Las Vegas Backstage Talk Radio Show, Signed a One Year Deal with 1230 AM KLAV, Bought by Lotus Broadcasting
“Las Vegas Backstage Talk” the only radio show that “Gets Personal with the Stars,” has signed a one year deal with 1230 AM KLAV,
which was recently bought by Lotus Broadcasting.
“Las Vegas Backstage Talk” Radio and Web show will be moving to 1230 AM KLAV starting Thursday, Oct. 18. Their new time slot will be from 4:00pm-5:00pm PST. (Drive time)
Host and producer of “Las Vegas Backstage Talk,” Comedian Michele LaFong, interviewed Dennis Miller, and Tom Cotter, Runner-up on NBC’s “America’s Got Talent” this year, for its final show on 970 AM KNUU, which aired on Thursday, Oct. 11, from 6:05pm-7:00pm. All shows are archived on lasvegasbackstagetalk.com
This concludes a very successful year and a half long run for “Las Vegas Backstage Talk” Radio & Web Show on 970 AM KNUU, Las Vegas’ Financial Radio Station.
Tony Orlando who has an upcoming weekend at The South Point Showroom will be our first guest on Thursday, Oct. 18, from 4pm-5pm PST 1230 AM KLAV in Las Vegas, and The Web. Also on the show will be Anthony Cools, who has the longest running hypnotist show in Las Vegas history, on The Las Vegas Strip, at The Paris Hotel & Casino.
“Las Vegas Backstage Talk,” formerly called “Las Vegas Backstage Now,” originally started on 1230 AM KLAV more than a year and a half ago, and only after a few shows moved to 970 AM KNUU.
“We’re finally back to where we started… only much better,” says LaFong. “The studio has been upgraded, and since KLAV has been bought by Lotus Broadcasting, I felt very comfortable in signing a twelve month contract with 1230 AM KLAV.”
TweetDennis Miller, Tom Cotter-Las Vegas Backstage Talk w/Comedian Michele LaFong
Oct. 11, 2012 6pm-7pm PST 1230AM in LV & The Web
Dennis Miller returns on Las Vegas Backstage Talk Radio Show with Comedian Michele LaFong on 970 AM KNUU, now 1230AM KLAV, in Las Vegas and the Web. LVBST Radio show with Comedian Michele LaFong is the only show that “Gets Personal with the Stars.”
Celebrated as a witty comedian with an entertaining and intriguing stand-up routine, Miller keeps audiences laughing with his irreverent observations. A favorite of the public and critics alike, The New York Times said, “Mr. Miller is exquisitely attuned to contemporary foibles … his material can be scathing, his delivery low key … Mr. Miller reaches a bit farther than most comedians for the scorching comment … this smart aleck has an uncommonly sharp eye.”
Called “one of the premiere comedy talents in America today,” Miller emerged on the national scene in as the “Weekend Update” correspondent on NBC’s Saturday Night Live. After leaving SNL in 1991, Miller moved to HBO, where he hosted the critically acclaimed talk show Dennis Miller Live for nine seasons. No stranger to television talk shows, Miller is a regular on Fox News Channel’s Hannity and The O’Reilly Factor. He was also host and executive producer of CNBC’s Dennis Miller, which featured conversation, opinion and humor.
Miller was featured in Michele LaFong’s Syndicated Column “Las Vegas Backstage Talk” in Gaming Today, and will also be featured in LaFong’s Monthly Syndicated “Las Vegas Backstage Talk” column in Casino Player Magazine.
For more about Dennis and his radio show, click here.
You can catch Dennis live at The Orleans
Orleans Showroom, Oct. 12th – 13th 8:00pm
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Comedian / America’s Got Talent Finalist – Tom Cotter
Tom Cotter, a fellow comic veteran came in second to a dog act on America’s Got Talent this year! So close, yet so far from the million $ prize, and star of his own show in Las Vegas. He will be interviewed about his experience on America’s Got Talent, on Las Vegas Backstage Talk Radio Show on 970 AM KNUU, and The Web.
Tom Cotter’s high energy, rapid-fire style of comedy leaves audiences clutching their sides and rolling in the aisles. Recently, Tom became the first comedian to ever reach the finals of NBC’s “America’s Got Talent.” His runner up finish on the show has catapulted him to the comedic stratosphere.
Before his historic run on the world’s largest talent competition, Tom won the Seattle International Comedy Competition, the grand prize at The Boston Comedy Festival and was voted “Best Stand-Up” at The Las Vegas Comedy Festival. He has become a familiar face on television shows like The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, NBC’s “Last Comic Standing,” The Today Show and his own series, TWO-FUNNY, on The Women’s Entertainment Network. Other TV credits include CBS’ The Late Late Show, Comedy Central’s “Premium Blend,” Comics Unleashed and a Barbara Walters Prime-Time Special among many others. Since moving to New York City, Tom filmed his very own Comedy Central special, “Comedy Central Presents… Tom Cotter,” and was featured in the Miramax film, “Next Stop Wonderland.” Tom has performed at over 300 colleges and wide variety of venues the world over, from London to Beijing, to the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC. He has also been featured in dozens of television commercials, for products like McDonald’s, Doritos, Pepsi, and Amstel Lite, just to name a few.
For more about Tom Cotter here.
See breathtaking performances of NBC’s #1 hit television show in America’s Got Talent LIVE!
Tom Cotter preforms in this exclusive live show at The Palazzo Theatre NOW though Nov. 17th, and features the season seven winner and top fan-voted performers. Bringing the variety show format back to the forefront of American culture each week, the show features a colorful array of hopeful future stars — singers, dancers, comedic performers and unique acts of all ages.
You can catch Tom Cotter in America’s Got Talent LIVE! at The Palazzo,
The Palazzo Theatre, NOW though Nov. 17th 7:30pm, Dark Fridays
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You can listen to a recording of our show below!
Dana Carvey, Judy Tenuta-Las Vegas Backstage Talk w/Comedian Michele LaFong
Sept. 20, 2013 6pm-7pm PST 1230AM in LV & The Web
Dana Carvey returns on Las Vegas Backstage Talk Radio Show with Comedian Michele LaFong on 970 AM KNUU, now 1230AM KLAV in Las Vegas, and The Web. LVBST radio show is the only show that “Gets Personal with the Stars.”
Carvey rose to national prominence during a six-year run as a cast member of NBC’s “Saturday Night Live,” where he created memorable characters “Church Lady,” “Garth” and “Hans” and spot-on impersonations of President George H.W. Bush, Johnny Carson, Ross Perot and Regis Philbin. Carvey’s work on “SNL” garnered him six Emmy Award nominations, including a win in 1993 for “Outstanding Individual Performance in a Variety or Music Program.” He also received multiple American Comedy Awards.
On the big screen, Carvey appeared in supporting roles in “This Is Spinal Tap,” “Racing with the Moon” and “Tough Guys.” He starred in films “Opportunity Knocks,” “Wayne’s World,” “Wayne’s World 2,” “Clean Slate,” “The Road to Wellville” and “Master of Disguise.” Most recently, he had a cameo appearance in “Jack and Jill.”
Dana will soon be in Comedian Michele LaFong’s Monthly Syndicated “Las Vegas Backstage Talk” column in Casino Player Magazine, as well as LaFong’s Monthly Syndicated “Getting Personal with the Stars column in Gaming Today.
For more about Dana Carvey here.
You can catch Dana Carvey live at The Orleans
Orleans Showroom, Sept. 21st & 22nd 8:00pm
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Comedian – Judy Tenuta
Judy Tenuta will be live in-studio on Las Vegas Backstage Talk on 970 AM KNUU, now 1230AM KLAV, in Las Vegas, and The Web.
Judy Tenuta is the most famous person who has ever lived…and if you don’t believe it, just ask her. Judy is a triple threat in the sense that she has strong stage, television, comedy and film credits with a large fan base. She has appeared in” The Vagina Monologues”, “Menopause the Musical” both in LA and Chicago, and she’s had her own stand-up specials on Showtime, HBO and Lifetime. Judy was the first female stand-up comic to win “Best Female Comedian” at the American Comedy Awards and is a two-time Grammy nominee for her comedy CD’S, “Attention Butt-Pirates” and “Lesbetarians!” and “In Goddess We Trust”. That same year, she became the national spokesperson for a series of Diet Dr. Pepper commercials. The self-described “Love Goddess” and “Aphrodite of the Accordion” has made hundreds of guest and co-hosting appearances on such popular TV shows as “The View”, “Late Night with David Letterman”, “Larry King Live”, “Entertainment Tonight”, and “Comics Unleashed”.
For more about Judy Tenuta here.
You can catch Judy Tenuta at Tropicana Las Vegas
Laugh Factory Las Vegas, Mon – Sun, Sept. 17th – 23rd 8:30pm & 10:30pm
You can listen to a recording of our show below!
“Las Vegas Backstage Talk” Column in Gaming Today, by Michele Lafong
Las Vegas Backstage Talk in Gaming Today, by Michele Lafong
“Even veteran interviewers surprised! Dennis Miller ‘bleeped’ twice”
Update: “Las Vegas Backstage Talk” is now a Monthly Syndicated Column in Casino Player Magazine, with Backstage Video-taped Interviews posted monthly on casinocenter.com, as well as lasvegasbackstagetalk.com
Comedian Michele LaFong also writes Monthly Features, and Cover/Features in “Getting Personal with the Stars,” in Casino Player Magazine.
TweetJuly 19, 2011: Kato Kaelin, and Jeff Richards, formally from “Saturday Night Live,” guest on “Las Vegas Backstage Now”
Kato Kaelin, and Jeff Richards, guested on our very last “pre-taped” show, of “Las Vegas Backstage Now,” which will air on Tuesday, July 19, from 6:05-7pm Pacific Time, on 970 KNUU AM, in Las Vegas, and worldwide on The Internet. (Click on link on “Las Vegas Backstage Now” website, during show hour only.)
Kato Kaelin, Jeff Richards, and Greg Wilson, are performing at “Big Al’s Comedy Club,” at The Orleans H&C, in Las Vegas, thru the end of the July.
This particular taping, turned out to be one of “Las Vegas Backstage Live’s” most fun, “off the cuff” shows, which now, is the beginning of a new, more casual, and intimate format, for all future, ” LIVE” shows, which will continue to “follow suit.”
Starting Thursday, July 28, from 6:05-7pm, Pacific Time, “Las Vegas Backstage Now,” will be airing LIVE, and moving to Thursdays, weekly.
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