment of this video, especially the homoeroticisms that Rex is playfully exaggerating. (I mean, come on! Bowie's OWN video of this song features Bowie in drag, and Bowie's 1980 Floor Show featured a gay male modern dance troupe.)

@Nacho-Mamma

11 ай бұрын

Why would Bowie be appalled? He appears in drag in the video of his version. So, there's no difference with Rex Smith making a gay song even gayer!

I’ve never seen this before.

lol wow

GO BLUE

What is this even from? Please I need to know

@Desslar

3 жыл бұрын

From the New York Times archive: 'HOW TO BE A MAN,' SPECIAL ON CBS TONIGHT By Richard F. Shepard May 29, 1985 IF there's some message buried in ''How to Be a Man,'' the special dedicated to the male of the species on CBS-TV tonight at 8 o'clock, it must be nothing deeper than a memo to let you know that Father's Day is coming up soon. It is a harmless one-hour music-cum-skit entertainment that is out to please and succeeds in carving for itself a niche between mildly amusing and silly. There are some nice things about this sleekly produced program, and one of them is the presence of Bob Keeshan, a k a Captain Kangaroo, as a host and star in his first television show for grown-ups. Those who spent their tender years growing up with the Captain will be pleased to see he is as gentle and charming a man among the adults as he is in the midst of toddlers. Mr. Keeshan gives us a believable anchorage with his little soliloquys on men and women, how the new woman has created a new man. It is not exactly a battle of the sexes a la Thurber, but it sets a tone for a show designed to be lighthearted, even though parts of it come across more heavily than others. John Denver, who sings and acts, is also on the credit side of the ledger, and the others who sing and act, among them Rex Smith, Hal Linden, Susan Anton, Melba Moore, Howard Hesseman and several very nice children, contribute to the overall theme that contrasts macho and quiche. The writing, by Bruce Hart, Carol Hart, David Axelrod, Jonathan Day, Leslie Fuller, Sean Kelly, Harold Kimmel and Larry Levin, as directed by Robert Nigro (Jim Hirschfeld is producer), has several bright spots that emerge from the somewhat mawkish terrain. One little tickler has a young man asking the woman he loves to be his second wife because half of all first marriages end in divorce. Another has a New York Giants player leaving his baby with the coach as he goes onto the field. There is a nice cartoon that runs through the show, one that depicts a little boy trying to find out what being a man involves and constantly finding instead violence behind the door marked ''men.'' www.nytimes.com/1985/05/29/arts/how-to-be-a-man-special-on-cbs-tonight.html

@QuarkTwain

Жыл бұрын

"music-cum-skit" indeed

Omg good thing this was after the movie it’s really bad !!

Gayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy!

Go Michigan! Kudos to Captain Kangaroo 🦘

Why is a boat tour guide coming down a utility pole?

@islingtonfreenewsmedia

Жыл бұрын

Homage perhaps because Bowie famously used the handle 'sailor'?

GET OVER IT, PEOPLE! It's Rex Smith, for Pete's sake! He has alway had a HUGE homoerotic appeal & a huge gay fan base. There were the rumors that he so much enjoyed pulling out his oversized rubber parts and put them on display for anyone, anytime, anywhere. And, he loved having his huge instrument tuned by anyone who wanted to battle the kraken! Personally, I wouldn't have kicked him out of my bed anytime soon!

What in the gay camp was that?

the gay eighties...the gayties.

About .2% less fully Gay than the Physical music video. I'm pretty sure there was a glory hole segment in the first rehearsal.

What in gay hell is this?