Joey Gay is a comedian who was featured on season 4 of Last Comic Standing. He tells us about how he got kicked out of college, and almost 20 years later got a hero’s welcome when he was hired to perform there as a stand-up.
Joey Gay
• September 30th, 2008
(2 ratings) Patricia Rose on Paul Addis
• September 23rd, 2008Patricia Rose tells us about her friend Paul Addis who was kicked out of Burning Man after burning the Burning Man sculpture down several days early. Addis is currently serving 1-4 years in federal prison on arson charges.
(0 ratings) San Francisco Montage
• September 19th, 2008Brontez (from Fag Skool zine and the band Gravy Train), Debbie Kirk, and Herb.
(0 ratings) Neeli Cherkovski on Bukowski
• September 2nd, 2008Neeli Cherkovski is a San Francisco poet and biographer of Charles Bukowski. Blowdryer initially wanted to interview him about Bob Kaufman, another poet with whom Cherkovski was close, but he mostly talked about Hank, which was fine with us.
(1 ratings) 
The Cabbies
• July 21st, 2008
Blowdryer interviews three former cab drivers about their experience kicking people out of cabs. First is Phil Ford, a San Francisco cabbie who had three rules for his customers, and one customer broke all three instantly. Joe Donahoe also used to drive a cab in San Francisco and tells about one of his most memorable kickouts. Finally, a Dallas cab driver who preferred to remain anonymous tells about a customer that just made him uncomfortable, and his instincts turned out to be correct.
(0 ratings) Reverend Jen Miller, part 2
• July 14th, 2008In this episode, Reverend Jen Miller talks about some of her adventures with the Dance Liberation Front (DLF), a group she started with Robert Prichard and other friends to protest Rudy Guiliani’s aggressive enforcement of New York’s cabaret laws. These laws prohibit people from dancing in bars unless the bar obtains an expensive and hard-to-get cabaret license from the city.
At the end of the episode, Prichard adds some details to Rev Jen’s story about when the DLF visited the Cuban embassy.
(1 ratings) Reverend Jen Miller, part 1
• July 6th, 2008Blowdryer interviews New York Lower East Side icon Reverend Jen Miller, Patron Saint of the Uncool, Sex Symbol for the Insane. Part 1 of 2, in which Miller discusses going to FAO Schwartz dressed as Doo Doo, the fifth teletubby, and performing her musical Rats outside the theater where Cats was showing.
(1 ratings) Kelly Beardsly
• June 25th, 2008
Kelly Beardsly is a substitute school bus driver in San Francisco. Here, Beardsly tells about getting three kids 86ed from the bus.
(0 ratings) Stephanie Sabelli
• June 19th, 2008This one is a video! Comedian Stephanie Sabelli talks about being 86ed from bars and about trouble customers when she herself worked as a bartender.
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