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Feast of Fun: Gay Talk Show

FOF #2827 - Merrie Cherry’s Tribute to Women of Black History

Feast of Fun: Gay Talk Show

Fausto Fernós

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

4.4834 Ratings

🗓️ 17 February 2020

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

Merrie Cherry is every proud black woman for Black History Month. Photos courtesy of Merrie Cherry.

To celebrate Black History Month, Brooklyn drag queen Merrie Cherry is paying tribute to legendary black women of history by dressing up as them and posting her portraits side by side on Instagram.

Don’t worry, she’s black so it’s all good.

Everyday of the month of February she’s posting one of her split screen tributes, which is no easy feat considering this has been years in the making.

So far she’s dressed up as Michelle Obama, Martha P Johnson and Dianne Carol. Her ode to Harriet Tubman could be the cover of a 90s rap album.

Today Marrie Cherrie joins us from London to look at the wonderful women in Black History and share her tales of surviving a stroke and recently losing her wallet and stuff in Europe.

Transcript

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0:00.0

It's Black History Month, and Brooklyn drag queen Mary Cherry is paying tribute to the legendary black women of history by dressing up as them and posting their portraits side by side on Instagram.

0:19.9

Don't worry, she's black, so it's all good.

0:22.6

Every day of the month of February, she's posting one of her split-screen tributes,

0:26.6

which is no easy feat considering this has been years in the making.

0:30.6

So far, she's dressed as Michelle Obama, Martha P. Johnson, and Diane Carroll.

0:35.6

And her ode to Harriet Tubman

0:37.8

could be the cover of a 90s rap album.

0:40.7

Today, Mary Cherry joins us from London

0:43.0

to look at the wonderful women in black history

0:45.6

and shares her tales of surviving a stroke

0:48.5

and recently losing her wallet and stuff in Europe.

0:51.6

I'm Fausta Fernon.

0:53.0

I'm Mark Fillion.

0:53.9

And this is Feast of Fun. Music Wallet and Stuff and Europe. I am Fausta Farnas. I'm Mark Fillion.

0:56.9

And this is Feast of Fun.

1:10.8

Feast of Fun is made possible because of fierce, fabulous people just like you.

1:15.4

We're starting off our 16th season of podcasting here at Feast of Fun,

1:18.4

and we couldn't do it without people just like you.

1:23.0

We took the time out of their day to sign up and become a plus member at Feastoffund.com slash plus or to join us at Patreon at patreon.com slash Feast of Fun.

1:28.8

We are so grateful for your support because without your money, you can have Feast of Fonty.

1:38.5

Enjoy the show.

1:42.6

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