Interview with GayPimp.com's Jonny McGovern

Jonny McGovern is a big queen. A big glittery, shining, club-crazy, boy-luvin homo, and don't you forget it. He made it safe for macho-M4Ming when his "Soccer Practice" video grabbed the world by the balls, and introduced all of us to his Gay Pimp persona. Now, America's favorite flamer is not only available on your iPod with his Gay Pimpin' with Jonny McGovern, but he's about to burst onto your idiot box in Logo's new The Gay Sketch Comedy Show. In his spare time, this NY nightlife whore has found the time to organize some of Manhattan's hottest parties, make a banging new CD, and develop his own fragrance line! Seriously!

MR: How yah doing boy?
JM: Fucking feeling really fucking amazing! All my projects just hit the road at the same time! It's awesome!

MR:Let's jab about those projects, first the podcasts. How is it going?
JM:Its nuts to me, since I didn't know what podcasting was last year. Gay Pimpin' is the biggest surprise and most fun thing I have ever done, really.15K kids are listening! I have been able to include my circle of performers, like Sophia LaMar, Martin Beauchamp, Linda James and the House of Sparkle Magic. We talk about celebrities, gossip, anything. We do interviews. We had the first Kevin Aviance interview after his beat down. We are lucky to get a lot of great performers from the New York club scene. It's a great mash-up of talent and tackiness. The other day we were all riffing and came up with a new fragrance line: Racist and Racey. It's for those naughty bigots.

MR:That's gonna be bigger then GLO...The fans eat it all up right?
JM:You get such an immediate reaction. Immediate comments and positive feedback. I want to stress we are not being role models, we are having fun. We try to pass along the stories gay culture-nightlife to the next generation of little gay babies.

MR:Your new CD, is this a taste of what Jonny listens too?
JM:Definitely. Last year I did a two month sting as creative director of Spirit, I had this mammoth budget for a show every week. So, I dipped into the huge talent pool of freaks in NY. I had all these amazing kids who were back up performers for me. So instead of doing normal shows, we went into studios and produced these songs. We did a brand new track every week. People lost their minds, it was awesome. By the end of the whole experience, that CD was there. I thought it really was great pop-faggoty-bitch tracks. Underground super fag pop.

MR:Besides your tracks, what other stuff do you listen to?
JM:Besides my own stuff? [Laughs] Martha Wash, she's my number one fav. Love big black diva stuff. I have been scrap booking Martha Wash since I was in Junior High. Missy Elliot, Timbaland, I love Ciara. She is really fun. I love to find old forgotten stuff, Like that song from the very end of Revenge of the Nerds. When gay Lamar raps. I can't stop listening to that song. Oh Lamar, he made it safe for us all to be proud of being gay.

MR:Lamar, the flamer?
JM:Yeah! What a forgotten gay hero.

MR:Wow, yeah...What was the genesis of your new TV show?
JM:I was on Ricki Lake for a while, and the producers saw me there and caught my video. So they asked for a meeting, and we set-up a quick chat in the basement dressing room of my Boys Gone Wild party at Boys Room. A brief meeting, with a lot of wieners hanging out and boys getting naked. It was either the best way to have it or the worst. We talked about me being part of the project, a few months later I did some auditions and then we did a pilot. Bang! We filmed the season and now we debut on April 24th.
Like being on the show?
Fucking yes! It's pretty, snazzy and cute! It's a really funny show. Everyone has a nice distribution of parts and you get to see the whole shiny faggoty rainbow. Everybody in the cast gets to show off. Erica Ash, Dion Flynn, Julie Goldman, Stephen Guarino, Kate McKinnon, Nicole Poone and Michael Serrato are in the mess with me and everyone is a superstar. Julie Goldman is the lesbian version of me; she does a lot of comedy that mocks lesbian folk singing...She's fucking hilarious.

MR:Dish about Producer Rosie O'Donnell...
JM:Rosie was more involved initially, but once she assembled team fag she kind of left us alone. She does give good inside dirt on the View. In her first days there, she would come in and gab about what was going on. She'd stop by the studio to see us in that new View redo look of her's, all soft and sweet...but with all the behind the scenes dirt.

MR:And Amanda Bearse as director...
JM:She is really a goddess. She is so sweet, nurturing and tender, but can be tough if she wants to...real tough. She gets the shit done. She also has a great collection of butch lady pants.

MR:Besides your show, what is the gayest show on TV?
JM:VHI is so gay, along with Bravo. E is the extra gay network, it's extremely gay in every single way. How faggoty are they with their fashion coverage-with Jay and Miss Jay From Top Model? Miss Jay just has the Queen's English perspective on fashion.

MR:Where do you find your entourage of boys? Do you hold auditions?
JM:There is nothing formal about it. Usually someone comes to one of my parties, and they realize they are extremely hot and can make some money dancing. They honestly come to me and we put them on the box. If you look that good, it's easy.

MR:What's the one thing a gay pimp needs in his wardrobe?
JM:A good weiner'n- ass hugging pair of jeans. Not crazy tight, just that perfect pair of jeans that makes you look fuckable. But mostly, it's not what you're wearing. You have to have a fuckable attitude. No bad attitude. I've seen some busted looking people with a hot attitude get major play.

Check out Jonny McGovern at gaypimp.com.
The Big Gay Sketch is on Logo, logo.com.