DENNIS ANYONE? with Dennis Hensley

Dennis is joined via Zoom by playwright and director Steve Silverman, whose dark comedy Happy Birthday McKenna is currently running at the Hudson Backstage Theater in Hollywood. Steve talks about the fateful trip to a Chicago cemetery that inspired the play, mounting a show in LA when you live in Santa Barbara, rotating in different actors and the bratty 3 year-old who is the McKenna in question....

Dennis is joined via Zoom by L.A.-based filmmaker Robert Chandler to discuss his new documentary  Dirty Sexy Comics , which is about the world of gay, male, erotic comics.  Robert talks about how he got the idea to do the film, balancing this passion project with a day job in corporate entertainment, being starstruck while interviewing the artists he's admired for years and how many of those artis...

Dennis is joined via Zoom by Glenn Gaylord, Senior Film Critic at The Queer Review, and actor-writer-film enthusiast Drew Droege for Part 2 of their annual year-end movie wrap-up. The films discussed include 13 Lives, The Banshees of Inisherin, Bros, A Man Called Otto, The Whale, Blonde, To Leslie, Official Competition, Barbarian, The Black Phone, Decision to Leave, Nope, Watcher, The Fabelmans, B...

Dennis is joined via Zoom by Glenn Gaylord, Senior Film Critic at  The Queer Review, and actor-writer-film enthusiast Drew Droege to talk about the movies of last year; their favorites, the moments that have stuck with them and the movies they just weren't that into. The films discussed include RRR, Tar, Marry Me, Bones and All, Everything Everywhere All At Once, Speak No Evil, The Lost City, Wome...

Dennis goes from host to guest with this crossover episode with the podcast  Cinema Craptaculus Presents The Expanded Universe hosted by John H.H. Ford and Smoore. Here's the official blurb: Love … exciting and -- GONE? Are romantic movies going extinct? Dennis Hensley, host of game shows and the  Dennis Anyone?   with Dennis Hensley  podcast joins the geeks to see if Hollywood still cares about l...

Dennis is joined via Zoom by actors Jonny Beauchamp and Mike Manning the stars of the new thriller The Way Out , which hits streaming this month. The film, directed by Barry Jay, tells the story of a vulnerable young man named Alex (Beauchamp) whose dealing with major issues like abuse and addiction, who takes in a new roommate named Shane (Manning) who maybe isn't quite the nice guy he seems to b...

Dennis is joined via Zoom by cartoonist Eric Orner, who is best known for The Mostly Unfabulous Life of Ethan Green , to talk about his new graphic novel Smahtguy: The Life and Times of Barney Frank . Eric talks about meeting Congressman Frank when he was in his 20's, going to work for him in his congressional office and describes why, decades later, he wanted to turn Barney's life into a graphic...

Dennis is joined via Zoom by actor Jonathan Slavin, one of the stars of the play Home Front , which  is about the obstacles facing a black naval officer and his white fiancee in post WW2 America and is currently playing at the Victory Theatre in Burbank, CA. Jonathan plays the couple's gay neighbor, who is also a veteran. Jonathan talks about working with the playwright Warren Leight, who based Jo...

Dennis connects via zoom with Matt Carter, the London-based co-writer and director of In From the Side , a romantic drama about a forbidden love between two players in a gay rugby league. Matt talks his own rugby background and why he wanted to explore the issues of monogamy and infidelity rather than the coming out and homophobia themes that are so common in gay films. Matt also talks about the c...

For his first episode of 2023, Dennis is joined via Zoom by visual artist Warren Wright (AKA Warrencito) whose affectionate, witty and incredibly-detailed Dollmation videos have been delighting fans on YouTube and Instagram since before the pandemic. Warren talks about what went into creating his most popular videos, like Barbra Streisand's "Don't Rain On My Parade," Barry Manilow's "Copacabana,"...

Dennis is joined via Zoom by singer-songwriter Tom Goss for a listening party for his delightful new holiday EP Big Fat Gay Ass Christmas followed by a rousing round of You Don't Know My Life. Joining the fun are Tom's husband Mike Briggs as well as three of the musicians who appear on the album: Benjamin Koll (Co-Writer, Mixing, Mastering, & Additional Instrumentation on "Sassy Santa"), Keith Law...

In Part 2 of his Holiday Gift Guide series, Dennis is joined via Zoom by four different creative entrepreneurs who have products that are perfect for holiday gift giving. First up is film professor Andy Scahill, the founder of Cinema for Sodomites, an interactive cult movie screening series and a merch line inspired by such gay favorites as Batman Returns, Death Becomes Her and Steel Magnolias . A...

In Part 1 of a two-part series, Dennis is joined via Zoom by four different creative entrepreneurs who have products that are perfect for holiday gift giving. First up, is writer and film critic Alonso Duralde who is the co-author of I'll Be Home For Christmas Movies: The Deck the Hallmark Podcast's Guide to Your Holiday TV Obsession and the sole author of Have Yourself a Movie Little Christmas ....

Dennis is joined via Zoom by writer Michael Ausiello to discuss the new film Spoiler Alert , which stars Jim Parsons, Ben Aldridge and Sally Field, and is based on Michael's 2017 memoir Spoiler Alert: The Hero Dies. The book and movie depicts the journey Michael and his photographer partner of thirteen years Kit go on after Kit gets diagnosed with a rare form of cancer. In the interview, Michael t...

Dennis is joined via Zoom by actor, writer, director & editor Artie O'Daly to talk about his new series Sorry I'm Weird , a collection of comedy shorts, which launched last month with an episode called Do You Speak Madonna? He also talks about his other on-going web series Bad Boy , which started as a single stand-alone short…but then blew up on YouTube so he made more and now he's up to 27 episod...

Dennis visits the L.A. home of actress Julie Hagerty to talk about her role in the new holiday movie A Christmas Story Christmas , which is currently streaming on HBO Max. Julie talks about how she came to be in the film, shooting in Bulgaria for three months, snatching food from her hotel to feed the local stray dogs and bonding with star and producer Peter Billingsley. Julie shares her own holid...

Dennis is joined via Zoom by Tazmanian-born dancer and choreographer Locky Brownlie to discuss the sexy new show he's choreographing, emceeing and dancing in, Bro-lesque , which debuts Friday, November 18 th at Strip nightclub in Costa Mesa, CA and which he describes as Cabaret meets " Magic Mike for the gays." He also talks about discovering dance as a child and sticking with it even though he wa...

In the wake of the sudden passing of actor Leslie Jordan, Dennis revisits this interview he conducted with Leslie in his Los Angeles apartment on October 28, 2014. In it, Leslie discusses his one-man show "Fruit Fly" which was returned to the L.A. Gay and Lesbian Center's Renberg Theater that December. Leslie talks about show's origins, the theme of a gay man and his mother and the pain of revisit...

Dennis is joined via Zoom by David Goldyn, writer-director of the play Daddy Issues , as well as three actors from the current Los Angeles production, James Siefert, Josh Nadler and Jonathan Fishman. The foursome join Dennis for a rollicking and revealing game of You Don't Know My Life! featuring these questions: WHAT'S SOMETHING YOU DID THAT YOUR PARENTS NEVER FOUND OUT ABOUT? And DESCRIBE AN EVE...

Dennis connects via Zoom with author David Ambroz to discuss his memoir A Place Called Home , which David describes as " Forrest Gump meets Hillbilly Elegy with a heavy dose of Precious ." It documents his childhood, growing up homeless on the streets of New York City, struggling to survive with his mentally ill mother and two older siblings, then takes him through multiple group homes and foster...

Dennis is joined via Zoom by actor Bill Brochtrup, who is currently appearing the Los Angeles production of the Tony-winning play The Inheritance , which is described on the Geffen Playhouse's website this way: "Eric and Toby are 30-somethings who seem to be very much in love and thriving. But on the cusp of their engagement, they meet an older man haunted by the past, and a younger man hungry for...

Dennis is joined via Zoom by actor Tony Rodriguez who voices the character of Marge's Cuban-American hairdresser Julio on the iconic animated series The Simpsons . He tells the amazing story of how he got the role; by posting an unsolicited audition video on line on a lark. The producers saw it and within a week, Tony was on the Fox lot recording his first appearance. Tony also talks about how he...

Dennis connects via Zoom with actor Sam Pancake to discuss his show Pancakes from the Edge , which is loosely inspired by his obsession with the film Postcards From the Edge.  He talks about meeting Shirley MacLaine and watching her rip into Richard Dreyfus for being late to reading. He also talks about his recent mainstream Hollywood projects like A Million Little Things , The Goldbergs and the u...

Dennis is joined via Zoom by author and blogger Matthew Rettenmund to talk about the brand new revised edition of his book Encyclopedia Madonnica, which is just like it sounds, a 700+ page guidebook for all things Madonna. He talks about the starting work on the first edition of the book back in 1995, what makes this new edition special, the process of choosing the photos and why he chose to make...

Dennis connects via Zoom with his lifelong friend Michelle Willis who in her three decades plus as a sweepstakes and contest enthusiast has won 787 different prizes, including trips, cash, meet-n-greets with celebrities like Ryan Seacrest and Kelly Ripa, a zero gravity flight experience and an ugly holiday sweater, courtesy of Nutella. Michelle talks about how she first got bit by the contest bug...