In just over a year, No Good TV (NGTV.com) has become an Internet pop-culture success story.  Featuring uncensored interviews with A-list celebrities ranging from Will Smith to Jack Black, and musicians spanning from Bret Michaels to Fall Out Boy, NGTV is the world’s largest, and only network of its kind.  Their current press kit notes that their videos have garnered over 151 million views making them YouTube’s #4 most watched partner of all time.

 

NGTV, chaired by Gene Simmons of KISS, definitely embraces the worry-free rockstar ethos, allowing their interviewees to let loose without fear of tabloid judgment.  The NGTV studios are located in Beverly Hills, Ca, which allows for a revolving door of superstars eager to chill at “Shark Tank” (the studio’s bar), relax on a couch or even get “In Bed With” NGTV’s ridiculously attractive Carrie Keagan.  Surrounded by her co-hosts, Shark Firestone, the cartooned kangaroo Kenneth De Balzac, Cock Tolstoy, Beaver Brown and the pot smoking puppet Bud Deeler, Keagan stands out as the fearless sophisticated vixen unafraid to get personal with her interview subjects.

 

Keagan is to NGTV, what Jenny McCarthy or Carmen Electra were to MTV.  She’s the sexy icon associated with the network, but combines her quick wit, brains and addictive personality with her voluptuous figure to yield intriguing interviews that are enjoyable to watch.  Keagan has a mouth that could often make a sailor blush and an interviewing style that gets real answers.  She has two main shows on NGTV called “Upclose,” the show featuring television and movie stars, and “In Bed with Carrie,” the segment, which features interviews in bed rather than from a couch or a desk.

 

We had a chance to chat with Keagan (not in bed) and from listening to her talk, she’s honest, real (in more ways than one) and the same person on screen and off.  She tells us all about NGTV, her guilty pleasures and even her kiss with Bret Michaels.    

 

Popular Underground Magazine: It usually takes me a couple drinks to get the balls to talk to a girl as attractive as you.

 

Carrie Keagan: Awe, well it usually takes me a couple drinks to get out of bed.

 

PUM: Tell me a little bit about NGTV from your perspective.

 

Keagan: It gives artists an opportunity to have fun and hang out without fear of being made fun of or gossiped about or having any sort of paparazzi at all.  We’re all about having fun.  It’s just a big party over here.

 

PUM:  How did you get involved with the NGTV project?

 

Keagan: It’s actually not a glamorous story at all.  Kourosh Taj is the guy who runs this place; he’s our president.  I had met him through a friend; he was looking for someone to do interviews and thought that I was good enough to do it.  I had never done anything like this before.  I had no interest in doing anything like this; I actually wanted to work in music.  I wanted to promote bands.  I was working for a film composer at the time and had no idea about being on TV or interviewing people.

 

PUM: I read that you have done around 4,000 interviews?

 

Keagan: Somebody must be counting because I fucking lost track after about five.  They add up quite quickly.  We shoot every damn day.

 

PUM: What would you say was your most enjoyable interview on NGTV?

 

Keagan: That is probably one of the hardest questions for me to answer because I do so many interviews and honestly, I love my job so much that every interview I do is my new favorite.  The most recent one that stands out is when Bret Michaels came over.  He was hanging out at the “Shark Tank” (the bar) and the whole fucking studio was packed with fans, including our employees and people that just came in [like] friends and family and people that found out he was coming [who] begged us to come in and watch.  He was the coolest motherfucker I have ever met!  Literally, I can’t say enough nice things about him.  He shook the hand and had photos taken with every single person here before he left the building.  He played an acoustic song for us.  He was just outstandingly amazing.

 

PUM:  Yeah, I had a question about that because you kissed him didn’t you?

 

Keagan: (Laughs) Yes…

 

PUM: How was that?

 

Keagan: Okay, yeah, yeah, let’s just get something straight; he kissed me!  This is the funny thing about that; I was a fan of the show Rock of Love, of course I watch that show, it’s awesome, it’s Poison!  Every single time I watched the show I would squirm every single time he would kiss somebody because I’m like, “Jesus Christ this man is working his way through this house making out with every single girl, multiple times if not more.” When he came in I just kept telling everyone, “Yeah, it’s not going to happen,” and then he went in [for the kiss] and I can’t tell you, it was in the moment, it was one of those things and as he leaned in to kiss me and our lips touched I was like, “Motherfucker got me too!”  You know what, he’s just that charming.  Now I watch Rock of Love Season 2.  I’m just like another notch on his belt.

 

PUM: Yeah, now I watch that show.  I told my wife, “What other show can I watch that has girls with big boobs jumping around that she’s not going to yell at me for watching?”

 

Keagan: No Good Television!

 

PUM: What about the craziest interview?  Was there one that was totally over the top, nuts?

 

Keagan: I did have a first.  I interviewed the guys from Jackass at their film junket and you know, it’s Jackass and I don’t really have any boundaries and neither do they, but the film studio does that put out the movie.  During the junket, I was talking to Steve-O and Chris Pontius and Chris Pontius pulled out his cock in the middle of the junket.  He was totally flapping it around and waving it in the air and stuff.  I was told later that it was the first time that had ever happened in a junket situation so I was quite proud of that.  Steve-O actually got shy.  He didn’t want to do it.  Chris made him nervous. (Laughs)

 

PUM: From watching your interviews, you seem smart, witty and often downright funny.  Now that you are in this position, do you feel you have something to prove?

 

Keagan: Well, first of all thank you.  I think everybody has something to prove, but honestly I never got into this to try and prove a point.  I got into this to have a good time and to do something different and to find a form of entertainment that appealed to me.  In the process it seems that other people were looking for the same thing.  So, no I don’t think I’m trying to prove anything, but it’s sure fucking fun!

 

PUM:  Does it bother you that almost all the press about you always focuses on your chest?

 

Keagan:  Okay, here’s the thing.  I discovered long ago; I got boobs in like fourth grade and there’s a certain amount of time when a girl grows up that you try and hide every fact thereof your body that’s changing, then all of a sudden, I don’t know 19 / 20 years old, it dawned on me that they’re not such a bad thing and I wasn’t going to be able hide them.  I mean they’re double D’s for fuck’s sake, there’s not much I can do so you either work with them or they work against you.  If I can’t have fun with my boobs, then really, I’m an asshole.  I put them out there.  If you watch the intro to “Up Close,” those are my boobs.  That was my idea to put that up there.  I thought it was funny.  It’s not like I don’t dress to get all of that kind of attention.  I understand what I’m doing.  At the same time I think they’re funny.  I don’t understand why men are fascinated with boobs.  They’re just big mounds of fat and they move funny and if they’re real, like mine are, they don’t move well.  If they’re fake they stand up all perky and nice and stay in one shape.  You know, when they’re really you have to sort of mold them and hope that they go the way you want them to go.  So I’ve decided to own them. 

 

PUM:  Since Popular Underground is a music magazine, what are your top three favorite bands?

 

Keagan:  Okay, people make fun of me for my top three favorite bands because they are not what people would think I would like.  My absolute favorite person in the whole world is Tom Waits.  The man can do no wrong.  These are not in any order because I love them all the same.  My second is Mike Patton from Mr. Bungle or Fantômas…  Mr. Bungle is probably my favorite of all his work.  I think that man is fucking genius no matter what sound comes out of him is perfect.  Duran Duran, they haven’t put out a bad album yet.

 

PUM: What about any newer bands that maybe you interviewed and didn’t know much about, but then really liked them.

 

Keagan: Sick Puppies!  They were great.  They were that band that got really big with that Free Hugs video.  Those guys were cool.  They came in for an interview and they were so exited, they came back and played a concert for us here in the studio.  Oh, and Course of Nature!  Let’s not forget Tenacious D.  I was just talking to Jack Black the other day.  Tenacious D is a staple in everyone’s collection.  If “Fuck Her Gently” comes on during a party, everybody just breaks into song.  Amazing.

 

PUM:  Is there any band you’ve interviewed that were totally out there rockstars? Like after you were done, you were like, “These guys are truly that rockstar persona.”  Or even prickish rockstars.

 

Keagan: No, we never get that because when people come here they are allowed to be whoever they are.  I have to say my one experience of going, “Wow, there’s a rockstar,” was when Sebastian Bach came.  I was a huge Skid Row fan, I still am and Sebastian is so cool.  So he came in and I was freaking out because it’s Sebastian Bach right?  When he walked in, he has one of those personalities; he is exactly what you think the lead singer of a rock band is.  His personality is just huge.  He’s loud, he uses his hands a lot, his hair is flying everywhere and everything that he says is expressive.  He’s larger than life.  And of course Gene Simmons.  Gene is the chairman of NGTV.  Who’s not a KISS fan?  Never in my life, ever, did I think I’d be meeting Gene Simmons, let alone working alongside Gene Simmons, doing interviews with Gene Simmons and still when he walks into the building I’m like, “Wow, that’s Gene Simmons!”

 

PUM:  That’s interesting you talking about Gene Simmons.  I mean, did you ever think you would be interviewing the people you have been?

 

Keagan: Never in a million years. 

 

PUM: I mean you’ve interviewed Will Smith…

 

Keagan: Will is great.  I interviewed him for I Am Legend and it was just the two of us fucking with each other.  It was pretty funny.

 

PUM: Name a guilty pleasure of yours.

 

Keagan: Well, it would have to involve Shark Firestone.  Watching Shark do just about anything is a guilty pleasure.  People make fun of me because I like gay porn.

 

PUM: Wow!

 

Keagan: (Laughs) That’s your response?  There’s something about gay porn; I’m a straight girl, I don’t get turned on by looking at boobs.  I have those.  I don’t find them all that sexy so if I’m going to get turned on, it’s going to be looking at a cock and at the man’s form.  What better than to have a lot of that all in one place?  It’s understandable, guys like watching lesbian porn.

 

PUM: Absolutely.  I was just going to comment back with that. 

 

Keagan: See… Oh, horror films, that’s another guilty pleasure.  I absolutely love horror films.  The bloodier the better. 

 

PUM: Do you have one that ranks on the top of your list?

 

Keagan: I think The Exorcist is the best horror movie ever made. Ever!  It’s not even all that bloody. 

 

PUM: So what’s on the horizon for you?

 

Keagan: Lots of things!  Everything that you see now is just the tip of the iceberg.  We have a couple more shows we’re going to add to the website.  We’ve been on Extra and Extra has been airing segments on NBC.  I have a couple episodes on Reno 911, which is going to be incredibly, awesomely stupid.  Mostly just go check out NGTV.com!

 

PUM: With you on there, I think everybody should.

 

Keagan: Thank you. 

 

By: Adam K. Zakroczymski III - Senior Editor / Founder

 

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