(Los Angeles, CA / May 23, 2018) — Award-winning adult superstar Joanna Angel made a special appearance this past week (May 18) on episode 324 for season 3 of TruTV’s The Chris Gethard Show, entitled ‘Call it Forward’.

Angel, who has been friends with Gethard since their college days at Rutgers University, called in to the show to chat with the host, who told the audience how they met, which included Chris losing it and vomiting: “I was extraordinarily drunk and you held my bangs… I vomited through a chain-link fence. It was a hell of a way to meet!”

The star took the on-air opportunity to promote her new fiction novel Night Shift: A Choose-Your-Own Erotic Fantasy, inspiring the next topic of discussion for Gethard’s viewers and guests.

“The main character is a girl that works in a porn store… so for the next person, you tell me your own greatest adventure that happened in a porn store… or outside of a porn store. Maybe you vomited!”

Before ending the call, Gethard praised Angel for her inspiration as an artist and entertainer. “I think you’re a total bad-ass, everything I’ve read – I’ve read interviews with you, and everything seems to be about empowerment and self-determination and I think that’s rad!”

Find the full scene of The Chris Gethard Show online at TruTV.com/full-episodes/the-chris-gethard-show and find Joanna Angel’s book, Night Shift: A Choose-Your-Own Erotic Fantasy at cleispress.com/night-shift-a-choose-your-own-erotic-fantasy.

“Joanna Angel, the porn star/director/producer who pioneered the “alt-porn” genre”

Dan Savage

“One of the most powerful feminist icons in the adult industry”

Pacific Standard

“Joanna Angel started the alt-porn studio Burning Angel, employing girls with tattoos and piercings, as part of a booming microgenre of punk-themed porn that began taking hold in the late ’90s and exploded during the 2000s.”

Grantland

Pushing the envelope, the BurningAngel empire is a refreshingly unique web cocktail of sex, rock n’ roll and pop culture. BurningAngel.com launched in 2002 with a few sets of photos and a band interview, conceived by two amateur college kids from Rutgers University, Joanna Angel and Mitch Fontaine. It has since exploded into a fierce indie company, pioneering a new species of erotica known as “alt porn,” with a network of websites and hundreds of DVDs to its credit. BurningAngel is revered for popularizing alternative-style girls and prides itself on delivering hardcore adult content alongside band interviews, record reviews and its own social networking community.

As both the star of many of BurningAngel’s movies and company spokesperson/owner, Angel has stormed both mainstream and adult media. She has appeared on the cover of every major adult magazine (AVN, Club, Hustler, Picture Magazine, Adam Film World, Xtreme and more), and has been featured in numerous tattoo magazines as well (some include Prick, Taboo, Inked and Savage). Angel has been featured on Fox News, Playboy TV, Fuse TV, G4 TV, KROQ Radio, as a regular on the Jason Ellis show on SIRIUS Radio, as a guest on the series premiere of TLC’s LA Ink and in a speaking role on Adult Swim’s Children’s Hospital. She has also appeared in The New York Times, Newsweek, Inc. Magazine, The Village Voice, The New York Press, Esquire UK, Details and Penthouse, among others. Heeb Magazine featured Angel as its cover girl, naming her one of the Top 100 Up-and-Coming Jews in 2005; the New York Post featured her as one of the Top 25 Sexiest New Yorkers, and Playboy.com named Angel one of the 50 Hottest Adult Stars on Instagram. Angel also co-hosted the 2016 AVN Awards in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Angel has also made her mark in the sex toy world, becoming a venerated Fleshlight Girl in 2013 and creating a BDSM line of toys with Stockroom. The same year, she made further strides into the mainstream world with a speaking role in the indie drama Scrapper. BurningAngel has brought home several awards from all the major adult shows—from AVN to XBIZ, to XRCO to YNOT. Some of its accolades include Best Porn Star Website, Best Web Premiere and Best Sex Comedy.

From a college dorm room to national television, Joanna Angel and BurningAngel have made their mark in entertainment, and it’s only just beginning.