The Birdcage
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Sep 11, 2026
Tim LongHOST
I'm going to look it up.
Tim LongHOST
Number seven, The Birdcage, which was like a, yeah, it was a big, what's the word I'm looking for? Transgressive movie at the time.
Tim LongHOST
It was kind of a, it was a big deal at the time.
Tim LongHOST
One of the first movies like that to feature kind of gay characters.
Jade HaydenHOST
Oh, my God.
Jade HaydenHOST
He was in The Birdcage with Robin Williams.
Jade HaydenHOST
Have you seen that?
Bronwyn O'NeillHOST
No, I haven't seen that.
JulianHOST
I mean, I think he's so adept when it comes to voices and characters.
JulianHOST
Like, I think of, like, The Birdcage.
MadelineHOST
Yeah.
JulianHOST
He's-
Christopher McLeodHOST
Exactly.
Christopher McLeodHOST
Quick kick is Hank Azaria's character from The Birdcage.
Christopher McLeodHOST
Can't wear shoes or he'll trip over his feet, says Scott.
Christopher McLeodHOST
Luke says those Super 7 Target exclusives are not available in Canada.
Sally ShawHOST
And actually, I love the story about Nathan Lane.
Sally ShawHOST
Do you know Nathan Lane? He was the star of Birdcage and The Producers and he's big on Broadway.
Sally ShawHOST
Birdcage, the movie that had...
Sally ShawHOST
The Birdcage that had Robin Williams in it.
Sally ShawHOST
Yes, I love that movie.
Sally ShawHOST
The other main guy is Nathan Lane.
Ricky StormHOST
Andrea got both.
Ricky StormHOST
Hank Azaria in The Birdcage.
D.B. RichardsHOST
Oh, I think Hank was great in Mystery Man.
D.B. RichardsHOST
He was.
VanessaHOST
This movie was 1998.
VanessaHOST
By this time, he had already done Good Morning Vietnam, Dead Poets Society, Hook, Mrs. Doubtfire, Jumanji, and The Birdcage.
VanessaHOST
And then it was just one year before Patch Adams was released that he won the Academy for Good Will Hunting.
VanessaHOST
So this was like...
MattHOST
There's also an amazing thing about the fact that like, yes, he was an awful wall kind of guy, but he could also be the straight man in, in a comedy.
MattHOST
He could play a straight man, like in, in the birdcage where he is basically playing the straight man to like Nathan Lane's insanity.
MattHOST
Um,
AndrewHOST
Yeah.
AndrewHOST
I mean, the birdcage is kind of weird because they're both insane.
AndrewHOST
They just, it's like different characters choose when to be the straight man in different scenes.
AndrewHOST
Yeah.
DaltonHOST
To move us out of that, though, and into sort of how this permeates across culture more broadly, there's a handful of things we could look at.
DaltonHOST
I want to just, let's go ahead and jump over to another Robin film, though, and say The Birdcage.
DaltonHOST
Right.
DaltonHOST
Which is sort of, you know, magical queer characters sort of teaching the conservative people to have a little more zest in their life.
Sofiya AlexandraHOST
That was the album.
Sofiya AlexandraHOST
They're remaking the Birdcage starring Miles.
Sofiya AlexandraHOST
Like you are going to be.
Sofiya AlexandraHOST
Which one do you want to be? Nathan Lane or Robin Williams in it?
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