On this week's show, we're bringing home the laughs with actress and comedienne, Shondrella Avery. With many film and television roles to her credit, she may best be known as "LaFawnduh Lucas," the sexy Internet girlfriend in the movie Napoleon Dynamite, the sleeper hit of the 2004 Sundance Film Festival.
You also may have seen her as "Candy" the manicurist in the UPN series Cuts (a spinoff of the popular show, One on One, in which Avery had a recurring role). She also starred for five seasons on the Oxygen channel's Girls Behaving Badly, a modern-day version of Candid Camera meets an all girls Punk'd.
Her other film work includes roles in The Secret Life of Bees, Trippin' and Domino. She created a one-woman show titled Ain't I Enough, based on her experiences growing up with her enormous family, which has aired on HBO.
Joining me this week as my co-hostess extraoridnaire is the funny Miss Jessie McNamara!
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While in design college in the mid 1970’s, Wiedlin stumbled upon the burgeoning LA punk rock scene. She and Belinda Carlisle were inspired to form The Go-Go’s. The band quickly became local favorites and were signed by the indie label IRS Records. With most of their songs written or co-written by Jane (including the classic “Our Lips Are Sealed”) The Go-Go’s went on to enormous success, selling out Madison Square Garden, the Hollywood Bowl and appearing twice on the cover of Rolling Stone. The band became the first ever all-girl group to write their own songs, play their own instruments, and become immensely popular doing it.
After seven years, The Go-Go’s split up and went their separate ways. Jane moved on to a solo career, releasing six albums of her own which included the hits “Rush Hour“, “Blue Kiss” and “Tangled” (a song featured in the movie “Pretty Woman”). Rolling Stone magazine called her last solo album “Kissproof World“, a “solo tour de force by an entrepreneur, an actress and rock goddess“.
Five years after breaking up, The Go-Go’s reformed and have remained a band ever since. The band continue to make their mark on popular culture, touring each year, and releasing the critically acclaimed God Bless The Go-Go’s in 2001.
In 2009 Jane became an ordained minister and is now performing wedding, commitment and vow reaffirmation ceremonies. For more information go HERE. On this week's show we'll be talking about all of her exciting upcoming projects including her new multi-media project Lady Robotika, her new movies, new music and anything else the candid and irreverent punk rocker has to say!
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