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The Gong Show
Jul 06, 2010
It is with great respect and reverence that I present The Gong Show for the stage. The first show is at BB Kings on Aug 12th, 2010 and promises to be full of the deranged energy and charm of the original iconic TV show. We have 12 outstanding acts - some shocking, some pee-in-your-pants hilarious, and some certifiable, and some just damn great.
This is the only authorized live version of The Gong Show ever granted by Sony Television PIctures, the owner of the property. There have been several attempts to bring TGS back to TV, but in my opinion none were right. None captures the loony spirit of the original TV show, which is my goal.
Comedian Ray Ellin hosts. Chuck Nice, Dan Naturman and myself are the judges. This first show is going to lay down the blueprint for the longer NYC and Vegas runs. Please come. Tickets (in advance) are only $15 bucks - purposely kept low to get you in the door. Now that we are cast I promise you will not be disappointed.
bbkingblues.com or ticketmaster.com for tickets.
Chick
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Are you watching us every day? You should be.
Mar 24, 2010
I broadcast every weekday on the cutting edge technology of Shovio, which is the first live two-way broadcasting network. You are part of the show in every sense, as you can beam into the show any time you have something to say, and be on screen via your webcam, you can chat in the chatroom, send in questions or just watch.
Register for free, watch for free. We're live at 6 pm est. Check it out here.
Not available then? No worries, watch the show recordings everyday Here
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Grow the Fuck Up Forum
Jun 26, 2009
I've had a request to put up this forum as a place for people to tell the story of people who need to GTFU, and I think its a great idea. It can be about celebrities, stories in the news, stories from your life. It can also be a place where you report that someone you know has G'nTFU.
For instance, since reporting the story on air, we since found out the girl who blamed the tattoo artist for putting 56 stars on her face, was lying about falling asleep. She got scared of her father who got angry when he saw her ridiculous face. She needed to take responsibility for her decision and GTFU!
Alternatively, Joe One-Leg emailed about his son who left home at 17 for college and now at 24 has a house in the dirty south, a few dog's, nice girl and comes back to jersey to visit on holidays and vacations north. There is a kid who GTFU.
Please post your GTFU rants below. We'll be working the good ones into the show.
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G.T.F.U.! and my campaign
Apr 29, 2009
Thank you for embracing my campaign cry of "Grow the Fuck Up! and for the support on my quest to be anointed Queen of the United States of America. We are getting loads of email here at Queen Campaign Headquarters, many calling upon us, or someone else in the public eye to grow the fuck up, and it warms my heart.
Well Hung wrote in quickly, claiming title of "Sir Well Hung Duke of Vag".
I decided to open my royal court and bestow a title on anyone who can come up with a good one. If you would like to be part of the new monarchy, claim your rightful place, and declare your title below.
Curtsies and bows are unnecessary. We are still Americans. High on intensity, low on manners.
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Billy Bob Thorton
Apr 11, 2009
There was a request made for a blog about show topics, so you could add your comments. Not sure each topic is blog worthy, but it seems a good place to start is with that dickwad (scuze me, difficult) Billy Bob Thorton radio interview. (Link in the links section, and our podcast 13 for the unitiated) You know my feeling if you heard the podcast. Have at it!
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Tech tips and ideas
Mar 25, 2009
After show #1, quite a few listeners emailed in some really cool ideas and useful technical suggestions to me. Some would enhance the podcast, some would make your listening experience slicker and easier, and some are great ideas to help get the word out and get more ears. This blog is so everyone could post their helpful suggestions and we could make them public for the RC community.
Our mission is to get ears. Once we do that, we'll get sponsors, and will have some money flowing in, which will make it worth the time and effort. If you myspace/facebook/twitter or can email to your address book about the show and turn people onto it, it would be greatly appreciated. They don't have to be a former listener, or even know of the show at all. Anyone who you think might enjoy it would be a target. Its just Butch and I on the job right now, so we need the greater rack pack community to engage and execute!
Jimmy the Ex-mattressman wrote: I plan to perhaps get friend to show me how to make a Banner, and post a link from my Facebook directly to your Site.
Great idea...Does anyone know how to make a banner?
For blackberry users, Chris L shared the following: I listen to the podcasts on my blackberry phone. I am a bit of a tech geek so I don't know how difficult it would be for most. If you own a blackberry and google search podtrapper (costs $10 after 30 day free trial). Install it on your blackberry. then hit menu at the main screen. hit add podcast by URL and add http://theradiochick.com/pcfeed.rss it will download right to your blackberry every day. (make sure you have unlimited data plan) Well just thought this info might be useful to the listeners and maybe help you guys become the most downloaded show ever.
For those that asked this is our RSS
http://theradiochick.com/pcfeed.rss
Add your own suggestions and ideas below:
Chick
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Podcasting
Mar 24, 2009
Thanks everyone for the enormous response to the email about the Radiochick podcast which starts Wednesday March 25. I've received two basic responses 1. Hallelujah and I love podcasts! or 2. What the f**k is a podcast? For the uninitiated, it is EASY EASY EASY if you've ever downloaded an attachment, you can download a podcast. Don't be afraid. Even Grouchy Abe can do it and he is 1000 years old. Go to the podcast page, click download and it will begin automatically. You can then listen to it in whatever your computer uses to listen to music files, typically Itunes or Windows Media.
If you have an Ipod, or something similar, you can take our podcast with you and listen on the train, or at the gym. If you have a newer car, you most likely have a jack for your Ipod in your dash, plug it in and listen while you drive to or from work. The Radiochick show.. only this time on your schedule.
For now, the podcast is put up after its recorded. We are working with some folks who are developing software that will make it live and interactive. If that works out the way we hope it will be really slick.
If you want to help the cause, send a friend to download the show. I could be someone who knows the show from before, or someone that was never exposed- that you want to turn onto it. We're not restricted by radio transmitter towers now. If you have a computer, you can listen. We want to reconnect with our old chick community and build on to it, so please, spread the word.
Emails are being read on the broadcast, and phone messages are being taken on the hotline. Butch is on the job.
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I love Celebrity Rehab
Jan 12, 2008
Maybe I'm biased. After all, I do adore Dr. Drew, but I am loving celebrity rehab. This is the first time in a long time a reality show actually contains some reality, and it isn't pretty. The patients really run the gamut from those with pathetically serious conditions like Conaway, to those who are still in denial and ambivalent like Mary Carey. It really shows the spectrum of personalities addicts can take.
Dr Drew, God bless him, is ridiculously patient. I wanted to smack Mary Carey and Seth Binzer across the face several times. Did Mary Carey wander into the wrong place and think it was the set of her next porn film? And I like her..she's a terrific radio guest..but I still wanted to smack her.
So who is going to make it? I say:
Brigitte Nielson
Alec Baldwin's brother (why is he here..isn't he already sober?)
Jamie Foxworth (not to be confused with Jamie Foxx)
And..I'll say Conaway makes big progress. The rest, I think get tossed out.
Your thoughts?
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Lunacy - Sly Stone at BB Kings
Dec 12, 2007
You all know I'm a mega-funk fan. So I simply had to attend the "Truimphant U.S. Return of Sly and the Family Stone" at BB Kings. I knew it was a crapshoot..I figured there was a high probability it would be a train wreck, but on the slim chance it might be great, I had to go. Not only that, I made Carmine make a special trip in from LA to go with me.
I'll start by saying, the second show was better.
Now let me tell you about the first show. It was bewildering madness. I've never seen anything like it.
Sly looks so bizarre. He broke his neck when he fell off a cliff and it healed at a downward angle, so he's always looking at the floor. He's bald, except for the ridiculous mohawk and he wears oversized, sparkly hoodies that swamp his frame. Dark glasses hide his eyes, but you can tell he's permanently burnt out just from his body language.
He took the stage alone to the deafening, thunderous applause of the sold out crowd, then spent 10 minutes tuning his organ, while the audience just stood around quietly, nervously glancing at each other. He hadn't been at the 5 hour soundcheck with the rest of the band, so he did it on stage. It was baffling.
Finally the rest of the band came out, 2 originals, one daughter and some new ones. The band is great. Its not as great as the original was in their heyday, but it was a smokin funk band with 2 great singers nonetheless. But Sly would sing just a few words of each song, then either keep his head buried in his organ, or spin around and simply watch the band from his seat. There were moments it looked like a Sly and FS tribute, played in honor of Sly, rather than featuring him. Several times he disappeared off stage, mid song. Sometimes he reappeared in the audience singing, sometimes he just didn't return. The confused band was constantly looking toward the stage entrance to see when he might be coming back.
A few moments were amazing. He sang some songs all the way through, his voice sounded great and the moments were transportive. "Sing a Simple Song" was almost an out of body experience. "If You Want me to Stay" (ha!) was great. But those moments paled in comparision to the majority of songs, where he was either watching, barely participating or just missing.
Here's the capper. About 30 minutes into the performance he walked through the audience like the pied piper (of the demented) singing, while the band smoked on stage. It took about 5-7 minutes to get all the way through as it was so crowded, and he was great. He exited the side door singing and never came back. Just vanished. The band clearly didn't know what was up. They would start a new song, vamp for a while, stare at the stage door, give up and finish the song with the other singers, (one who is a sly sound alike). They did this for 5 more songs. They looked for Sly. No sly. Then the show was over, without Sly. 45 min.
One audience member grabbed the mic and screamed "Get that crackhead back on stage, I paid 100 bucks for my ticket!!". It was ugly.
I met Sly's manager, (who knew Carmine) and he asked me if I loved the show.(are you on crack too? I thought.) No guile at all, he meant it. Apparantly that's a pretty good showing for Sly. He told us a wild story about Sly being held hostage in some woman's basement in New Jersey and owing the gov't 18 million dollars when this manager hooked up with him. If I was on the air, it would have made a great story..too long to go into here.
We were told the second show would be better, so we stayed. It was..Sly sang lead almost every song and stayed on stage for 55 whole minutes. That small feat seemed like a triumph. It was better than the baffling lunacy of the first show. But he still wasn't right.
I'm glad I went. I've been doing my Sly imitations at holiday parties and getting a big laugh.
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Maxim unsexiest women
Oct 28, 2007
Maxim made a list of the unsexiest women alive. Rather than risk offending too many celebs it appears that the list only numbers 5 women (way to go out on a limb, Maxim..isn't your sexiest list 100 ?)
I would have put Rosie O'Donnell or Macy Grey near the top, but here they are, in orHere's the full list with comments
Sarah Jessica Parker is #1..congratulations, Butch..you always said her face looked like a shoe. Can't agree with Madonna, seems her main crime was getting older. Less sexy than before, sure, but unsexiest? That's too harsh, I say no. Do they want her to keep behaving or dressing like she did in the 80's? Then she'd be a cartoonish joke. Hard to have it both ways, Maxim.
5. Britney Spears
Where You've Seen Her Unsexy: Filling chicken-grease-stained sweatpants on the cover of every trashy tabloid and gossip blog on the Internet
Why She's Unsexy:
Less than five years ago, Britney had a python wrapped around her
well-toned torso onstage at the VMAs. Since then, she's lost the
ability to perform, but gained two kids, two useless ex-husbands, and
about 23 pounds of Funyun pudge.
4. Madonna
Where You've Seen Her Unsexy: On tour, at the Wailing Wall, in the pharmacys menopause aisle
Why She's Unsexy:
After building a personal fortune on Top 40 pornography, Madonna traded
pioneering sexuality for, like other old Jewish women, self-righteous
bellyaching and rapid postnuptial deterioration. Combine a Paris
Hilton; like pet accessorizing fetish only for dirt-poor foreign babies
with a mug that looks Euro-sealed to her skull, and you've got Willem
Dafoe with hot flashes.
3. Sandra Oh
Where You've Seen Her Unsexy: Grey' Anatomy
Why She's Unsexy:
The only thing worse than a show about doctors is a show about sappy
chick doctors we're forced to watch or else our girlfriends won't have
sex with us. We're holding Dr. McSkinny, with her cold bedside manner
and boyish figure, personally responsible.
2. Amy Winehouse
Where You've Seen Her Unsexy: Onstage, offstage, and in the tabloids after cleaving herself and her husband
Why She's Unsexy: When we first heard this chick boast about her reluctance to go to rehab we thought, Now there"s a girl we can party with!
But upon beholding her openly hemorrhaging translucent skin, rats nest
mane and lashes that look more like surgically attached bats, we were
the ones screaming, "Nooo,
1. Sarah Jessica Parker
Where You've Seen Her Unsexy: Sex and the City, Failure to Launch, Honeymoon in Vegas
Why She's Unsexy: How the hell did this Barbaro-faced broad manage to be the least sexy woman in a group of very unsexy women and still star on a show with "sex" in the title? Pull your skirt down, Secretariat, we'd rather ride Chris Noth.
Add your comments and additions below..please!
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