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Feast of Fun: Gay Talk Show

Interviews with amazing people, comedians and LGBTQ+ legends, with pop culture and politics wrapped up in a delicious candy coating of camp.

Hosted by Puerto Rican drag queen Fausto Fernós and his husband, Norwegian reality TV star Marc Felion, Feast of Fun began as one of the original 50 podcasts featured on iTunes in 2006, and celebrated by Apple: Feast of Fun “helped bring podcasting from an underground movement to a mainstream phenomenon.” Five time winner of the People’s Choice Podcast Award for Best LGBT podcast.

We’ve done thousands of shows with wonderfully wild people, LGBTQ legends and their friends, and tackle the tough questions like: is Sasquatch a drag queen? How many licks does it take to get to the center of a Tootsie Roll pop?

Subscribe and join us as we chat with gay musicians, counterculture comedians, trans pirates, lesbian warriors and pagan witches and celebrate the ridiculous and transform pain into pleasure.

Listen to over 2,900 legendary podcasts at feastoffun.com/plus

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Debbie Reynolds on Carrie Fischer and Dating Gay Men in Hollywood Mar 17, 2021

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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.
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{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 Hollywood.”
With over 30 films, two Broadway shows and several TV series under her belt, Debbie Reynolds still continues to captivate audiences with her one woman show.
Today we’re talking to Hollywood’s Golden Age diva — Debbie Reynolds on her conservative roots, her divorce from Eddie Fisher and being the mother of the Princess of Sci Fi- Carrie Fisher.
What was it like to rehearse the dance sequences with Gene Kelly? Is it true he made her feet bleed? What’s it like living next door to her daughter?
Debbie Reynolds on a date with Tab HunterListen as Debbie shares with us her stories of dating closeted gay men in Hollywood, being a mother to all her fans and she dishes on drag queens making it big in show business.
In the photo on the right is Debbie Reynolds with Hollywood hunk Tab Hunter, who later came out as a gay man in the late 80s. What was it like dating him?

FOF #2943 - Steven Thrasher: The Viral Underclass Mar 16, 2021

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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/thrasherxy
Plus--
➤ 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 nominated for both an Oscar and a Razzie for Hillbilly Elegy.
➤ Does Megan Markle and Prince Harry’s interview with Oprah do enough to highlight systemic racism?

Barbara Walters and the Most Awkward Talk Show Moments in History Mar 15, 2021

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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}

Methacular: A Musical About Meth Addiction Mar 13, 2021

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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 most meth addicts don’t look like the meth addicts you see on TV.
➤ Why cute guys never have any drugs to share.
➤ How his creative drive helped him recover from addiction.

Auntie Mame in Real Life: The Fabulous Miss Lola Rose Mar 11, 2021

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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– why she loves President Bill Clinton so darn much.
{Best of Feast of Fun, posted as FOF #1374 - Miss Lola Rose is Right About Everything - 05.05.11}

Hey Love Muffins, It's Love B Scott! Mar 10, 2021

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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}
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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's about to take another giant leap forward and leverage his success into a syndicated talk show.
Listen as B Scott gives us a behind the scenes look at how he comes up with his sassy videos and infectious catch phrases. Will there be a B Scottpedia to keep track of his sassy slogans like "love muffins," "Bitch boo bye" and "splendiferous?"
On November 2, B Scott talks in depth with his favorite pop star, Mariah Carey- did the glitter goddess let B Scott touch her rhinestone covered microphone?
B Scott talks about what it's like to be the object of Jamie Foxx's affections, the changing face of YouTube and if his evil twin "Hate B Scott" ever gets a hold of him?

What Would Joan Crawford Say if She Were Alive Today? Mar 09, 2021

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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}
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➤ 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:
📘 L LeSueur - Mommie Smearest: https://amzn.to/3ceMxiX

FOF #2942 - Teen Mom, Wandavision, Coming 2 America & Other TV Goodies Mar 08, 2021

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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.
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➤ 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 Fran Lebowitz throwing too much shade at drag queens by calling them childish and unironic?

FOF #2941 - A Gay Marine’s Story of Surviving War, Cancer & Journalism Mar 03, 2021

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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

FOF #2940 - Potato Head and the Toys That Made Us Fabulous Mar 02, 2021

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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=504629525
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➤ 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.

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