Feast of Fun: Gay Talk Show

With The Rona turning our world upside down, a lot of folks are seeking help or offering to help others so now’s the time to give with kindness and receive with gratitude. Help comes in many forms but one of the best ways is mentoring someone to help them unlock their potential. Today, documentary film director and reality TV producer Kerthy Fix, best known on television as the “Granola Lady” from...

BEST OF FEAST OF FUN: Originally posted as "FOF #2683 – Wild Sexy Science" on Dec 6, 2018. Scientists can get a little freaky when the lab coats come off and the real hard work of gathering empirical evidence regarding sex and sexuality begins. Who knew science could be so sexy? Today Brian Sweeney joins us to take a look at some of the most memorable, wildest and hilarious scientific studies that...

One good thing about Miss Rona is that she has us all in the kitchen making good food and stress eating the anxiety away. The reason they call it COVID-19 is because of the 19 pounds we’re gonna put on when this is all over. Food trends come and go and while we are baking bread and living off dolonga coffee for now, some truly awful foods will thankfully be banished to the trash can: charcoal base...

The most hated queen this season is Miss Rona! She shut down every club, gig, and festival so now all the other queens are scrambling trying to figure out how to keep their wigs above water. One queen Anahi Santos went viral on Facebook live for falling asleep after her act and netting over $1900 in tips which said was “the best night of her life.” Lady Bunny and Bianca Del Rio are streaming drag...

ENCORE PRESENTATION! ➤ Check out Michael Urie in the live streaming version of Buyer and Cellar, the solo show inspired by Barbra Streisand’s weird underground village in the basement of her Malibu mansion. https://youtu.be/emrBCitmIbA Barbra Streisand’s unusual coffee table book “My Passion for Design” gives the reader an unprecedented look into her lavish beachfront home, where she built an unde...

With the coronavirus pandemic, the world has gone topsy turvy, What was once on the bottom is now on top- conservatives who used to try to shame LGBTQ folks into abstinence during the AIDS crisis are now the one’s transgressing public health concerns and are congregating for bareback barrier free church services and protests. Meanwhile disgraced former republican congressman Aarron Schock is self-...

Like a 80s nightclub on wheels, party buses are a weird thing that attract a certain type of Joe Exotic crowd, one that wants the luxury of celebrating in a limo but wants to tell the world “I love to drink.” For over two decades our friend Chris Churchill drove for a double decker tour and party bus company in Chicago and saw a lot of wild nights and tipsy celebrities hopping aboard his big red b...

Despite being sent home too soon on season six of RuPaul’s Drag Race, Vivacious and her all-seeing sidekick Ornacia have been on pretty much every season of the show since. Always a pioneer, Vivacious made her most recent guest appearance on Drag Race from the safety of her home in New York City by doing a voice over for Ornacia who was guest judging on an improvised skit called “The World’s Worst...

One of our earliest interviews, actress Teri Garr talks about her life and amazing acting career from her Oscar nominated role in Tootsie, her various appearances on David Letterman and how she almost became a regular cast member on Star Trek. Originally air date Dec. 15, 2005. "FOF #211 – Does This Wheelchair Make Me Look Fat?" ____________________ Teri Garr considered naming her autobiography “D...

When we first heard we’d be self isolating at home during the pandemic, we thought: great! We’ll get all those things done that we’ve been putting off, learn new skills and share time with the love of our life. However, the reality for many of us is we’ve become championship nappers and stress eaters and we’re sharing so much love that we’re suffocating. Today wellness consultant Michelle Keinan j...

Happiness in life comes from figuring out what you love to do and then making it your profession. Our friend 81 year old Hattie Retroage was born to be a healer, so she made it happen as a dance instructor, a therapist or in the bedroom as a senior sex symbol. Years ago, Hattie stole the spotlight from Claudia Schiffer in a Dolce and Gabbana ad with her silver sexiness and since then she’s become...

The lights on Broadway are dimmed in the early weeks of the coronavisu pandemic: the great playwright and dear family friend Terrence McNally died at the age of 81 as result of complications from COVID-19. As you can imagine, we're deeply saddened by the news. Family are people who share love. I consider Terrence family, in so many ways he was my gay uncle. Back in high school mom and Terrence dat...

One thing we’ve long been fighting for is for everyone to fearlessly be themselves. So it’s great to see folks like Colin O’Leary shine on YouTube in his videos where he lip syncs rapid fire medleys of Broadway songs in wild costumes with full support of his family. Today YouTube superstar Colin O’Leary, joins us to talk about how he started making his Broadway show tune lip sync videos in his fam...

Back in the early days of Feast of Fun, when the trans visibility we have today wasn’t so visible, musician and actress Tracy Tyler lit up the podcast with her wild stories of meeting men for romantic rendezvous. Since then, the world’s gotten to know trans and gender non conforming folks a lot better, but we still have a special place in our heart for our songbird Tracy Tyler who sang at our wedd...

As we see gay folks living longer, there’s a new found appreciation for silver daddies and even grandpas as sex symbols. But even though Dwayne Jonson and Paul Mason make aging look delicious, getting older isn’t always as sexy as it looks- your back hurts, the D don’t work and the text size on your phone is now set to “billboard.” Today, gay publishing pioneer and now comedian Louis Weisberg join...

We’re all going through hard times during the coronavirus pandemic. It’s so rough, folks are comparing self-isolation to being locked up behind bars. So maybe we can learn a thing or two on surviving all this from someone who has actually done some time in the pokey. Today comedian Lindsey Shaw, who did a stretch in the big house, joins us to talk about surviving self isolation by looking at ways...

Folks cooped up during the coronavirus pandemic are wild for Netflix’s Tiger King, a true crime docu-series about an eccentric group of private zoo owners battling it out over who is king of the caged jungle. The show has everything: wild animals, queer throuples, a one armed trans guy, alligator arson, mullets, a missing husband, pizza made with expired Walmart meat, multiple zoo based sex cults,...

Jack Ryan with Fausto Fernós and Marc Felion. Photo: Fausto Fernós. For most folks it’s been a little over a week of self isolation to ward off the coronavirus pandemic. Marooned in our own places like the Swiss Family Robinson, we have to make the best of what we got, and it sometimes feels like things may never get back to that dirty word “normal.” Today queer media pioneer Jack Ryan joins us to...

For folks who lived through the AIDS pandemic of the 80s and 90s, there’s a real sense of dread concerning coronavirus. Republicans failed to take early action on AIDS and to this day we are still living with the repercussions of their deliberate negligence. Just like HIV and AIDS, LGBTQ+ people are especially vulnerable to contracting and then dying from coronavirus. Not to get too doom and gloom...

In every disaster film you’ve ever seen, corporate greed turns any calamity into a disaster by sheer selfishness and stupidity. From the mayor in Jaws to the lackeys fronting the Weyland-Yutani Corporation in Aliens, movies make us understand that the quickest way for it all to go to hell is to leave greedy bastards in charge. Today comedian Matt Brown joins us from his quarantine bunker/ sex dung...

Economic and health uncertainty aside, many folks are stressed out during the Coronavirus Pandemic because they unexpectedly find themselves at home with nothing to do. For kids who grew up in the tropics, this self isolation is very much like when hurricanes would hit and force us to stay at home. Today my sister-in-law, Talia Fernós, Doctor of Mathematics, joins us to talk about her childhood ex...

During difficult times, we usually turn to movies and entertainment to escape our problems, but the most popular films on streaming websites right now are ironically films about pandemics and apocalypses. So maybe there’s hope. Maybe we are learning a thing or two about surviving end times but besides knowing that you gotta shoot a zombie in the head, what can these films teach us? Today film fana...

2020 has been a rough year for RuPaul: first her Netflix series AJ and the Queen gets canceled, then DragCon and Drag Race Live in Vegas are postponed because of the coronavirus, and then allegations of sexual predatory behavior against contestant Sherry Pie threatens to derail season 12 of VH1’s RuPaul’s Drag Race. And if that wig of misfortune is stacked high enough already, in a recent intervie...

Ageism affects everyone at different times of their lives. When you're young, no one takes you seriously or they tell you to wait your turn and when you’re old, you are sometimes dismissed as useless or you simply become invisible to others. A few months ago, comedian Sam Pancake appeared on a talk show where he talked about how some young people have such a fear of getting older that they’d rathe...

During the worldwide coronavirus pandemic, folks are encouraged to stay home and self isolate to keep the virus from spreading and hurting the most vulnerable. So now you're stuck at home- now what? It’s a great time to explore the wonders of your mind and soul, from stress baking, to launching erotic crowdfunding sites to streaming drag shows from your bedroom. Today Marc Felion’s cast-mate from...