Vox Celeste

When Cornel West is a fixture at dinner,  you’re bound to have a couple of interesting childhood stories.  Not everyone gets to say “Cornell, can you the f@#$ shut up and just pass the gravy?” Neruda Williams (Harlem Comedy Festival, founder) opens up about his unconventional childhood, his mother’s drug addiction and his kinship with sea turtles.  (We also profess our love for all things Greer Barnes).

Recorded: Comic Strip Live

Music: Phantom Boyz and Arkitexx

Shanna Christmas, (Black Chicks, Pink Dicks) joins Vox Celeste talking about interracial dating; the time she dated a pimp and we also go hard on the "53 percent” and then some.  

Recorded: Comic Strip Live

Music: Phantom Boyz and Arkitexx 

Born and bred in “scary” Brooklyn, Neil Charles (Swatches and Boom Boxes, Comedy Central) joins Vox Celeste to discuss his recent marriage, his new role as step-father and the decision to uproot his family to Los Angeles in search of stardom. 

Recorded at Comic Strip Live Studios 

Music: Arkitexx and Phantom Boyz

Yes.  Kevin Farley (F is For Family) younger brother of comedy icon, the late, Chris Farley, joins Vox Celeste sharing Farley childhood stories; coping with the devasting loss of his brother and carving out his own space in stand-up comedy. 

Recorded: Comic Strip Live

Music: Phantom Boyz and Arkitexx 

Hovering around 6’4”, Napoleon Emil (Just For Laughs)- has no complex.  This Southern gentle giant joins Vox Celeste discussing the emotional fallout of losing his father at the age of fifteen; his stint at Job Corps and playing arena football in Utah.  

Barry “Motherfucking” Ribs (Apollo Comedy) joins Vox Celeste discussing his quarter century career in comedy and we debate whether or not adult film star’s @anyaivy’s breast are real.  It is a HIGHlarious good time.

Recorded: Comic Strip Live

Music: Phantom Boyz and Arkitexx 

A sex addiction, a failed marriage and an AIDS scare, Rodney Daniels (Big Talk and Brewskis) already has what it takes to be a star.  He also happens to be very funny.  We talk about his childhood in Milwaukee and the torment of growing up gay as the son of a preacher man.

Recorded at Comic Strip Live Studios 

Music: Arkitexx and Phantom Boyz 

Growing up in the South Bronx  as an immigrant, having Dumbo ears and a last name that looks like “fuck,” Allan Fuks (This Week in Sex), was a three-course meal for schoolyard bullies. However, those bullies were no match for Fuks’ axe-wielding, Russian cab-driving father.    

Recorded at Comic Strip Live Studios 

Music: Arkitexx and Phantom Boyz

Born to a 14-year-old mother, Courtland Faulden would be the first of her nine children. Most kids hope to see Santa Claus and get presents on Christmas not social workers from Child Protective Services removing them from their home.  Music: Phantom Boyz and Arkitexx Recorded at Comic Strip Live Studios 

“The day she was born, I knew I was going to raise her.”  When DB Frick’s (Conan, National Lampoon) brother was sentenced to prison for 15-years, leaving behind a young daughter, his words came true. Living and working out in Los Angeles, DB returned to his native Long Island and raise his niece. However, to DB, she is his daughter and would  fight anyone who would say otherwise, even his brother, who was just recently released.

Recorded: Comic Strip Live

Music: Phantom Boyz and Arkitexx