It's way too easy to cast liberal aspersions on a sketch like OLD GREGG. The sketch could easily be dismissed as racist, mysoginist and well, offensive to the memory of bootsy collins, but, well, um, yeah; any fan of bootsy collins knows full well that drinking bailey's out of a shoe is a beautiful thing.
Personally, i think the whole sketch could be interpreted as a brilliant deconstruction of uptight middle class white men ( several redundant terms there); the whole point is the polite horror that gregg engenders in the middle aged hipster whilst he keeps trying to play it cool.
Quite honestly, the sketch still makes me feel slightly uncomfortable because i am not quite sure how the hell to respond, or if i shall be judged harshly for laughing at something that must point out my own prejudice and perversion...see? It's goddamn hilarious!
I mean, is it okay to laugh at this? Is it okay to laugh at a vaguely homosexual but obviously horndog manfish who is also vaguely black, into oldschool funk, watersports, and, apparently, middleaged white hipsters? ( that last one is the true perversion)...
Anyhow, let the record show that slinky scaly manfish lovers are still building altars to the majesty and squalor that is Old Gregg in the year 2024.
May Old Gregg someday sip Bailey's out my very own Christian Louboutin before the funk carries us off to dark corners where people wee on each other.
Amen.