FOF #2642- A Madonna Style Tribute to Aretha Franklin
Feast of Fun: Gay Talk Show
Fausto Fernós
4.4 • 834 Ratings
🗓️ 24 August 2018
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Madonna’s in hot water again for ruining another celebrity tribute at the MTV Video Music Awards. Adorned in jewelry from her children’s home country of Malawi, Madonna presented the Video of the Year Award, and much like her tribute to Prince turned it into a story of herself.
The tribute quickly went off the rails as Madonna told the audience how Aretha Franklin’s song Natural Woman spared her from “being mistaken for a prostitute” living above a crack house in New York City.
Today the hilarious Matt Brown joins us to take a look at the life and music of the Queen of Soul Aretha Franklin – her infamous feuds with Patti Labelle and Dionne Warwick, her insistence on being pad in cold hard cash and why she didn’t leave a will.
MATT BROWN: https://www.mattbrowncomic.com
Plus,
➤ Designer Luke Song talks about Aretha’s iconic Obama Inauguration hat.
➤ Fausto Fernós makes his debut as a reality TV bear on Camp Wannakiki.
➤ It’s the end of an era: the Feast of Fun car that drove hundreds of entertainers including some of the best known drag queens has died in a small town in Canada.
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| 0:00.0 | Madonna is in hot water again for ruining yet another celebrity tribute at the MTV Video Music Awards. |
| 0:13.2 | Adorned in jewelry from her children's home country of Malawi, Madonna presented the |
| 0:18.3 | Video of the Year award, and much like her tribute to Prince years back, |
| 0:22.7 | turned it into a story about herself. The tribute quickly went off the rails as Madonna told the |
| 0:28.3 | audience how Aretha Franklin's song, Natural Woman, spared her from being mistaken for a |
| 0:34.9 | prostitute living above a crack house in New York City. |
| 0:39.1 | Today, the hilarious Matt Brown joins us to take a look at the life and music of the Queen of Soul, |
| 0:44.6 | Aretha Franklin. |
| 0:45.9 | Her infamous feuds with Patty LaBelle and Dionne Warwick, |
| 0:49.0 | her insistence on being paid in cold, hard cash, and why she didn't leave a will. |
| 0:54.9 | Plus, designer Luke's song talks about Aretha's iconic Obama inauguration hat. |
| 1:01.4 | My hubby, Fausto Farnos, makes his debut as a reality TV bear on Camp Wanakiki. |
| 1:07.9 | And it's the end of an era, our car that drove hundreds of entertainers, including some of the world's best-known drag |
| 1:15.0 | queens, has died in a small town in Canada. |
| 1:19.1 | I'm Fausto Farnas. |
| 1:20.7 | I'm Mark Fillion. |
| 1:21.9 | And this is Feast of Fun. |
| 1:26.3 | Feast of Fun is made possible because of fabulous people just like you. |
| 1:30.4 | Thank you. |
| 1:31.3 | Become a member and support this show at Feastafun.com slash plus. |
| 1:36.3 | If you really, really notice, like, old black people and old Jewish people look and talk exactly the same. |
| 1:42.9 | Carol King is a lot closer to Aretha Franklin and most people realize. |
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