Seen King of Comedy several times, great film, but Jerry’s clothes always just came off as older dude trying to be hip. Those shorts he’s wearing is what every younger dude was wearing in the late 70s and early 80s, just looks odd on Jerry thanks to him being 60 something.
Jerry just seemed like a very angry, controlling, old school vaudeville Jew to me. Never got the gay vibe, just lots of narcissism and anger.
But now that he’s dead I’m eagerly awaiting The Day the Clown Cried to be leaked. The ultimate worst film ever made and Lewis’s legendary self-indulgent opus to his vanity while blitzed out of his mind on booze and coke.