Feast of Fun: Gay Talk Show

She looks like Dusty Springfield, sounds like Carol Channing and speaks like Bernie Sanders- it’s Lady Bunny– the queen who comes with no trigger warning because if you’re not already shooketh, you’re not paying attention. Lately, Bun-Bun feels like the world’s too negative on social media and that it’s too easy to get down in the dumps in this political climate, so sometimes you just gotta find y...

Like a real life Carrie Bradshaw in Sex in the City, Dina Nina Martinez writes about her romantic life, but instead of being Jewish New Yorker with a passion for Manolo Blahnik shoes, Dina’s a sexy texy-mexi-trans-terminatrix who likes to tell jokes. Today, Dina Nina Bonina Osama Bin Laden Brown Martinez joins us for her birthday to take a look at putting her dating life as a trans latinx woman on...

It’s been almost a decade since Bebe Zahara Benet, the drag queen from Cameroon became the first America’s Next Drag Superstar on RuPaul’s Drag Race. Since then, she’s been traveling the world and rocking the house boots down with her music. Bebe has a brand new single “Get Fierce” – a lighthearted track that encourages people to celebrate who they are. Listen as Bebe Zahara Benet talks about her...

Daphne Dumount done fucked up drag, but it’s all right, because drag is all about shaking things up (or down.) This Saturday, here in Chicago at The Call, Marc’s pulling Daphne Dumount out of storage and putting her to work. But is she really ready for it? Today, comedian Cody Melcher joins us to to look at common mistakes drag queens make and what are some easy tricks to dazzle the audience into...

One of the best things happen when crazy TV shows become popular is the fans grab a hold of past episodes and remix them into hilarious, brilliant works of art. This season’s new changes have prompted other fans to say RuPaul’s Drag Race has fucked up RuPaul’s Drag Race, but that’s okay, because one of the best things about drag is the ability to f*ck shit up. Today, video editor and insta-stud Le...

Spoiler alert! It broke our hearts to see blond bombshell Jaymes Mansfield be the first contestant to go home on RuPaul’s Drag Race Season 9. But things aren’t over yet for this gal from Wisconsin- she’s still putting out great work in her LGBT pop culture web series Drag Herstory and she makes her Cooking with Drag Queens debut where we make a Beauty and the Beast Princess Doll Cake. Today, Jayme...

We’ve all had dates that went horribly wrong, but then later, as we tell our friends about the bad romance over and over again it becomes comedy gold. Today, comedian Zach Zimmerman joins us to talk about his new show “The Twink on the Fire Escape,” an interactive performance pub crawl through Chicago’s Boystown where he tells the hair-raising story of a date with a young blond guy that ended with...

Since Lady Gaga tweeted her support for RuPaul’s Drag Race many years ago, fans have been clamoring to get Mother Monster on Mama Ru’s show. Well hold on to your weaves hennies, cause on the season premiere, Lady Gaga walks into the workroom like any other contestant to join the 13 queens (and one mysterious 14th goil). It’s a huge win for drag queens and for RuPaul’s Drag Race, and it beautifully...

For many LGBT folks in the past, hearing other people tell their coming out stories was a great source of inspiration for they themselves to finally take the leap out of the closet. Nowadays, it’s not as hard to be out and proud so it’s easy to dismiss the impact someone’s coming out storiy can have on others. Today, comedian Rachel McCartney joins us to take a look at coming out stories, how LGBT...

Audiences had their pitchforks and torches ready to kill the live action Beauty and the Beast over Disney’s inclusion of their first gay character ever. But in the end, the new film was a beast in the box office, roaring into a record breaking opening weekend becoming the biggest ever for the month of March. Did somebody bend unexpectedly? Today, comedian Cody Melcher joins us to take a look at Di...

For many gay men of my generation, we grew up thinking we weren’t just the only gays in the village, but in the whole world. If we had any chance of sleeping with a guy, we thought he would have to be straight, not realizing gay guys come in all kinds of flavors. Today, we take a look at the facts, fantasy and phenomena of gay men having sex with straight identifying men. What’s really going on he...

Forget about Trump’s paranoia that Obama was spying on him through a microwave oven, the tech company We-Vibe just settled a $3.75 million class action lawsuit over storing information about users’ sex toy habits without their knowledge. It just so happens our friend comedian Jeffrey Jay uses the smart vibrator to get intimate with his boyfriend over long distances, and now is wondering what to do...

You know Drag Race season is gearing up when you see fights breaking out all over social media on what is and what isn’t drag. Good god girl, get a grip: it’s all drag! Just because you don’t like what a queen is serving doesn’t mean somebody else finds it’s delicious. Today, drag queen Eva Styles joins us to take a look at some legendary and not so legendary fights drag queens have had over the y...

Jordan Peele’s new satirical comedy horror film Get Out is so good that we had to do another another podcast about it! The other day, we spoke to Zach Stafford, a black guy who finds himself in awkward situations with some of his white family, and today we’re joined by Meg Grunewald, a white gal who enjoys diversity in her romantic life, and whose parents are into hypnosis and brain surgery. Join...

Get Out, the exciting new film by comedian Jordan Peele takes a look at racism and the fetishization of black people by drawing on provocative elements from films like The Manchurian Candidate, The Stepford Wives and Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner? In the film, a white girl brings her black boyfriend home to meet her parents, and while he’s initially apprehensive about being immersed in an all white...

Despite all the amazing advances we’ve made as LGBT folks, many of us feel lonelier than ever. And even though the internet is tying us all together in unprecedented ways, a lot of these digital friendships are virtual and not brick and mortar relationships that stand the test of time. Today, we’re taking a look at why some gay guys are feeling like they’re trapped at a bottom of a rainbow well wh...

On the day that SNL writer Katie Rich was suspended for tweeting that the youngest son of the president “will be this country’s first homeschool shooter,” comedian Shannon Noll was just starting to promote a variety show that placed the boy as sympathetic character in the center of a political comedy. Shannon, who bears a striking resemblance to a young Ellen DeGeneres and to teenage boys everywhe...

Many of our guests, before we start recording, ask us if they can cuss on the podcast and we say “Hell yeah!” I mean F*ck yeah.” But, we discourage it anyway because as good as it feels to let it all out, cussing sometimes keeps people from speaking their minds. Recently Trump’s Public Enemy #1, the BBC, said they’re not f*cking crazy about cussing and decided to look into into why people love to...

The 89th Academy Awards began with a political message to the world as host Jimmy Kimmel asked everyone watching to reach out to one person they disagree with and make America great again. Otherwise, it was a love fest celebrating diversity and freedom. But it all ended with a shocking twist, as presenters Faye Dunaway and Warren Beatty read the wrong envelope and announced La La Land instead of t...

Our friend Amanda Cohen feels comedians are having a hard time dealing with the current political situation because this administration is already such a joke it’s hard to find a new twist to the humor. But hey, if we can’t joke about politics, you can always laugh about silly umlauts or their gross sounding doppelgangers diaereses. Today, Amanda reveals to us that she was invited to attend the se...

The nightmarishly dark images of 16th century Dutch painter Hieronymus Bosch are credited with inspiring countless generations of artists to explore the realms of consciousness to create works that defy the mundane. Recently, a Kansas City art museum discovered one of the Renaissance master’s works in their closet- “The Temptation of St. Anthony,” which portrays the saint surrounded by strange bea...

Cosmopolitan has their heart in the right place— for a major publication, they are pretty cheeky when it comes to giving their readers sexual advice, but for some insane reason, much of that advice will land you in the hospital. Their latest article “The 10 Most Stressful Things About Having a Penis” continues their “50 Shades of Grey” fascination with making your bedroom activities more frisky by...

LGBT folks come in all shapes and colors, even shades of miserable, conservative beige. A gay journalist who says he used to be liberal is now saying he’s ready to come out as conservative, claiming he’s a victim of all the outrage over his article on a alt-right gay scammer whose attempt at pissing people off is putting money in his pocket. Today we’re taking a look at the few but miserable lgbt...

Love is hell! Valentine’s Day is almost upon us and while we are happily in love- it wasn’t always the case. We had to go on some really bad dates and kiss a lot of frogs before finally catching a prince. Today, comedian and former Korean talk show celebrity Vickie Eisenstein, joins us to talk about the weird dates she had while living in Korea. Vickie now performs in the acclaimed Improvised Jane...

The documentary TV series, My Trans American Road Trip, follows Abigail Austen – the first British Army officer to complete gender reassignment surgery from male to female – as she travels to North Carolina to investigate their controversial bathroom bill. Along the way, she met our friend, comedian Jeffrey Jay and his dad Mark (poppa Jay) who got a lot of attention for being loveable and for his...