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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 what it takes to be America’s Next Drag Superstar.In LA most recording sessions take place by the pool.Last year, on a whim, her boyfriend Sharon Needles also sent in a tape, and not only got on the show, she won and is now one of the world’s most celebrated drag queens.What happens to two drag queens in love when one of them becomes a superstar?Today making their first interview together is Sharon Needles and his lover Alaska Thunderfuck, to talk about their relationship, their spooky Haus of Haunt and who wears the stilettos around the house.Listen as Sharon Needles takes us behind the scenes of the recording of her de

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 commemorate the landing, and they chose three yellow stars and a blue and red spiked mohawk.Today we’re joined by the very equally handsome and charming comedian Matteo Lane, who we think would make a great boyfriend for the hunky scientist, if he already wasn’t taken.Join us as we drool over NASA’s new hot nerd, overcoming the awkwardness of drawing nude models in art school and why older female singers laugh when they run out of breath in their songs.MATTEO LANE: https://twitter.com/MatteoLanePlus--➤ RuPaul announces the upcoming cast of her best-of show, Drag Race All-Stars, which includes Mimi Imfurst.➤ Professional dingba

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 in L.A. We’re hoping today’s show gives her all the luck she needs.Listen as we take a look back at Cameron’s appearances on the podcast and how her beautiful brand of personalized comedy has influenced many people here in town.➤ Florida Lt. Gov. Jennifer Carroll thinks she looks nothing like Queen Latifah or Wanda Sykes.Join us for this and all the hot news–➤ The world’s heaviest woman loses 100 lbs with a sexy diet.➤ The man with the world’s largest manhood gets groped by the TSA.➤ Find out why FL Lt. Gov. Jennifer Carroll says “Women That Look Like Me” are not lesbians.____________________LOVE FEAST OF FUN? LISTEN

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 and shout hallelujah!Today Latrice Royale talks to us about her long bumpy road to becoming a drag queen superstar, her sexy prison stories and all the behind the scenes dirt we didn’t get to see on RuPaul’s Drag Race. The shade of it all!What are the origins of her catchphrases, “Eat It!” and “Jesus is a biscuit, let him sop you up?”Listen as Latrice talks about her her evangelist mom, and how the black church is now embracing gays, lesbians, trans folks and drag queens.How does she manage to see the sunny side of life and give back so much love to her fans?Plus all your questions!ACCESS THOUSANDS OF LEGENDARY FEAST O

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 condom or at least some harm reduction in their sexual activities.Today we’re joined by Ryan Broussard, a hunky guy working in HIV testing and education here in Austin for The C.A.R.E. Program, his specialty is risk reduction.CARE PROGRAM: http://www.careprogram.org/Listen as we talk about Ryan’s sexy adventures in testing people in bathhouses, the phenomenon of people getting horny when they hear their negative HIV test results and cheeking a condom on a beer bottle.Plus–➤ A new study says women have a lot more orgasms at the gym while working out than you think.➤ Six months after the repeal of Don’t Ask Don’t Tell, a n

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 Soileu’s creative genius but which one will ultimately gain control? Two queens enter, one queen leaves.Today Paul joins us to talk about Christeene’s upcoming debut album, and winning Barcelona’s gay film festivals award for best actor for his work in director Kyle Henry’s film “Fourplay: Tampa.”Join us as we talk with Paul about his sex life as a famous drag queen, touring Europe and what do you call a hillbilly if they live in a swamp?Plus--➤ People just wanted to vote for pizza, not Herman Cain. Pizza for President 2012!➤ Kermit and Miss Piggy’s social impact on acceptance for unusual couples.➤ Queer Bomb – why does Aus

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 and poisonous cobras.The Honey Badger video went viral with over 21 million views on YouTube alone, making Randall an overnight sensation and inserting fabulous catch phrases such as “Honey Badger don’t care, honey badger doesn’t give a shit” into everyday conversations.Today we’re talking with Randall himself over the phone from his home on the west coast about his love of animals and why he chooses to be so mysterious.Listen as Randall opens up about his love life, his past frustrations as a Off Off Broadway playwright and what life is like after hitting viral success.Plus,➤ What kind of animal does Randall like in

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 person or is she trying to put us under her drag-notic spell?Join us today as we talk with the hilarious Coco Peru. Coco’s put together a brand new one woman show, “There Comes a Time” where she looks back at 20 years of being a drag queen entertainer and gives us a peek into her future.Listen as we talk with Coco about her shocking near death experience as a teenager, before he came out to his parents, the impact of reality TV shows on solo performers, the power of dragnosis and why there will be so many puking scenes in Girls Will Be Girls 2012.Plus– Caution Exotic Animals- a man sets a zoo of wild animals loose and

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 dynamic comedy trifecta.We heard that after this photo was taken, Evie Harris had a three way with Shields and Yarnell. Photo by Dennis Hensley.The entire project was a way for openly gay TV writer Richard Day and his friend Jack Plotnick to vent their fRustrations as gay men working in Hollywood.Although Girls will be Girls was a hit with critics and audiences, the making of a sequel was cost prohibitive. Now, thanks to digital video cameras and fundraising tools like Kickstarter, fans raised the funds needed to create the apocalyptic sequel coming out next year: Girls Will be Girls 2012.Today we are joined by Jack Plot

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 Ciccone and Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta back to a French immigrant farming couple who came to Quebec in the 1600s.So where does Celine Dion sit in the family reunion? Our guess, the kids table.Congratulations Don Lemon! Don also has great taste in neckties.Join us for this an all the hot news CNN Anchor Don Lemon comes out of the closet as a gay man in his new book Transparent. Jon Hamm bangs his nuts against Jimmy Fallon on SNL as the real life Ambiguously Gay Duo. Local paper confuses drag queen Coco Peru for comedian Kathy Griffin. A British 12 year old boy wears a skirt to school because boys aren’t allowed t

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 and cows.Joan claims her menagerie of animals love her music and we do too! We love hearing her animals bark and moo along in a wonderfully wacky chorus to her music. It’s just a matter of time before Joan’s wild videos become a viral hit.While her husband works a long hard day in a chicken processing plant, Joan also jams on the piano with her mom, who she calls momma Kat, or is it her cat named momma cat? We’re not sure.Listen as Madame Joan talks about her creative life as a video blogger, eating beaver and singing telegrams as Elva, Elvis’ kissing cousin who taught him everything he knows.Joan also pulls out the ac

"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.comShe’s a lost child, with the soul of killer shark, chomping through preconceptions of drag and entertainment, and audiences everywhere love it.Christeene just got back from from sold-out shows in Paris, New York and San Francisco. She’ll be performing at SXSW and her new video single “Bustin’ Brown” about the birth canal and the booty will be featured as part of SXSW Midnight shorts.Join us as Paul talks about how Christeene is taking over his life and soon will take over yours.Plus– ➤ Austin has a Queer Bomb. Dissatisfied with the organizer’s attempts to over-commercialize Pride, alternative LGBT folks started their own celebration

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 discovering her friend’s secret sex dungeon.How will the White House top last year's ginormous AIDS Ribbon this year?It’s December 1, World AIDS Day, and to mark the occasion, many celebrities have signed off social media to raise money for AIDS, declaring themselves dead, at least on the internet.The goal is to raise a million dollars to bring the celebs back from the dead but how much to keep Kim Karsashian from ever going back on Twitter again?It’s also the first day to vote for Feast of Fun in the 2010 People’s Choice Podcast Awards in the “Best GLBT” category and the top prize of the “People’s Choice.” We can’t win without

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 and share with us the sexy highlights of our weekend trip.Plus the hot news:➤ A British soap opera star is gay bashed for playing a gay character on TV.➤ What do you do if you catch your friend shopping at Target?➤ The Peruvian Origins of Coco Peru’s name and Yma Sumac, the 60’s chanteuse who made a resurgence in the 1990s.____________________FEAST OF FUN IS MADE POSSIBLE BECAUSE OF FABULOUS PEOPLE LIKE YOU.LISTEN TO THOUSANDS LEGENDARY SHOWS 
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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 as Coco talks with us about the status of her Spanish marriage after the repeal of Prop 8 in California, hustling for an audience in Provincetown and if there will ever be a sequel to the camp classic “Girls Will Be Girls.”To see if Coco Peru is performing in your town, check out her online calendar.http://cocoperu.com/calendar/Plus all the hot news-➤ San Francisco drag queen Heklina loses her lawsuit against Trannyshack UK for copyright infringement. As a result, she might even have to pay them to use her own name. ➤ Nakations, or naked vacations are all the rage. How do you deal with a boner at the beach?➤ Dr. Laura’

Watch out! Christeene is driving her way to you.https://christeenemusic.comPaul Soileau’s drag character is exploding across the South, exploding onstage with her back up dancers as they spill out a hot mix of raw sexual shamlessness and original rap music. Is it too much to say that Christneene might replace Britney Spears as the new pop sensation from Louisiana?Today we continue our shows from the heart of Texas with gender bending drag terrorist Paul Soileau. Paul shares with us his journey becoming both the outrageous Christeene and his other drag alter-ego, the more conservative Rebbecca Havemeyer.Listen as Paul chats with us about Christeene’s chaotic sensibilities, his videos banned from YouTube that are making sites like Funny or Die rich, and the crazy things they eat in the bayou.Plus hot news:➤ A prankster overtakes WallMart’s intercom system, announcing “all black people must leave immediately.”➤ Ampo, Indonesia’s soil snack food, eaten for generations in the village of Tuban, really is soil bak

Deep in the mountains of rural Tennessee there is a thriving, vibrant network of communities of queer people whose origins go back to the beginnings of the modern gay rights movement with the Radical Faeries.Planet IDA, Short Mountain Sanctuary and Pumpkin Hollow are just some of the places where folks live in an open and free environment with the goal of stimulating personal growth and creativity.Today we’re talking to two well known residents of IDA, Tom Foolery and Maxzine Weinstein from the Eggplant Faerie Players, the community’s traveling performance group.What were you doing a week after Sept. 11, 2001? I was hanging out with Bitch in the mountains of Tenn. in drag Fausto and Marc share a kiss, Faerie Gathering at Short Mountain, Tennessee- May 1, 1999. Fausto at the 1999 Faerie Gathering, Short Mountain, TennesseeWe met Maxzine and Tom 11 years ago on the first night of the Feast of Fools Cabaret, the live performance series that gave rise to this podcast you’re listening to right now-Feast of Fun.Lis

While we never had a chance to talk to Carrie Fisher on the podcast, we did get the opportunity to talk to her mother, Debbie Reynolds.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 he

Put on your party hats! We’re throwing a grand celebration with some of our favorite guests from the show’s 11 year history, and you’re invited.Feast of Fun began as Feast of Fools, an artist’s variety show in Chicago, Illinois. Today it’s the world’s most downloaded talk show for a gay and lesbian audience. We just might be the first podcast to ever post 1000 consecutive shows. Yeow!How did we get here? Come take a walk with us down memory lane as we look back on over a thousand podcasts.Three's a charm! Marc Felion, Silky Jumbo and Taylor E Ross Fausto Performing at the Feast of Fools, April 1, 1999. Marc Felion and Fausto FernosListen as we talk to some of the show’s first performers, drag queens, musicians and colorful people who’s creative energies have made it all possible.Has the internet changed how we interact in public spaces or merely given us a new tool to bring people together?Are we using this new media to its fullest potential or are we just begging to scratch the surface?We have Jim Pickett, S

Comedian Esteban Andres Cruz, best known for his appearances in the Harold and Kumar Films joins us to talk about his solo show “Stuffed” is a collection of hilarious songs and stories about growing up gay in a macho super jock Puerto Rican household in Cicero,on the west side of Chicago.