Pop Queers

This week, team ‘the real world’ is represented by the wonderful and talented Lara Travis as she takes on our very own talent of Vicki Hanlon. The two battle it out through the trials of obscure news and test their knowledge on all things Christmas to see who will take home the coveted ‘Teddy Bear Riding A Unicorn’ trophy.

Lara Travis is an exotic dancer turned singer songwriter who will be performing this Sunday at Open Studio. She will be singing songs from her 2018 hit album ‘Pineapples, Greenbacks and Glitter in the Air’ along with songs from her next album. You can catch tickets here and hear more of her music here.

Vicki Hanlon is one half of Vic & Em’s Comedy Gems and the two will be coming to Joy to take the reins of Thursday Drive for the summer. You can hear more from her on the recently established Well, Actually podcast.

Simon Abrahams, creative director of Melbourne’s Fringe Festival, takes on Joy’s Dean Arcuri in a closely fought dual of the minds to see who will get to ride the majestic trio of unicorns home.

Melbourne Fringe has taken to the Trades Hall once again with Common Rooms to continue the Fringe fun all year round. Check out what’s on here and keep an eye out for the many amazing shows that are put on.

Catch more of Dean Arcuri on MAD Wednesday Drive every Wednesday from 4 to 7 pm or if you’ve missed it and suffering from a severe case of FOMO you can catch up with the podcast here.

Gavin Marshall takes on Joy’s Miranda Sparks to see who can jump the most hoops and land the most flips ahead of the opening of his new circus show SICK. The two test their wits against each other to see who will be the lucky winner to take home ‘The Best of Irish Karaoke’ VHS tape.

Find out more about SICK and book your ticket’s here with shows running from the 27-30 of November and the 4-7 of December.

Catch Miranda’s show Geeks Out on Monday’s at 8 PM on Joy and keep an eye out for her new weekly serial ‘Fang Force’ on her blog.

 

This week Dr Judy Tang too on our very own Ben Hull in a neck and neck battle for the prized “grab it”.

About Judy

Judy is the President of the Australian GLBTIQ Multicultural Council (AGMC), and recently appointed Commissioner for the Victorian Multicultural Commission. By day, she is a neuropsychologist and avid video gamer.

She also just won LGBTI Person of the Year at the Globe Awards!  She has a fur child named Howie, who has been kidnapped twice, and she is still figuring out why (he’s cute…but not like some top breed or anything).

Her multiple roles means that her partner has declared herself as a “commissioner’s widow” and is looking to form a “activist’s lonely wives/partner club” if anyone is interested.

About Ben

Ben Hull is a 30 something funny man that idolises the comedic stylings of Joan Rivers and the dependencies of Liza Minnelli.

Best known to you for his Wed morning breakfast show on Joy called Ben and Gabe with Melbourne’s favourite comic Gabe Hogan, Ben has aspirations to take over the radio world. He is a retro loving fashionista that has spent the best part of his professional career styling and side eying customers, while also applying sharp wit and sass to those who truly need it.  And if you’re lucky, you can also catch him performing at a comedy bar near you!

 

 

The charming and musical Rohan Browne dropped in before his theatrical homage Influences opens at the Art Centre Melbourne, to go head to head with JOY 94.9s own Jessica Window!

It was be a battle of wits [and quips] for a truly disappionting prize (pictured below)

hosted by Dee Mason with adjudication by Gay Gail Davidson.

Click here to find out more about (and book) Rohan’s shows on November 18 at Arts Centre Melbourne.

US comedian Beth Stelling dropped by the studio to match wits and knowledge with Joy’s own Jacqueline Mifsud.

It ended up being more fun than any of us thought it could possibly be…… and it seems that Sweet Beth really was keen to ship home the Parrot/Budgie prize. #whoknew?

There are HEAPS of extras in the podcast after the live show taping.

Beth Stelling performing Live at the Athanaeum Melbourne Friday 1st November, 2019. Tickets here

 

 

Gay Gaily(adjudicator), Jacqeline Mifsud, Beth Stelling, Dee Mason (host)

 

It was early in procedings when Jacq started blaming her chicken

This is Beth’s Jetlagged “thinking” face and Dee Mason’s “waiting” face

We can’t wait to host 2 lucky listeners at the show Friday. #doubledate

 

Beth Stelling is a stand-up comedian, writer, and actress based in Los Angeles who most recently wrote for Sarah Silverman’s Hulu series, I Love You America. Stelling tours extensively around the world and her half hour special currently streams on The Standups series for Netflix. Stelling previously starred in a half hour special on Comedy Central and has appeared on several late night shows including Conan, Jimmy Kimmel Live, Comedy Central’s @midnight, Chelsea Lately and The Pete Holmes Show. Her TV acting credits include Red Oaks, Corporate and Another Period on Comedy Central, and Crashing on HBO.

As a writer, Stelling wrote on seasons 1 and 2 of Crashing for HBO, Hilarity For Charity and various other pilots, and most recently served as an on-set writer on Good Boys, a feature film produced by Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg which premiered at SXSW earlier this year.

AFLW player Nicky Callinan takes on Joy94.9’s very of Breeza from Chicks Talking Footy. Both are WAY off the mark in terms of the GF result.

This week on Pop Queers Kathy Lette takes on the annoyingly pre-menopausal Alicia Sometimes in a “heated” battle for a PBCD personal body cooling devise shipped all the way from Singapore. (pictured above)

The tussle was real!

Kathy Lette will be well know  to our listeners who grew up on (or near) any of Australia’s surf beaches in the 70s and 80s…..as the author of Puberty Blues: the book (and then film) that scared all of our parents and thrilled all of us with talk of actual sex and gave a generation a whole new way of trash talking.

Hardly a one hit wonder…… she went on to pen another 15 books including such hits as How to kill your husband, Dead Sexy, Foetal attraction and Mad Cows.

The Moll DEAD SET Racked off to the UK many years ago but she is back in Australia for two  performances of her new standup show

Girls’ Night Out….  

Coming to melbourne’s Athaneaeum on November 4th  after what is bound to be a HUGE sydney show on November 1st at Just for Laughs.

BOOKINGS AT TICKETEK

https://premier.ticketek.com.au/Shows/Show.aspx?sh=KATHYLET19

We were all BEYOND delighted to have her with us live in studio….

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and……. as always….. we loved welcoming Alicia Sometimes into the studio…. a regular on Joy94.9 and, tonight, an Honorary Joylebrity.

She is a woman who manages to blend poetry, science, motherhood, football and perfect bangs seemlesly into one adorable human package.

Her poems have been in Best Australian Science Writing, Best Australian Poems, ABC TV’s Sunday Arts and many more.

She is approximately one 6th of the famous all girl footy Podcast

The Outer Sanctum on the ABC.

https://www.outersanctum.com.au/

Oh. And she is whip smart and very funny.

 

 

This week join your host Dee Mason and chief adjudicator Gay Gaily Davidson and they present the Battle of the Double Barrel Ladies.

 

You can pre-order Fiona Scott-Norman’s Book Book Book now here

https://www.panmacmillan.com.au/9781760786083/this-chicken-life/

 

 

Fiona Scott-Norman is a writer, comedian and cabaret director who lives in inner-city Melbourne with her eight heritage bantam chickens. Fiona got her first flock in 2012, jumping on board the backyard chicken train without a clue what she was doing. Three flocks, two visits from Ms Fox, and one disastrous restocking (where all the chickens HATED each other) later, she’s seasoned. Chickens aside, Fiona has had a long, shimmering career as a writer, social commentator and arts journalists. She has written for The Age and The Australian, as well as for TV comedies Back Berner and Comedy Company, and has also written three books.