You’re probably familiar with all the times Bugs Bunny crossed dressed for laughs in all the Warner Brothers cartoons, but did you know that accidentally kissing a man while dressed up as a woman was a regular comedy bit in the vaudeville circuit?

Watch “A Woman” from 1915, one of the few times Charlie Chaplin appeared in his films without his iconic mustache. In the short 20 minute movie, Charlie dresses up as to sneak into a sexy lady’s house, but her overprotective father and his friend fall in love with him instead. Who knew Charlie Chaplin had such a handsome face behind that crazy Hitler mustache?

From what I’ve heard, this film was made at the Essanay studios right here in Chicago, just blocks away from where we tape the Feast of Fun podcast and make many of our drag videos for YouTube. I like to think that here in Chicago we’re following in Charlie Chaplin’s footsteps.

Since its founding, Chicago has always been a forward thinking kind of place.

As a city located by a river that ties the North and South and a railroad connecting the east to the west, Chicago is where people come to get their groove on!

Right now at the Chicago History Museum there’s a great exhibit “Out in Chicago” chronicling how people in the Windy City have organized their lives around their sexual desires and sense of self.

The first and largest exhibit of its kind, Out in Chicago gives visitors a powerful sense of what life was like for people before the words gay, lesbian, bi and trans came to be.

Back in the 1912, a lot of people knew that gay men wore red neckties to find each other, and pretty green dresses. Painting of George Ade and Orson Collins Wells by William Herman Schmedtgen. Schmedtgen insinuated that Ade and Wells were homosexuals by putting a red bowtie on Wells and the Chicago Athletic Club symbol on his fan. The painting hung at the all-male Chapin & Gore Tavern in Chicago for many years. Photo courtesy of the Chicago History Museum.

Joining us today are historians Jill Austin and Jennifer Brier who helped put together this amazing exhibit by mining the History Museum’s very own archives for hidden clues.

Listen as we talk to these fascinating women about “outing” historical figures, secret gay codes and how gay men cruised at the turn of the century.

Plus:

Did President Nixon accidentally help ignite the gay rights movement in Chicago? Was he really gay all along?

Chicago’s publishing past and the battle between gay publications.

Charlie Chaplin looked hot in drag in the film A Woman, made right here in own back yard at the Essanay Studios.

Red Neckties, the history of Lesbian Potluck Party Flyers, and what the future of your community will be like.

Featured Music:
Tom Goss – Back to Love – Till the End:iTunes

Tim Tebow and Jon Hamm posed for the cameras at the NFL Honors And Pepsi Rookie Of The Year ceremony that took place over the weekend. They sure make a cute couple!

I'm sure they had lots to talk about.

Y.O.U. Pandora? Just minutes after Madonna performed “Give Me All Your Lovin’” at the Superbowl, Sherry Vine posted her parody, “Give Me All Your Muff.” I’m liking this a lot and I don’t even mind the ad in the video. A girl’s gotta get paid!

Check out the not-so-surpise twist ending where they start making out, or as Madonna would say “she is the baby pop star, and I am kissing her to pass my energy on to her.” Watch out Pandora Boxx! You don’t know where that mouth has been.

Hopefully Pandora Boxx will have a nervous breakdown in the near future and shave off her head, just like Britney Spears.

Of course Madonna’s superbowl performance was almost flawless, and she managed to keep her clothes on. But here’s a hilarious clip of Madonna almost falling during the Vouge intro of her halftime show.

For those of you laughing at Madge, try doing her movies in stiletto heels in the freezing Indiana winter!

Here is Madonna opening during Superbowl XLVI Halftime Show:

Tonight Channing Tatum is hosting Saturday Night Live, the actor known for his role in the homoerotic Roman film “The Eagle.” Reminding the audience that he got his start as a male stripper, Channing busted out of his shirt right in the opening monologue of the show, looking pretty darn good.

At first I thought he was going to only have Kristen Wiig in the audience as one of his former clients, but of course it went gay and we got to see the hilarious Fred Armisen drool over Channing’s ripped body.

Here’s a photo of the actor in his early days as a male stripper.

Last fall the nation held its breath as the U.S. Government finally accepted all of our gay and lesbian troops.

Just hours after “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” was repealed, U.S. airman Randy Phillips, a 21-year-old gay member of the Air Force stationed in Germany, videotaped a phone call he made to his father and posted it on YouTube- nervous and exhausted, in his bedroom with a map of the world behind him, Randy told his dad that he was gay.

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The internet and the rest of the world fell in love with the raw emotion of Randy’s live coming out. The video reflected the relief felt by many as the discriminatory era of DADT came to an end. He later followed it up with a video coming out to his mother.

Identical cousins? Fausto and Randy do look a bit like each other.

Both videos became such sensations that we made our own video, Gay Soldier Comes Out to Pizza Man-LIVE, because we thought “Who is he going to come out to next?” How about the pizza guy?

Minutes after posting our parody, Randy tweeted to his followers “This is the best thing I have ever seen…I hope you get a billion views.” All of these videos have now gone viral.

Today we’re talking to Randy Phillips from his town home in Germany about what life is like after the repeal of Don’t Ask Don’t Tell, were there any gay military parties and does he now have a boyfriend?

Listen as we ask Randy if he was worried that his coming out videos could have backfired.

What if his mom and dad rejected him?

How to look good in lederhosen.

And Randy has some new shirtless workout and cooking videos that take us from his frying pan and into the fire. Feel the burn!

Featured Music:
Lover (Music Video Edit) – Single – Tom Goss: iTunes

Check out this wacky but adorable recap of the Season 4 Premiere of RuPaul’s Drag Race, all done with puppets. I love it when puppets make their own puppets.

Marioneta Fuego is part-time Facebook hunk Jonny K Jouet’s drag queen puppet alter ego. When he’s not busy making videos with his drag queen puppet, Jonny likes to show off his naked body on Facebook for anyone who will watch. My kind of guy.

I think I can smell the sexiness of Jonny K Jouet, or is something burning in the kitchen?

We actually met Jonny our first year of podcasting back when we used to walk around our neighborhood like madmen with microphones interviewing anyone who we met. Jonny ran into us at the coffee shop and we all hit it off.

Now he’s my review:

Jonny, I’m a bit concerned about the stitching on Marionetta’s lips. Is she supposed to be a plastic surgery addict like Jocelyn Wildenstein?

At this point, we're not sure if NYC socialite Jocelyn Wildenstein isn't a puppet herself.

The popsicle stick drag queens was a stroke of genius, and who can argue that Mike Ruiz is one of the hottest men on television, despite being on that douchebag-o-rama of a show “The A List.” Nice work Jonny! Sashay, you stay.

Although we like to think of the entertainers who make the music we love as one big happy family, in reality most of them don’t know each other very well and are probably quite anxious about their own success.

There is no doubt that because of the strong female musicians have brought the American music industry into the black and had it’s most financially successful year in decades.

With so much great music, why are the fans of artists like Madonna and Lady Gaga fighting with each other?

One particularly ungracious blog Help Mother Monster directs Lady Gaga’s fans to sites where they can attack Madonna and other musicians on a deeply personal level.

Then there’s Madonna’s condescending remarks, and her ongoing fight with Elton John whose already sworn his allegiance to the Gaga.

Does a celebrity catfight qualify as cardio?

Why is Lady Gaga letting her Little Monsters act like real monsters?

Or do they have a point? With all negative talk between Elton John, Madonna and Lady Gaga, one has to wonder if Madonna flipped her lid and forgotten that Express Yourself is her reductive version of Respect Yourself by the Staple Singers?

And what is up with Madona’s awkward humor in her video blogs?

Joining us today is the hilarious Nadya Ginsburg, best known for being a woman of a thousand voices on YouTube with her impeccable impersonations of Cher, Winona Ryder, Britney Spears and of course Madonna.

Nadya’s scored a hit with her one woman show the Madonnalouges and has landed an awesome job writing for her comedy idol Joan Rivers.

Listen as we recruit Nadya into trying to bring peace to the war between the fans.

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Madonna’s cold war with Elton John, her speech at the Golden Globes, the ABC news interview and the upcoming Halftime Show at the Superbowl. Will this be the gayest Superbowl ever?

And a very touching message just for Madonna and Lady Gaga, will these divas listen?

Featured Music:
Lila Rose – Obsession – Heart Machine:iTunes

Mario Lopez has got a new line of underwear out and went on Ellen’s talk show to promote the line.

Why be an underwear model, when you can own the company and show off the goods? The TV hunk said “Ellen is the only person I’d take my clothes off for.” Oh please!

If you recall, Mario Lopez threw a temper tantrum many years ago when Broadway openly gay hunk Nick Adams out-muscled him onstage and forced his co-star to put on a long sleeve shirt. The man loves his body and loves to show it off.

Who care that he’s a Republican, conservative tool? I’d vote for that!

You might remember her getting mad at Beyonce for singing her ballad “At Last” at President Obama’s inaugural ball.

Maybe she was also angry at the way Beyonce played her in the 2008 film “Cadillac Records,” which suggest her success was not one of her own making. Either way, we’ll never forget the strength and intensity of her voice and music.

Here’s one of her last TV appearances on Dancing with the Stars, singing her iconic song.

Ruth Brown as Motormouth Maybelle Stubbs in the original film Hairspray.

Was Etta James part of the inspiration for John Water’s soulful rebellious character Motormouth Maybelle Stubbs in Hairspray?

Here’s a great mix of some of her sexier, racier songs. In the Basement, down in the basement!

Here’s a real 1939 Soviet propaganda poster celebrating the “liberation” of “West Ukrainians” (or eastern Poles, depending on your viewpoint) I found on this WWII image site.

What a country! In Russia, your country loves you, literally.

Will we be seeing these type of images in military propaganda here in the U.S. anytime soon?

Some guys are so hot, they look great even in unflattering camera angles and corporate polyester uniforms. The internet’s getting excited by this hunky muscular waiter at a undisclosed iHop. I’m sure orders for sausage have doubled since he started working.

Someone even created a Facebook group about the hunky waiter to crowdstalk him. Whatever happened to leaving your number with a 50% tip?

I certainly hope that having super hot waiters isn’t the sign of a bad economy, cause this guy makes it look like we’re economically screwed.

– Thanks to Queerty for this one!

At a recent fundraiser at the Apollo Theater in New York City, President Obama sang a message to his supporters “Let’s Stay Together.” Could have gone on a bit longer. Will the Republicans come out against singing because the President is for it?

Obama then playfully pointed backstage and explained, “those guys didn’t think I would do it. I told you I was gonna do it.” Addressing Green in the audience, Obama said, “Don’t worry Rev, I cannot sing like you, but I just wanted to show my appreciation.”

Since so much media attention is lavished on obscure entertainers coming out, we’re inviting our friend, comedian Kristen Studard to come out on today’s show.

But what is she coming out as? Listen and find out!

Join us as Kristen takes us behind the scenes on Saturday Night Live and shares a touching story about her transgender best friend in high school.

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Who needs SOPA & PIPA? The U.S. Government shuts down the popular file-sharing site Megaupload.com, and arrests four of the sites developers in New Zealand.

Corporate Hollywood responds to yesterday’s Internet blackout, saying its an abuse of power when we shut down our own websites in protest, but it’s fine for them to shut us down when they want to.

Actually, some internet trends could make a very good book.

Will iBooks, Apple’s new free book publishing platformrevolutionize publishing or turn all future books into twitter?

A trans woman posing as a gynecologist treats dozens of women in the Czech Republic.

And are flaming tampons the new weapon of mass destruction?

Featured Music:
Haikaa: iTunes

A lot has happened since then, Randy is busy cultivating a following as a video blogger and been covering the topics of tolerance, identity, food and fitness. It seems Randy is looking and doing great.

Ask him anything!

Post your questions below, the best ones will be asked to Randy on the show.

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Last year, glitter rained down on the cultural and political landscape. The year kicked off with Glitter Day, the queer Kwanzaa holiday we came up with the celebrate the sparkle inside all of us.

Inset: Nick Espinosa, the man behind the Glitter Bombs. Gingrich gets showered in glitter.

With “Occupy” as the word of the year, we can expect to see more creative non-lethal forms of protest as more Americans get fed up with the corporate takeover of their political system.

On today’s show we predict what 2012 will be like by looking at the events and trends that made the headlines — last year.

Joining us is visual and performance artist Marsian DeLellis, known for his work with puppets and costumes. Marsian is great at picking out the crazy things happening around us and extrapolating them into the future. Think of him as the love child of Lady Gaga and Nostradamus.

Listen as we talk about- the Battle for the Internet itself. SOPA and PIPA, not an 80’s all girl rap group, but two horrible censorship laws aggressively being lobbied by corporate Hollywood to force us to watch their shitty shows and movies.

Discover daring new ideas: Glitterbrasion, Astroglittering, Skunking, Stop and Plop, Mission Accomplishedonistas, Pink Exodus and Fauxbitiuaries.

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Lady Gaga and the Forbidden Zone.

The transgender kids of Generation ZE.

Designer Fleshlights, Pepper Spray Lube.

And which predictions from last year actually came true- like Lady Gaga’s Thanksgiving Special.

Featured Music:
Haikaa: iTunes

Looks like 2012 is kicking off to be the year of “shit people say” videos of every color of the rainbow. Here’s the latest by Hugh Jasoll and Black Dahlia Parton, two fab trans folks from TransFix! in the SF/Bay Area.

And you thought Christmas couldn’t get any scarier.

Frustrated with her poor efforts at SEO by changing her middle name to Obama, and because she doesn’t feel she gets the respect she deserves, Saltina Obama Bouvier gives up dressing up in drag forever.

Does anyone care about drag queens anymore? Watch as Daphne Dumount and special guest queen Candy Dick teach Saltina the true meaning of drag and the holidays.

Like the video? Post it on your blog or Facebook page.

Incredibly Strange Christmas Music Vol. 4 - From left to right: Little Marcy Tiger, Geraldine and Ricky, Fay McKay, Candye Cayne, Jackie Beat, and our idea of what a sexy cross dressing Santa would look like.

At the height of American regional television from the 60s to the 80s, many local channels in had their own wonderfully unique christian puppet shows featuring female comedians. Many women developed ventriloquist dummy acts as a way to express themselves in religions that didn’t allow them to become preachers.

And of course, these demented puppets absolutely loved Christmas.

Today we continue our annual holiday series: “Incredibly Strange Christmas Music, vol. 4″- a collection of rare, twisted holiday songs that will punch up your eggnog and set your yule log on fire.

Join us as we take a listen at music created by Christian Dummies- Little Marcy, Little Cindy, Geraldine and Ricky- and Rick Perry’s Gay Holiday Remix.

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8-Bit Christmas Music and Lee Abramson, a musician living with Lou Gehrig’s disease who “sings” using ModelTalker, the same computerized speech computer that physicist Stephen Hawking uses.

A salute to raunchy satirists including Bob Rivers and Jackie Beat.

Fay McKay and the 24 hour cabarets of Las Vegas.

A gay sounding singer in the United States Army Field Band and Soldiers’ Chorus deconstructs the 12 days after Christmas, years before Don’t Ask Don’t Tell was repealed

and Candy Cayne helps us put the X Back in Xmas.

Remember all this music is available through links on our site Feast of Fun, support independent music.

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Songs:
CHRISTIAN DUMMIES:
Jake Benson – Rick Perry’s Gay Holiday Remix: YouTube
Little Marcy – C-H-R-I-S-T-M-A-S – Christmas with Marcy: iTunes
Little Marcy – Suzy Snowflake – Christmas with Marcy: iTunes
Little Cindy – Happy Birthday Jesus (John Waters Christmas): Amazon
Geraldine and Ricky – A Gaither Homecoming Friends Christmas Comedy Visit: YouTube

8-BIT CHRISTMAS:
Lee Abramson – Have ur slpeh a merry lil xmas: iTunes
Kasio Kristmas – Deck the Halls: Amazon

PARODIES:
Bob Rivers – Walking Around in Women’s Underwear: iTunes
Bob Rivers – Frosty the Pervert: iTunes
Jackie Beat – Holiday Ho Medley – JB is the Holiday Ho!: Site
Kinsey Sicks – Crystal Time in the City: iTunes

BOOZING IT UP:
Darby O’Gill and the Little People – Whiskey Christmas: Amazon
Fay McKay – 12 Daze of Christmas: YouTube
United States Army Field Band and Solider’s Chorus – Twelve Days After Christmas: iTunes
Candye Kayne – Let’s Put the X Back in Xmas: YouTube

Ho, ho, huff.

Ah that warm feeling you get during the holidays. Santa on poppers? Be careful Santy, don’t mix them with viagra! You’ll suffer from a stroke and die.

Someone sent this lovely holiday themed image via email, not sure what they were trying to say, but we appreciate the sentiment!

Speaking of poppers, did you know at one point in time recently a single company ran a poppers monopoly in the U.S. and was one of the largest donors to the Democratic party?

Listen to our podcast about the fascinating history of the poppers industry.

From what I can tell, this guy who really likes Superman has taught his cocktatiel to sing the Super Mario theme song. There’s a lot going on in here.

Here’s a better video that shows how cute he is. Aren’t Brazilian guys sexy?

Here’s one of the best songs from The Muppets movie, where they reveal that the Walter’s human alter ego is openly gay actor Jim Parsons who plays Brandon in TV’s “Big Bang Theory.”

Does that make Walter the first openly gay muppet ever? We all know Miss Piggy is the first trans muppet.

UPDATE: Jim Parsons plays Sheldon on Big Bang Theory, not Brandon. (Thanks to Rick for catching this!) My apologies.

The sexual revolution has pretty much been won, due in part to the Internet and smart phone apps help people find the sex they are hungry for. But of course the pendulum inevitably swings the other way, and now people are also looking to just date, make new friends and form strong relationships.

Maybe the reason this hot guy doesn't want to show his face is because he doesn't want your boyfriend bugging him.

Joins us today as we talk about relationships, what it means to have a “real body” and the sex culture of hookup apps and websites.

Why do guys chop off their own heads from their profiles- is it about privacy or are they just bragging about their sweaty muscular bodies?

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Former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich gets the slammer! 14 years in prison for trying to sell President Obama’s former Senate seat. Many argue it is still not enough time, and taxpayers will be paying off the money lost under his corruption.

A Chicago lawyer tries to hire a secretary on Craigslist who will also have sex with him.

Gene Simmons says Madonna is not qualified to perform at the Superbowl’s Half Time Show.

And Alec Baldwin shuts down his Twitter account over his tiff with American Airlines.

Featured Music:
El Vez – Mamacita, Donde Esta Santa Claus – Merry MeX-Mas: “>iTunes

How funny that an article of clothing can carry so much significance.

Here’s some funny responses:

It’s not the first time Republicans’ have been compared to the film. That Texas Governor put himself in the White House twice.

Be sure to check out Peter Coffin’s fartastic version, it has a better ending than the original.

Peter Coffin

Power Violence Comedy

Rabbi Jason

Mr7aylor’s Edited and Improved Version

Mienshao’s Trololol Remix

And finally, Wolf Bltizer actually talks to TX Gov. Rick Perry, and totally soft peddles the interview. A journalist of his experience should know better. Why not ask him directly “in what way are Americans stopping anyone from practicing their religious beliefs?” Not wanting to fund discriminatory organizations doesn’t mean we are trying to stop you from doing whatever crazy ritual you want to do.

Cardio instead helps you be bigger and stronger by making your cardiovascular system function better. When you can lift heavier (and don’t get winded as much), you’ll be bigger.

This beautiful map of penis sizes was created by the AlphaDesigner blog, who writes that the world hasn’t always been so obsessed with cock sizes and that in Ancient Greece, people preferred a small uncut penis.

Doing further research on the matter, I discovered a dedicated Wikipedia article which claims that not all cultures were obsessed with size. In fact, the article says, in Ancient Greece, people preferred a small uncut penis. That explains pretty well why their nude statues are so modest in that area. Nobody really knows when exactly Western civilization switched to the current supersize-mania but a quote from the Bible may give you a hint:

She lusted after lovers with genitals as large as a donkey’s and emissions like those of a horse. (Ezekiel 23:18–20)

I love it when the Bible talks about cock sizes, don’t you?

This map reveals a lot more than penis size, since the study didn’t actually measure men’s wangs but trusted them to report their own measurements in centimeters, not internet inches.

Yeah, because a guy has never ever lied about his cock size to anyone.