Feast Of Fun : Gay Talk Show

Out of Africa and onto American television- Bebe Zahara Benet is on today show!As the front runner in RuPaul’s Drag Race, she’s captured our hearts with her glamorous embrace of the “untamed beauty” and brought a delicious African flair to the show.Will Bebe be America’s Next Drag Superstar?Trading the wilds of Africa for the Midwestern prairie, Bebe left her homeland of Cameroon West Africa to pursue a more creative life in the U.S.Bebe fell into drag at a runway show when some female models didn’t show up. They quickly needed someone as a replacement, and the high-fashion ladies dresses fit Bebe like Cinderella’s slipper so she sashayed and shantayed down the runway and made drag history.Bebe Zahara Benet Bebe Zahara BenetBebe Zahara Benet Bebe Zahara Benet Bebe Zahara Benet Bebe Zahara Benet Bebe Zahara BenetListen as we talk about how everything will change if she does indeed win the coveted title, and whether or not she had any second thoughts on being on a TV show that pits drag queen against drag queen

Why did we change our name from Feast of Fools to Feast of Fun? This podcast on March 13, 2009 explained the name change. Enjoy! __________________It’s time to bring on the Samba or lay some blame on the Bossa Nova. We’ve got a gay fun show for you today with live music by Chicago Jazz singer Solitaire Miles and Brazilian guitarist Paulinho Garcia.Solitaire grew up with me in Erie Pennsylvania, and now she’s working the new media to expand her music and photo illustration career. Solitaire hosts the popular jazz and art related podcast called Tones, where she interviews artists and musicians. She’s also a star on flickr and Deviant Art for her romantic photo illustrations which have been used on the covers of romance novels.Paulinho Garica and Solitaire MilesPaulino Garcia came from sunny Brazil to the Windy City to be part of the thriving jazz scene and share his easy going sound with the American audience.Listen as Solitaire and Paulinho bring some jazzy Brazilian flavor to the show, singing songs about lov

Boing boing! Gigi Deluxe, Chicago’s glamor-puss is here to talk about her new collaboration with House of Bias, a fashion forward clothing line specializing in clothes made out of rubber latex.GIGI DELUXE: https://www.facebook.com/GigiDeLuxeThink it’s too kinky for you? The clothing line hopes to mainstream latex-wear for everyone, touting the form-flattering benefits of the rubbery garments.What’s it like to make and wear clothes made out of rubber, and where do you go to get them dry cleaned?Listen as Gigi talks about starting her new video blog, her fan page on Facebook, fighting medical fraud and pulling a grocery cart filled with canned goods for charity in the Chiditarod race.➤ Dr. Manhattan shows a lot of his cock in the movie Who’s watching the Watchmen? Everyone. The film adaptation of the popular graphic novel so far has scored this year’s biggest box office opening knocking Madea Goes to Jail from the Top Spot.➤ The Watchmen Condom– will it make your rod big and blue?➤ Fausto Gives Coco Peru a Big

Outrageous, bold and honest, that’s Coco Peru! Everybody’s favorite drag queen from the Bronx is on today’s show to talk about her career, her love life and drag queens.Coco is best know for her work in the films Trick and Girls Will Be Girls, as well as an unforgettable appearance on the groundbreaking TV show Will and Grace.Listen as Coco talks about how she came up with her famous catchphrase “It Burns” from the film Trick and how she was devastated after filming it because she thought nobody would find her funny.Coca started doing drag because she “wanted to change the world and make everybody love gay people.” Now she’s just trying to get by, but what happened along the way? One thing’s for sure, everybody who sees Coco loves Coco, especially her mother who takes her gray haired gal pals to see her drag show.Miss Coco Peru Coco Peru Coco Peru Coco Peru in the film "Girls Will be Girls" Coco Peru in ConcertMatt from Mary's Attic takes it off for charityCoco’s coming to Chicago on March 7 to the Park West

In the latest episode of RuPaul’s Drag Race, the reality TV show created to produce the next drag superstar, one of the contestants, Ongina, tearfully revealed she was HIV positive.Today we’re talking to Ongina, also known as Ryan Palao, about what it was like to boldly share this intimate detail with millions of viewers and how it’s affected his life.Ongina also clarifies some common misconceptions people have about drag queens, gay men and Filipinos and brings some sass and class into our discussion on how costumes help us be the people we want to be.Ongina shares with us her behind-the-scenes insight into whether Rebbecca Glasscock was trying to manipulate the outcome of the challenge in her favor by having an emotional breakdown which forced the judges to keep her on the show and get rid of Chicago’s gal, Jade.How could the show kick someone off after they cried about having a friend with AIDS without appearing to be heartless jerks?One thing’s for sure, after winning half of the challenges on the show so

Work the runway sweetie! RuPaul is back on television, sashaying and shantaying her way into our hearts in her critically acclaimed new show RuPaul’s Drag Race.On today’s show we’re talking to Supermodel of the World RuPaul about how the Drag Race project came together and who she thinks is going to be the winner of the show.“Drag Race” delivers on all six cylinders a lighthearted but touching behind the scenes look at what it takes to become a great drag queen. Borrowing from programs like “Project Runway”, “Big Brother” and “Survivor” RuPaul and her motely crew of drag queens delivers a show that’s a hit with audiences and critics alike.Join us as we chat with RuPaul about whether there will be a resurgence in drag, what made her cry during the show and what she thinks of Lady Bunny’s sassy comments about Ru’s appearance on Project Runway.Obama is pissed! Obama is tired of your shit. Before he became our nation’s 44th president, Obama recorded an audio book “Dreams from my Father” where he quoted his foul-m

Note: This show is a conversation about Sesame Street podcast for adults. It is intended for people above the age of 18. Everyone is welcome to listen, however there are discussions on social topics, so parental guidance is suggested. Sesame Street began in 1969 as a result of a question posed at a dinner party: “Could television be used to teach children, could learning be a form of entertainment?”After forty years, the award winning program not only taught oodles of children how to count and recite the alphabet, but also taught them to embrace diversity and inclusiveness.Whether black or white, tall and yellow or small and green, everyone had a home on Sesame Street.We love the muppets because, much like ourselves, they aren’t perfect creatures. We see our own humanity in those furry faces with beady eyes as they deal with problems of everyday life.Sesame Street showed animals, monsters and people living together and working through their differences, which influenced a huge population of children that even

Outrageous, bold and honest, that’s Coco Peru! Everybody’s favorite drag queen from the Bronx is on today’s show to talk about her career, her love life and drag queens.Coco is best know for her work in the films Trick and Girls Will Be Girls, as well as an unforgettable appearance on the groundbreaking TV show Will and Grace.Listen as Coco talks about how she came up with her famous catchphrase “It Burns” from the film Trick and how she was devastated after filming it because she thought nobody would find her funny.Coca started doing drag because she “wanted to change the world and make everybody love gay people.” Now she’s just trying to get by, but what happened along the way? One thing’s for sure, everybody who sees Coco loves Coco, especially her mother who takes her gray haired gal pals to see her drag show.Miss Coco Peru Coco Peru Coco Peru Coco Peru in the film "Girls Will be Girls" Coco Peru in ConcertMatt from Mary's Attic takes it off for charityCoco’s coming to Chicago on March 7 to the Park West

Good drag queens are just like Christmas- loud, tacky and over the top!We’re so happy to have the award-winning drag queen, comedian and all around dirty bird- Jackie Beat for a very late night chat.We caught up with Jackie before her very very late night performance at Berlin nightclub, where she wowed the crowd that fought the terribley awful weather to see her all dressed up and perform in all her Christmas glory. How does the girl do a 40 minute set at 2 AM?Jackie is best known for her over the top song parodies warping the hits of celebrities with razor-sharp satirical lyrics and her one-woman show “Jackie Beat Is A Whole Lotta’ Love” ran a record 18 months at NYC’s premiere cabaret. She has appeared several movies including Flawless with Robert DeNiro and the cult hit Wigstock – The Movie.Jackie is a regular columnist in LA Magagazine Little Miss Know it All in which she berates the unsuspecting public. She is also a cruise ship performer and lead singer of the popular electroclash band Dirty Sanchez.Li

Everybody loves animals. Even if you don’t have a pet, you can’t help but ooh and aw over a dancing squirrel, a skateboarding dog or a cute cat.Is our collective fascination over animals a genuine interest in them, or part of a larger desire to see our own human qualities in the world around us?Cartoons draw on our fascination with seeing human attributes into everyday objects or animalsDisney built his entertainment company on this desire to see human qualities in mice, dogs and ducks. But equally we’re just as attracted to singing teapots, desk lamps or even a candelabra.Cuteness is irresistible. Shows like ours depend on stories of animals doing extraordinary things, acting like people or even learning to speak their own names.But there is a another edgier, wilder category of animal based culture, and that is online viral phenomena.Like Disney cartoons, these videos, moving graphics or pictures pull us in with animals doing human activitiy, but unlike Disney, they also tap into our darker psyche. Like a tu

WWPCW? What Would Peaches Christ Watch? A campy horror film with lots of gratuitous sex, violence and wild women on the verge of insanity, of course!Brainchild of filmmaker Joshua Grannell, Peaches Christ is well known in San Francisco for the 10-year-running Midnight Mass movie events where drag queens perform tacky skits before the screening of a campy feature film.The hilarious, insane and loosely scripted performances with outrageous costumes (check out her film-dress here) hark back to the hippie Cockette shows of the late 1960s. Peaches is our kind of gal!Peaches Christ's EyesDon’t let the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence inspired eye make-up fool you. Peaches Christ is dead serious about her love of film and the success of Midnight Mass is a testament to her passion for great movies and the value of a gay sensibility.Like our friend Curtis Jensen says, Peaches is a guardian of our culture: “Peaches is presenting a forum for the screening of these films that have always had a special layer of meaning for

Get your booty in high gear people. The most famous drag queen in the world, RuPaul joins us for real on today’s show.Well known for her 1993 chart topping release Supermodel, RuPaul Charles is still going on strong as a drag queen, comedian, musician and filmmaker.RuPaul literally became the first drag queen supermodel after the success of her original hit song “Supermodel” when MAC cosmetics launched their product line and made her their first cover girl. It’s impossible to measure the impact RuPaul’s career has had on gay culture and music as the incredible success of his debut album permanently made drag queens a mainstream fixture in films, movies, music and television. As RuPaul says in the interview, be careful what you put out there because your dreams can come true.Director Mike Ruiz & RuPaul as Cupcake in the new film "Starrbooty"On today’s show we talk to RuPaul from the city of Corpus Christi (birthplace of Selena) about her new film “Starrbooty,” a re-visioning of her 1987 original cult class

Get your salad fork ready because New York City’s finest drag queen comedian, Hedda Lettuce is here! The obscene green queen who makes Halloween seem serene joins us on today’s show.Hedda was forged in the fires of AIDS activism and in the New York City Cable Access television scene of the early 90s. Fifteen years later Hedda’s still going strong, traveling the country with her hilarious stand up act, and is a six time winner of “Drag Queen of the Year” by HX Magazine.Hedda joins Marc Felion and me, Fausto Fernós to talk about why her hair is green, being Samantha’s boyfriend on the TV show “Sex and the City,” Miss Understood and running for President of the United States of America.We’re not sure if she’ll get on any ballot but she’s got my vote! As Hedda says, why be forced to choose between Hillary and Barack, when you can have both?Fausto Fernós, Hedda Lettuce and Marc FelionPictured here is a wonderful photo of the three of us taken by Sal-E at the Lakeshore Theater last month. Hedda’s show was hysterica

Proudly going where no other Star Trek actor had gone before George Takei got back into the national spotlight last year when “beamed” out of the closet as a openly gay man and spoke candidly about his 19-year relationship with his life partner Brad Altman.On today’s show we’ll be talking with actor George Takei who’s best known for playing the role of Mr. Sulu on the original Star Trek television seires and in six subsequent Star Trek films.George Takei makes his podcast debut as he joins us today to talk about the 40 year anniversary of star trek, his personal experience as a gay man in hollywood, why he came out, and why Howard Stern was able to trick George into thinking he was arguing with California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger.If you live in Chicagoland area, be sure to come out to the Pride Parade on Sunday June 25 where George Takei and his partner Brad Altman will be the grand marshalls.The parade starts at noon at the corner of Halsted and Belmont, be sure to check us out too. We’ll give you some

One of the most beautiful sounds that comes out of Puerto Rico besides the music itself, is the ambient gorgeous sounds of the tropical rainforest. Full of life, the ears explode in a majestic lush of sound that can only come from a dense canopy of thousands of lifeforms calling out to each other.http://welcome.topuertorico.org/reference/yunque.shtmlOkay, I’m waxing a bit too much poetic, but I AM from Puerto Rico. This music and these sounds and the Yunque itself (the name for the mountain/preserve) are a big part of my psyche, my personality and my idenity. So indulge me!Listen as Marc and Fausto take you on an audio tour of El Yunque Caribbean National Forest and some lovely Puerto Rican music, old and new.Check out these pics from our adventure in the rainforest.http://www.flickr.com/photos/feastoffools/sets/72057594049696777/Check out these artists from Puerto Rico:Francisco LozaHector LavoeArdnaxela AlexandraBalúnhttps://www.balunonline.com____________________FEAST OF FUN IS MADE POSSIBLE BECAUSE OF FAB

Even though we poke a lot of fun at Lady Bunny, we hold her in high regard as a gay entertainment legend. Listen to this in-depth interview where Bunny explains how she comes up with her material, why she dresses the way she does and why her mama is so gosh darn proud of her son/daughter.[Originally posted on December 20, 2005.]Subversive and perversive,THE Lady Bunny joins us today to talk about her debut DVD “X-Rated: For X-tra Retarded” a video collection of her greatest hits from her nightclub comedy act.From her hometown of Chattanooga, Tennessee, Lady Bunny moved to Atlanta to go to Georgia State University. She then later moved to New York City to become part of a vibrant community of drag performers in the 1980s. She still resides in NYC but you can catch her act all over the world.Lady Bunny’s probably best known for organizing and founding the New York City Outdoor Drag Festival Wigstock, which in 1995 became the subject of a documentary “Wigstock The Movie” directed by Barry Shills.In addition to e

Comedian Kathy Griffin was delighted upon seeing our resident drag queen Victoria Lamarr impresonating her last week when she flew into town to host Malibu Rum’s Holiday Self-Decorating Contest at Duffy’s.Today we talk to our favorite fiery redhead Kathy Griffin in the back seat of her limo about breastfeeding, Star Jones, her parents, and Jerry Seinfeld. We had such a good time Fausto wound up grabbing her right breast to see if they were real or not, a la Tyra Banks. Are they REAL? Listen and find out!Check out these fab photos of Kathy Griffin and Victoria Lamarr looking like twins. Be sure to check out Kathy’s own website kathygriffin.net where she has a photo gallery of her and Clay Aiken taken together.On todays show, lots of gay prison news, supermarkets using porn to sell onion choppers, Viagra sales deflating, and why most self-respecting gays hate Robbie WIlliams. BONUS: George Grant with the news from Europe!____________________FEAST OF FUN IS MADE POSSIBLE BECAUSE OF FABULOUS PEOPLE LIKE YOU.LISTE

Holly Woodlawn returns! You wanted more, you got it! Today we have part two of our fabulous conversation with THE Andy Warhol Superstar, the legendary Holly Woodlawn who talks about what kind of food she would be made from if Madame Tussot's Wax Museum were to make a sculpture of her out of food (like the chocolate Elton John statue.)Also on today's show Marc and Fausto talk about the brand-new iTunes 4.9 and why it's getting all the podcasters (people like us) panties in a bunch. But don't worry, we're not going anywhere! Part 2 of 2.

Today we celebrate our 100th show with a fabulous conversation with the film actress, cabaret signer, author and living legend Holly Woodlawn about her book "A Low Life in High Heels" that's being made into a film.Holly Woodlawn was one of the first breakout Andy Warhol Superstars -people who were famous in New York in the late 70's for being their outrageous selves, and for being in his (actually Paul Morrisey's) films. They're the ones who started the saying "Famous for Fifteen Minutes," which mean that fame was short-lived and that celebrites had a tendency to burn bright and die young. What makes Holly Woodlawn even more extraordinary is that she has outlasted a lot of her peers because of luck, sheer will, and a generous optimism and love for humanity.Listen as two generations of Puerto Rican drag queens (Fausto and Holly) match wits, widsom and warmth in this truly fab interview. (Part 1 of 2)