Growl! His name is Ben Lerman and he plays the ukulele. Today Ben’s here to talk about how he accidentally became a Bear sex symbol after hawking his one man show during Bear Week in the gay resort town of Provincetown, Massachusetts.
Ben performs this Wednesday July, 22 in Chicago. UPDATE: I just got an Facebook update that Ben is giving away “two for one” tickets if you buy online or say the code word “Facebook” at the door. Come see him with one of our Favorite Funny Femmes, Cameron Esposito and the very wacky Puterbaugh Sisters. He’ll also be in Scotland in August for the Edinburgh Fringe Festival- and wants to treat you to a meal of haggis. Will you be his fag haggis?
Because of his feathered, curly body hair- he just might be this generation’s bear-ish Farrah Fawcett. We try to get him to pose like Farrah but to no avail.
Listen as Ben joins us to take a look at the hot news of the day:
Janet Weiner, Rockstar Energy Drink’s CFO and wife of talks how hatemonger Michael Savage quits her husband’s production company in solidarity with gay rights groups.
Willow the amazing dog from New York who can allegedly read, yes read and react to over 250 written commands.
Cloned drug enforcement dogs from South Korea.
Chuck Renslow, the President and founder of IML, the International Mr. Leather Contest bans bareback porn.
And the 150 lb cake in the shape of a cupcake that nobody got to eat.
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UPDATE: I just got an Facebook update that Ben is giving away “two for one” tickets if you buy online or say the code word “Facebook” at the door.
Hey boys,
I am a 19 year old straight femme from Australia.
I have been listening to your show for 2 and a half years and find it ab fab.
I am commenting to say thank you for comforting me the other night.
I went to my first gay bar and got ditched by all my boy friends who went off chasing boys…
I took the $70 taxi ride home cursing the giddy boys all the way……I got home and you boys reminded me how to appreciate humor and love.
Thanks again. Love Georgie. xoxo
PS. I would like to put in a request the old episode with you and Amanda writing ‘showgirls the musical’….”get the ice…”
xoxoxo
Marc and Fausto! I’m surprised you didn’t go here with Ben’s bear name: Bear-a Faucett.
Ben is GREAT entertainment. I’ve enjoyed him on your show and Keith and The Girl.
This guy is HOT. Listening to the show now. The “Beat It” cover made me want to make a souffle (as the song is intended to do).
I can totally relate to Ben with the Bear community thing. It’s kind of alluring in the sense that it’s a group where people are less likely to be repulsed by me, but I’ve also had the concern of when I go to bear bars they think I’m one of them. I may look like a bear, but I don’t identify as one.
Ben pointed out why. Bears can be a little touchy-touchy, and that’s fine if you’re expecting it. I’m not. I don’t like people I don’t know touching me.
The other thing about bear bars is that sometimes you can walk into one when it’s busy and you say excuse me, so that you can get by. Instead of moving out of the way, they tilt their had back, as thought they magically become waif-thin and you can pass by with them still standing in your way. Now, I do admit that I am a rather hefty girl, but if someone needs to get by, I move out of the way, giving them enought room to pass. I understand this isn’t always possible in a crowded bar.
I will now step off my soapbox.
Hey y’all – great show! still coming to DC for the March? Going to Nellie’s this Thursday to see Tom Goss, for all you DC peeps…come one, come all… and also guys, one small correction – it’s “vitiligo” (pronounced “vih-tih’LY-go”) that MJ *claimed he had…)
We’re going to try to do it. We were thinking about putting on a show but we’ll see!
After F.O.F. I tuned into Michael Savage tonight for a reaction and the woman who banned has resigned and called her ‘banning a mistake’. YIKES! She’s been replaced by a man in the Brown Govt.
Let the old right-wing Jew bray on about ‘Faggots w/ AIDS should die’ ! He’ll hang himself w/ his own rope.
Thanks F.O.F. for bring RockStar to my attention. Too much sugar anyway!
You guys are the real RockSTAR!!
On the show description you confused Dan Savage with Michael Savage. Dan Savage is the sex advice guy and Michael Savage is the dim bulb.
Thanks I fixed it!