Happy Halloween! It’s been about a decade since I’ve done anything at all for Halloween, but I’m breaking that long dry spell with a Hello Campers! Halloween Special. For this episode, I’m joined by Toronto’s “Queen of Mean,” Viza! She’s been featured on Just for Laughs, SiriusXM, Crave, and this year she recorded her debut stand-up album, “A (semi) Legend in the Making.” Visa has also recently launched a week show, “I Will Say This Though” on YouTube.
In this episode, we’re watching clips from Liza Minnelli, Joan Rivers, Elvira, Sandra Lee, Sylvia Browne, Bette Midler & Rosie O’Donnell, Young and the Restless, Dark Shadows, Joan Crawford, Paul Lynde, SCTV, and Dame Joan Collins on American Horror Story. It’s jam-packed, so brace yourselves for a roller coaster of frights and delights!
In this episode, I fill an hour all by myself! Of, course, we're opening with a bonkers Sylvia Browne clip, but I also thought I'd share a handful of my favourite live performances. In this episode, you'll see performances from Bea Arthur, Diana Ross, Kylie Minogue, Dame Shirley Bassey, Dorothy Squires, Gladys Knight, Bette Midler, Cher, Petula Clark, and The Three Degrees.Thank you for all of your support over the past few years. Looking forward to spending the next hour with you in this episode.
Liza is in the house!! In this episode, I'm by Dana Craig, a producer of the 2025 Liza Minnelli documentary, Liza: A Truly Terrific Absolutely True Story! She's also a seasoned podcaster (In The Room with Steven and Dana) and an all-around wonderful person that I am happy to call a new friend.
In this episode, Dana shares the experience of meeting Liza and we talk about Liza's backstory. And, of course, we also watch a few campy Liza clips! Also in this episode are clips of Broadway legends Carol Channing and Elaine Stritch, a mind-blowing Tony Awards medley, and a messy Katherine Hepburn as Coco Channel.
It's a fun lineup of clips. Please enjoy! And as always, thank you for your support of my work!
I DO FEEL LIKE DANCIN! Because Ana Matronic of Scissor Sisters is joining me as a guest for this episode!
Aside from being in one of music's most fabulous pop groups EVER, Ana is the host of BBC Radio 2's Disco Devotion. She's joining me in the episode for a discussion about the history and significance of disco and a look back at a handful of great clips, including: Sylvia Browne on The Montel Williams Show, Sylvester in conversation with Joan Rivers, performances of "Reine de la unit)" and "Je survivrai" from Regine Zylberberg, a high-camp performance of "I Love Men" by Eartha Kitt, and an interview with Pete Burns about Dead or Alive's work with Stock, Aitken, Waterman and the significance of the HiNRG sound.
We're also going to take a deep dive into clips from the outrageous 2000s supernatural soap opera, Passions, including the episode that featured a cameo and performance from the Scissor Sisters!
Hope you enjoy this episode. It was fun to record and I hope that joy comes through when you watch and listen!
The hilarious Justin Martindale is my guest for this episode, and together, we're going to take a look at a few of Sylvia Browne's greatest shits and a selection of outrageous 2000s reality television, including Next!, The Swan, Playing it Straight, The Starlet and My Strange Addiction.
I'm sure many of you already know who Justin is, but I'm going to fill you in anyway. Justin is a comedian and former writer for the E! network Joan Rivers television series Fashion Police and a judge on E!'s The Funny Dance Show, as well as a performer on MTV's Acting Out.
He currently hosts the Just Sayin' podcast.He's as kind and sweet as he is funny, and I'm happy to call him a new friend. Hope you enjoy this episode and I hope it gives you a couple good laughs!
Julie Klausner is my guest for this episode to watch some of the biggest messes on daytime television from the nineties and early 00s. It's completely unhinged, so brace yourself!
Clips include Sylvia Browne on The Montel Williams Show, cheating partners on Maury Povich, boy-crazy teens on Sally Jessy Raphael, family reunions on Richard Simmons' Dreammaker, wannabe popstars on Jenny Jones, and feuding families on Oprah.
In the final segment, Julie and I are going to watch a curated selection of retro commercials, including Lauren Bacall for High Point Decaffeinated Coffee, Massengill douching products, and New York's Charisma fashion boutique! It's the perfect high-camp, nostalgic overload.
I absolutely adore Julie. She is a writer, actor, author, podcaster and producer. She is also the creator and star of Hulu's Difficult People with Billy Eichner, and had roles in Ryan Murphy's Fosse/Verdon, and critically-acclaimed Amazon comedy series, The Marvellous Mrs. Maisel. I'm so grateful to have her join me as the second guest on my podcast.
Teigan (@teiganish) is joined by Tranna Wintour (@trannawintour) to watch and react to clips from Sylvia Browne on Montel, Dame Joan Collins, Kathie Lee Gifford, Halstead, Liz Curtis Higgs, Kim Cattrall, Liza Minnelli on HSN, Cher, and Barbra Streisand on Rosie.
Teigan and Tranna discuss what it means to be a Quebec celebrity and the amazing music and film to come out of Quebec, and Tranna's participation in Traitors Canada and Quebec's Celebrity Big Brother.