Feast of Fun: Gay Talk Show

Horror films are inherently ridiculous– besides the notion that whenever teenagers have sex they have to be immediately killed by a supernatural monster, the idea of a sustained drama where dread and tension are rolled into moral themes seems over the top. But like cheesy haunted houses, people can’t get enough of their favorite horror films. Today’ we’re on a double date with Peaches Christ and B...

Lady Gaga is back on TV, and this time around she’s not wearing Kermit the Frog, she’s singing duets with him and all the Muppets. On Thanksgiving night, Lady Gaga stars in a 90-minute special with the Muppets featuring Elton John, Joseph Gordon Levitt and RuPaul. Today we’re giving you a real sneak peak into Gaga’s holiday special with the dirt on the show you won’t hear about anywhere else. Gaga...

One of our favorite guests is Coco Peru, best known for her hilarious appearances in the films Too Wong Foo and Trick where she famously says “It BURNS!” As a drag entertainer, Coco Peru’s career has spanned decades, from the height of the AIDS crisis to the battle for Marriage Equality. Today, Coco Peru joins us to talk about her upcoming one woman show in Chicago and her live talk show series wi...

Is comedian Evan Williams gay? Do you really want to know the answer? Sometimes when we have a sexy gay guy on the show, he nervously brings a friend along to keep us from hitting on him. Nice try Matteo, it never works. Today the hilarious, Matteo Lane joins us with his hunky, muscular friend Evan Williams to talk about their rising careers as comedians in New York City or maybe Matteo brought Ev...

It’s been an incredible year so far for Jinkx Monsoon and Alaska Thunderfuck from RuPaul’s Drag Race. Right now these two drag queens are in the top 5 of this season of Drag Race and they are our personal picks for America’s Next Drag Superstar, or Miss Congeniality. Baked Alaska with Monsoon sauced. Alaska has been best known up until now as the boyfriend of Sharon Needles, the current reigning A...

It’s hard to believe, but even some of the most attractive people hate having their picture taken. It’s also good to also practice your “cut a bitch” look in front of a mirror. And in this digital age, everyone is taking photos of everybody all the time, making us feel like cover girls with pimples on our faces. Today the hilarious Matteo Lane joins us to talk about looking marvelous, taking photo...

Moving to New York has come with quite a few challenges for comedian Matteo Lane. With the recent hurricane and the tough comedy scene Matteo feels he’s treading water. But, one of the side benefits of living in a six story walk up apartment is that his butt has gotten a whole lot more bootylicious. So what’s he doing with his newfound badunkadunk? Is the junk in trunk landing him a hunk or is he...

Of all our senses, smell may well be the most emotionally powerful. It isn’t just about detecting what’s cooking on the stove or who dealt that silent but deadly fart, smell allows our minds to connect with memories from the past, to quickly assess danger and is key to the way we think about how things taste. Considering how important the sense of smell is, you’d think more people would pay closer...

Before cats ruled the internet, Hollywood had always been in love with all the animals, the same way they love their celebrites. One of the very first films ever made was a horse galloping, straight to the glue factory! Like their human counterparts, some of the animals in Hollywood have led pretty awesome lives, but other animal’s stories are filled with exploitation, imposters and depressing dea...

We absolutely fell in love with comedian Matteo Lane, a triple threat of comedy, opera singing and commercial illustration. Effortlessly zipping from Liza Minnelli impersonations to sassy gay banter, Matteo’s funny bone is as hard as a rock. Today we say bon voyage to Matteo Lane, as he’s moving to New York City for his job, but what he’s really excited about is working the comedy scene in the Big...

Alaska Thunderfuck is no ordinary drag queen. For years, along with her lover and drag sister Sharon Needles, she’s brought an otherworldly sensibility to the clubs of Pittsburgh with her enormous platinum blond hair and punk rock inspired makeup. Since the very beginning of RuPaul’s Drag Race, Alaska sent in her audition tapes, working hard to convince the producers of the show that she’s got wha...

As the NASA rover Curiosity landed safely on Mars, on Earth a new star was born: Bobak Ferdowsi, the mission controller who has everyone’s hearts a flutter with his unusual star studded mohawk, athletic body and good looks. Maybe the mohawk had something to do with Marvin the Martian. Changing his hair for every mission, the dark and handsome scientist asked his team to pick a new look to commemor...

One of our all time popular guests is comedian Cameron Esposito, whom we affectionately call “American’s Lesbian Sweetheart.” After making a big impact in Chicago’s comedy incubation chamber, Cameron has flown the coop to Los Angeles, to widen her horizons. Unfortunately, we never got a chance to properly say goodbye before she left, and now Cameron is back in town after a few snags settling down...

Latrice Royale’s name may sound like an extra special ice-cream sundae but this queen is the full meal deal. Audiences are hungry for more of this fan favorite from RuPaul’s Drag Race. Even though she’s encountered many hardships in life, nothing has stopped Latrice Royale from pursuing her dreams with an incredible sense of humor and hearty laugh. Latrice Royale makes you want to clap your hands...

After Austin has settled down from the SXSW festivities, the people here like in many other spring break towns are left to clean things up, including a sharp rise in sexually transmitted diseases. Yeow! People in the field think of SXSW as SXSW-STI. Thats Sexually Transmitted Infections. One of the biggest challenges in public health comes after a big festival like SXSW, getting people to use a co...

Inside Paul Soileau there are two very different drag queens. One is an angel, the friendly Rebecca Havemeyer, an aristocratic southern belle that gets invited to all the fabulous parties. The other is a devil, the repugnant Christeene, a wildly insane hot mess who tears it up on stage with her rapid fire songs, spitting like a cobra to an adoring audience. Both are fabulous and part of Paul Soile...

One of the biggest hits of the past year has been Randall’s Wild Wild World of Animals, a series of wildlife videos on sharks, bullfrogs, sloths and honey badgers all narrated by the fabulously gay Randall. In his most popular video, “The Crazy Nasty Ass Honey Badger,” Randall chronicles one of the cutest and most fearless creatures in the Animal Kingdom as it goes about its day devouring beehives...

Let’s face it, not a lot of drag queens are the sweetest of sweethearts but Coco Peru, she’s a very nice person. We had an awesome time last summer hanging out with Coco Peru, the star of such loved campy films as Trick and Girls Will Be Girls. All throughout the weekend, everybody wondered why she kept saying that people always tell her “she’s a very nice person.” Is Coco Peru really a very nice...

One of the most beloved films featuring drag queens of all time is Girls Will Be Girls, where three actresses at various stages on the Hollywood food chain navigate the minefield of love, aging and ambition. The film features the raunchy ensemble of Coco Peru, Varla Jean Merman and Evie Harris, all drag queens who had separate careers but were brought together like Charlies Angels to create a dyna...

If you thought Lady Gaga’s song Born this Way sounded a lot like Madonna’s Express Yourself, it may in the blood. Celebrity genealogist Chris Childs has traced the family linage of both the Material Girl and Momma Monster, and it turns out that Lady Gaga and Madonna are real life kissing cousins, more specifically ninth cousins once removed. Childs traced the relations of Madonna Louise Veronica C...

All Hail Queen Joan, the boogie woogie queen from the Bayou! We are thrilled to have discovered musician Joan Atwell’s YouTube channel, Ivory Tickler Mama, where she plays love songs on her accordion to all the animals on her farm. Think of Joan as the horse whisperer but instead of whispering to the horses she’s banging on her accordion and wailing out her favorite ditties to all the cats, dogs a...

"She's a very freaky girl, the kind you don't take home to momma." When we told our listeners that we were going to Austin, Texas, everyone said “Bring back Christeene,” one of the trashiest drag queens in the Southwest. The creation of Paul Soileau, Christeene rose out of the skanky waters of Hurricane Katrina like a greasy Venus floating in a garbage can. https://christeenemusic.com She’s a lost...

The point of formal wear is to make everyone look good, but for some people, wearing a gender specific outfit makes their skin crawl. Our comedian friend Cameron Esposito recently took a lipstick bullet and femmed it up for her sister’s wedding, with hilarious results. Today, Cameron joins us to talk about hosting a burlesque show, life in the circus and her Nancy Drew like experience of discoveri...

What a fabulous weekend we had at the Dunes Resort in Saugatuck, Michigan, the Fire Island of the Midwest. Hundreds of gay men, queens, daddies and studs came to check out Coco Peru’s fabulous live show at the resort, and there wasn’t a dry seat in the house. Joining us today is full-time professor and part-time drag queen Larry La Fountain. Larry is here to give us his review of Coco Peru’s show...

It’s always a good time with Coco Peru, the drag queen best known for her work in the films Trick, Too Wong Foo and Girls Will Be Girls, as well as her unforgettable appearance on TV’s Will and Grace. Coco is traveling across the world performing her fabulous show and we have her on the phone today from the gay mecca of Provincetown. We’re crazy for Coco Peru, and we know you will be too. Join us...