Feast of Fun : Gay Talk Show

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. For drag legend Peaches Christ, this year she opened up her private vault of campy horror films spoofs and 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.

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.

This January marks the 10 year anniversary of Glitter Day, the 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 funny bit on the podcast and amazingly the idea caught on like wildfire. Glitter Day is now celebrated around the world! Today our dear friend Michael Lehet joins us to look back on a decade of Glitterous Glory, and other wonderfully weird and wild ideas that caught on the Internet.

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. Today Alton DuLaney, joins us to talk about his journey to becoming the top media personality for wrapping gifts, and his wild early days as a performance artist with the Performance Art Church (Pe.A.Ch) in Austin, Texas.

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! Today Lady Bunny lets us open our Christmas presents early and play some of her funniest songs from her new holiday special “What Child is This.” In her new holiday special “What Child is This?”- Lady Bunny examines our not-so-quiet desperation living in the pandemic where Republicans have politicized the act of human kindness of wearing masks.

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. 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.

Way before the British colonized India and brought with them homophobia and transphobia, lots of Indian people practiced the art of the Kama Sutra which celebrates the art of living well and how to get your freak on. 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.

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. Today, we take a look at the future of LGBT rights by taking a look at the iconic artists collective that inspired a generation of people to act up, fight back and fight AIDS.

Once upon a time there was a little fairy named Sukie who grew up to see 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. Today St Sukie de la Croix 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 we chat with Sukie about his new book “The Memoir of a Groucho Marxist: A Very British Fairy Tale” which takes us on a magical realist journey throughout his childhood.

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.

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 Stacy Abrahms 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.

According to the National Safety Council, over half of all accidents occur in the home and the kitchen is the most dangerous room in the house which makes Thanksgiving the deadliest holiday of them all. So maybe this holiday season with most people staying home alone due to the Covid pandemic, we can all be grateful that the worst thing that can happen when you stay home is you’ll burn the roof of your mouth eating microwaved pumpkin pie hot pockets. Today we’re taking a look at some of the most dangerous and wild things that can happen during Thanksgiving.

Some folks get so nervous about going into a job interview or an audition, that their minds can’t stop thinking about those over the top demanding directors from films like A Chorus Line, All that Jazz, The Producers, Flashdance and even Showgirls. How real are they? Today we’re talking to acting teacher, filmmaker and director Anthony Meindl about how to be your authentic self- in your everyday life or at your job, even if you’re auditioning to be a star on Broadway.

The TV game show Match Game was at first considered bland, so the writers' spiced things up with cheeky questions designed to make the contestants blush at the celebrity panel’s witty banter and sexual innuendo. It turned into a big hit and its risqué humor changed the tone of all daytime TV game shows forever. Today camp culture historian A. Ashley Hoff, author of the book Match Game 101, takes us on a backstage tour of Match Game, the orange shag carpeted TV game show where our favorite gay icons cracked up the audience as they “filled in the blank” over cocktails.

The TV game show Supermarket Sweep is back on the air on Sunday nights on ABC with SNL star and Drag Race judge Leslie Jones as the show’s host. To make the grocery themed quiz show even wilder they got two of the funniest drag queens, Jackie Beat and Sherry Vine, to join in as contestants competing for $100,000. Their episode was absolutely she-larious, as Jackie’s quips cracked up the show’s host and Sherry Vine served up women of Wall-Mart meets Hollywood sex worker glamour. Today Sherry Vine joins us from her pink boudoir in Burbank, California to talk about how she first met Jackie Beat 30 years ago and their hilarious appearance on the reboot of Supermarket Sweep.