Feast of Fun : Gay Talk Show

Let's take a walk down memory lane of the strange 80s, a time when coked up conservatives ruled every facet of American politics and culture, and our toys were the stuff of nightmares. Joining us today is the fine ass Sith lord of popular culture and all things girly Robyn Pennacchia who writes about culture news and politics for The Frisky.

We are just days way from the most anticipated film premier in a long long time — Star Wars: the Force Awakens where we’re finally getting the gang back together in the further adventures of Luke and Leia, Han and Chewy and R2-D2 & C3-PO, but now we’re adding to the mix Rey, Finn, Poe and BB-8. Today we’re talking about Star Wars, nothing but Star Wars— as the very funny Brian Sweeney, comedian, the Sith Lord of TV and movie trivia joins us to take a look at what the new Star Wars film promises to bring.

Comedian Marla Depew grew up as a Evangelical Fundamentalist, but thankfully her family’s grown to embrace her bisexuality. Marla even bought her mom a vibrator, which got everybody buzzing. Her gal pal Kelly Bolton, loses herself in the colorful world of sketch comedy with one of her more memorable characters, Andy Drogymous, a drag king who writes “Odes to the Bone” – poetry about our favorite things, johnsons. Today we’re double dating with Marla and Kelly, talking about majestic boner poetry and fundamentalist sex kitten moms.

Avast ye mateys! For over 22 years, old salt Karl Ward has been THE Pirate Santa to kids of all ages. In Mexico, where he usually spends his Christmas, he is known as “El Santa Pirata.” He is the front runner on the new reality TV show Santa’s in the Barn, where ten Santa Clauses battle it out in the “ultimate Christmas competition” to become America’s Best Santa. Today we’re joined by the Pirate Santa to talk about why we need to embrace the holiday spirit of giving and love now more than ever.

One of our favorite oddball TV Christmas moments is Pee Wee’s Christmas Special, a star studded hour long event that aired in 1988 at the height of Pee Wee Herman’s popularity. Today we take you inside Pee Wee’s Christmas Special with the she-larious Irene Marquette, who is putting on a holiday extravaganza inspired by Pee Wee Herman’s Holiday Show complete with variety acts and animation in the Curio Show at Chicago’s IO Theater.

As they said on the Simpsons, Christmas is the season where people from all religions come together to celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ. Christmas is like an air raid siren during the holiday season, no matter how hard you try, it’s hard to ignore. Today, gay Jewish rapper Big Dipper joins us to take our insane Christmas quiz. Can you guess which oddball Christmas traditions are real or just really weird?

Big Dipper, our favorite gay bear rapper with Krampus and Le Befana, Italy’s Christmas witch.As they said on the Simpsons, Christmas is the season where people from all religions come together to celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ. Christmas is like an air raid siren during the holiday season, no matter how hard you try, it’s hard to ignore.Today, gay Jewish rapper Big Dipper joins us to take our insane Christmas quiz. Can you guess which oddball Christmas traditions are real or just really weird?Folks in Spain love to have "caganer" figurines of famous figures dropping a hot steamer in their nativity scenes. Plus—➤ You better watch out– our review of the new comedy horror film Krampus. Isn’t all that funny or scary, but still fun to check out. ➤ RuPaul’s low budget Christmas special.➤ Model Paul Mason gets gay men and moms’ heads turning as Fashion Santa at a shopping mall in Toronto.➤ Wu-Tang Clan reveals Big Pharma villain Martin Shkreli paid $2 Million for their new record.➤ Free priority shipping with every t-shirt purchase now until Dec. 15!____________________FEAST OF FUN IS MADE POSSIBLE BECAUSE OF FABULOUS PEOPLE LIKE YOU.LISTEN TO THOUSANDS LEGENDARY SHOWS 
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The War on Christmas has been fought through the ages and been won time and time again, not by the little baby Jesus, but by Santa Claus. Today cultural anthropologist Gerald Cole joins us to discuss the unusual origins of Christmas, the battles over the which traditions to keep, the frightening Krampus and the many other demonic companions to Santa Claus.

CeeCee LaRouge may be one of the hardest working drag queens in the Windy City because she’s part of so many drag families, with 8 pageant titles and dozens of drag daughters and cousins she makes a Mormon compound seem quaintly understaffed. Today we celebrate Puerto Rican Christmas with CeeCee LaRouge, talking about how Puerto Ricans love to celebrate the holidays from Thanksgiving all the way until May.

For the first time ever, there’s Oscar buzz surrounding transgender actresses Mya Taylor and Kitana Kiki Rodriguez, for their amazing portrayals of two best friends working the streets of Los Angeles in the independent film Tangerine. Today, San Francisco drag icon Peaches Christ joins us to take a look at some of our favorite movies featuring sex workers— strippers, gigolos, prostitutes and all those who work hard for the money, so you better treat them right

People were ready to hate-watch NBC’s holiday production of The Wiz Live! but happily gave “no bad news,” instead audiences gave two snaps up for the show’s sizzling costumes, strong performances and return to the Tony Award winning Broadway show, instead of the train wreck 1978 film starring Diana Ross. Today we give you all the juicy parts you might have missed on NBC’s The Wiz live!

Today we’re joined by academic drag queen Summer Clearance, who under the name Domenick Scudera is a professor of theater at Ursinus College in Collegeville, Pennsylvania. Domenick teaches a course on the History of Drag Performance, from Shakespeare to RuPaul, where he gets his students excited about the artform of drag as it “brings into focus issues of identity, authority, agency, gender variance, and masculine/feminine constructs.”

George Lucas commissioned The Star Wars Holiday Special with hopes of keeping the movie fresh in people’s minds while he filmed the Empire Strikes Back. It aired on November 17, 1978 to dismal reviews and is considered by many as one of the most awful and hilarious TV specials of all time. Today we’re talking to comedy writer and gay legend Bruce Vilanch, who worked as a writer for The Star Wars Holiday Special, and also on many lavish, campy TV specials of the 1970s including The Paul Lynde Halloween Special, The Cher Show, and The Brady Bunch Variety Hour.

The best medicine may not always be found at a pharmacy or in a doctor’s office; sometimes it comes in the form of a four-legged friend. When Dogs Heal is a photo essay project that tells the stories of HIV positive people and how their dogs got them through some of life’s darkest moments and helped them discover peace and joy in life. Joining us is writer Zach Stafford, who when he’s not busy exposing injustices he’s finding HIV positive people to interview about their unique relationships to their dogs.

Tis the season to be fabulous with Daveo Falaveo, who many think got his start as adult model due to his risquee photos from his MySpace page when he was barely legal. Today, we’re joined by viral video sensation Daveo Falaveo to talk about his wild videos. Listen as Daveo talks about why it’s hard for YouTube personalities on dating apps and are bullies secretely in love with their victims?