Chicago — Comedian Tokyo Kuntpunch welcomed shock culture icon Jasmin St. Claire, rock music journalist, ECW manager/wrestler, mainstream movie/TV actress and former notorious adult star, to the Hooking From Home podcast and can be viewed here
“I met Jasmin St. Claire when a friend took me to see a preview of her one-woman show, A Weird Kind of Fame, at the Los Angeles Second City theater and I was knocked out by how she put it all out there with humor, style and grace,” says Tokyo. “We became fast friends. I just love her, and this episode is nothing but fun, so check it out.”
Jasmin is promoting the return of A Weird Kind of Fame, slated for this Spring at The Cutting Room in New York City (pandemic permitting).
You may also get Hooking From Home on Apple https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/k-ntpunch-drunk/id1509315264b on Tokyo’s website https://www.tokyokuntpunch.com/podcast
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You may follow Jasmin St Claire on Twitter at https://twitter.com/jasminstclaire on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/therealjasminstclaire/ and on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/Jasminstclaire/
You may follow the happenings of A Weird Kind of Fame on Twitter at https://twitter.com/weird_fame on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/aweirdkindoffame/ and the website http://www.aweirdkindoffame.com/
You may follow Tokyo Kuntpunch on Twitter at www.Twitter.com/iamhungyung and on Instagram at www.instagram.com/iamhungyung
About Tokyo Kuntpunch:
Tokyo Kuntpunch hails from projects of Beverly Hills and more recently MacArthur Park, the most famous drug park in Los Angeles. She spent her formative years in the cult depicted in the Netflix documentary “Holy Hell.” Kuntpunch also performs music under her moniker, Hung Yung Terrarist and you can check it out here www.hungyungterrarist.com She speaks seven languages, and raps in three on her latest self-titled album, “Hung Yung Terrarist,” including French and Dothraki, the fictitious language from the hit series “Game of Thrones.” She has over 1M plays on Spotify, 750K video views in Japan, and 317K video views in Asia.
Kuntpunch has performed at The Comedy Store, The Stand, The Ice House, The Laugh Factory, and appeared on Kill Tony. After that appearance Tony went on to talk about her on The Greg Fitzsimmons podcast and with Adam 22 on the No Jumper podcast. Tokyo has been a guest on SiriusXM’s All Out Show, Karen Hunter, The Bonfire, I Want Radio and The Christy Canyon Show, as well as on popular podcasts, Race Wars, Jason Ellis’ High and Dry, The SDR Show, The Chip Chipperson Show, The Wet Spot, Mornin’ with Bill and Joanna and In Hot Water. She most recently appeared on 50 Cent’s website This is 50 https://thisis50.com/?s=hung+yung+terrarist
About A Weird Kind of Fame:
A WEIRD KIND OF FAME, is a solo show about Jasmin St Claire’s meteoric rise to infamy in 1996.She earned her place in American shock culture after appearing in the World’s Biggest Gangbang 2. Her outlaw rockstar image landed her many appearances on Howard Stern’s E tv show & radio show which made her his highest rated guest in the 90’s.
Find out how an Ivy league graduate becomes America’s most controversial sex symbol and ends up having a weird kind of fame which lands her into ECW Wrestling and later on as a VJ on MTV Brazil & in Europe. She comes back to the states to reclaim her Jasmin persona after trying to escape it for the past 2 decades.
About Jasmin St. Claire:
Jasmin St. Claire shot to fame as “America’s Most Controversial Sex Symbol” after appearing in the top-selling adult films of the late 1990s. She created an outlaw rock star image that at times scandalized the adult industry. Her acerbic humor and willingness to mock her own porn stardom made her one of the highest rated guests on Howard Stern’s radio show and related broadcasts for E! Entertainment. St. Claire’s first mainstream appearances were in significant comic roles in Communication Breakdown and in National Lampoon Dorm Daze 2. While studying in Bill O’Leary’s Acting Workshop, St. Claire had turned to dramatic roles in thrillers like Angel of Reckoning and the talked about sci-fi drama Trial Run. While studying at the Second City Conservatory, she landed more mainstream roles in the latest season of the Deuce, “The Darkest Night ” podcast, Slamdance Festival Finale Movie “After Adderall” and ended up producing a web series “Future Rich Wives Club”. After graduating the Second City Conservatory, she started her one woman show “A Weird Kind of Fame” She most recently worked on 3 Days Rising Movie , starring Ice T and Mickey Rourke. St. Claire’s background is almost entirely at odds with her early adult-film career. She was born Rhea De Vlugt in the U.S. Virgin Islands. St. Claire grew up on Manhattan’s Upper west side and attended the Lycee Francais and McBurney School, whose alumni include Henry Winkler and J.D. Salinger. St. Claire graduated from Brooklyn Friends School with honors for her work in the pioneering “Art without Walls” tutoring program for inner city youth. Upon graduation from Columbia University, St, Claire became a financial consultant at S. G. Warburg (then, a division of Swiss Bank.). But while in a physically abusive relationship with a prominent Manhattan lawyer (whom St. Claire later outed in an interview with Howard Stern), she began a secret life as a topless dancer at Manhattan’s infamous KitKat Club.
St. Claire entered the adult industry on a dare. Invited on the Jerry Springer Show for a scripted role as antagonistic stripper, St. Claire invented her larger-than- life “Jasmin St. Claire” persona. St. Claire’s flare for theater and controversy marked her ascent in the adult film world. She polarized the industry by calling porn films “by and large, disgusting and brainless.” But she quickly dethroned Jenna Jameson as America’s top-selling porn star, and became the first Latina to surpass traditional blond porn star archetypes when her films achieved number one sales position in 1998. She was inducted in AVN’s “Hall of Fame”. One of the greatest porn stars of all time. St. Claire was among the first adult performers to be merchandised as an action figure and to star in an adult comic book series.
At the height of her porn stardom, St. Claire was the subject of critical essays by David Foster Wallace and Evan Wright. She also served as inspiration for Chuck Palahniuk’s novel Snuff, in which she appears as a character. For all the controversy she engendered, St. Claire only spent three years in the adult business and made just over two dozen films. In 1999, she retired. She never made an adult film again, though compilations of old footage re-released under new titles continued to be sold through the 2000s. St. Claire pushed herself to new extremes by becoming a pro-wrestler. In 1998 the Dudley Boyz invited her to appear in the ECW’s Living Dangerously pay-per-view event. St. Claire subsequently trained under original G.L.O.W wrestler Sue Sexton and Mando Guerrero, then worked with wrestling legend Jimmy Lawler in the Memphis Championship and in the XWF and NWA- TNA. St. Claire often played the role of “manager,” who would enter the ring and fight alongside wrestlers. In real life, St. Claire created the upstart federation 3PW becoming the first female owner ever to operate and promote a wrestling league, five years before Stephanie McMahon took the reigns of the WWE. St. Claire closed the doors to 3PW in 2005. St. Claire became a heavy-metal journalist and on-air personality with the launch of the Metals Darkside. series in 2004, which she also produced. Her interest in heavy metal stretches back to the first Black Sabbath show she attended at Madison Square Garden when she was nine. In 1998 she became the first female to emcee March Metal Meltdown in New Jersey, helping to introduce Sepultura to a North American audience. Through the mid-2000s St. Claire served as a veejay for The Metal Scene TV Show, AOL Noisecreep, Inferno TV and Stay Heavy TV, while writing articles as a contributor to Yahoo News and Guitar Player. She also served as a spokesmodel for B.C. Rich Guitars, Coffin Case, Krank Amplifiers and licensed her likeness to Guitar Hero for a controller made by Peavey.
St. Claire returned to acting 2013 in a series of dramatic roles, portraying an FBI agent in Army of the Damned and a hardened street criminal in Grand Auto Theft. Jasmin has continued writing and ended up writing for the Argonaut newspaper on the Westside of Los Angeles , the kind land magazine where she profiled Arabian Prince of the notorious NWA and she’s currently a columnist for sportbike Inc. magazine.