Comedy dynamo and my “sister” Yamaneika Saunders, (Netflix, Comedy Central, Comedy Cellar, Tru TV, Rantin’ and Ravin’ with Yamaneika (podcast,)  kikis with Vox Celeste about growing up in the gypsy bastion of Aberdeen, Maryland; the hex put on her all-white Christian school; how she narrowly avoided a confrontation with the Klan and getting a major ass whopping from her mother, all on the same day.  There’s also something about being left on the side of a highway. 

Warning: Odds of dying from laughter are pretty high. 

Get your crumpets and finger sandwiches ready, the godmother of New York City comedy, Gladys Simon (Gladys Simon Comedy, Comic Strip) pours some piping hot tea about the comedy biz, her childhood on Hoe Avenue and why she waited until she was almost 30 to lose her virginity.

 

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Answer: Phil, Buck, Scar, Joey, Jesse, Tom, Creepy, Rich

Question: Who are uncles?

Jim Search (Muddy Waters Comedy) Pranav Behari  (Mango Bae) riff with Vox Celeste about the joys of unclehood. All the love of fatherhood without the child support and baby mama drama.  

Recorded at Comic Strip Live Studios

Music: Phantom Boyz and Arkitexx

Calvin Cato (Playable Characters Podcast)  joins Vox Celeste to discuss  growing up gay, in a West Indian household.  We wax poetic about the ever-evolving Jussie Smollett soap opera and what if any impact it will have on LGBQT people of color.  Also, Calvin reveals the time and place for the next  “gay agenda” meeting.

Music: Phantom Boyz and Arkitexx

Recorded at Comic Strip Live Studios 

You know you’re a Korean adoptee when… when you’re out to dinner with your white father and people assume you’re his escort.  Kate Moran (The Revolution) joins Vox Celeste to discuss growing up in lily-white Western New York as a Korean adoptee and meeting  her biological mother and siblings for the first time. 

Music: Phantom Boyz and Arkitexx

Recorded at Comic Strip Live Studios 

When you lose a parent, you lose your past.  When you lose your child, you lose your future.  When you lose a spouse, you lose the present.  When you lose a sibling you lose all three. Jordon Ferber (Where's the Grief) Samantha Bednarz (Bar None Comedy) join Vox Celeste to discuss life their lives after the loss of their siblings. 

Music: Phantom Boyz and Arkitexx   Recorded at Comic Strip Live Studios

Lucas Connolly (@loveablelucas.com) joins Vox Celeste to discuss growing up in Laramie, Wyoming with the two mothers in the wake of Matthew Shepard's violent death.    Music: Phantom Boyz and Arkitexx Recorded at Comic Strip Live

Vox Celeste picks up from where we left off, with returning guests Vanetta Schofield (Funny Hunnyz) and Norah Yahya (Gotham Live), discussing the value of Black girls in our society.

Music: Phantom Boyz and Arkitexx

Norah Yayah (Gotham Live) and returning  guest, Vanetta Schofield (Funny Hunnyz) sit down with Vox Celeste to discuss the fallout from the Lifetime Network documentary series, "Surviving R. Kelly."   Are Black girls allowed to be girls?   Music: Phantom Boyz and Arkitexx

Vox Celeste is back- with a 2018  year-in-review of the biggest news stories  involving children and parents.   We recap the year with two funny fathers- Fun Sized Fen (Gotham Live) and return guest, Roc Belushi (Roc Cast Podcast).  A lot happened last year but we got most of it covered: the conviction of “America’s Dad,” Bill Cosby; The Parkland Shooting; ICE child separation policy; Thai Cave Rescue and more.    Even some talk about repealing the 14th Amendment and Cardi B at parent/teacher night.

 

Music: Phantom Boyz and Arkitexx