BREAKING NEWS:
A Delightful Holiday Package... Or Six
Shocks & C*cks: All Nude, All-Dude Revue jingles bells this holiday
PRODUCER: Jonny Porkpie presents
SHOW: SHOCKS & C*CKS 3: COLD C*CKED
STARRING: Jonny Porkpie, Albert Cadabra, Ferro, Hard Cory, Mat "Sealboy" Fraser, Tigger
DATE: Thursday, December 29 at 10:00pm
VENUE: The Kraine, 85 East 4th Street New York, NY 10003
PRICE: $20
WEBSITE: http://www.jonnyporkpie.com, horsetrade.info
Santa, bring me a nice package! The outrageous all-nude, all-dude revue returns with a brand-new holiday tale that will warm the cockles of your heart. The cast of the original Shocks & C*cks -- including international boylesque superstar Tigger!, Mat "Sealboy" Fraser, Hard Cory, Ferro, Albert Cadabra and host Jonny Porkpie -- return for a night of seasonal cheer. It's a stocking stuffer like no other.
• After 31 Cities, 5 Countries, 3 Continents, Grab My Junk gets its first review!
• Grab My Junk's London Debut!
• Grab My Junk Touches Down Across the US!
• Rappers and strippers unite for a burlesque HIP-HOP abomiNATION
• Bad Ideas gets musical with PORKHART & HIP-HOP abomiNATION
Jonny Porkpie Press Clippings
After 31 Cities, 5 Countries, 3 Continents, Grab My Junk gets its first review!Erotic Review Wednesday, November 16
Erotic Review comes to Grab My Junk, and has this to say:
"If only all diplomatic missions were this fun. After touring through 31 cities in five countries, self-appointed burlesque mayor of New York City Jonny Porkpie finally brought his outrageous game show parody to the British capital... Porkpie owns the evening with the unfaltering wit of his rapid-fire banter... Unapologetically capitalizing on the lurid appeal of voyeuristic audiences, Grab My Junk is a guilty pleasure like no other burlesque show I've seen. But it's more than that as well. It's a fierce display of the underrated boylesque genre, an intelligent take on media sensationalism, and one damn funny show to boot... Do yourself a favour and don't miss it, regardless of which side of the Atlantic you're on." more
Time Out London Recommends Grab My Junk
Saturday, November 5
NYC's self-declared 'mayor of burlesque' Jonny Porkpie returns to BGWMC, teaming up with the Double R Club's Rose Thorne to deliver 'the world's most touching game show', where bump and grind meets Q&A and secrets yield prizes! With Mat Fraser,... more
Porkpie drops by Aguilera's place to host some show
http://www.christinaaguilera.com http://www.christinaaguilera.comWednesday, February 23
The caption reads "Burlesque Mayor of NY - Self-Appointed". http://www.christinaaguilera.com/us/news/show-me-how-you-burlesque-episode-3... more
Style Blog calls Porkpie "Strangest Male Burlesque Star"
Refinery29Friday, January 14
If you missed out on our naughty weekend guide, you still have a chance to inject a lil' nasty into the start of your drinking days. Enter the Jonny Donny show, tonight at the Bowery Poetry Club. The burlesque-type performance... more
"Jonny Porkpie, Tigger!, Jo 'Boobs' Weldon et al. Set for Tribute to Gypsy Rose Lee at NYPL"
TheaterMania Thursday, January 6
"Albert Garzon, Bambi Jones, Jonny Porkpie, The Rhinestone Follies, Miss Tickle, Tigger!, Jo "Boobs" Weldon, and more will participate in the centennial celebration of burlesque legend Gyspy Rose Lee at The New York Public Library, on Saturday, January 8 at... more
Time Out on Porkpie: "impresario, fiction writer, comedian, bottom-pincher and good-natured bon vivant"
Time Out New York Saturday, November 13
Bravo, then, to the go-go-getting Jonny Porkpie--impresario, fiction writer, comedian, bottom-pincher and good-natured bon vivant--for venturing where few straight men have gone before. more
Time Out / NY Press feature Shocks, etc.
Thursday, November 11
"Jonny Porkpie makes burlesque a little friendlier for those untitillated by shimmying female flesh--his all-beef revue welcomes performers like Go-Go Harder, Tigger! and other uninhibited gents." Time Out New York "Forget about waiting for Burlesque--Jonny Porkpie's Bad Ideas is back... more
NY Press names Porkpie NY's "Best Naked Impresario", comments on size of his ego
New York Press Thursday, October 28
Our dentist keeps telling us to wear that mouthguard, but it's not our fault: Every time we get another story pitch about burlesque, we grind our teeth. It's not that we don't like the fun and joy of the ladies... more
Huffington Post Corners Porkpie in a Coffee Shop
Huffington Post Wednesday, August 11
"Porkpie indeed straddles many worlds, and he's doing so Being John Malkovich style where the walls between reality, fiction, and performance are fuzzy at best." -Jill DiDonato covers Porkpie for The Huffington Post. Full Article... more
Boston Phoenix visits Porkpie & friends in Boston
The Boston Phoenix Monday, July 26
Photo essay: "Pinchbottom Burlesque Book Launch at the Beehive (kinda NSFW)" View... more
A Rare TheaterMania plug
TheaterMania Monday, May 17
Naked Guys Reading lands a rare TheaterMania plug! Full Article with hilarious picture crop.... more
Time Out Calls Porkpie "Be-Hatted, Be-Bearded"
Time Out New York Friday, January 15
You may already know behatted, be-bearded neoburlesque presenter Jonny Porkpie, the writer-performer particularly popular for his themed Pinchbottom Burlesque shows, which he hosts with his wife Nasty Canasta. In fact, you may have even voted for him in the mayoral election. But you may not have realized that Porkpie is now a published author. more
Popmatters calls Corpse "A twisted, sexy and hilarious tale of murder and mystery"
Popmatters Friday, December 11
A twisted, sexy and hilarious tale of murder and mystery... Modern with the nourish flare, Corpse strikes the perfect tone for a pulp novel. more
Reader finds "Corpse" Educational
His Futile Preoccupations Wednesday, November 18
A light-hearted, entertaining, slick, crime-centred romp through the glamorous world of burlesque... a delightful, funny read. more
Porkpie Gossip on Page 6
New York Post Page 6 Tuesday, November 10
SOME authors are well equipped to promote themselves. To launch "The Corpse Wore Pasties," Jonny Porkpie, whose day job is emceeing burlesque shows, uses his favorite strippers -- the spectacular Clams Casino, Dirty Martini and Jo Boobs -- plus his... more
According to one reader, "Corpse" is "The official Go-To book for underwear metaphors!"
Kristopher Cowell Sunday, November 8
Porkpie comes off so appealing and hilarious that the reader wants to quit their day job and start a career as one of his steamer trunk members... The official Go-To book for underwear metaphors! more
News Feed: Candidate Porkpie on Video
Saturday, October 31
"Michael Bloomberg and Bill Thompson aren't the only two politicians running for mayor. Seven additional candidates - representing such groups as the Rent is Too Damn High Party and the Green Party - are on the ballot. Others, like Jonny... more
Library Journal on "Corpse"
Library Journal Wednesday, October 28
The rapport required on stage transfers effortlessly to the page in this debut mystery... Don't give up your night job, Jonny; it's too good of a backdrop for the sequels that will surely come to nestle comfortably between Gypsy Rose Lee's classic 1941 The G-string Murders and Kinky Friedman's mysteries. more
Publishers Weekly on "Corpse"
Publishers Weekly Monday, October 19
Much of the fun lies in Porkpie's witty and telling observations of life in the raunchy burlesque world, and the tone is more playful than pornographic despite plentiful references to sexual activity. Readers will enjoy the twists and action and hope for future Porkpie investigations. more
Booklist Reviews "Corpse"
Booklist Wednesday, October 14
The self-proclaimed "Burlesque Mayor of New York City," makes himself the star of this winsome first novel... Porkpie's style is diligently tongue in cheek, and it works. Fans of hard-boiled crime will enjoy this romp, and in an increasingly coarse popular culture, the inside look at burlesque seems, well, almost wholesome. more
First review of "The Corpse Wore Pasties"
Vince Keenan.com Sunday, October 11
Jonny Porkpie - I will now go all New York Times and refer to him as Mr. Porkpie - is the burlesque mayor of New York City. This is a self-appointed position, and had I known that I would have... more
Odds & Ends
NY Daily News Monday, September 7
SEPTEMBER 7, 2009 5:11 PMBY ELIZABETH BENJAMIN President Obama's controversial advice to school kids: Wash your hands, ask questions, "make us all proud."...VP Joe Biden, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner and Education Secretary Arne Duncan are all headed to Syracuse...Former Rep.... more
Naked Cowboy Suspends Mayoral Campaign
The Village Voice Monday, September 7
By Roy Edroso in Featured, Mayoral Race 2009, Politics Monday, Sep. 7 2009 @ 7:47AM Annoyed by a $250 fine from the Conflicts of Interest Board for failing to file a required form, Times-Square fixture The Naked Cowboy has quit... more
Goodbye My Porkpie Hat
City Hall News dot com Monday, August 10
The Naked Cowboy may have to shore up his left flank. And his right flank, for that matter. There is another naked vaudevillian who has thrown his hat into the ring. Or, in this case, his shirt into the crowd,... more
Jonny Porkpie, New York's "Mayor of Burlesque," Wants To Be New York's "Mayor of New York"
The L Magazine Thursday, August 6
On Monday night Jonny Porkpie, organizer of monthly burlesque night "Jonny Porkpie's Bad Ideas" at Public Assembly in Williamsburg and self-described "Burlesque Mayor of New York," announced that he would be running for actual mayor in the upcoming mayoral election.... more
Jonny Porkpie Lives in Mary Carey's Shadow
New York Press Thursday, August 6
Because the Naked Cowboy was in danger of winning the mayoral race, Jonny Porkpie, the self-proclaimed "Burlesque Mayor of New York City," has emerged as the Cowboy's main challenger. Porkpie's shtick is nothing new. In the speech on Monday in... more