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He rose to fame in the early s for his transgressive cult films, including Multiple Maniacs (), Pink Flamingos () and Female Trouble (). He also reflects on what rebellion looks like now, what it meant then and why humor might be our last defense. My tour never ends.

This is the newer version of that, and so it's all new material. But it's going to extremes. Waters, now 79, has built a career on going too far — on purpose — and somehow always landing with his audience exactly where he wants them: laughing, uncomfortable, maybe even reconsidering what they believe.

Well, because I make fun of the rules that rebels live by, not our parents that we rebelled from. It wasn't a bad thing, but I recognized it.

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It gave me a new sense of humor and it gave me a different perspective to look at things through. Raised Catholic in s Baltimore — the city that became his cinematic muse — Waters, now 79, began making 8mm films in his teens, later forming a troupe of outsider collaborators known as the Dreamlanders, including the legendary Divine, whose filthy glamour helped reshape drag forever.

They're open to everything. John Samuel Waters Jr. (born April 22, ) is an American filmmaker, actor, writer, and artist. You've pushed boundaries since before it was trendy to push boundaries. Yeah, that would be one of the first times I'm doing my new show.

I think I've always done that, but it seems like we're in such an extreme time now that I'm going to go even further with humor, hopefully.

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A filmmaker, writer, visual artist and cultural icon, Waters has spent over half a century gleefully blurring the lines between art and filth, good taste and bad, high camp and low culture. Yes, in all communities, but that did not bring me sadness, especially.

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Well, I've always been an extremist, but I'm more of a joyous one than the kind of extremists we have on either side of the political chart these days. His. Entertainment Features John Waters Doesn't Want Your Approval — and That's Why We Still Need Him In a wide-ranging interview, the legendary filmmaker discusses ‘bonus holes,’ gay alimony and making up fake books to drive book-banners crazy.

There's certainly a rebellious nature to those films, but there's also lots of silly joy in them. It's a minute stand-up show about everything. I think the whole year I have 51 shows, including all the Christmas shows that are coming up.

And so I basically make fun of things I like, and I always said: That's why I've been able to do it for half a century and get away with it. My audience is even straight people that can't get along with other straight people, and gay people that don't always fit within the gay world.

It's right before my Christmas tour, so I'll be memorizing two at once. Waters wrote and directed the comedy film Hairspray (), which was later adapted into a hit Broadway musical and a musical film. I'm sometimes one of them. In a time when everyone's outraged about something and when so much is shocking, is it actually harder to shock people now?

I rewrite my show that I do once a year. And I make fun of gay rules just as much.