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Buddy Cole: Cemetery
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Buddy Cole visits the grave of his friend Charles Hammond and recalls a life of sexual adventure, inventive craftsmanship and spectacular indiscretion. His affectionate tribute becomes a defense of refusing respectability, capped by an unusual inheritance and a theatrical farewell.
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Respectability is for five-star hotels, not people.
I would have preferred a cat, but a pet’s a pet!
Script
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- 00:04
Buddy Cole ?
you startled me it's It's not every day that an audience sneaks up on me in the middle of a cemetery just that about delivery humorous monologue
- 00:21
Buddy Cole ?
I was just visiting with a friend of mine who recently passed on to that great disco upstairs his name was Charles Hammond Not these organ people, these organ people.
- 00:38
Buddy Cole ?
Charles was, now, how do I put this without spooking the horses? He was a leather slut. He was one of those faggots that made respectable gays so uncomfortable.
- 00:55
Buddy Cole ?
Buddy, he'd say, the world's so full of crap, why bother wiping your ass?
- 01:00
Buddy Cole ?
we We both believed respectability is for five-star hotels not people although you will find me in the Michelin Guide
- 01:12
Buddy Cole ?
Charles was a sexual courier de bois whereas I'm more of a Blanche de bois
- 01:20
Buddy Cole ?
he was very handy he made all of his own S&M gear and even tapped his own rubber all on a waiter's salary, which is nothing after taxes and drugs.
- 01:34
Buddy Cole ?
He once made a cock ring out of aluminum foil from cigarette packs, for heaven's sake. Of course, it played havoc with his trick's fillings.
- 01:45
Buddy Cole ?
And at night, when his antenna was up and there were no clouds, he could pick up radio stations as far away as Amarillo, Texas.
- 01:56
Buddy Cole ?
Well, you've got to listen to something when you're down there Charles cared about the people who fellated him
- 02:04
Buddy Cole ?
he was also a trained blacksmith so his slaves always had fabulous shoes
- 02:11
Buddy Cole ?
he was almost completely blind and very vain so he wouldn't wear glasses and he couldn't wear contacts because he had a severe case of astigmatism so when he went out cruising he was flying blind as it were
- 02:27
Buddy Cole ?
i don't think he ever recovered the night he dragged home his brother from a bar his brother really should have said something
- 02:37
Buddy Cole ?
near the end of his life he became very religious he claimed to have found biblical support for bondage yeah like every second page
- 02:48
Buddy Cole ?
he claimed he would beat this thing and in a way he did he got hit by a bus on his way to the clinic
- 02:55
Buddy Cole ?
it took the emergency crew two hours to pry his mustache off the grill
- 03:00
Buddy Cole ?
this is it isn't it a beauty what do you think hmm
- 03:07
Buddy Cole ?
he left it to me in his will because I admired it so much
- 03:11
Buddy Cole ?
I would have preferred a cat, but a pet's a pet.
- 03:17
Buddy Cole ?
Good night, sweet prince. Maybe it's better this way. I don't think you could handle what's going on.
- 03:24
Buddy Cole ?
Get this. Fags are becoming respectable.
- 03:29
Buddy Cole ?
Well, some of them are.
- 03:32
Buddy Cole ?
Ha!
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