After 'Oh, Mary!' Jinkx Monsoon Wants to Play Mystique in the MCU

Good One

Vox Media Podcast Network

Comedy, Comedy Interviews

4.7 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 28 August 2025

⏱️ 80 minutes

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This week on Good One, Jinkx Monsoon joins us to talk about RuPaul's Drag Race, Broadway, working with BenDeLaCreme on 'The Jinkx & DeLa Holiday Show', and taking over for Cole Escola in the Tony Award winning play 'Oh, Mary!' 00:00 Intro 00:01:00 Meeting Katy Perry 00:08:10 Meeting Charlie Day 00:13:14 How drag has changed 00:17:14 Broadway and drag 00:26:09 Relating to 'Oh, Mary!' 00:32:34 'Pirates! The Penzance Musical' 00:35:11 Mary Todd Lincoln's makeup 00:37:13 Working with Kumail Nanjiani 00:41:06 Manifesting the MCU 00:43:14 Who should play Mary next? 00:47:16 Drag Race 01:12:13 The Laughening Round Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Can I manifest something?
0:01.2	Sure, yeah, please.
0:02.1	That's why I thought I'd bring that.
0:03.5	Well, Marvel now has regained the rights to X-Men.
0:06.9	Mm-hmm.
0:08.1	I think it would be a really cool idea
0:11.7	to have a trans woman be mystique.
0:19.6	This is Good One.
0:20.5	I am Jesse David Fox, senior writer vulture and author of Comedy Book.
0:23.6	My guest this episode is Jinks Monsoon. We discuss Drag Race, Drag Race All-Stars, and O'Mary, the Broadway comedy she stars in through September 27th. Get your tickets now.
0:32.6	We also discuss roast jokes, what makes good ones and ones that are not so good. Jinks does like six or seven impressions throughout the interview, and you'll never guess what TV
0:42.0	theme song she sings. So here is Jinks Monsoon.
0:45.5	I'm here with Jinks Ponsoon. Thank you for joining me.
0:47.7	Thank you for having me.
0:49.6	So what is the funniest thing that happened to you this week?
0:53.0	I have been waiting for somewhere to tell this story.
0:57.1	That's why we asked the question.
0:58.2	Because this just happened.
1:00.2	And I very much, I orchestrated this funny thing, but it was ten times funnier than I could have prepared for.
1:09.9	So, unbeknownst to me until moments before the curtain at our O'Mary performance on Tuesday evening,
1:21.8	out from like a random room I didn't know exists comes Katie Perry and her people.
1:31.7	And Kumail's the only one who notices her and goes, that was Katie Perry, everyone.
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