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Dy-no-mite bombshell: “Good Times” alum Jimmy “JJ” Walker is against gay marriage
I watched some of Good Times when I was a kid.
The show was a spinoff from the Bea Arthur sitcom Maude as it focused on the family of Maude’s former housekeeper Florida Evans (played by the late, great Esther Rolle).
As the show went on, it put more and more focus on the annoying character of JJ Evans. His ‘Dy-no-mite’ gimmick got on my last good nerve very early on.
Now, more than 30 years later, it is the actor who played him, Jimmie ‘JJ’ Walker, who is annoying me with his comments about gay marriage.
Walker spoke out against gay marriage in an interview with CNN earlier today saying ‘there’s just certain traditions that need to be upheld.’
‘No, it doesn’t affect me, no, it doesn’t change my life,’ he acknowledges. ‘There’s just traditions that need to be dealt with. I’m a believer that gay marriage should be passed because the battle is not worth the war. The gay lobby is very loud. I’m totally against it.’
He added: ‘In 100 years from now, people are going to go, ‘Who was against gay marriage?’ And I’ll be one of those idiots and say, ‘That’s me.’ I’m just against it on moral grounds, that’s it. I’m as much a heathen as anybody. I just don’t believe on moral grounds it should be done. I don’t like it, I don’t accept it.’
Comments
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Kam Xevious says:
That rumbling sound those of you in Broward County (Florida) hear is Ester Rolle spinning in her grave at 12000 rpm.
VDUFFORD says:
As I remember in the ‘Good Times’ program he was kind of the skinny artsy geek that I kind of liked kind of a fan of…not any more!
FAEN says:
Absolute tripe from an insignificant piece of shit.
Peabody says:
Just another talentless washed-up has been who believes making such comments will get him back limelight He needs to be ignored. Also, does he think he will be around 100 years from now to answer that question? Duh…
MannyM says:
He seems like kid of a bitter grouch. Of course, If I loooked like JJ, I’d probably be grouch too.
Yekimi says:
He claims to be a stand-up comic now. He should be arrested for impersonating a comedian. I’ve heard poodle farts funnier than him.
RichB in PS says:
I so consider him below ‘D-List’ people with the ranks of Victoria Jackson or the level of other bottom feeder fish.
Mike says:
The worst thing of all is that he’s getting attention for something other than being Ann Coulter’s trick, sorry, boyfriend.
He was unfunny back in the day as a walking stereotype and now is just a sour, pitiful old unfunny comic.
Lionhart says:
Never liked him, never thought he was funny…James & Florida should have kicked his skinny ass out on the first episode of the show and made him go live with Maude who would have whooped some sense into his bony head.
Joe says:
Doesn’t surprise me. Once an a-hole, always an a-hole.