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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.

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Latest Episodes:

In Search of the Real Joan Crawford Jan 12, 2021

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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 the last two decades of the actress’ life. (It's pretty awesome, definitely check it out.)
Bryan Johnson in front of the home used to film the exterior shots of “Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?”
Plus-- are you more like Joan Crawford or Bette Davis? Take this quiz and find out!
• Best of Feast of Fun, originally posted as FOF #2359 - In Search of the Real Joan Crawford - 07.18.16

I Was Divine's Roommate Jan 11, 2021

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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, really high. Surprisingly, she's lived to tell her story in her memoir: My Life, A Four Letter Word: Confessions of a Counter Culture Diva.
Listen as Dolores talks about her friendships and run-ins with Divine, John Water's colorful cast of characters and watching friends of hers like disco superstar Sylvester die from AIDS.
• Featured Book:
Delores Deluce - My Life, A Four Letter Word: Confessions of a Counter Culture Diva:
https://amzn.to/3nrztdG

The First Glitter Day Jan 09, 2021

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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 Day, a winter holiday to celebrate the fabulousness inside all of us. To celebrate all you need is lots of booze, a menorah with rainbow candles, and tons of fucking sequins.
Blogger Michael Lehet joins us to celebrate Glitter Day early and open his Glitter Day presents.
Featured Music:
Tom Goss – Back to Love: https://apple.co/35smNgl

FOF #2922 - Incredibly Strange Christmas Music 2020, Vol. 11 - Christmas Boogaloo Dec 23, 2020

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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 she sings to the boozehounds in the Star Wars Holiday Special.
➤ Liberace helps to desegregate the south by popularizing the steel drum music of Trinidad.

FOF #2921 - 2020: the Year of Hell (And This Time We Mean It) Dec 21, 2020

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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/BriansDong
Listen 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.
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How I Created "Saved by the Bell" Dec 19, 2020

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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 took place in Zack Morris’ mind?
• Will Elizabeth Berkley ever embrace her iconic role in the camp film classic Showgirls?
• Peter’s biggest TV let down, his pioneering sitcom, Sirota’s Court, where a gay couple got married on TV in 1977.

FOF #2920 - Tis’ the Season to Be Vivacious Dec 16, 2020

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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/vivaciousnyc
Plus -
➤ The origin of her cone spike costume element.
➤ Jamaican Christmas traditions!
➤ How the Black Lives Matter movement is shaping entertainment.
➤ Republican drag queens.
➤ What is a Cannibal Sandwich and why would Wisconsin James Mansfeild try to feed it to a queen?

FOF #2919 - Peaches Christ's Very Own Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? Dec 15, 2020

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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 Happiest Season.
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Jingle Bells, Batman Smells Dec 14, 2020

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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.

FOF #2918 - Ten Years of Glitter Day Dec 10, 2020

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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.

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