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Issue 531 - West Coast The song Soccer Practice catapulted Jonny McGovern into the gay limelight, making him an instantly recognizable figure. Known by his handle "The Gay Pimp", McGovern's latest endeavors, which include a new CD, sketch comedy show and popular podcast are propelling him up the slippery rungs of the superhomostar ladder. Wow, you're just busy as can be lately. Podcasts, CDs, TV shows ... let's start with the smaller projects first. Where did you get the idea to start the podcast? Lucky for me along with a posse of sexy gogo boys I also keep a pocketful of nerds handy at all times to tell me what's going on in that new frangled intra-net! Seriously tho'..I wasn't quite sure what a podcast was at first, but I sho' am glad I figured it out. The show has been a crazy success! It is a format which allows us to create a completely retarded totally faggity uncensored show and deliver it direct to the fans. The shows I listened to were so funny. How much of it is planned ahead of time and how much is impromptu? We have an idea of what topics or adventures were gonna get into but then we just are talking...my tranny co-host Linda James, and my straight boy sideman Martin are hilarious and we just riff off each other. We have hang out and read the tabloids and talk shit about our fave stars...we do sketches plus we have legendary tranny and muse Sophia Lamar come in and tell us what she hates! Its good ol' faggity fun! The new CD is very eclectic in it's artists and the songs released on it. Was there any rhyme or reason to the selections or did you throw caution to the wind? I did a stint during the final days of a big club here in NYC as creative director for their Sunday night party. They gave me a big budget and I used it to create& record tracks for my fave nightlife kids here in NYC and stage big production for the songs every week. It was amazing. The shows were killer. Tranny rap supergroup La' Mady was born there. Every show was like a homo MTV awards performance but gayer if that is possible! The gig lasted two months and when I was finished. We had a CD Worth of the fiercest most faggity dance music ever featuring all hot new NYC artists. What are some of your favorite tracks on the CD? And Why? Make sure to support your answers. I love Linda James "Bad Bump". Its a rock dance track about a tranny who gets a bad bump from a rocker boyfriend dies and comes back to life to murder him. 'Nuff said. Kevin Aviance raps as a guest on La' Mady's "This Is NYC Bitch". Getting to produce a track with him on it was fun and amazing. Plus the hoes in La' Mady are some of my best friends. And I cant get enough of "How To Read " by Mecca it's a ballroom bitch track but a fresh new rap inspired take on the genre. And I cant forget Mother Flawless Sabrina from the 1968 documentary the queen raps on we like to freak..almost 70 rappin'...she's legendary and hilarious. The TV show looks like it's going to be amazing! How did become get involved with the project? The producers were looking for comedians who could act and create characters. They had seen me on TV and one of the producers came to find me at a party I was throwing and a couple auditions later it was on! What is it like working with such a talented cast? Amanda Bearse? The cast was so much fun! We were all so excited to be on the first gay sketch show ever that even tho it was a lot of work we came to work every day psyched! Amanda is one sexy lesbo and a great director. She also has a ton of great pants! I learned a lot from her. So where did the "gay pimp" persona come from? The Gay pimp started as a character in a series of midnight musicals I wrote when I was in a performance group called Grindhouse. GP battled Eminem in "The wrong fag to fuck with" and defended sitcom style orphans from Mary Kate and Ashley in "the velvet rope smackdown". I started recording the songs from the shows and playing gigs around town as if gay pimp was a big pop star with tons of dancers and lights and eventually a Broadway producer maned Richard jay Alexander discovered my shows and produced a video for "Soccer Practice" On a serious note, behind the comedy, behind the persona, tell us a little about Jonny? What's important to you? I'll say that the great thing abut the podcast is that a lot of young homos who may not have any other gay people around them get to hear a bunch of fun well adjusted but still crazy 'n cool fags who like the same type of tuff...cute dudes, fashion music...The Golden Girls maybe....for them to relate to and listen too and laugh with and to help them feel good about gayness and know that even if it is tough now it gets better. Helpin' my Lil' gay babies but in the most fun and upon boring way ever. Life in New York has treated you well, is your life there more like Sex And The City or Mad About You? Oh, and why?
It has
the glamour and hot sex of sex in the city but I am mad about my man.
Thank you for taking the time to do this. Hope we can get ya out to
Sacramento again sometime soon. Yer Gay Pimp Daddy loves you! |



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