Feast Of Fun : Gay Talk Show

In 2009, we had the pleasure of interviewing Debbie Reynolds about her life in Hollywood, her one woman show and her deep bond with her daughter Carrie Fisher.In 2011, we also had the pleasure of chatting with Carrie Fisher at her own one woman show, Wishful Drinking. We were inspired by her courage and humor in talking so candidly about her life. Tragically, Carrie Fisher was traveling home to California to visit her mother when she had a heart attack and later died. Days later Debbie Reynolds also passed away.Please enjoy this encore presentation of our interview with Debbie Reynolds. Our hearts and thoughts go to Debbie, Carrie, their family and to their millions of fans and friends all around the world. -----------------{Best of Feast of Fun, originally posted Aug. 5, 2009.}As star of Singing In the Rain, one of the most loved Holllywood musicals of all time, Debbie Reynolds made a name for herself with her sparkling voice and uninhibited sense of humor. Dick Cavett called her “one of the first ladies of

During the early months of the Coronavirus Pandemic, folks were comparing it to the Spanish Flu of 1918, saying that at the end of the pandemic, it would be just like the Roaring 20s all over again- we’d roll our stockings down, rouge up our knees and all that jazz.So why don’t we feel like dancing the Charleston just yet?Today, Dr. Steven Thrasher, professor of journalism and LGBTQ Health at Northwestern University joins us to look at the Coronavirus pandemic and the changes we’ve experienced since he last visited with us a year ago.Steven's new book, The Viral Underclass: How Racism, Ableism and Capitalism Plague Humans On The Margins, takes a look at the impact of the pandemic on marginalized people.DR. STEVEN THRASHER: https://twitter.com/thrasherxyPlus--➤ If the sexual harassment charges weren’t a bad enough reason, New York Governor Cuomo should resign after his mishandling of the Covid Pandemic which resulted in the needless deaths of thousands of New Yorkers from Covid.➤ Glenn Close and her wig get no

Bye bye Baba Wawa! Pioneering journalist, talk show host Barbara Walters put rumors to rest by announcing on her show The View that she’s planning to retire soon from being in front of the cameras, but will continue to be involved behind the scenes.Thanks for all the awesome interviews girlfriend! You opened up the field to everyone, and inspired us and many others to a talk show.Today comedian Brian Sweeney joins us to take a look at our favorite awkward talk show moments. Madonna’s strange appearances on David Letterman, Gene Simmons vs Teri Gross and Howard Stern turns the tables on Magic Johnson.One of the greatest talk show hosts ever gets interviewed by one of the worst talk show hosts ever. Magic.{Best of Feast of Fun, originally posted as FOF #1794 - Fabulously Awkward Talk Show Moments - 05.14.13}

The Emmy Award winning TV series Breaking Bad did a wonderful job of taking us into the seedy underbelly of America’s dysfunctional relationship with drugs, specifically crystal meth.Although we got to see the dramatized world of Mexican Drug Cartels, sex workers, young addicts and drug kingpins, Breaking Bad never showed us the gay side of meth- how gay men use the drug to break down inhibition and connect with others sexually.Steven Strafford’s new musical Methtacular! delivers the gay side of Breaking Bad we never got to see, by taking us on a hilarious but harrowing journey of his three years as a crystal meth addict in Chicago.Today actor Steven Strafford joins us for a live music session playing songs from Methtacular! Listen as Steven talks about having the courage to take some of the worst moments of his life and turn it into art.METHTACULAR: A Musical About Meth Addiction: http://methtacular.com{Best of Feast of Fun, originally posted as: FOF #2038 - A Streetcar Named Undesirable - 09.02.14}➤ Why mos

t’s a lot of fun to hang out with a strong sassy woman who doesn’t take crap from any one. Sassy divas can make the best friends, but don’t always make the best mothers.Today we’re talking to video blogging sensation Miss Lola Rose. When her two kids came out as gay, she panicked and asked them to remain in the closet to keep up appearances.Since then, Lola’s come about 180 degrees and fully supports her children and is a proud advocate for Equality. So much in fact, her most popular video “Mom on Her Two Gay Kids” was yanked off of Youtube at the beginning of Pride month when haters flagged it enough times to set off their automated system.Only because of public outcry was the video brought back up, and it’s because of efforts of people like Lola Rose and her daughter Jill Abrams that the video sharing giant is aware of its shortcomings when dealing with LGBT voices and conservative backlash.Join us today as we talk to one of my all time favorite video bloggers, the hilarious Miss Lola Rose about everything–

Love B. Scott began their career on YouTube making video blogs where they greeted their fans with the now legendary catch phrase "Hey Love Muffins, it's B. Scott!" This week the Black Entertainment Television (BET) network promoted Love B Scott to producer status, making them the first trans/non-binary producer in the media network's long history.Please enjoy this "Best of Feast of Fun" encore presentation of our podcast with Love B Scott, taped in Los Angeles in 2009.{Originally posted as FOF #1079 - I Believe in Love B. Scott - 10.22.09}-----------------------Everybody loves Love B. Scott. With over 2.3 million channel views, 30 million views of his videos, he's one of the top 100 most watched people on YouTube of all time- he reaches a larger audience than most televised daily talk shows.How did he become the person he is today?B. Scott came all the way from North Carolina to L.A. to work as a realtor and interior designer when his online video blog exploded, quickly turning to a career in entertainment.He

No other Hollywood diva has captured the imagination of gay men quite like Joan Crawford.Most people credit Faye Dunaway’s melodramatic portrayal in Mommie Dearest for turning Joan into a high camp icon that’s still on everyone’s mind, even though Miss Crawford died in 1977.Today, writer John Hamilton joins us to talk about his new book Mommie Smearest, which brings the Hollywood legend back from the grave to comment on selfies, the Kardashians and the superficial nature of celebrity.Fausto, Jesse the dog and Marc enjoy the last days of summer with author John Hamilton. Photo: Fausto Fernós.{Best of Feast of Fun, originally posted as FOF #2383 - Mommie Smearest - 08.30.16}Plus--➤ Celebrities’ obsession with cleanliness.➤ Keeping up with the Kardashians might get cancelled.➤ Is the outrageous McChicken viral video part of a marketing campaign?➤ Reality TV Ice Truckers star Daryl Ward dies in a plane accident while scouting locations for his new series about plane wreckages.FEATURED BOOK:

One thing that’s helping us during the covid pandemic is all the great streaming TV shows featuring queer and racial diversity like never before. And amazingly enough, Feast of Fun is on a very special episode of MTV’s Teen Mom.And we didn’t even have to get anyone pregnant!Today MTV’s Teen Mom producer Kerthy Fix joins us to take a look at all the great stuff on television that’s keeping us from flipping our lids.Listen as we take a look at: Teen Mom, Drag Race, Bridgerton, What We Do in the Shadows, Moxie and Coming 2 America starring RuPaul’s Celebrity Drag Race contestant Jermaine Fowler as Eddie Murphy’s son Prince Lavelle.BEAUTY BAR 424: https://www.vagaro.com/beautybar424/WATCH US ON MTV'S TEEN MOM OG: Hearts on Fire Season 9, air date: 03/02/2021.Plus-➤ Is Wandavision just Grey Gardens with technology and superpowers?➤ TS Madison is loud, live and in color in her debut reality TV series the TS Madison Experience.➤ Pose the series is coming to an end with an abbreviated third and final season.➤ Is Fra

At the young age of 17, James Curry hoped to escape a hostile home by enlisting in the Marines, and ended up right in the middle of the terrible War in Iraq.James survived his tour of duty by hiding being gay under the Don’t Ask Don’t Tell policy, but then after returning to civilian life, lost his first boyfriend and ended up homeless.Despite these setbacks, James was determined to make something of his life and after securing a great job as a news producer he was dealt the hardest blow of all: a medical diagnosis of cancer.Today, Peabody award winning journalist and writer James Curry joins us to talk about his new book Staying Alive: Surviving Abuse, Fighting a War and Beating Cancer- My First Twenty-Five Years which chronicles his abusive family, military service, forbidden lost love and the challenges of coming home to fight for your life.Featured Book:James Curry - Staying Alive: Surviving Abuse, Fighting a War and Beating Cancer: https://amzn.to/3sHlBil

In a move that undoubtedly made some folks’ heads explode like a potato in the microwave, Hasbro announced that the Potato Head toys are gender neutral and that everyone is “welcome in the Potato Head world.”The toys will let kids create their own type of potato family and they’ll be able to mix and match gender attachments like red lips, purses and moustaches.The announcement has us looking back at the toys we played with as kids, that made our parents wonder like the Transformers, is there more than meets the eye.Today comedian Jake Noll joins us to take a look at the all new Potato Head World, and all wonderfully weird toys we played with as kids that inspired us to become fabulous and queer.JAKE NOLL: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=504629525Plus–➤ Boney M’s hit song Rasputin makes a comeback as the Rasputin Challenge decades later.➤ Lady Gaga’s dogs are returned.➤ Lurid Digs is making a comeback.

Television writer Russell T Davies, best known for his pioneering “Queer as Folk” and the “Dr. Who” reboot, says he’s seen just about every televised drama about gay men and AIDS. And now his new series “It’s A Sin,” which chronicles the lives of six friends living in London at the start of the AIDS crisis, has just become the most-watched drama ever on Britain’s Channel 4.The show is celebrated for capturing the youthful joy of being gay in an urban environment while showing the painful moments of the AIDS crisis, but “It’s a Sin” is also frought with sensationalism and harmful portrayals of HIV and AIDS tropes.As Dr. Frank N Furter would say “How SENTIMENTAL.”While watching the series, we were struck with how much the central character of Jill Baxter, who is overwhelmed helping her gay friends manage the AIDS crisis, reminded us of Victoria Noe who came on this podcast to talk about her book “Fag Hags, Divas and Moms: The Legacy of Straight Women in the AIDS Community.”Today writer Victoria Noe joins us to

Alison Arngrim is loved and feared by people all over the world for playing Nellie Oleson on one the most popular TV shows of all time, Little House on the Prairie.Although the series mostly focused on Laura Ingalls family’s struggle to make it on a farm in the late 1800s, one of the main reasons the show was so popular was the classic battle between good and evil that took place between the wholesome freckled faced Laura Ingalls and the lying, scheming, manipulative, mean little rich girl with blond locks, Nellie Oleson.It’s the intense scenes between the two child actresses, real-life best friends, that made the show such intense, campy and fun.Feast of Fun Winner 2010 Book of the YearAs an adult, Alison’s one woman show became such a hit and she got so many questions about Little House on the Prairie that, she decided to put it all in a book “Confessions of a Prairie Bitch: How I Survived Nellie Oleson and Learned to Love Being Hated.”It’s our favorite book of the year, and we think you’ll love it too.As t

One of the unexpected surprises from “Won’t You Be My Neighbor?” the documentary film on Mr. Rogers, was just how fierce and unapologetically gay in real life is Francois Clemmons, the actor who played Officer Clemmons on Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood.Francois joined the pioneering children’s TV show as a young man and spent decades playing Officer Clemmons. As one of the first African Americans to have a recurring role on children’s television, Francois was in a unique position to help Fred Rogers open his eyes to the struggles of disenfranchised people. In turn, Francois learned to take in the love that Fred had to give.Today we’re delighted to talk to Officer Clemmons, Francois Diva Man Scarborough Clemmons from his home in Vermont about coming out as gay to Mr. Rogers, his love of turquoise jewelry and is there any truth to the recently revealed rumor that Mr. Rogers was bisexual?[Originally posted as FOF #2726 – Being Mr. Rogers’ Gay Black Neighbor, Apr 3, 2019

A lot has happened since author Dr. E Patrick Johhnson first came on the podcast a decade ago to talk about his groundbreaking book “Sweet Tea: Black Gay Men of the South” – a collection of more than sixty life stories from black gay men who were born, raised and continue to live in the South.Johnson’s book won various literary awards, got turned into a solo stage show which he performed and now it’s taken up a new life as documentary film: “Making Sweet Tea” which shows some of the book’s subjects as they brew up a fresh pot of sweet tea and chat about their lives.Today Dr. E Patrick Johnson joins us to talk about his new documentary film “Making Sweet Tea” which is currently making the rounds at film festivals.Listen as E Patrick shares with us stories of resiliancy among queer men of color in the south and he kicks off the podcast with an excert of Mean Little Sissy, the true story of artist Freddy Styles who sliced a bully with a razor blade when he was just a kid.

Southern Hip Hop music is legendary for its drum machine beats, a thunderous bassline, and shouting vocals that bring you into the moment in all its glory. It’s a fun and uproarious art form that draws inspiration from big celebrations like Mardi Gras parades and relies on the audience for call and response participation.Yoohoo we have a call on the line!Who is it?It’s KC Ortiz, the Queen of Southern Luxury Rap who’s been on an amazing journey. Kaycee came to Chicago from Alabama, courtesy of the United States Air Force, to lay down some fierce tracks about her experience as Black trans woman, and folks are loving it.In many of the singles she released this past year, KC bares her soul about worrying about her boyfriend running off with her friends, accepting loss when dreams don’t come true and the luxuriousness of a thirty dollar coat.Listen as we play some of KC’s hottest songs, and chat about her music, the Black Lives Matter movement and the ever changing face of the entertainment industry.Featured Music

With the premiere of Russell T Davies’ new series “Its a Sin” about the the lives of a group of gay men and their friends who lived during the HIV/AIDS crisis in the United Kingdom during the early 80s, we thought it would be great to repost our interview with writer Victoria Noe.Victoria Noe’s book “Fag Hags, Divas and Moms” looks at the extraordinary women who helped people survive and handle the AIDS crisis, much like Russell T Davies’ series.{Best of Feast of Fun, originally posted as FOF #2723 – The Wonder Women of AIDS on Mar 27, 2019}---------- Although many moms, sisters, healthcare workers, scientists, friends and Hollywood stars like Liz Taylor played an important role in the fight against AIDS, these incredible women are often forgotten by history.That is until now- in the new book “Fag Hags, Divas and Moms: The Legacy of Straight Women in the AIDS Community” author Victoria Noe takes a first look at the women whose indespensible contributions continue to help people survive the AIDS crisis.Today w

One of the great treasures (diamonds in the rough) on Disney’s streaming service is the reality TV show Encore, which reunites the cast members from musicals they originally performed in high school and then has them recreate the big show, sometimes decades later, in front of a live audience.Created and hosted by Broadway legend Kristen Bell, each episode of Encore forces former high school thespians, now well into adulthood, to come face to face with their unresolved trauma as they restage their musical spectacle in just 5 days.Brittany Kay Taylor, who played Mrs. Potts in Beauty and the Beast in high school, reprises her role as the world’s favorite piece of crockery for episode two of the series. She’s won fans over for her unabashed love of musicals and for making out in high school with the hottest guy in the cast, who of course, played Gaston!Today Brittany Kay Taylor from the reality TV series Encore serves up some piping hot tea on getting her high school theater gang back together a decade later and

It’s Fat Tuesday! The streets of New Orleans are spookily empty as folks wisely stay home to help to bring an end to the Rona pandemic, but it doesn't mean we can’t safely celebrate from our home with our good gal pals like Mystique Summers, from Season 2 of RuPauls’ Drag Race.Mystique’s been part of an intense discussion last week when she and her sister in RuPaulia,Nina Bonina Brown, had a conversation about trans bodies, the art of drag and Nina’s comments on Gotmik’s scantily clad runway look on Drag Race.Today Mystique Summers joins us on Fat Tuesday to take a look at the heated conversation taking place about trans drag queens, Gotmik’s showing off that body ody ody and how Texas is freezing this Mardi Gras.MYSTIQUE SUMMERS: https://www.facebook.com/OfficialMystiqueSummers1/Plus--➤ Is it on? TS Madison is getting a new reality TV show on We TV.➤ Folks beg Tamron Hall not to give Sherry Pie an opportunity to rehab her image.➤ Are high heel shoes going extinct?THANKS TO OUR SPONSORS: ➤ Uniform Teethhttps:

For 13 seasons RuPaul’s Drag Race has been bringing underground artists into the mainstream, and sometimes the world is just not ready for the gag. This time, the latest greatest gasp for air is a t shirt designed by drag queen Gotmik which prominently displays the scars from their top surgery.Oooh, you got controversy!Gotmik's t shirt alludes to the famous “boobs on a t-shirt” design that Viviennne Westwood made for the Sex Pistols which celebrated the feminist anti-bra movement of the 70s, but this new design featuring Gotmik’s chest scars essentially has the same message - ditch what’s bothering you and fly free!Today NYC drag personality Kareem McJagger joins us to take a look at Gotmik’s controversial new t shirt design and what exactly was Tessica Brown trying to do with that Gorilla Glue Spray to lay an edge. What does it mean to lay an edge?KAREEM MCJAGGER: https://www.facebook.com/KareemMcJaggerrPlus--➤ Is it too late to accept Justin Timberlake’s apology to Janet Jackson and Britney Spears 17 years

Farwell to queer musician Ari Gold, New York night life personality, star in Starbooty and child singer in the My Buddy doll commercial that later became the inspiration for Chucky in the horror film Child’s Play. He died on February 12, 2021. This podcast was originally posted on 01.31.08All systems are go! Pop musician Ari Gold joins us on todays show to “drop” his new album Transport Systems, a futuristic military themed album featuring some catchy riffs and sharp vocals set to a energetic beat and live instrumentation. It’s hot, YO! Or is that OY?Growing up in a Orthodox Jewish family in the Bronx, Ari Gold was discovered at the age of 5 by a record producer singing at his brother’s bar-mitzvah.Ari Gold’s childhood singing experience reads like entries from some 1980s kitsch bloggers website- with over 400 colorful gigs including singing on the album Pot Belly Bear: Sons and Stories, the Cabbage Patch Kids Album, the Jem and the Holograms TV show and singing with Diana Ross on her Swept Away album.But m