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Carpool Karaoke is a recurring segment on The Late Late Show with James Corden, in which host James Corden invites famous musical guests to sing along to their songs with him whilst traveling in a car driven by Corden[1] on a planned route usually in Los Angeles, usually under the pretense of needing to get to work and preferring to use the high-occupancy carpool vehicle lane,[2] or the pretext of needing directions from a local when in a new town, such as London (with Adele), Liverpool (with Paul McCartney), New York City (with Madonna) or Las Vegas (with Celine Dion).

In 2016, Apple Music and CBS Television Studios announced that they had reached a deal for an exclusive first-window licensing agreement under which Apple Music will be the global home of a television series adaptation of the segment. It was also initially announced that the series would have a host that would appear in every episode.[3][4] On January 9, 2017, it was reported that the series would not feature a single host and instead would have a different host in every episode.[5][6][7][8]

The format was created in 2009 by Robert Llewelyn in his podcast series Carpool. Corden argues the segment was inspired by a Gavin & Stacey-themed sketch he had participated in for the British charity television special Red Nose Day 2011, in which he sang along with George Michael in a car.[9]

The segments, which have featured artists such as Paul McCartney, Adele, Migos, Nicki Minaj, Cardi B, Mariah Carey, Celine Dion, Justin Bieber, Madonna, Bruno Mars, Billie Eilish, the Foo Fighters, the Jonas Brothers, Nick Jonas, Coldplay, Lady Gaga, Jennifer Lopez, Kanye West, Britney Spears, Stevie Wonder, Demi Lovato, Ariana Grande, Katy Perry, Selena Gomez, BTS, One Direction, Shawn Mendes, Harry Styles, Ed Sheeran, Sia, Elton John, Carrie Underwood and the Red Hot Chili Peppers, became popular videos on the Late Late Show's YouTube channel.[14][15][16] A January 2016 Carpool Karaoke segment featuring Adele amassed 42 million YouTube views within five days, making it the most popular video originating from a late night program since 2013,[17] continuing on to gather 233 million by March 12, 2021.[18] As of March 12, 2021[update], five other segments have amassed over 100 million views on YouTube: One Direction at 176 million,[19] Justin Bieber's first visit at 155 million views,[20] Sia at 140 million,[21] Bruno Mars at 132 million[22] and Selena Gomez at 110 million.[23] As of March 12, 2021[update], the most viewed segment featuring a non-musician, then US First Lady Michelle Obama (eventually joined by Missy Elliott for one song) has amassed over 80 million views.[24]

On March 29, 2016, CBS aired a primetime special featuring highlights of the segment, and a new edition with Jennifer Lopez.[25] The special won a 2016 Emmy Award for Outstanding Variety Special.[26] The Red Hot Chili Peppers appeared on the June 13, 2016 segment. During the filming, singer Anthony Kiedis saved the life of a baby. Kiedis later said, "A woman came out of her house, holding a child, saying, 'My baby, my baby, my baby can't breathe!' We all ran across the street, the woman thrust the baby into my arms, the baby was not breathing and I thought, 'I'm gonna try and do a little baby CPR real quick, see if I can get some air in this kid.' Tried to open the mouth, [it was] like locked shut. So I started rubbing the belly, bubbles came out of the mouth, the eyes rolled back into place, the ambulance showed up and I handed the baby over, who was now breathing and fine, and we went back to Carpool Karaoke."[27][28]

Special broadcasts on prime time (10 pm) highlighting the Carpool Karaoke segment of The Late Late Show. The first show broadcast on March 29, 2016, on CBS won the Primetime Emmy Awards 2016 for "Outstanding Variety Special" category.[25][26]

Spike launched a series inspired by the segment that premiered on Apple TV on January 12, 2017. Titled Caraoke Showdown, it was hosted by Craig Robinson, and tasked passengers with competing in different karaoke-style challenges while on a car trip.[99][100][101]

In 2016, Apple Music announced that it would distribute a TV series, based on Corden's segment, called Carpool Karaoke: The Series.[103] The series premiered on August 8, 2017, with new episodes each Wednesday, available to Apple Music subscribers.[104] It was renewed for a second season in February 2018[105] and a third season in July 2019.[106]

Come for the calamari, stay for the karaoke. Knock prides itself on good food in a friendly environment, while offering a variety of evening entertainment. Movies, trivia and show tunes are popular draws, along with late-night eats and drag karaoke hosted by Iris Spectre (every Wednesday).

Great drinks, killer bites and fierce queens make Level Up Bar & Lounge a must-visit for anyone looking to scratch that drag itch. Black-owned and -operated, this gay bar booms with hot tracks each night, but you can also catch happy hour drag bingo on Tuesdays and the Supreme Sundays drag show every weekend.

When the days get warm, this rooftop bar returns with creative cocktails, ever-changing food partners and some of the best restaurant views in the city. From April through October, Brittany Lynn and the Philly Drag Mafia put in the werk with brunchtime shows and, new this year, golden hour Sunset Drag on select summer evenings. Hey, girl, hey!

This Miami-styled cocktail bar may be the new kid on the block, but the food satisfies and the queens slay. This BIPOC-owned gem offers Latin-inspired fare (think shrimp tacos, empanadas and chimichurri sandwiches), and the weekend drag brunches feature new performers each month.

Punch Line Philly serves up more than laughs. On Saturdays, the comedy club hosts Big Wig Brunch, a drag extravaganza with Bev and other queens featuring new themes each weekend. Bonus: All drag brunch tickets include one drink.

At the intersection of Lincoln Financial Field and Citizens Bank Park, this massive sports bar houses several bars and eateries under its roof (along with a theater, a full beer hall and an artificial turf field). Between tailgating parties, live music and bull riding, the venue hosts drag brunch on select dates throughout the year, with performances by the Philly Drag Mafia, a special brunch menu and curated cocktails.

Enjoy a night of campy entertainment, win fabulous prizes and make a difference at this monthly drag event. Featuring energetic performances and new themes for each event, GayBINGO! has been entertaining Philadelphians and their friends for over 20 years. Even better, the event raises money to support people living with HIV.

Voted Best Drag Show of 2022, the Philly Drag Mafia, at it for more than two decades now, sashays its way through drag brunches, casinos, singing cabarets and concert venues all around the tri-state area. The bombastic Brittany Lynn, don of the Drag Mafia, also created the Drag Queen Story Time literacy program at Philly libraries and museums, and Miss Fancy Brigade, the only all-LGBTQ+ Mummers brigade.

Book the Visit Philly Overnight Package and get free hotel parking and choose-your-own-adventure perks, including tickets to the Philadelphia Museum of Art, The Franklin Institute, or the National Constitution Center and the Museum of the American Revolution.

By Jessica Myers-Schecter

Finding Richard Eagan was a bit of a challengethere's no nameplate outside 295 Degraw, and I walked through the building twice before asking one of the other artists if they knew where I could find Eagan's studio. A few turns and a short ramp later I found him deep in conversation with another visitor to the Gowanus Open Studio Tour.

On the wall were several pieces that he calls "exploding canvases." Clusters of blood-red wood shards protrude from polished steel shapes or, in the case of one piece, thrust through the confines of a wire cage. There's a certain violence to the piecesa combination, perhaps, of the blood color and sharp shards erupting toward the viewer.

The exploding canvases form a new direction for Eagan, who first came to the public eye for his work known as architectural portraiture and for his work as a founder of the Coney Island Hysterical Society, an artists' cooperative, in the 80's.

This new work developed in tandem with Eagan's emergence as a cross-dresser and adoption of alter personae Kay Sera. (He hosts a popular karaoke series at Red Hook's Hope and Anchor every weekend night that won a "Best New Dinner Theater Award" from Time Out.) And, as an unusual side business, he keeps bees at his upstate studio and now sells the honey under the label "Kay Sera."

Richard and I met several Saturdays after the Gowanus Open Studio Tour at his Park Slope abode to talk about the forces that led him to his current renaissance as an artist and a performer.

Can you tell us a little about your earlier workthe architectural portraiture?

I started out as a cabinet maker and that's really what I did for the bulk of my non-artistic working life. And that experience, in terms of the craft, influenced my work. I was working as a woodworker, raising a couple of kids, and kind of at sixes and sevens as to what I really wanted to do. Then I had a series of dreams at the turn of the '80s about my grandfather and Coney Island. I would see him disappearing through doorways and see him in these fantastic places we used to go when I was a kid. And so my late wife said to me, "this is evidently important." You should do something about it. Well, I didn't know what I could do until I realized I had these skills and that I loved these places and that I could do this. Work such as "Fred's House" emerged from this experience.

What was your role in the Coney Island Hysterical Society?

Coney Island isn't just an amusement park, it's a placea series of streets by the beach with a boardwalk that grew from the late 1800s forward. It began as a beach resort and before there was air conditioning people would go out to Coney Island for the summer and stay in hotels. It was quite different from the way it is now. In the 20th century it developed into what they call the "nickel empire." There were amusements of all different kinds for blocks and blocks and blocks. Rides, attractions, shows, dance halls, and beer parlors were all crammed into these old Victorian wooden buildings.

For many of us who'd grown up in Brooklyn, Coney Island was a kind of mythological playground. The buildings were magical places because they were like the houses we grew up in, but phantasmagorical things went on there. But during the postwar years, and especially during the 70s, the place began to hit the skids. There was tremendous gang warfare. Landowners and business owners were having what was called "shortened cash registers." There were electrical fires And we were hysterical to see our childhood playground destroying itself. So several artists formed this arts organization. We did signage; we painted ride-fronts; we painted carousel horses and eventually we renovated an old ghost ride and ran it as a combination amusement ride and art gallery called the Coney Island Spookhouse.

But economically we couldn't keep it up. Eventually we sold it and I stayed on in Coney Island and worked for a number of years. I met a guy named Dick Ziguns who runs a place called "Sideshows By The Seashore," which is the last authentic old-fashioned side show left in the country. I was a barker on a live thrill show involving this woman from Belgium who swam with sharks. I ran quarter pitch games. I did all kinds of things.

I wrote and still perform from time to time a play for one actor with multiple characters called "Alive On The Inside," which is about my experience growing up in Brooklyn, going to Coney Island, leaving it all behind and then coming back as an adult and as an artist desperate to see that Coney Island didn't disappear.

And how did this type of work bridge to your current workthe "exploding canvases" that will be on display at 440 Gallery in January?

When I was working in Coney Island I had this notion of seeing paintings in which something was bursting out of the picture plane. We worked with a material commonly used by display makers. It impregnated the canvas; you'd paint the surface with this solution and it would harden. I kept imaging these canvases in which the surface would burst out toward the viewer. So that it would seem as if stuff were pouring out of the canvas. At the time I never stopped to work that idea out or engineer it. But in the last few years I've had this studio down here on 13th St. [in Park Slope, Brooklyn] and I had a number of small canvases. I've started to work with that idea, albeit on a small scale, and that's how these "exploding" canvases came to be.

Right now I'm exploring similar ideas on slightly larger canvases. This led to the aluminum and wood pieces you saw at the Gowanus Studio Tour. In those pieces I took sheet aluminum and glued it onto a plywood substrate just as you would say lay down Formica on a kitchen counter. The paint is acrylic. I also use dollhouse pieces-such as a window or doorframe and miniature siding.

Some people say the pieces seem violent. But you know its funny because it doesn't make sense to me. I mean I am exploding outward, I suppose. I've come out as a cross-dresser. Yet I am experiencing personally tremendous peace, joy, and serenity. So it doesn't make sense emotionally speaking. But it is what it is. And when the work doesn't make sense-that's when you have to pursue it. When I look at something that I'm doing and say, "That's not me," then I know I'm on to something. What was internal becomes external.

Another thing that's emerged is that some people look at one or two of the aluminum and wood pieces and think I'm using vaginal imagery, which is bizarre because it's not something I've intended. But this came out during a phase in which I wasn't really thinking about my intention per se. As Claes Oldenburg said, "Don't think just be working." I had no idea what I was doing. It was almost like automatic writing. There was an unconscious level to it.

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