Charlene Unger and Her Big Christmas Poinsettias

Feast of Fun: Gay Talk Show

Fausto Fernós

Comedy Interviews, Tv & Film, Comedy, Tv Reviews, Documentary, Society & Culture

4.4 • 831 Ratings

🗓️ 12 December 2022

⏱️ 86 minutes

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Summary

Nothing says Christmas like quite Charlene Unger, a demented housewife from Berwyn, Illinois whose bubbly enthusiasm for singing in her nightgowns is paired beautifully with her obsession for growing poinsettias.

Created by comedian Peter Mohawk in the 80s, Charlene was a huge fixture in Chicago’s entertainment scene, appearing on Oprah with Cyndi Lauper, in a Cooking Drag Queen TV show pilot with William Shatner and even featured on the cover of *NSYNC’s final album “Celebrity.”

Today Peter Mohawk looks back on his career as Charlene Unger as we talk about Chicago’s nightclub and comedy scene in the 90s, sharing a dressing room with Patrick Swayze, and her obsession with poinsettias as a kooky old lady from Berwyn, Illinois.

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Episode #3060

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0:00.0	Nothing says Christmas quite like Charlene Unger, a demented housewife from Berwyn, Illinois, whose bubbly
0:23.6	enthusiasm for singing in her nightgowns is paired beautifully with her obsession for growing
0:29.6	Ponsetians.
0:30.6	Created by comedian Peter Mohawk in the 1980s, Charlene was a huge fixture in Chicago's
0:36.6	entertainment scene, appearing on Oprah
0:39.5	with Cindy Lopper, in a cooking drag queen TV show pilot with William Shatner, and even featured
0:45.6	on the cover of InSync's final album, Celebrity.
0:49.5	Today, Peter Mohawk looks back on his career as Charlene Unger as we talk about Chicago's nightclub and comedy scene of the 90s,
0:58.2	artificial intelligence art and drag queens, sharing a dressing room with Patrick Swayze and her obsession with Poinsettias as a cookie old lady from Berwyn, Illinois.
1:09.9	I'm Fausto Furnos.
1:11.3	I'm Mark Fillion.
1:12.6	And this is Feast of Fun.
1:16.2	Before we begin, let's listen to
1:18.5	Charlene Unger singing about her
1:20.7	favorite holiday Christmas.
1:24.1	Christmas comes but once a year
1:26.6	and 70 o'clock will see. I want to believe you with me. Christmas comes but once a year and Santa Claus will still be.
1:29.3	I want a boogie, wubby, wubby.
1:31.3	I got a buggy wogie wooky.
1:34.3	I got a boogie, wunky, wunky, wuggy the Christmas Day.
1:39.3	Hello! I'm Charlene Unger NGER from Vermont, Illinois.
1:45.0	And you know Santa is so busy right now with all those boys and girls on his nice list
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