Aug. 16, 2012: Paula Poundstone, Jay and The Americans
On this week’s Las Vegas Backstage Talk radio show, Paula Poundstone will be returning to LVBST with Comedian Michele LaFong to talk about what she’s up to lately.
Comedian – Paula Poundstone
Audio of interviews posted below (Scroll down)
Poundstone began nurturing her stand-up comedy talent in 1979 on the Boston comedy scene before moving to San Francisco. She starred in multiple HBO comedy specials and appeared on “Saturday Night Live.” Poundstone received a Cable ACE Award for a comedy special for her one-hour HBO special “Cats, Cops, and Stuff.” She received her second Cable ACE Award for her self-titled HBO talk show series.
Continuing with many successes throughout the 1990s, Poundstone starred in “The Paula Poundstone Show” on ABC and many other television appearances, including an HBO Special. Poundstone is the recipient of an Emmy Award for her field pieces on the PBS program “Life & Times.”
For more about Paula, click HERE
You can catch Paula live at The Orleans
Orleans Showroom, Aug. 17 & 18 8:00pm
Jay and The Americans
Performing the hits that put them on the charts, Jay and the Americans will take the stage at the Suncoast Showroom August 25 and 26.
With three original members – Sandy Yaguda (“Deane”), Howie Kirschenbaum (“Kane”), and Marty Kupersmith (“Sanders”) – plus the addition of “Jay” Reincke, Jay and the Americans have recreated the authentic sound of the ‘60s.
Jay and the Americans hits include She Cried, Come A Little Bit Closer, Wax Museum, Hushabye, Walkin’ in the Rain and This Magic Moment.
In 2002, Jay and the Americans were inducted into the Vocal Group Hall of Fame.
You can catch Jay and the Americans at The Suncoast
Suncoast Showroom, Aug. 25 & 26 7.30pm
You can listen to a recording of our show below!
Rick Springfield, Michael “Wheels” Parise-LV Backstage Talk w/Comedian Michele LaFong
Aug. 9, 2012 6pm-7pm PST 1230AM in LV & The Web
Rick Springfield, and Comic Michael Wheels Parise guest this week on Las Vegas Backstage Talk Radio Show with Comedian Michele LaFong. LVBST radio show is the only show that “Gets Personal with the Stars.”
There’s something about Rick Springfield that is and always has been very real. His songs about love and loss, greed and envy, elation and heartbreak spoke to that part of human nature that hasn’t changed in 3,000 years. They still do.
To date, Rick Springfield has sold over 19 million records with a whopping 17 top-40 hits. He has performed for millions of devoted fans over the last three decades and continues to play over 100 shows a year. Attracting new fans wherever he goes with his unique brand of audience interaction, unstoppable energy, and unforgettable songs that have become part of the soundtrack to people’s lives.
Springfield will be featured in Michele LaFong’s Monthly Syndicated “Las Vegas Backstage Talk” column-August 2013 Casino Player Magazine, as well as LaFong’s Monthly Syndicated “Getting Personal with the Stars” Column in Gaming Today.
Rick Springfield at Eastside Events Center in Eastside Cannery Hotel & Casino Fri. Aug. 17th, 8:30pm
Comedian / Chef – Michael “Wheels” Parise
Wheels Parise will be videotaped live in-studio on 970am KNUU now 1230am KLAV in Las Vegas.
This 23-year veteran comedian has been the national touring act for Andrew Dice Clay for over 23 years. Wheels has costarred with movies with Rodney Dangerfield, Keenan Ivory Wayans and Jada Pinckett Smith.
With over 70 TV appearances including Conan O Brien, Letterman as well as co-starring with Dice Clay in the 2008 Reality Show on VH-1 called “Dice Undisputed”. When Wheels is not Headlining Las Vegas you can see him in all the major cities throughout out the country.
Parise will be featured in Comedian Michele LaFong’s Syndicated “Las Vegas Backstage Talk” column in Gaming Today.
More on Michael Wheels Parise below:
http://wheelsparise.com
http://facebook.com/wheelslive
http://twitter.com/wheelslive
You can catch Michael “Wheels” Parise at The Orleans, now The Gold Coast H & C
Big Al’s Comedy Club, Aug. 9th – 12th – 8:00pm.
You can listen to a recording of our show below!
Aug. 2, 2012: Weird Al Yankovic, Jon Taffer
Musician / Comedian – Weird Al Yankovic
Few would have guessed that Yankovic, who as an awkward, accordion-playing teenager got his start sending in homemade tapes to the Dr. Demento radio show, would go on to enjoy a varied and successful career that is now entering its fourth decade. Over that time he’s won three Grammys (with 12 nominations), racked up 31 Gold and Platinum albums and won countless awards and accolades for Weird Al classics like “Eat It,” “Like a Surgeon,” “Fat,” “Smells Like Nirvana,” “Amish Paradise” and “The Saga Begins.” Yankovic is also well-known for his cult-hit feature film UHF (1989), his late ’90s CBS Saturday morning series The Weird Al Show and the numerous AL-TV specials that he’s made for MTV and VH1 over the years. His previous album Straight Outta Lynwood (2006), the highest-charting of his career, spawned the Billboard Top 10 single “White & Nerdy,” the video of which spent two months at #1 on iTunes and garnered over 100 million hits on the Internet.
Now out on his “Alpocalypse” Tour for his latest album.
More about Weird Al here–>
Get the “Alpocalypse” album here–>
Alpocalypse Tour at The Club in The Cannery Hotel & Casino Aug. 4th, 8:00pm
Star of Spike TV’s “Bar Rescue” – Jon Taffer
Star and Co-Executive Producer of “Bar Rescue”
Bar Rescue – Season 2
“Bars mean money, but they also mean stress if they aren’t properly run. Jon Taffer is a bar and nightclub owner who has started, flipped, or owned over 600 bars and clubs in his career and currently owns one of the most highly respected consulting firms in the bar and nightclub industry. Jon will travel around the country and employ his expertise to return struggling bars to the cash cows they once were. Everything from the science of the perfect pour, to the height of the bar stools is a key factor in making a bar the hottest place in town.”
Jon is an internationally recognized, award winning, concept developer, the voice and guru in the bar & nightlife industry. With over 30 years of experience, Taffer became of the worlds top restaurant and bar consultant. In 2010, Taffer was appointed president of Nightclubs & Bar Media Group and organizes the Nightclub & Bar Convention Trade Show, Nightclub & Bar magazine. Taffer is also chairman of Taffer Dynamics, where he is a consultant and development adviser to nightclubs and bars around the world.
For more about Jon Taffer, click here.
You can catch “Bar Rescue” Season 2 on SpikeTV and SpikeTV.com
First episode of Bar Rescue – Season 2 which premiered on July 29, watch now!!!
You can listen to a recording of our show below!
Jul. 26, 2012: Al Bernstein
Legendary Boxing Sportscaster – Al Bernstein
2012 International Boxing Hall of Fame Inductee
For just over 30 years, Al Bernstein has been one of the most recognizable and respected sportscasters in America. In those three decades, the “voice of boxing” reported the funny, poignant, and bizarre events that helped shape sports television, ESPN, boxing, Las Vegas, and Showtime. With an eclectic cast of characters that includes every big name in boxing, including Marvin Hagler, Mike Tyson, Floyd Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao, as well as such names in the entertainment world as Rodney Dangerfield, Sylvester Stallone, Russell Crowe, and Jerry Lewis, Bernstein’s memoir will have you in stitches.
Al Bernstein has written a new book, “30 Years, 30 Undeniable Truths about Boxing, Sports and TV,” and has already received a great reception. People from the sports, entertainment and media world are talking about this book.
Get Al Bernstein’s book now–>
You can listen to a recording of our show below!
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Gerry Bednob, Jeff Capri, Laura Hayden-LVBST w/Comedian Michele LaFong
July 19, 2012 6pm-7pm PST 1230AM in LV & The Web
Gerry Bednob guests on Las Vegas Backstage Talk radio show with Comedian Michele LaFong. LV Backstage Talk radio show is the only show that “Gets Personal with the Stars.”
Gerry currently appears as Bling Bling Shelton in Free Radio on Vh1. He had a role in the 2010 film Furry Vengeance, with Brendan Fraser and Brooke Shields, playing Mr. Gupta. He is also the uncle of Michelle Jhagroo.
He will soon be featured in Michele LaFong’s monthly syndicated column “Las Vegas Backstage Talk” in Casino Player Magazine, as well as LaFong’s monthly syndicated “Getting Personal with the Stars” column in Gaming Today.
Gerry is appearing at Rivera Comedy Club 9:00pm through Sunday July 22nd
Comedian / Headliner – Jeff Capri
Welcoming back Jeff Capri, son of Dick Capri from “Catskills on Broadway.”
Jeff covers everything from pop-culture, biographical and political twists as well as a silly pun or two. A world traveled comedian, Jeff has worked a variety of audiences. Comedy clubs, cruise lines, military tours, and corporate events. Considered a consummate professional; his strong improvisational ability enables him to adapt to any crowd. Jeff’s television appearances, include Comics Unleashed, Last Comic Standing, Ed McMahon’s Next Big Star has enabled him to work alongside respected entertainers, including Ellen DeGeneres, Joy Behar, Rich Jeni and Adam Sandler.
For more about Jeff Capri, click here.
You can catch Jeff at The Orleans, Wednesday, July 18th through Sunday July 22nd at 8:00pm
Big Al’s Comedy Club-now at The Gold Coast H&C
Comedian – Laura Hayden
Laura is like radioactive plutonium; calm, cool and collected until comedy took over her life. A very introverted child all through school, it wasn’t until graduate school for physical therapy that she realized her comedic potential. It’s always the quiet ones! She has the ability to make anything funny, even spinal meningitis. This talent caused her class to overwhelmingly select her to give their commencement speech. That was the catalyst. Receiving several applause -laughter breaks during her speech, she thought “maybe I’m funny”. Having an unquenchable desire to try or learn anything. As long as it is not illegal or immoral, well maybe that was being a bit hasty. But on a whim, she took a comedy class and people have been laughing at her ever Since.
For more about Laura Hayden, click here.
You can catch Laura w/ Jeff Capri at The Orleans
Thursday, July 18th through Sunday July 22nd at 8:00pm
You can listen to a recording of our show below!
Jul. 12, 2012: Kevin Pollak, Tom Dreesen
Actor/Comedian – Kevin Pollak
Michele LaFong caught up with Kevin Pollak at The World Series of Poker at the Rio All Suites Hotel and Casino. Kevin is there representing hollywoodpoker.com as well as a contest to try out your pokerface online.
Kevin also has one of the most successful podcast online! “Kevin Pollak’s Chat Show”.
Kevin Pollak has captured the attention of audiences worldwide with his range of both dramatic and comedic roles. He has appeared in over sixty films, as well as countless television projects, and has established himself as one of the few stand-up comedians to have a successful dramatic film career. In addition to his acting talents, he has also proven himself as both a writer, producer and recently a director and a talk show host.
For more about Kevin Pollak HERE
For more about Kevin Pollak’s Chat Show HERE
Show your pokerface at hollywoodpoker.com
Kevin Pollak is currently playing in the WSOP at The RIO All Suites Hotel and Casino
Comedian – Tom Dreesen
Comedian Tom Dreesen headlined his one-man show, “An Evening of Laughter and Memories of Sinatra,” at the Suncoast Showroomin May.
Dreesen toured the United States for 13 years as the opening act for Frank Sinatra and shares his experiences from the tour in “An Evening of Laughter and Memories of Sinatra.” The show is also a retrospective of Dreesen’s life as a stand-up comedian.
Sinatra once told an audience, “If I’m a saloon singer, then Tom Dreesen is a saloon comedian.” Dreesen and Sinatra remained friends beyond their tour, and on May 20, 1998, Dreesen paid tribute to Sinatra by eulogizing him and serving as a pallbearer at his funeral.
Throughout his career, Dreesen has appeared on numerous television shows, including “The Facts of Life,” “Columbo,” “Touched by an Angel” and “Rude Awakening.” He has also appeared on the big screen in movies including “They Call Me Bruce?,” “Spaceballs” and “Man on the Moon.”
You can listen to a recording of our show below!
