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Sewers of Paris: Betrayed by Books (Ep 385 - Fantasy novels/Oliver Darkshire)

My guest on The Sewers of Paris podcast this week is Oliver Darkshire. As a young adult, he found himself drifting...

Bonus video! Will & Grace's weirdest kiss

There's a great big Will & Grace video headed your way in a few weeks, all about that show's monumental impact not just on TV but on American politics -- including a very unexpected mo...

Sewers of Paris: Learning to be Myself More (Ep 384 - Live drag soap opera/Harold Slazer)

My guest on The Sewers of Paris this week is Harold Slazer, an actor-writer-director whose life was changed in an instant after a car crash and ensuing memory problems that left him unable...

Bonus video! Dynasty's great caviar fight, the UFO, and a sneak peek at Will & Grace

Dynasty's known for cliffhangers, and the bizarre UFO scene in the finale of the Colbys spinoff is -- I think -- their greatest work. Alas, America didn't quite see it that way, because th...

Sewers of Paris: Oracular Garbage Pile (Ep 383 - James Bond/Andrew Wheeler)

This week sees the release of Love and War, a new comic book set in the competitive world of varsity tug-of-war and featurin...

Sewers of Paris: A Crew of Proto-Queer Boys (Ep 382 - Spice Girls/Little Miss Hot Mess)

My guest this week on The Sewers of Paris is the performer, author, and academic known as Lil Miss Hot Mess, who was fortunate enough to grow up with a proto-queer friend group that paved ...

Bonus video! Full interviews about trans characters of the 1970s

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The upcoming video about Dynasty is getting close! But in the mean time, I want to share with you the full interviews that I recently did -- one with Dr. Susan Stryker (w...

Sewers of Paris: Space Ballerinas (Ep 381 - Sailor Moon/Ryan La Salla)

This month marks the 30 year anniversary of the American debut of Sailor Moon, and to celebrate on this week's Sewers of Paris we’re diving back into the archives to hear my 2018 chat wi...

Bonus Video! The Making of Charlie's Angels, Morticia's Real Life Lover, and More Supertrain

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The upcoming video about Dynasty is still chugging along, but in the mean time I've got some fun treats to share -- a Dynasty live show (!!!) featuring one actor...

Sewers of Paris: It's Petty Drama (Ep 380 - The Hills/Xavier D'Leau)

My guest on this week's Sewers of Paris podcast is producer Xavier D’Leau, who always knew that he needed,...

Bonus Video! NBC's Supertrain Disaster, an Icicle Murder, and Unreasonably Large Hats

Hello, time for another bonus video! I've just come into a vintage copy of an important issue of Andy Warhol's Interview magazine, and here's what I learned: Sometime in 1982, the singer C...

Sewers of Paris: We're All Enjoying the Male Body (Ep 379 - International Male/Buck Jones)

My guest on this week's Sewers of Paris podcast left his old life behind to chase dreams of freedom with the love of his life. Buck Jones was working a corporate job with a homophobic boss...

Bonus Video! Meet Madam, America's Most Bewildering Puppet (Plus: Dynasty's UFO Problem)

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I am SO DELIGHTED to share these clips of weird queer TV history with you! Recently, a Madam puppet appeared on an episode of Antiques Roadshow, and if you're not familiar with Mada...

Sewers of Paris: Secrets Kill (Ep 378 - Disaster films/Christopher Rice)

My guest this week on The Sewers of Paris is New York Times bestselling author Christopher Rice, whose new book...

Bonus video! Behind-the-scenes chat with Marsha Posner Williams, of Soap & The Golden Girls & More

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In making my recent video about the show Soap, I was super fortunate to get to talk with Marsha Posner Williams, whose name you probably recognize from hundreds of episo...

Sewers of Paris: Raised by Hippies (Ep 377 - Room with a View/Michael Bach)

My guest on The Sewers of Paris this week is Michael Bach, whose life was changed in a movie theater — or more precisely, just outside of one, when a conversation about the film he’d j...

March Update! Behind the Scenes on Soap, a Dynasty Scandal, and an Upcoming Reveal

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I was drifting off to sleep last night, thinking about how March is said to "come in like a lion and out like a lamb," and as a result I slept deeply and dreamed of lions r...

Bonus video! More deleted jokes, and a salesman scandal

Hello hello! This week's bonus video has one more deleted-and-then-reconstructed joke from the pilot of Soap. Plus! A little sneak-peek at the Dynasty video I'm working on next, featuring lots of g...

Sewers of Paris: The Moon's About to Fall (Ep 376 - Majora's Mask/Enrique)

This week sees the re-release of one of the greatest videogames ever made, Majora’s Mask, which is about a young boy trying to stop the end of the world. In commemoration, we’re diving...

Bonus Video! More of Soap's censored jokes, and ABC's staff psychic

I generally don't side with the network censors, but it turns out that there were a couple of jokes in the first few episodes of Soap that ... well, taking them out was indeed a good call, as it tu...

Sewers of Paris: Funny and Salacious and Dangerous (Ep 375: Andrew/Soap)

For this week’s episode of The Sewers of Paris, we’re jumping back to a 2015 interview about the show Soap, which was something of an obsession for my guest Andrew.

It's...

Bonus Video! The joke ABC wouldn't let Soap make

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Time for another bonus video, and this week I've got the hot gossip about the joke that ABC made the show Soap cut from its pilot episode. Also! Confirmati...

Sewers of Paris: I was Quite Happy to be the Villain (Ep 374: Tork Shaw/Kenneth Williams)

Next week would have been the 96th birthday of Kenneth Williams, an incredible British performer who hid queer culture in plain sight on the BBC back in the 1960s. For this week’s episode of ...