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FuMPFest Guests

Guest of Honor

Ogden Edsl

Ogden Edsl, or "The Ogden Edsl Wahalia Blues Ensemble Mondo Bizzario Band", was formed in 1970 by Bill Frenzer, Bill Carey, and Otis XII. The first song Dr. Demento played by them was "Dead Puppies" which went on to become the most requested song of all time on the show. The band would go on to have dozens more hits on the show including "Daddy's Money" and the infamous "Kinko the Clown."

Bill Frenzer and Bill Carey will be our guests of honor at FuMPFest 2023

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Featured Guests

Bonnie Gordon

No stranger to the world of science fiction and geek pop culture, Bonnie is an actress, singer, and voiceover actor who prides herself on being a “professional nerd.” Her VO credits include cartoons, video games and anime including: Star Trek Prodigy on Nickelodeon/Paramount+ (Ship Computer and various other roles); Street Fighter V; Fire Emblem Echoes/Three Houses; Cartoon Network’s Mighty Magiswords; Muhyo and Roji’s Bureau of Supernatural Investigation; Battlestar Galactica Deadlock; MegaMan 11; Ikki Tousin; Code Vein; and many more! She might also be recognized as an original paladin from the fantasy show on ABC called “The Quest” (now rebooted and streaming on Disney+!).

Bonnie can be found taking the helm as Ensign Lark Sage on the Geek & Sundry Star Trek TTRPG show, “Shield of Tomorrow!,” as well as rolling dice and starring/guesting on many other TTRPG shows on Twitch channels such as HyperRPG, Queutimes, DnDBeyond: (Callisto 6; Clear Skies; Barony of Olives; Disco Does DnD, etc.)

She has traveled all over the world singing and guesting at comic cons with her nerdy parody band The Library Bards – taking top 40 hits and transforming them into nerdy, geektastic tunes about sci-fi and fantasy fandoms!

Bonnie has been featured on both the Dr. Demento Show and The FuMP, as well as collaborated with many FuMP favorites such as Devo Spice, The Great Luke Ski, TVs Kyle, Insane Ian, The Boobles, and more!

She has put together a solo musical act to promote her new solo album, Con Artist - now available everywhere where music is digitally sold/streamed!

Bonnie is also currently cast in a new live action sci-fi series set to shoot later this fall!
She is delighted to be joining the Con on the Cob FuMPFest lineup!!!!
Follow her @BonnieBellG & @LibraryBards

Insane Ian

Insane Ian is a comedy-musician from Chicago with a penchant for video games and a strange Spider-Man fetish. Recently knighted as a "comedy music god" by legendary radio personality Dr. Demento, Ian has made a name for himself with his quick wit and video game related song parodies.

Be sure to check out Ian's release of his live concert recording from FuMPFest 2017.

Ian will be returning to host FuMPFest once again as well as performing.

Jeff Whitmire

Jeff Whitmire has been dubbed the "Weird Al" of horror (by a small, but feisty circle of social media!) He writes funny songs about popular horror films and franchises, as well as other pop culture subjects. He is a 3-time Logan Award Nominee and his songs have been heard on the Dr. Demento Show! His second album, Stabby Road, an album of wacky horror themed parodies and originals is dropping in mid 2023!

Ross Childs

Ross Childs has been improvising, singing, and performing in and around the country for the better part of the last decade. He moved to Chicago from Houston, TX in the summer of 2013. Since then, he has studied at iO, The Annoyance, and The Second City. He has been playing comedy music for the better part of a decade, releasing his debut album “Kazoology” in 2018. not recording and performing his music, he's writing and performing theater with his company, BYOTproductions. He's a founding member of the Chicago-based sketch comedy team, "Waffle Junkies", as well as the improv team "Flynn Tin Tin."

You can hear Ross's music on Spotify, Soundcloud, iTunes, and all online music repositories. He is on the FuMP (Funny Music Project), and his tunes have been featured on The Dr. Demento Radio Show!

Steve Goodie

Steve Goodie is a comedian, singer, songwriter, and record producer from Nashville Tennessee who has the distinct honor of having penned Nina Yankovic’s favorite parody, “Dumbledore,” a parody of her father’s original song “Hardware Store.” Steve has had numerous hit songs on the Dr. Demento Show and made the year end Funny 25 twice in 2017 with “Beaten on a Jet Plane” and “Words That Sound Dirty But They Ain’t.” He loves writing songs about Harry Potter and making up weird and often disgusting kids songs, and recently, for reasons that should be obvious, has been doing more and more political humor. Steve Goodie hosts the show every Sunday night at the world-famous Bluebird Cafe in Nashville.

the great Luke Ski

At Dragon*Con 2004, Dr. Demento declared "the great Luke Ski" to be his radio program's Most Requested Artist of the 21st Century. Since then, Luke has held onto that title by having songs on the show's year-end Funny 25 countdown for 18 years in a row, including five at #1.

His song parodies, originals, stand-up and sketches about pop culture have made him a favorite at conventions all across the country. He's released eleven albums and a DVD over the past 24 years and has won three Logan Awards.

His biggest hits among his fans include songs about Star Wars, Lord of the Rings, Spider-Man, Star Trek, Pirates of the Caribbean, Battlestar Galactica, Batman, Firefly, Doctor Who, Disney buying Marvel, Monty Python, with more recent hits about Scooby Doo, 80's media franchise mascots, and being a 'fake adult'.

He is the musical jester of sci-fi, the emissary of rap dementia, the pimp of the geek nation, and a prominent bacon enthusiast. So join the Dementia Revolution, and become a Luke Ski fan today!

Toby Danger

Toby Danger exists as the universe's answer to the question - what if Weird Al had learned guitar instead of accordion?

The illegitimate love child of rock and roll and comedy; born, in an unmistakable moment of cosmic irony, in the Rubber City - Akron, Ohio, Ryan Collins, Josh "Iceman" Ison, and Josh "Artemis" Arthurs are mad scientists of sorts, and the trio seems set on using parts of Foo Fighters, Green Day, Tenacious D, and "Weird Al" Yankovic to create a Frankenstein's monster of modern rock that does stand up on the weekends.

Toby Danger is a rock and roll explosion of comedy and electricity shining a raw and honest light on our current culture and, ultimately, reminding all of us not to take ourselves so seriously.

TV's Kyle and Linzilla

TV's Kyle is the puffy-vested bloopcore artist responsible for some of the more surreal songs posted to The FuMP. He is also the creator of Cartoon Network's Mighty Magiswords. Together with Linzilla—the world's smallest kaiju—they will take the stage and tell you the four things you need to know, one of which is that you can't get there from here. Booyah!