Feast Of Fun : Gay Talk Show

One of the most outrageous movie characters of all time is Faye Dunaway’s portrayal of Joan Crawford in “Mommie Dearest,” a movie based on the best selling tell-all book by Crawford's adopted daughter Christina.In the film, Joan Crawford is presented as a selfish, drunk, ego-maniac who terrorizes her children and fights with everyone in Hollywood all the while presenting herself as a cool, sophisticated movie star to the public.The film single handedly cemented Joan Crawford as camp icon for drag queens to emulate but is it a an accurate portrayal of the real Crawford?Today, we take a look at the person behind Hollywood legend Joan Crawford- did she actually say “Don’t’ fuck with me fellas!,” “I’m mad at the dirt!,” or “No wire hangers!?” Did she really write that letter complaining about Bette Davis’ gag worthy smell?Joining us is historian Bryan Johnson, who was inspired by Joan Crawford’s film “Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?” to create "The Concluding Chapter of Crawford," a website museum dedicated to th

Happy Birthday to writer and performer Dolores Deluce, who used to live with Divine, the drag queen from John Water's films and performed often with the San Francisco Cockettes. {Best of Feast of Fun, originally posted as FOF #1875 - Confessions of a Counter Culture Diva - 10.08.13}In the 1960s, Dolores Deluce was rejected by her family for giving birth to a biracial child, only to be embraced by a different kind of family.Her new family included Divine, the Cockettes, assorted Venice Beach bad boys, and her many loving gay “husbands.” Along the way she met many freaky celebrities like John Waters, Edith Massey, Rip Taylor and Joan Rivers, and was even crowned “Miss Alternative L.A.”Our guest today, Delores Deluce, was one of the few women to perform with the Cockettes, the highly influential theater group of hippie drag queens in San Francisco of the early 70s.A five-foot diva in six-inch heels, Dolores slept with many a gay man in the Bay Area during the free love era, mostly because they were all really, r

Happy Glitter Day Everyone! Here's our annual tradition of posting the original podcast episode that started the new LGBTQ centric winter holiday. Enjoy! Or don't. It's Glitter Day and you can do whatever your heart desires.{Best of Feast of Fun, originally posted as FOF #1292 - Glitter Day - 11.19.10}There are a lot of holidays during the winter months, with many annoying and bizarre celebrations taking up all our time. With Thanksgiving, to Three Kings Day, New Years Eve, New Years Day, Korean and Chinese New Years, Pagan Solstice, Groundhogs Day, Ramadan, Hanukkah, Boxing Day, Tet, International Sweater Festival, Festivus and yes even Kwanzaa, almost everyone has a special day to celebrate.Except LGBT folks. Sure we have National Coming Out day in October, Pride Month in June, Celebrate Bisexuality Day in September, International Drag Day in July and Fat Tuesday for the Bears, but if you take a close look at the winter months, we have nothing, and we receive it in abundance!So today we’re creating Glitter

No holiday puts it all out there like Christmas! When people from all kinds of cultures and traditions come together, the food, music and celebrations regardless of who you are can be marvelous.Today we wrap up our sixteenth season of podcasting with our holiday celebration: “Incredibly Strange Christmas Music, Vol.11”- wonderfully weird songs we think deserve a spot on your playlist this year.Listen as we dive into Pete Rodriguez, the godfather of Latin Boogaloo music, a fusion of soul, rhythm & blues and Caribbean music that captivated Harlem dance halls in the 60s and 70s and changed the musical landscape forever.Plus--➤ All new drag queen Christmas songs from Lady Bunny, Jinkx Monsoon and BenDelaCreme.➤ How Richard O’Brien wrote the Rocky Horror Show over Christmas and the release of of the 45 “Merry Christmas Baby” with the flip side song “Eddy’s Teddy” that he recorded with his then-wife Kimi, who also played one of the Transylvanians in the Rocky Horror Picture Show.➤ Bea Arthur’s “Life Day” song s

The last podcast we made in 2019, titled “A Christmas Apocalypse,” looked back on the terrible things that happened in the past decade that we didn’t want to see ever again.In 2020, we entered into a deeper level of hell where every day became an eternity-wildfires and hurricanes, systemic racism, a President endorsing facism and a global pandemic so grossly mismanaged it’s killed over 300,000 Americans so far.Boy were we naive!Today comedian Brian Sweeney, our very own Oscar the Grouch, joins us to look at 2020, the real year of hell, and this time, we really mean it.BRIAN SWEENEY: https://www.facebook.com/BriansDongListen as we look back on a nation divided, how fighting the Covid pandemic has been politicized and how the goodness in the heart of humanity will allow us to transcend even the most horrible disasters.Plus--➤ Celebrities in crisis: why did RuPaul, Ellen and Madonna shut down or delete their social media this year?➤ Australia is trying to kill you.➤ How early humans hibernated to survive.THANKS

Even though Saved by the Bell went off the air in 1993, it still has a firm grip on popular culture- the cast reunion of Zach and his high school friends on the Jimmy Fallon Show recently went viral, and clips of the original show often pop up as Internet memes, so much so that sometimes it really does feel like it’s Zach’s world and we are just living in it.What kid didn't want their own cell phone in 1992? Today, Saved By the Bell’s Executive Producer Peter Engel, joins us to take a look at his amazing life which he writes about in his new memoir “I Was Saved by the Bell: Stories of Life, Love and Dreams that Do Come True.”We're still excited. Listen as Peter Engel joins us to talk about the time when ABC almost gave John Lennon a talk show that would have been a showcase, as Lennon put it, for “Freaks, geeks, and people who want to start trouble.”{Best of Feast of Fun: FOF #2423 - Saved by Saved by the Bell - 11.29.16}Plus–• What does Peter make of the fan theory that Saved by the Bell is just a dream that

Christmas has arrived! No winter snow, no covid pandemic, no gloom nor doom is going to hold back a fierce queen like Vivacious from snapping her fan and shining her light this holiday season.Innovating like a mother-has-arrived, our gal pal from Season 6 of RuPaul’s Drag Race is busy cranking out the Cameos and turning her New York City apartment into an international dance club with Quarantina Dancerina, an interactive DJ set on twitch that streams some of the sickest beats ever to grace the world’s sound systems.Today Vivacious, mother of Ornacia, soul sister to all the good people of the world joins us to look back on the year and how drag queens are turning to online media and streaming to give the children life.Listen as Vivacious weighs in on the Season 13 contestants, what’s the hot tea?CHECK OUT VIVACIOUS' QUARANTINA DANCERINA: http://Twitch.Tv/vivaciousnycPlus -➤ The origin of her cone spike costume element.➤ Jamaican Christmas traditions!➤ How the Black Lives Matter movement is shaping entertainmen

2020 has been harder on working drag queens than Baby Jane Hudson was to her poor sister Blanche in Whatever Happened to Baby Jane. If only we weren’t in this Covid pandemic.But you are Blanche, you are in that pandemic.Fortunately, most queens aren’t left eating their dead pet bird. Next year just has to be better- It gets better, right?For San Francisco drag legend Peaches Christ, this has been a year for growth and reflection. Peaches opened up her private vault of campy horror films spoofs featuring the world’s top drag queens and now she’s getting ready for the future by developing all new tv and film projects.Today Peaches Christ looks back on her year of hell, speculates on which famous horror house she’d love to live in, and her upcoming streaming release of Whatever Happened to Bianca Del Rio.Plus--The mansion seen in the film Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? Is up for sale. You got 3.8 million dollars honey?Peaches looks at Ryan Murphy’s Prom, Dolly Parton’s Christmas on the Square and Clea DuVall’s

Jingle Bells Batman Smells Robin Laid an Egg. How much fun it is to deride your family’s Christmas carols?There’s something hilarious about turning those precious christmas carols into rotten songs all kids will love.Today our pal Manny Petty joins us for a live music session where we harmonize some hilariously rotten christmas song parodies.Listen as we take a look at the classic Batman Smells parody of Jingle Bells that traces its origins to the 1960s, Spanish pooping nativity statues and Manny’s teenage obsession with mayonnaise.{Best of Feast of Fun: FOF #2688 - Jingle Bells, Batman Smells - 12.19.18}Plus–➤ What does the United States Postal Service do to all those letters written to Santa every year?➤ The beauty of the humble Toledo Christmas weed.➤ For the stoner in your life, give them a marijuana edibles advent calendar.

The second Saturday in January marks the 10 year anniversary of Glitter Day, the fun and fabulous holiday in celebration of all things magical and sparkly inside all of us.The idea for an LGBTQ+ centric winter holiday began as a bit on the podcast and amazingly the idea caught on like wildfire. On Glitter Day there are no expectations so go wild or mild! You can light up a rainbow set of candles with close friends or just chill out at home in a hot bubble bath.Today our dear friend Michael Lehet, who started Glitter Day, joins us to look back on a decade of Glitterous Glory, and other wonderfully weird and wild ideas that caught on the Internet.Plus,➤ Cher rescues an elephant.➤ A scorpion farmer strikes it rich.➤ A man had a coin removed from his nose after 50 years.➤ Break dancing is set to become an Olympic sport.

NOTE: This encore presentation of our episode of Feast of Fun is in honor of LD Beghtol, the singer-songwriter and Magnetic Fields Collaborator, he passed away at the age of 55 this week. -------Songwriter Stephin Merritt is known as “the Cole Porter of his generation” for his unusual melodies, lovelorn lyrics and dry wit. But he’s also notoriously known as the most miserable man in rock music.Today we’re talking to our good friend, filmmaker Kerthy Fix on her new documentary- “Strange Powers: Stephen Merit and the Magnetic Fields.”The film primarily explores the long term friendship between Stephin Merrit and his band mate Claudia Gonson and gives us a never before seen look at the songwriter’s complex personal life. We’re also given an intimate look at the song making process for the band which has one of the most dedicated followings in popular music.Listen as we chat with Kerthy on the ten years spent making the film, the overblown zip-a-dee-doo-dah controversy and what love song she thinks best represent

This holiday season, one of YouTube’s most anticipated new shows is The Great Gift Exchange, a 12 part series aiming to inspire people on the art of gift wrapping and giving back to their community.The Great Gift Exchange invites 12 YouTube stars to visit the secret studio of my dear friend Alton DuLaney, who really is the world’s most famous gift wrapping artist, to learn how to transform a gift into something magical through the art of gift wrapping.THE GREAT GIFT EXCHANGE:https://youtu.be/Kp2YYEsrSiUToday Alton DuLaney, the world’s most famous gift wrapping artist joins us to talk about his journey to becoming the top media personality for decorating and wrapping gifts, and his wild early days as a performance artist with the Performance Art Church (Pe.A.Ch) in Austin, Texas.Listen as we unwrap with Alton about how performance artist Linda Montano inspired us to see art as a way of life, how he heard Donald Trump tell him “you’re fired” when he worked as a window display artist for Trump Towers and the thr

When winter’s chill sets upon us during the holiday season, it’s a perfect time for Lady Bunny to deliver a flaming hot roast, and this Christmas nobody’s safe, not even Santa!In her new holiday special “What Child is This?” filmed at New York’s legendary Stonewall Inn to an audience of one, Lady Bunny examines our not-so-quiet desperation living in the middle of the Covid Pandemic where Republicans have politicized the act of human kindness of wearing masks.Fair warning - this is not Lady Bunny’s first pandemic so you may recognize some of her legendary raunchy AIDS jokes in her show repurposed for Covid chuckles and she delivers a stocking full of peppermint twisted parodies like “Rudolpho The Uncut Reindeer,” “All I Want for Christmas (Is a Vaccine),” and “Santa’s Spreadin’ COVID Around.”LADY BUNNY'S CHRISTMAS SPECIAL "WHAT CHILD IS THIS?!" https://vossevents.com/ladybunny-in-what-child-is-this/Today Lady Bunny lets us open our Christmas presents early and play some of her funniest songs from her new holid

Billed as the first mainstream rom-com to feature LGBTQ characters front and center, Hulu’s holiday feature "Happiest Season," aims to reach a big audience with its tender-hearted comedy starring Twilight’s Kristen Stewart and Terminator Dark Fate’s Mackenzie Davis.How sentimental! Or is it? On the surface, these made for TV movies popularized by The Hallmark Channel and Lifetime Network seem at odds with putting LGBTQ relationships in focus, but Happiest Season is so much more than that. The movie delivers a feel good story without reducing the legendary ensemble into ridiculous caricatures. It even shows the violence some queer people face when coming out.Today we’re taking a look at all the queer romantic comedy, made-for-TV holiday films that will be stuffing your TV stocking this season, including “Happiest Season” which we think would be great if it was renamed K-Stew’s Queer Christmas Miracle (which of course was released during the Beaver Moon.)Plus--➤ Say hello to Elliot Paige.➤ An anti-LGBT politici

Way before the British colonized India and brought with them homophobia, racism and transphobia, lots of Indian people practiced the art of the Kama Sutra, an ancient guide that celebrates the art of living well, the nature of love and how to get your freak on.In recent years, India has fought for and won marriage equality and while being gay is more accepted these days, the art of drag is still a bit of mystery to Indians and folks especially don’t quite know what to make of a bearded beauty.Our guest today is South Asian bearded drag queen Kamani Sutra who was inspired to dress up in drag by her grandfather who used to dress up in women’s clothing to perform at festivals.KAMANI SUTRA: https://www.instagram.com/kamani_sutra_/Listen as we chat with Kamani about growing up in the city of Hyderabad in the state of Telangana in South India, the role of hijras in Indian culture and why she wants to hear about your deepest desires.THANKS TO OUR SPONSORS: ➤ Uniform Teethhttps://www.uniformteeth.comBook your free co

Silence still equals death. Gran Fury's iconic design from 80s is making a comeback, this time tackling gun violence.In the mid 80s, a broken healthcare system and a government content with letting people die from AIDS forced artists to make art that challenged, inspired and aroused the public to change their views on LGBT folks, HIV & AIDS. When same sex kisses were shocking, scandalous and on the side of busses all over New York City. Gran Fury "Kissing Doesn't Kill" 1989.The artists collective known as Gran Fury, with their bold use of provocative images, graphic design and guerrilla dissemination tactics was instrumental in changing the cultural climate- who can forget the thousands of people wearing black t-shirts with pink triangles and the words “Silence Equals Death,” a grim reminder that in order to survive we needed to speak up and be heard?After the Orlando Massacre, LGBT rights groups are once again using images like the Silence Equals Death triangle almost 30 years later to try to change not

One of our favorite oddball TV Christmas moments is Pee Wee’s Christmas Special, a star studded hour long event that aired in 1988 at the height of Pee Wee Herman’s popularity.In the show, Pee Wee learns the true meaning of Christmas as Santa Claus asks him to share his gifts with all the boys and girls of the world.The series starred the regular cast of Pee Wee’s playhouse and such campy stars as KD Lang, Oprah, Joan Rivers, Annette Funicello, Frankie Avalon and a pre-HIV Magic Johnson.Today we take you inside Pee Wee’s Christmas Special with the she-larious Irene Marquette, who is putting on a holiday extravaganza inspired by Pee Wee Herman’s Holiday Show complete with variety acts and animation in the Curio Show at Chicago’s IO Theater.Join us as we talk about what happened to all those crazy wigs and costumes. Who was the most difficult celebrity to work with and why Paul Reubens felt trapped by his most popular character ever.{Best of Feast of Fun, FOF #2264 - Unwrapping Pee Wee's Christmas Special - 12.

Once upon a time there was a little fairy named Sukie who grew up in the town of Bath, in Great Britain. He saw his world change through the impact of Stonewall and the rise of the modern gay rights movement, the AIDS crisis, and the rule of the Iron Lady Margaret Thatcher.Then St Sukie moved to Chicago to be a journalist for LGBTQ publications and he became a queer legend after introducing himself as a vampire, fairy, pirate or viking.In his new book "The Memoir of a Groucho Marxist: A Very British Fairy Tale," St Sukie takes us on a magical realist journey throughout his childhood growing up near Stonehenge in a world that also gave rise to Alice in Wonderland, Peter Pan and The Hobbit.Today St Sukie de la Croix the artist formerly known as Darryl Michael Vincent finally lifts the veil on his mysterious persona and tells us of his early upbringing in a working class family in post WWII England and partying with Princess Margaret.Listen as St Sukie weighs in on the Netflix series The Crown and X-Files’ Gilli

Hanukkah is just around the corner and while you might not celebrate the holiday yourself yet, it’s never too late to get in on some of the festivities.After all, no where in the Torah does it say thou shalt not have a little fun.Today comedian Meg Grunewald has got you covered in the Jewish holiday department- she’s bringing back her holiday special, Home for Hanukkah with Bubbe: an interactive holiday experience where she invited you to come celebrate the festival of lights.Listen as Meg chats with us about channeling a Jewish grandmother for comedy gold, retooling her show for an online experience and why families obsess about their kids during the holidays.Plus,➤ The original Gerber baby turns 94!THANKS TO OUR SPONSORS: Uniform Teethhttps://www.uniformteeth.comBook your free consultation, get $150 off with code FEAST150

2020 has been a hell of a year. With the Covid pandemic raging on and Republicans pushing everything to the brink of collapse, it’s beyond ironic that the last show we did in 2019 with comedian Brian Sweeney was called “The Year of Hell” yet this year is definitely worse, or is it?After all there’s nothing so rotten, that some good can’t come from it, we’ve had a pretty good election and with Georgia’s January runoff, progressive superstar Stacey Abrams is now a key figure in the balance of power between Americans and facism.Today our favorite grouch Brian Sweeney joins us to look at things we're grateful for that did come to pass in 2020.Like--➤ Disney’s The Mandalorian proves the force is still strong with Star Wars.➤ Star Trek Discovery goes hard core queer-- with a record number of trans, gay, non binary and lesbian characters shining front and center.➤ RuPaul and Golden Girls Chia Pets.➤ A look at Lauren Bacall as a gay icon and what Humphrey Bogart would have made of it.➤ Will Smith and Janet Hubert fro