Feast Of Fun : Gay Talk Show

It’s been almost a decade since the hookup app Grindr debuted on people’s phones and it’s been a shitshow ever since. But hey, it’s not all bad, if you can sort through all catfishers, racists, and toxic masculinity, you might have a good time.Maybe the users are just awful of maybe it’s the app’s fault for reducing everyone to their physical attributes rather than focusing on their personality.Today comedian Matt Brown joins us to look at ways gay men use and abuse or please and tease each other on dating apps, from catfishing and buyers remorse to gay Incels whose male privilege gets them into tizzy when someone says “no.”After all- man’s rejection is God’s protection.MATT BROWN: https://www.facebook.com/mattbrowncomicPlus–➤ China’s new skyscraper, the Guangxi New Media Center, looks exactly like a dong and balls shooting fireworks from the top.➤ Politician Luc Anus can’t catch a break from Facebook.____________________FEAST OF FUN IS MADE POSSIBLE BECAUSE OF FABULOUS PEOPLE LIKE YOU.LISTEN TO THOUSANDS LEG

A big reason why you always saw Aretha Franklin carrying a purse onstage is because she required promoters to pay her in cold hard cash or she wouldn’t sing.Madonna’s in hot water again for ruining another celebrity tribute at the MTV Video Music Awards. Adorned in jewelry from her children’s home country of Malawi, Madonna presented the Video of the Year Award, and much like her tribute to Prince turned it into a story of herself. The tribute quickly went off the rails as Madonna told the audience how Aretha Franklin’s song Natural Woman spared her from “being mistaken for a prostitute” living above a crack house in New York City.Today the hilarious Matt Brown joins us to take a look at the life and music of the Queen of Soul Aretha Franklin – her infamous feuds with Patti Labelle and Dionne Warwick, her insistence on being pad in cold hard cash and why she didn’t leave a will.MATT BROWN: https://www.mattbrowncomic.comPlus,➤ Designer Luke Song talks about Aretha’s iconic Obama Inauguration hat.➤ Fausto Fernó

How do you tell the Sugarbaker Twins apart? Betty wears a beehive and Cherry is a tart. Photo: Bailey O’Neal.Attention all campers! Pack your bags. We’re headed to the wilds of Camp Wannakiki– the new reality series where eight drag queens compete for the title of “Queen of Camp” at an actual summer camp, deep in the woods of Northern Illinois.Cherry Pi discovers a drag queens natural born enemy: mud. Photo: Feast of Fun.The series is created by Ashley and Brandon Wright, the out gay identical twins behind the food and entertainment restaurant franchise Hamburger Mary’s. As their drag alter she-gos Apple Brown Betty and Cherry Pi Sugarbaker, along with the help of their gal pal, Aunt Ruthie, they put the contestants through a series of adventures that would make the Girl Scouts blush.Today Ashley and Brandon Wright share their story on how they went from burger brothers to campy sisters with their new reality series Camp Wannakiki.Listen as the twins talk about how they manage their very close relationship as

Celebrities are just like us except when they fall on hard times, they get a boat load of money for endorsing embarrassingly crappy products. From useless fitness gadgets, to psychic phone services, to horrible food, the products that they are now schilling makes their fall from grace even more spectacular.Today comedian Matt Brown joins us to take a look at the most ridiculous celebrity product endorsements ever.Listen as we take a look at the best and worst celebrity themed restaurants, why everyone was a spokesperson for Pizza Hut and how computer generated graphics forced celebrities to endorse products from beyond the grave.A celebrity endorsement we love, Lauren Bacall for High Point Coffee. It’s a coffee lover’s dream!Plus–➤ Women who can’t sing who are famous for singing.➤ Amanda Lepore gets photoshopped out of Travis Scott’s album cover.➤ Who the hell is Rula Lenska?____________________FEAST OF FUN IS MADE POSSIBLE BECAUSE OF FABULOUS PEOPLE LIKE YOU.LISTEN TO THOUSANDS LEGENDARY SHOWS 
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Tick tock, you’ve been clocked… by a shark! If you thought Drag Race All-Stars was a treacherous tornado, wait until you catch Alaska Thunderfuck in The Last Sharknado: It’s About Time. Alaska stars as a woman fighting a tornado full of time traveling sharks, this is not a drill. Photos courtesy of the SyFy Channel and Magnus Hastings.Sharknado is the only sci fi film that dares to ask: what if killer sharks could fly around in a tornado?In the latest and quite possibly final installment of the series, The Last Sharknado: It’s About Time, one of our favorite drag queens, Alaska Thunderfuck, death drops for her life in hopes of surviving this tornado of murderous sharks, now with the ability to travel through time.The film has it all: sharks, more sharks, Alaska Thunderfuck and so many celebrity cameos it could sink the Love Boat.Today Alaska Thunderfuck joins us to take a bite out of The Last Sharknado film and to talk about playing the daughter of Star Trek’s Marina Sirtis in the movie.★ Love the podcast? Su

Hannah Gadsby’s solo show “Nanette” is unlike no other comedy special you’ve seen before and may be the most important performance of the decade.The Australian comedian takes us on an emotional roller coaster ride through her own trauma stemming from violence and sexual assault but at the same time making a compelling argument that stand up comedy exploits people’s suffering.Today comedian Colette Gregory joins us to reflect Hannah Gadsby’s landmark performance “Nanette.” Colette is a trained mental health counselor who works on a wide variety of fields including LGBT folks and sexual assault prevention, and has a lot of insight into this powerful performance.Plus➤ Should great works of art be discarded if the people who made them are later found to exploit and abuse people?➤ Our journey from comedy to performance art and then podcasting.➤ The power of restorative justice and redemption.____________________FEAST OF FUN IS MADE POSSIBLE BECAUSE OF FABULOUS PEOPLE LIKE YOU.LISTEN TO THOUSANDS LEGENDARY SHOWS 
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Things are going well for Blair St. Clair, the ingenue drag queen from season 10 of RuPaul’s Drag Race- she’s moved in with her hunky boyfriend and her album Call My Life is topping the charts.But things weren’t always so rosy for Blair- when she was a teenager, her parents asked point blank: “are you gay?” and when she responded truthfully, they weren’t prepared for the answer.Since then, everyone has kissed and made up and Blair now has the unconditional love and support from her conservative Christian family.Today Blair St. Clair joins us to talk about her roller coaster ride through musical theater and drag, Butterfly gate on the RuPaul’s Drag Race finale and what all young people can do to bridge the divide with their family.

The musical adaptation of Alice Walker’s Pulitzer Prize winning novel, The Color Purple, is kicking off its national tour right here in Chicago.The bodacious singer Shug Avery says that Miss Celie “sure is ugly” but the audience can appreciates the beauty in Celie’s triumph over adversity. After experiencing trauma after trauma in the first act, we see Celie come of age and not only become her own woman, this Celie gets a lot more woman on woman action than Whoopi Goldberg ever did.Plus– Would Miss Celie have been a fan of RuPaul’s Drag Race?➤ Anti-vaxxer Jenny McCarthy thinks there’s a ghost in her living room. She posted a video online of her smart assistant making sounds insisting her piano was haunted.➤ The use of the slur word “f*ggot” is down by 90% in the past 4 years on Twitter.➤At 25, the kids are still alright.____________________FEAST OF FUN IS MADE POSSIBLE BECAUSE OF FABULOUS PEOPLE LIKE YOU.LISTEN TO THOUSANDS LEGENDARY SHOWS 
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The most shocking revelation from the documentary “Whitney” is that Vivacious is not only a fierce drag queen, she’s also a time traveler who used to party with Whitney Houston, her gal pal Robyn Crawford and their two brothers Michael and Gary. Photo: The Estate of Whitney E. Houston.As an attempt to fight homophobia during the AIDS crisis in the late 80s, LGBT folks put a lot pressure on each other to come out of the closet. After all, silence equals death.One of the entertainers most widely speculated about was Whitney Houston, who was long rumored to be hiding her bisexuality.In Kevin Macdonald’s new documentary “Whitney” we get a glimpse at the life of the greatest vocalists of the 20th century- her complex sexuality, her underlying trauma and the struggles that may have led to her untimely death.Today Vivacious, from RuPaul’s Drag Race joins us to take a look at the new “Whitney” film and all its shocking new revelations.Plus— Lots of other great TV shows you must watch:➤ Ryan Murphy’s new series Pose g

We live in perilous times. Trump is president and if he gets his way, we’ll have a new supreme court justice who will roll back our rights.As tempting as it is to say “you’re moving to Norway” the reality is that we’re all stuck here together.Today therapist and relationship expert Damon L Jacobs joins us to take a look at the political crisis that’s pulling the rug out from under us, and what we all can do to stick together and survive President 45.Plus–➤ Oklahoma says ok to medical marijuana and Vermont says hell yeah to recreational pot!➤ Russian bots are after Bette Midler.____________________FEAST OF FUN IS MADE POSSIBLE BECAUSE OF FABULOUS PEOPLE LIKE YOU.LISTEN TO THOUSANDS LEGENDARY SHOWS 
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In the early 70s, The Sonny and Cher Comedy Hour was a prime time TV staple. The real life couple Sonny and Cher Bono dressed up in outrageous Bob Mackie designed outfits, performed corny skits and sang medlies with their campy celebrity friends.But, at the height of their TV success, the couple called it quits, and Cher launched her own musical variety show, the Cher Show. Decades later, The Cher Show is back as a new musical that looks at the pop diva’s amazing career.Today, Cher enthusiast, Damon L Jacobs joins us to take a look at The Cher Show that’s playing in Chicago before hitting Broadway this fall.____________________FEAST OF FUN IS MADE POSSIBLE BECAUSE OF FABULOUS PEOPLE LIKE YOU.LISTEN TO THOUSANDS LEGENDARY SHOWS 
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A lot of us enjoy some pretty far out stuff that others just don’t seem to get. Sometimes they act like we’ve lost our mind when we fawn over the latest gadget, TV show or comic book. But that’s at the heart of culture: people bonding over rare goodies that others think of as boring, grotesque or stupid.Today comedians Carma Nibarger and Tim Warner join me to take a look at all the wild things we all love, that we are secretly afraid to tell the world.Plus — With the reboot of Charmed on its way, a look at how Paganism is portrayed on television.Note: this show was taped earlier in the month while Marc was away filming Alt For Norge. Sorry for the delay in its release.____________________FEAST OF FUN IS MADE POSSIBLE BECAUSE OF FABULOUS PEOPLE LIKE YOU.LISTEN TO THOUSANDS LEGENDARY SHOWS 
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A lot went down while Marc Felion was away filming Norway’s top reality TV show “Alt For Norge” – Trump and Roseanne Barr got crazier and Brian Sweeney and I got exceptionally close.Today Brian Sweeney joins us to find out more about Marc’s Great Norway Adventure. Did any romantic hijinks unfold between the contestants? And more importantly, how did anyone survive without ganja?Plus–➤ Why film universes like Marvel’s are killing franchises like Star Wars.➤ Koko the gorilla goes to gorilla heaven.➤ Folks are crying over the documentary on Mr. Rogers “Won’t You Be My Neighbor?”➤ Oklahoma says OK to medicinal marijuana and Vermont says you betcha to recreational!____________________FEAST OF FUN IS MADE POSSIBLE BECAUSE OF FABULOUS PEOPLE LIKE YOU.LISTEN TO THOUSANDS LEGENDARY SHOWS 
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Folks were left gagging when Marc announced that after 14 years of podcasting, he was taking an indefinite break to go off on an secret adventure. His special assignment would put him out of communication with everyone near and dear to him for quite some time and he’d only be able to rely on his charisma, uniqueness, nerve and talent to survive the challenges that lay before him.Well folks, I’m thrilled to announce that Marc is back, and on Norway’s top reality TV show “Alt For Norge” the Great Norway Adventure.Listen as Marc joins me to give us a sneak peek at Season 9 of the Emmy award winning reality TV series, which includes folks like Star Trek fan fiction actor Evan Fowler and cabaret artist Julie Cascioppo who inspired many popular drag queens.Plus–➤ What kind of trouble did Fausto get into with drag queens this summer?___________________FEAST OF FUN IS MADE POSSIBLE BECAUSE OF FABULOUS PEOPLE LIKE YOU.LISTEN TO THOUSANDS LEGENDARY SHOWS 
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Some folks seem to know everyone! Like today’s guest, Coco Sho-Nell, whose grandmother was besties with gospel legend Mahalia Jackson and in high school Coco was gal pals with Nelsan Ellis, the late actor best known for playing Lafayette Reynolds in the HBO series True Blood.Today Coco Sho-Nell joins us to talk about her life as a Chicago drag queen, her roots in musical theater, to physically building the stage at The Call bar and celebrating the life of her close friend Nelsan Ellis.Listen as we kiki with Coco about her magic fingers, the amazing Godfather of Rap Rudy Ray Moore and Lady Reed / “The Madam” / Queen Bee and her iconic advice album “The Sensuous Black Woman.”Plus—➤ What’s the problem with Jay-Z and Beyonce’s new album?➤ What can we do to stop the Republican concentration camps for immigrant children?

In most films effeminate men are portrayed as villains- sissies who are morally weak because of their homosexuality.But this isn’t always the case when its comes to comedy: sissies are heroes because they are the mistfits who have the courage to tell it like it is.Today the faaaabulous Brian Sweeney joins me to take a look at some of the greatest sissies in culture and entertainment. Listen as we sissy that walk down memory lane as we look at Frank Nelson, the yeeeeeess man from the Lucy Show to Scott Thompson’s Buddy Cole from The Kids in the Hall.Plus—➤ “Won’t You Be My Neighbor?” the long awaited documentary on Mr. Rogers is out. What happened when one of his cast members came out as gay in the late 60s?➤ Why sassy drunk gay guys stole the show in talk shows and game shows from the 70s and 80s.➤ The Paul Lynde Halloween special showbiz train-wreck.

Drag is often built on the ashes of failure, and some folks are ready to set the world on fire. Not all drag queens want to be supermodel of the world, for these wild childs, it’s all about messing with the status quo and embracing a rebellious spirit.Today C’est Kevvie and Shalita Cake join us to talk about their unconventional paths as drag queens, from creating a controversial drag video in high school to embracing the booger beauty inside all of us.Sisters are doing it for themselves: C’est Kevvie, Shalita Cake and Fausto Fernós. Photo: Fausto Fernós.It’s Pride Month, where you can see all kinds of angry posts on the right and wrong way to celebrate. (There is no wrong way).Are all parades full of this much venom? Do Irish people tell each other not to get drunk on St. Patrick’s Day?Plus—➤ Leslie Jones thinks Drag Race’s pitt crew needs to put on shoes.➤ YouTube is still restricting and demonetizing LGBT videos, and adding anti-LGBT ads to some.➤ Finding a Pride celebration that’s meaningful to you.

While some people would typically scream in horror at the sight of a ghoulish monster, others get horny at the thought getting their freak on with a sexy Sasquatch, assimilating with a Borg Queen or getting the d from the Creature of the Black Lagoon.Today it’s a special gal pal power hour with Wonkette’s Robyn Pennachia and The Onion’s A.V. Club Katie Rife. Listen as we take a look at the weird and wonderful world of sexy monsters and alien erotica.Plus—➤ The Moth Man, the next generation of Chupacabras comes to Chicago to haunt the streets at night.➤ Former dating columnist Julia Alison says Sex and the City ruined her life. (Don’t let it ruin yours.)➤ What’s really going on between RuPaul and Azealia Banks?____________________FEAST OF FUN IS MADE POSSIBLE BECAUSE OF FABULOUS PEOPLE LIKE YOU.LISTEN TO THOUSANDS LEGENDARY SHOWS 
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The early 90s were wild, messy and outrageous times. At the height of the AIDS crisis, after a decade of Reagan and Bush, performance artists, comedians, musicians and drag queens were all busy challenging their audiences by sticking yams up their butts, throwing poop at them, and sucking whipped cream and cherries off their toes.So why does it seem like people today are more outraged than ever? Is this just a false perception due to social media?Today New York City drag legend Miss Understood joins us to take a look at the outrageous acts of performance artists and drag queens of the early 90s and how a prom dress caused such a confused controversy over cultural appropriation on the Internet.Plus–➤ Hedwig and the Angry Inch’s John Cameron Mitchell announces a new musical podcast project: Anthem: Homunculus.➤ Peaches Christ announces a new horror film musical adaptation of her hit show with Jinkx Monsoon “Slay Gardens.”➤ Are twinks really making a comeback?All this plus Showgirls with monkeys!________________

Some of the most important musical contributions to modern American music have come from African Americans, whose musical roots in African slave spirituals evolved into all our favorite styles: jazz, hip-hop, soul, funk, country, pop and rock.Today Erthe St. James, the Duke of Soul joins me to take a casual look at modern black musicians that have inspired us from James Brown, Quincy Jones and Nile Rogers, to Aretha Franklin, Whitney Houston and Erika Badu.Plus—➤ Roseanne blames her racist tweets on Ambien, the Pharmaceutical company who makes the sleeping drug says racism is not a known side effect.➤ How techno musicians are fighting Nazi’s in Germany.➤ Alaska Thudnerfun announces she’ll be starring in the final Sharknado film: The Last Sharknado: It’s About Time.____________________FEAST OF FUN IS MADE POSSIBLE BECAUSE OF FABULOUS PEOPLE LIKE YOU.LISTEN TO THOUSANDS LEGENDARY SHOWS 
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