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Feast of Fun: Gay Talk Show

FOF # 2878 - Sick and Twisted Parody Songs from Quarantine

Feast of Fun: Gay Talk Show

Fausto Fernós

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

4.4834 Ratings

🗓️ 23 June 2020

⏱️ 101 minutes

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Summary

If comedy is born out of tragedy, then parody songwriters have a lot to work with in these trying times.

Today comedian and parody song enthusiast Amanda Cohen joins us to look at some fabulous parody songs stemming from the coronavirus pandemic.

Amanda regularly hosts Flapper’s Comedy Clubs Speakeasy Comedy Showcase and moderates as a judge on I’m With Stupid – A contest between comedy songwriters Carla Ulbrich & Steve Goodie.

AMANDA COHEN: https://www.facebook.com/amanda.cohen.355

Listen as we take a look at:

➤ Chicago Black Drag Council, an open group of black entertainers and activists host a virtual town hall meeting with several harmful entertainers and management of Chicago’s gay bar scene, resulting in the termination of one of the local scenes most visible drag queens T Rex.

➤ Nobody shows up at Trump’s rally in Tulsa.

➤ The theatrical release of Lin Manuel Miranda’s In the Heights film musical has been delayed till 2021.

➤ Farewell to filmmaker Joel Schumacher, best known for his campy films Car Wash, the Lost Boys and the nipple-tastic Batman & Robin, he died after a battle with cancer. He was 80.

Transcript

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0:00.0

If comedy is born out of tragedy, then parody songwriters have a lot to work with in these trying times.

0:15.0

Today, comedian and parody song enthusiast Amanda Cohen joins us to look at some of the fabulous parody songs stemming from

0:22.4

the coronavirus pandemic. Amanda regularly hosts Flappers Comedy Club Speak Easy Comedy Showcase and

0:29.1

moderates as judge on I'm With Stupid, a contest between comedy songwriters Carla Ulbrick and Steve Goody.

0:37.1

Listen as we take a look at Chicago Black Drag Council.

0:41.3

An open group of black entertainers and activists

0:44.3

host a virtual town hall meeting with several harmful entertainers

0:48.3

and management of Chicago's gay bar scene,

0:51.3

resulting in a historic termination of one of Chicago's most visible drag queens,

0:57.0

T-Rex.

0:58.0

Nobody shows up for Trump's rally in Tulsa.

1:01.0

The theatrical release of Lin-Manuel Mirandas in the Heights film musical has been delayed until 2021.

1:08.0

And farewell to filmmaker Joel Schumacher, best known for his campy films Car Wash,

1:14.1

The Lost Boys, and the nipple-tastic Batman and Robin.

1:17.7

He died after a battle with cancer at the age of 80.

1:20.8

I'm Fausto Farnas.

1:22.2

I'm Mark Fillion.

1:23.3

And this is Feast of Fun.

1:26.8

Dumb-Did-Dum-Dum-Dum-Dum.

1:28.3

Is it gone?

1:29.3

Dang, it ain't gone.

1:30.3

But out they all run.

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