Feast of Fun: Gay Talk Show

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 Fernos

Listen 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, Silky Jumbo, Taylor E Ross, Victoria Lamarr, Jamie Williamson, Adam Guerino, Jason Smith and Johnny Dangerous.

Hilarious clips from years past, celebrity testimonials from: Coco Peru, Glenn Packard, Jim Verraros, Kate Clinton, Cameron Esposito, Madonna, Peaches Christ, Ronnie Kroell and many more!

Plus voice mail from you, the listeners. Thank you for all your support. We couldn’t have reached this milestone without you.

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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.

Out of Africa and onto American television- Bebe Zahara Benet is on today show!

As the front runner in RuPaul’s Drag Race, she’s captured our hearts with her glamorous embrace of the “untamed beauty” and brought a delicious African flair to the show.

Will Bebe be America’s Next Drag Superstar?

Trading the wilds of Africa for the Midwestern prairie, Bebe left her homeland of Cameroon West Africa to pursue a more creative life in the U.S.

Bebe fell into drag at a runway show when some female models didn’t show up. They quickly needed someone as a replacement, and the high-fashion ladies dresses fit Bebe like Cinderella’s slipper so she sashayed and shantayed down the runway and made drag history.

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Listen as we talk about how everything will change if she does indeed win the coveted title, and whether or not she had any second thoughts on being on a TV show that pits drag queen against drag queen.

Can You Find Cameroon on the map of Africa?Can RuPaul find Cameroon on a map? Can you?

Getting the love and support you need from your family.

Embracing the drag queen inside you.

Bebe shares with us her secret recipe on how to “cook your face.” No, it’s not a cannibal thing, it’s a make up application technique.

Plus questions from you our listeners via Facebook!

Why did we change our name from Feast of Fools to Feast of Fun? This podcast on March 13, 2009 explained the name change. Enjoy!

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It’s time to bring on the Samba or lay some blame on the Bossa Nova. We’ve got a gay fun show for you today with live music by Chicago Jazz singer Solitaire Miles and Brazilian guitarist Paulinho Garcia.

Solitaire grew up with me in Erie Pennsylvania, and now she’s working the new media to expand her music and photo illustration career. Solitaire hosts the popular jazz and art related podcast called Tones, where she interviews artists and musicians. She’s also a star on flickr and Deviant Art for her romantic photo illustrations which have been used on the covers of romance novels.

Paulinho Garica and Solitaire MilesPaulino Garcia came from sunny Brazil to the Windy City to be part of the thriving jazz scene and share his easy going sound with the American audience.

Listen as Solitaire and Paulinho bring some jazzy Brazilian flavor to the show, singing songs about love, ducks and Cintura Fina, a real-life Brazilian Ninja Tranny Street Fighter.

A teenage lesbian sues her high school after her principal refused to allow her to wear a tux to the prom. Are we living in the 1950s where a woman could be arrested if she wasn’t wearingthree pieces of woman’s clothing?

If anyone has ever told you what you do in bed is not natural, then they’ve not been watching monkeys lately. Nine to Mine is a website dedicated to documenting all the kinky sexual acts that monkeys do which make us humans look pretty tame by comparison.

A boy with two penises underwent surgery to convert the two penises into one penis. Is it better to have one big penis or two smaller ones?

Everybody’s changing their name! What you talkin’ ’bout Willis? After 34 years the Sears Tower, the second-tallest free-standing structure in the Americas is changing its name to the Willis Tower to welcome the new London Based Willis Group Holdings as a tennant.

Feast of Fun iTunes icon - March 2009 After 11 years, we’re changing the name of the site and the podcast to reflect upcoming changes and expanded programming. Say hello to Feast of Fun, a delicious daily mix of news, trends and interviews with a spicy gay twist.

Pull up a plate and grab a helping of the Feast of Fun.

FEATURED MUSIC:
🎵 Solitaire Miles:
https://geo.music.apple.com/us/artist/solitaire-miles/251953954?mt=1&app=music&at=10laC9

🎵 Paulinho Garcia:
https://geo.music.apple.com/us/artist/paulinho-garcia/290695827?mt=1&app=music&at=10laC9
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Boing boing! Gigi Deluxe, Chicago’s glamor-puss is here to talk about her new collaboration with House of Bias, a fashion forward clothing line specializing in clothes made out of rubber latex.

GIGI DELUXE: https://www.facebook.com/GigiDeLuxe

Think it’s too kinky for you? The clothing line hopes to mainstream latex-wear for everyone, touting the form-flattering benefits of the rubbery garments.

What’s it like to make and wear clothes made out of rubber, and where do you go to get them dry cleaned?

Listen as Gigi talks about starting her new video blog, her fan page on Facebook, fighting medical fraud and pulling a grocery cart filled with canned goods for charity in the Chiditarod race.

➤ Dr. Manhattan shows a lot of his cock in the movie Who’s watching the Watchmen? Everyone. The film adaptation of the popular graphic novel so far has scored this year’s biggest box office opening knocking Madea Goes to Jail from the Top Spot.

➤ The Watchmen Condom– will it make your rod big and blue?

➤ Fausto Gives Coco Peru a Big Hug We got to hang out with Coco Peru this weekend at TPAN’s Chicago Takes Off. As guests of Steamworks, we had a blast watching all the sexy guys and gals shimmy and shake. As Coco said, “we were all perverts” and boy did it feel good.

Click here to see hilarious photos from the event: http://flickr.com/photos/feastoffools/sets/72157615058371622/

➤ Octomom’s publicist quits because she says she’s nuts. Now she notices? Where has she been?

➤ DNA radio- a website dedicated to creating an audio visual representation of the human genome has launched an audio stream of all 3 billion sequences that make up human DNA, but can you dance to it?

Outrageous, bold and honest, that’s Coco Peru! Everybody’s favorite drag queen from the Bronx is on today’s show to talk about her career, her love life and drag queens.

Coco is best know for her work in the films Trick and Girls Will Be Girls, as well as an unforgettable appearance on the groundbreaking TV show Will and Grace.

Listen as Coco talks about how she came up with her famous catchphrase “It Burns” from the film Trick and how she was devastated after filming it because she thought nobody would find her funny.

Coca started doing drag because she “wanted to change the world and make everybody love gay people.” Now she’s just trying to get by, but what happened along the way? One thing’s for sure, everybody who sees Coco loves Coco, especially her mother who takes her gray haired gal pals to see her drag show.

Miss Coco Peru Coco Peru Coco Peru Coco Peru in the film "Girls Will be Girls" Coco Peru in Concert

Matt from Mary's Attic takes it off for charityCoco’s coming to Chicago on March 7 to the Park West as part of the Chicago Takes Off, the annual burlesque revue-style show that benefits Test Positive Aware Network, an organization that empowers people living with HIV through peer-led support and advocacy.

See you there!

This is a burlesque show, so will Coco show some skin? We’ll have to wait to find out but if Coco won’t take it all off, you can at least see your favorite bartenders take it off on Bar-lesque. If you donate enough money, they’ll go all the way down to a fig leaf.

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In the latest episode of RuPaul’s Drag Race, the reality TV show created to produce the next drag superstar, one of the contestants, Ongina, tearfully revealed she was HIV positive.

Today we’re talking to Ongina, also known as Ryan Palao, about what it was like to boldly share this intimate detail with millions of viewers and how it’s affected his life.

Ongina also clarifies some common misconceptions people have about drag queens, gay men and Filipinos and brings some sass and class into our discussion on how costumes help us be the people we want to be.

Ongina shares with us her behind-the-scenes insight into whether Rebbecca Glasscock was trying to manipulate the outcome of the challenge in her favor by having an emotional breakdown which forced the judges to keep her on the show and get rid of Chicago’s gal, Jade.

How could the show kick someone off after they cried about having a friend with AIDS without appearing to be heartless jerks?

One thing’s for sure, after winning half of the challenges on the show so far, Ongina is the girl to lick!

Ongina Ongina Ongina Ongina

I’ve asked several drag queens why they didn’t try to be on the Drag Race, since obviously it would have been great publicity and opened a lot of doors. They said they feared that drag queens would be negatively represented on the show and decided to steer clear of it.

It doesn’t make any sense to me. If RuPaul told me to jump on an airplane, fly to Los Angeles and walk the runway in drag, I’d do it in second. And so should you.

What makes these types of TV shows so fascinating to watch is how they illustrate the obstacles we all place in front of ourselves because we fear being rejected. We put those roadblocks in our way because we’re afraid to look at where we’ve failed. We feel that we aren’t good enough.

What’s probably the most uncomfortable for the contestants is how the program asks them to take the wig and makeup off, and look in a mirror. The show asks us to embrace our strength and our flaws. In that sense, RuPaul’s Drag Race and the contestants are all winners.

Listen as we also talk about Ioana Cioanac, the 71 year old Romanian woman who’s knitted an entire wardrobe out of her own hair.

Irish police struggle after they confused the Polish words for Drivers License for 50 different driver’s names- Pradow Jazdy.

Dustin Lance Black at the Oscars.

Talk about giving mixed signals! The City of New York is now offering classes on how to be a better hooker in order to rehabilitate people who’ve been arrested for cruising for sex in a dirty book store.

A big thanks to Iris for hooking us up with Ongina.

Work the runway sweetie! RuPaul is back on television, sashaying and shantaying her way into our hearts in her critically acclaimed new show RuPaul’s Drag Race.

On today’s show we’re talking to Supermodel of the World RuPaul about how the Drag Race project came together and who she thinks is going to be the winner of the show.

“Drag Race” delivers on all six cylinders a lighthearted but touching behind the scenes look at what it takes to become a great drag queen. Borrowing from programs like “Project Runway”, “Big Brother” and “Survivor” RuPaul and her motely crew of drag queens delivers a show that’s a hit with audiences and critics alike.

Join us as we chat with RuPaul about whether there will be a resurgence in drag, what made her cry during the show and what she thinks of Lady Bunny’s sassy comments about Ru’s appearance on Project Runway.



Obama is pissed! Obama is tired of your shit. Before he became our nation’s 44th president, Obama recorded an audio book “Dreams from my Father” where he quoted his foul-mouthed classmate Ray and now bloggers have extracted audio clips with hilarious results. Will Obama’s cussing be this week’s Christian Bale’s freak out? [Thanks to Marcin for the news item!]

We had such a great time at the Equality Illinois Annual Gala dinner on Saturday night. We even got to give a big hug and kiss to openly gay Ron Huberman, the newly appointed CEO of Chicago Public Schools! Marc played it cool, but I couldn’t resist tackling this hot former Chicago police officer. You have the right to remain sexy!

Also on today’s show: Christian Bale apologizes for his outburst and Freedom to Marry Week.

Our nation’s swear jar is overflowing with quarters! Let’s break it open and rescue the economy!

Featured Music:
🎵 RuPaul – Champion: https://geo.music.apple.com/us/album/champion/305840673?mt=1&app=music&at=10laC9

Note: This show is a conversation about Sesame Street podcast for adults. It is intended for people above the age of 18. Everyone is welcome to listen, however there are discussions on social topics, so parental guidance is suggested.

Sesame Street began in 1969 as a result of a question posed at a dinner party: “Could television be used to teach children, could learning be a form of entertainment?”

After forty years, the award winning program not only taught oodles of children how to count and recite the alphabet, but also taught them to embrace diversity and inclusiveness.

Whether black or white, tall and yellow or small and green, everyone had a home on Sesame Street.

We love the muppets because, much like ourselves, they aren’t perfect creatures. We see our own humanity in those furry faces with beady eyes as they deal with problems of everyday life.

Sesame Street showed animals, monsters and people living together and working through their differences, which influenced a huge population of children that eventually grew up to enthusiastically support diversity, technicolor hair and our nation’s first black president.

Street GangOn today’s show we’re talking to author Michael Davis about his book Street Gang: The Complete History of Sesame Street. In his book Michael takes an in-depth look at the groundbreaking program from it’s inception to the present day, covering some interesting behind-the-scenes conflicts which were a part of the creative energy of the show.

Listen as we talk with Michael about hipsters and squares and the program’s counter cultural influence, KAMI, the HIV Positive Monster from South Africa and Bert & Ernie as Gay Icons

Find out how Sesame Street coped with the painful death of Actor Will Lee, who portrayed Mr. Hooper on the show, and the deaths of the behind the scenes masters: puppeteer Richard Hunt from AIDS, musician Joe Raposo from cancer and Muppet founder Jim Henson from toxic shock syndrome.

Plus questions from you, the listeners.

Outrageous, bold and honest, that’s Coco Peru! Everybody’s favorite drag queen from the Bronx is on today’s show to talk about her career, her love life and drag queens.

Coco is best know for her work in the films Trick and Girls Will Be Girls, as well as an unforgettable appearance on the groundbreaking TV show Will and Grace.

Listen as Coco talks about how she came up with her famous catchphrase “It Burns” from the film Trick and how she was devastated after filming it because she thought nobody would find her funny.

Coca started doing drag because she “wanted to change the world and make everybody love gay people.” Now she’s just trying to get by, but what happened along the way? One thing’s for sure, everybody who sees Coco loves Coco, especially her mother who takes her gray haired gal pals to see her drag show.

Miss Coco Peru Coco Peru Coco Peru Coco Peru in the film "Girls Will be Girls" Coco Peru in Concert

Matt from Mary's Attic takes it off for charityCoco’s coming to Chicago on March 7 to the Park West as part of the Chicago Takes Off, the annual burlesque revue-style show that benefits Test Positive Aware Network, an organization that empowers people living with HIV through peer-led support and advocacy.

See you there!

This is a burlesque show, so will Coco show some skin? We’ll have to wait to find out but if Coco won’t take it all off, you can at least see your favorite bartenders take it off on Bar-lesque. If you donate enough money, they’ll go all the way down to a fig leaf.

Everytime you download Feast of Fools podcast, a drag queen gets her wig.

Check out our sponsors:

Steamworks Gym, Sauna and Baths.
Visit Steamwork’s website and register to get a discount
on your next visit. Enter “Feast of Fools” on the promo
code field to get the special discount.

Featured Music:
RevoLucian – Bale Out: MySpace

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