FOF #957 – Rock the Runway Ronnie
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Here's the latest in the category Actors
20 commentsChicago born model Ronnie Kroell made it to the top two in the first season of Bravo’s hit reality tv show “Make Me a Supermodel.” His midwestern good looks, sparkling smile and unabashed honestly about his sexuality made him a viewer favorite.
His intense friendship with fellow contestant, the straight prison guard Ben DiChiara, became a focal point of the show and often out-shined the public interest in the competition itself.
Ronnie joins us here to today to talk about how reality TV made him a better person, being betrayed by his porn star escort boyfriend and why embracing your imperfections makes you beautiful. (more…)
FOF #862 – Welcome to Deven Green
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On today’s show we’ve got the very funny Deven Green, YouTube Comedy sensation, known for her videos as “Brenda Dickson – Welcome to my Home” and Betty Bowers, America’s Best Christian.
Hailing from the great white north, Deven Green was a runway model, a competitive ice skater and the first female voice for the Canadian movie phone.
Her husband, Joel Bryant, sent Deven the camp sensation, Brenda Dickson’s condescending 1980s “Welcome to My Home” video which has become a Youtube sensation. Devin recognized the parody gold waiting to be mined in the video and her lampoon soon became very popular on Youtube.
The spoof gained her a lot of attention and she’s received a copyright infringement notice from Brenda’s lawyers.
Deven also works another wonderful character, Betty Bowers, America’s Best Christian. Betty lays it out on why she truly is deserving of God’s gifts and why you are not.
Listen as we talk with Deven about what’s it like being an outspoken, fierce new media diva in Hollywood, her hot husband actor Joel Bryant and doing comedy shows in men’s prisons.
Plus Devin Shares her insights on becoming a comedy sensation on Youtube!
Did the Kaballah religion destroy Madonna and Guy Ritchie’s marriage or was it Madonna’s obsession with perfection? Sources close to Ritchie say that sex with Maddonna was “cuddling up with gristle” because she worked out four hours everyday.
New website for Christian nymphomaniacs who just can’t get enough of married, monogamous sex. i have a feeling this website is going to get out of control in no time at all. Eventually it will become “Swinging for Jesus.”
The deadliest reality tv show yet- Live Like You’re Dying, is produced by Survivor Jeff Probst and it takes the terminally ill on the last adventure of their life.
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FOF #810 – Glenn Knows Better
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“On a scale from one to ten, just HOW GAY are you?” Imagine hearing this question from your roommate’s father, only he happens to be a famous and physically intimidating wrestler.
On today’s show choreographer Glenn Packard- the gay roomate of Brook Hogan from the reality TV show Brooke Knows Best talks about being asked about his sexuality by her famous father, the wrestler Hulk Hogan.
In case you missed it, the Hulkster got national press last week for not only asking her daughter’s openly gay roommate about his sexuality on their reality tv show, but for also admitting that some of his wrestling friends are gay. I wonder if it was the Iron Sheik?
So what happened after the conversation? Did Glenn ask Hogan just how straight he was on a scale from one to ten?
Glenn’s a pretty well known choreographer in the pop music scene and looks pretty good in a bathing suit. He’s really hot! Still, we’re dying to know what it was like working with Michael Jackson and Liza Minelli. Did Glenn teach Michael how to moonwalk forwards?
In many ways the popularity of Brooke Knows Best and other reality tv shows featuring primary or secondary gay people really opens up the minds of Americans embrace gay people as part of the family. Kudos to you Glenn!
We chat with Sal-E about some pretty far out underwear news as Queen Victoria’s bloomers just sold at auction at the sweet price of nine thousand dollars. But the more juicy detail is that the bloomers were crotchless. Naughty, naughty! Now we know where the name Victoria’s Secrets’ comes from.
It also interesting to note that Britain’s iconic queen’s measurements put her at five feet tall with a 66 inch waist! Now that’s a Butterball Turkey!
Meanwhile in Springfield, Ohio a creepy guy has been arrested for approaching children’s parents, pretending to be a children’s underwear inspector. Are people just that gullible?
How does a 44 lb. cat, possibly the world’s second largest house cat get lost? Poor tabby. It’s not like she could have run away. Princess Chunk, as they call her at her temporary shelter home will soon be available for adoption if the real owner doesn’t turn up.
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FOF #787 – Scooty & JoJo Do It All
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They met nine years ago and today, like us, spend their time working, laughing and creating together.
On today’s show, Scott Bradley and Jonny Stax, the real-life gay couple behind the Scooty and JoJo show, join us to talk about being one of Chicago’s trashiest, campiest and funniest entertainment companies around.
Listen as Johnny and Scott talk about creating the Carpenter’s Halloween Special, Tran the Atari Musical and Mollywood the Musical. We joke with the duo that they create their shows from 80s mad libs or mixed up piles of Trivial Pursuit.
We met Jonny Stax about four years ago at one of our last pre-podcast shows we did at Schubas, where he haggled with a woman for a purple Feast of Fools t-shirt that we gave away from the stage. The t-shirt didn’t even have the “.net” added to it to refer to the website.
I remember making this t-shirt with Marc and how good we thought the colors looked together. It looked like a little Mardi Gras. It’s so nice to see our baby come home for a visit! These t-shirts do hold up against time, so you know that they will hold up at least four years down the road.
Did you check out Will Smith and David Letterman’s same sex kiss? The hunky actor dazzled the late night talk show host Monday when we went on to promote his new film, when all of a sudden the two men found themselves kissing each other.
Will Smith must be making up for taking the bad advice of homophobe actor Denzel Washington to not do a gay kiss in the film “Six Degrees of Seperation” despite the gay kiss being crucial to the plot. And poor Paul Schaffer will just have to play the keyboards alone tonight.
Also- pink doggie poop, God the Florida black guy who just loves cocaine and bad internet domain names (in the comments section.)
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FOF #756 – Chris Crocker Tells on You
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Chris Crocker turned to the internet to escape the torment of being chased by gangs of boys at the mall.
The internet helped him connect with the greater world around him when he couldn’t create a gay-straight alliance in his school and he left to be home schooled. To grow up a gay, eccentric and flamboyant teen has never been easy especially in a small conservative town in Tennessee.
If it weren’t for the internet where would Chris Crocker be?
Today Chris is one of the most watched and imitated video bloggers online. His iconic video of himself weeping and imploring the public to “Leave Britney Alone” made him a household name.
Chris’ videos represent the dramatic change we’re seeing in how we create and consume media. Chris’ videos are just as popular as the YouTube Presidential debates or the evening news. For millions of people everywhere, his opinion matters.
Despite this, old media companies are threatened by Chris popularity because of his bold desire to express himself at any cost. They can’t control him and he doesn’t need them.
It’s easy to question the authenticity of Chris’ videos because he’s just that good. He’s eerily in touch with his dark emotions and quickly cuts through the hypocrisy of the “haters” with his wit and words.
“Leave Britney Alone” proves to be one of the most emotionally over the top videos I’ve ever seen online. I believe Chris cried not so much for Britney Spears but rather to express the pain and suffering he endured having gone through the hell of homophobia as a teenager. In many ways, Chris Crocker represents the tortured gay youth who fought back and lived.
Chris Crocker really is a huge fan of Britney Spears, even though she has conservative leanings and a complete lack of interest in gay rights of any kind. Remember, she was FOR the War in Iraq and said in many interviews that we should “stand by our President” despite his reckless policies.
Chris sees something bigger inside of Britney. He believes her to be a liberal person trapped by the conservative world around her.
People can’t leave Britney alone or any other tragic celebrity for that matter because they help us cope with our everyday problems. When we see someone richer, more attractive and more powerful than us struggling to hold on, it makes it easy to come to peace with our place in the world.
On today’s show Chris Crocker joins us to talk in-depth about his popular video blog, his passion for following people’s horoscope and how he may team up with Puerto Rican TV astrologer Walter Mercado to reach a hip, young new audience. We also talk with Chris about how he personally deals with the vicious hate online and offline, what he thinks of all those parody videos of his work and where in Los Angeles you should hang out if you want to hook up with Chris.
And we put to rest the rumors surrounding Chris’ HIV/AIDS conspiracy as a government biological weapon gone wrong and being vilified for simply being himself and being good at it!
Your broken beer bottle in the bar fight against homophobia- Feast of Fools.
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FOF #717 – A Stunning Woman
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Brace yourself, you’re about to get a stunning!
Calpernia Addams, the Peabody Prize winning writer, actress and activist, best known on the Feast of Fools for her single “Stunning” joins us today to talk about the genesis of that fabulous dance song.
“Stunning” came out one of the episodes from her brand new reality tv series “Transamerican Love Story” a revolutionary elimination dating show featuring Calpernia as a trans woman searching for romance from a small group of handsome men.
The version we play on the show was remixed by Robbie D. We had the pleasure of hanging with Robbie D. at Idapolooza music festival in Tennessee in 2001 and Marc got to paint his ass blue!
Calpernia’s reality show is like The Bachelorette but with a fabulous trannie as the prize. You get to see an inside look at the men who are attracted to transsexual women and what it will take to win her heart. We recommend buying the season pass on the iTunes Music store, that way you’ll get every episode as it’s released each week, much like this podcast!
Life hasn’t always been stunning for Calpernia.
Calpernia was thrust into the public spotlight in 1999 when her lover, Pvt. Barry Winchell was harassed and murdered by his fellow soldiers after rumors of their relationship circulated around the base.
A controversial New York Times article titled “An Inconvenient Woman” portrayed GLBT groups as trying to qualify their relationship as “homosexual” in order to draw attention to the problems with the U.S. Military’s “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy banning lesbians, trans, gays and bi folks from serving their country.
Because of this intense life-changing event, Calpernia decided to become an activist for more positive media portrayals of transsexual women.
She participated in the production of “Soldier’s Girl” as an on set consultant to keep the story true to her experience. The film won several awards and featured Lee Pace from Pushing Daisies as Calpernia.
Join Kennidi Monroe, Marc Felion and me Fausto Fernós as we talk with Cali about her friendship with web-designer Andrea James, dealing with unpopular contestants and Calpernia’s list of stupid questions not to ask a Trannie. Of course, we asked her anyway, well not really.
Don’t miss the last part of the show where Calpernia teaches me how to force feminize my voice. I sound almost as stunning as she does!
This is the podcast that uses the voice you want to use- Feast of Fools.
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FOF #703 – Little Big Gay Podcast
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Love is in the air this Valentine’s Day week and we’re celebrating it with some of the cutest, sexiest men you could easily fall head over heels for in a second.
On today’s show we’re talking to Josh Walker, musical director, actor and composer. Josh wrote the 50th anniversary anthem for Little People of America, the world’s largest organization for people of small stature and Josh is openly gay.
Sorry fellas, Josh is taken. In fact, he met his boyfriend David Andora in a Disney chatroom online. How gay is that?
If you think being gay makes you feel alone in the world, imagine what it’s like being gay and a little person. There’s just not a lot of openly gay little people out there. So, please listen to today’s show as we talk to Josh about what it’s like being a minority within a minority.
Because Josh is gay and a little person and in musical theater, he deeply understands the issues about being an outsider. One of the challenges Little People share is that many average sized folks don’t see them as equals, they see them as inferiors, children or even worse- monsters.
Now, Josh works full-time for four months of the year as a elf and as a teddy bear in drag in the world famous Radio City Christmas Spectacular. Josh loves this job and we chat about what happens when the elves meet the Rockettes behind the scenes?
What steps do Little People take to make the world a better place for everyone? What’s up with the terms “little people,” “midgets” and “dwarfs?”
And because you were thinking about it, we chat about the behind the scenes of one of the gayest movies ever- “The Wizard of Oz.” Did they have Munchkin orgies? Did this really happen and how hot were they or was it just bad publicity? Which is the best musical- Wicked, The Wiz, or The Wizard of Oz? Weigh in folks on your opinion!
We went out for drinks and karaoke after the taping of the show!!! We had lots of fun! Thanks Josh.
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FOF #697 – Super Phat Tuesday
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Paczki! Mmm… you may not be able to pronounce it, but you definitively will want to stick some of these big, delicious Polish treats in your mouth.
Get your mind out of the gutter. I’m talking about the delicious Polish donut that is only offered before Lent as a way to get rid of all the junk food ingredients in the house. This is a religious thing.
And what a wonderful way to be religious: by stuffing your face full of cheese-filled pastry. Yum. If all religious dogma went down this easy, I’d be on my knees all the time.
Did you vote today? Before you go out to celebrate Mardi Gras, don’t forget to vote in the primaries if they are happening in your state. Also known as Super Tuesday, it’s the day where most of the states in the Union decide who the candidate is going to be in the 2008 U.S. Presidential Election.
Be sure to send us your cheeky pictures of you voting, and we will email you some special FOF beads. Try not to get arrested this time.
Join our gal-pal Tracy Tyler, Marc Felion and me, Fausto Fernós as we talk about Mississippi lawmakers proposing a ban in restaurants to serve obese customers and the up-and-coming National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day.
If your congregation struggles with homophobia, be sure to get your hands on AFC’s set of tools and resources created specifically to help Black churches spark discussions about HIV/AIDS in their communities and peeps.
As Will Smith says: “We All Have AIDS” and as Adrianne Curry says: “We Are All African American.” Represent!
On today’s show we’re also chatting with super sexy “bi-loving” actor Marcus Patrick about his appearance in Rosario Dawson’s “Descent” and his bold character’s participation in a brutal story of revenge.
Marcus talks about some of his past jobs that include posing nude for Playgirl, acting in American Soap Operas and being in a Boy band that was put together by Simon Cowell.
The podcast that fills your plate with delicious, chewy goodness- Feast of Fools.
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FOF #685 – Peaches Christ Will Save You
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WWPCW? What Would Peaches Christ Watch? A campy horror film with lots of gratuitous sex, violence and wild women on the verge of insanity, of course!
Brainchild of filmmaker Joshua Grannell, Peaches Christ is well known in San Francisco for the 10-year-running Midnight Mass movie events where drag queens perform tacky skits before the screening of a campy feature film.
The hilarious, insane and loosely scripted performances with outrageous costumes (check out her film-dress here) hark back to the hippie Cockette shows of the late 1960s. Peaches is our kind of gal!
Don’t let the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence inspired eye make-up fool you. Peaches Christ is dead serious about her love of film and the success of Midnight Mass is a testament to her passion for great movies and the value of a gay sensibility.
Like our friend Curtis Jensen says, Peaches is a guardian of our culture: “Peaches is presenting a forum for the screening of these films that have always had a special layer of meaning for Queer audiences. I see her as a the queer equivalent of the Cinematheque in Paris, where for years film enthusiasts could be educated about film. She is educating a new generation of queers about the rich cultural heritage of camp and cult film.”
So much in fact that in 2007, Peaches Christ celebrated the ten year anniversary of Midnight Mass with guest appearances by John Waters, Elvira, and Tura Satana. Campy celebrities love Peaches.
So kids, grab a bucket of popcorn and take notes! Class is in session.
Join Marc Felion and me Fausto Fernós as we talk with Peaches about some of the sickest, wildest and most hilarious movies of all time. What does Peaches think about such fabulous films like:
• Valley of the Dolls
• Beyond the Valley of the Dolls
• Mommie Dearest
• Showgirls
• The Bad Seed
• The Women
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FOFA #417 – The Jim Verraros Comedy Hour
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American Idol finalist Jim Verraros holds the distinction of being the first person to come out as gay on the show. He was never in the closet.
Before RJ admitted it, before Clay denied it, there was the one and only Jim Verraros. Jim was going to college downtown when a friend suggested he try out for the television show, which at the time was unknown what a hit it was going to be. He just walked and sang his way into the top ten, next to Kelly Clarkson and Justin Guarini.
Placing 9th on the first season, Jim was one of the most talked about contestants to ever appear on American Idol. Because he was raised by deaf parents, he is fluent in American Sign Language. As a child, Jim ironically excelled in singing and acting at a very early age so much that the school’s music teachers had the task of explaining his talent to his parents who were naturally unaware of Jim’s abilities.
When you meet Jim face to face, you get a sense like you’ve known him all along. Warm and embracing, he’s the kind of person who you would have been best friends with in high school.
On today’s show Jim joins Gregg Shaprio, Marc Felion and me your true blue pal Fausto Fernós to talk about the sacrifices and benefits of being out gay man in the music and film industry.
Jim comes to talk about his new film, “Eating Out Two: Sloppy Seconds” a bedroom face about where queer youth try to find sex. Although these new type of films owe a lot to the works of the great John Waters, they share a common thread with films like “Porky’s” and “American Pie” in their sophomorphic goofiness and superficial sex escapades. It’s fun, like eating cotton candy, but it’s mostly sugar. Did we mention there’s full frontal nudity in the film?
Jim has been keeping busy this past year working on a follow up to his album “Rollercoaster” which he collaborated with Gabe Lopez. Some of the songs have a catchy disco groove like “I Want You” and others get darker and sexier with the irresistible “So Deep.” So go buy it here, right now.
Click here to check out our photos taken of us with Jim Verraros.
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[Our first interview with Jim Verraros, originally posted on October 27, 2006.]
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Eating Out 2: Sloppy Seconds (2006)
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