Bill Cruz's Christmas Miracle

About this episode

Bill Cruz returns to discuss the holiday season and share insights on current events in pop culture.

Happy Holidays, everybody! One of the best parts of the season is when friends and family come back to town to bring the light, the noise, and the funk. Today we welcome back one of the first openly gay comedians in Chicago’s stand-up comedy scene: Bill Cruz. After his time in LA, Bill has returned to Chicago and is here to help us wrap up this difficult year without crying into our coquito. Back in the day, Bill helped shape our live Chicago comedy show, “Feast of Fools,” a little experiment that somehow evolved into one of the world’s first and longest-running podcasts, “Feast of Fun.” And yes, even we’re still surprised it’s still going on. Join us for this and all the hot news: • Bowen Yang, the second openly gay comedian on Saturday Night Live retires from the show. • Are Republicans using AI to create fake pictures of Trump and Bill Clinton as gay lovers to discredit the Epstein Files? • Britney Spears’ “Toxic” video director Joseph Kahn says the reason Avatar never became a big part of the public’s consciousness is because gays don’t want to have sex with blue cat aliens. • Farewell to filmmaker Rob Reiner and actor Gil Gerard, star of “Buck Rogers in the 25th Century.” He…

People in this episode

Hosts: Fausto Fernós, Marc Felion

Guest: Bill Cruz

Topics covered

• Christmas
• comedy
• LGBTQ+
• pop culture
• current events

Keywords

• Christmas Miracle
• Bill Cruz
• Feast of Fun
• LGBTQ comedy
• current events
• Bowen Yang
• Britney Spears

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Feast of Fools, Saturday Night Live, Epstein Files

Books & works: Buck Rogers in the 25th Century

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