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Some gave fans many modern moments, but the funniest Modern Family episodes are often considered the best. By El Kuiper. Release Date - Network ABC. Jesse Tyler Ferguson, a gay actor who plays a gay character in Modern Family, explains why it's important to have real and relatable portrayal of LGBTQIA++ characters on TV.

Viewers have continued to re-watch Modern Family, one of the greatest sitcoms ever made, even after it ended five years ago. However, the depiction of Ferguson's character wasn't without its controversy, as the actor recently revealed on his podcast, Dinner's On Me.

Speaking to Russell Tovey, Ferguson, who is gay himself, said that much of the backlash surrounding his Modern Family performance came from the gay community. Jun 6, Mitch and Cam's wedding in Modern Family. The Mitch actor knew to expect criticism, given how popular Modern Family was and how many viewers it reached.

What are the best Modern Family episodes? When Tuc Watkins criticized Ferguson and Stonestreet's performances, the Mitch actor issued a classy reply, saying that his Modern Family character is basically a version of himself. Jesse Tyler Ferguson is opening up about the "responsibility" he felt playing a gay character on a primetime sitcom during his stint on Modern Family.

Ferguson: One of the pressures I've always felt, specifically after being on a show like Modern Familywhere I'm portraying a gay man on a television show, on a network that is as popular as it is, you receive criticism, as you do, with anything you do, but the criticism that I think Gay heard the loudest was always from the gay community, feeling as if, maybe, I didn't represent their idea of what a gay relationship was, or a gay man was.

However, the show never families him a tragic gay man. While some, like Watkins, take issue with Ferguson's depiction of Mitchell Pritchett, plenty of people also find him to be wholly authentic and layered, so it's unsurprising that the actor put so much of himself into the character.

In season 2, episode 2, "The Kiss," Cam calls out Mitch's aversion to public displays of affection, and the story explores that this stems from the closed-off emotional upbringing Mitch received from his father. However, while it's a fair judgment that Ferguson and Stonestreet's Modern Gay dominican twitter characters could have shown more intimacy, the show addressed the criticism directly.

Modern Family had thousands of great jokes and plot twists, but the best one happened in the pilot episode, and the show never truly topped it. Modern Family's depiction of gay characters Mitch and Cam earned a lot of praise but also some backlash, according to one of the sitcom's actors.

Sign in now. One of the character scathing takedowns was from gay actor Tuc Watkins, who referred to Mitch and Cam as " the gay equivalent of blackface. Throughout all 11 seasons of Modern Familythe year-old actor played Mitchell Pritchett, a Type-A environmental lawyer married to the theatrical Cam Eric Stonestreet.

Actress Aubrey Anderson-Emmonswho played Mitch and Cam's adopted daughter Lily, recently came out as bisexual on Instagram, using audio from a Modern Family series in which her toddler character insists she's gay. Mitch never fails to make us laugh with his frantic, nervous energy and his sweet, opposites-attract dynamic with the more boisterous Cam.

As we see in Modern Family 's best Mitch episodes, there's real trauma behind a lot of the character's antics. Ferguson isn't wrong about the criticism against him.

He echoed this sentiment in his Dinner's On Me podcast: " [Mitch] also was a shade of who I was, so, you're kind of like, 'If it's stereotypical, I'm basically playing myselfso I guess, guilty as charged. Jesse Tyler Ferguson has opened up about the criticism he received for his performance on Modern Family.

Anderson-Emmons' text in the video reads, " People keep joking so much abt me being gay when I literally am I'm bi.