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On a very special after-school episode of Ask a Liza Anything, I am joined today by one of drag's greatest, one of comedy's greatest, my personal favorite and I am a somebody who watches every season of RuPaul's Drag Race, but my personal favorite from all seasons ever, the incomparable Bianca Del Rio is here everyone. This is like the best introduction, most ask-iss-y introduction. I love

all of that, that was nice! No, I just, you know, I remember, so season six, so it was a couple seasons ago and I remember watching and as a comic, I was like, oh she gets it. You're not funny on accident. I watched the show religiously and there's a lot of queens that some are very smart, some are stupid and it's like, oh she said something quirky, but I was like, oh that's an artist with polished zingers, you were unflapable,

you just, like there was an art to it, I know you probably want to, but like you came to kill. I appreciate the compliments, but I tell you, it's one of those weird things where you don't know, I mean also to set it up, I think I was, I know I was 37 when I got on the show and I turned 38 while we were filming, so it was just one of those things, I didn't think I'd be one of the older ones, I didn't know what to expect of who to be there, so when you kind of get into the group, it's just this pressure cooker, so you're there and I'm usually the one to just

move things along, so yeah, when I was with these people, because I was just like, what the fuck are you talking about? Why are you crying? Let's just get through this. So it was, yes, it's for me. And in the end, you know, I thought I was being nice the whole time till I started watching it and I went, you know, but that, well, there's, there's the chemical and balance most comedians have. You're like, I was being, it's comedy. They're crying completely, completely.

Um, and I wonder, you know, and it's so many because usually people get dragged like for being an older queen, but when you're funny and when you're smart, I always think about that, if I go to an audition and, you know, the women there, I mean, I'm a pretty girl, but if they're more beautiful, I'm like, yeah, but they're not funny.

Exactly. Well, it's also just know your strengths and I think that's the crazy thing is that there was a time and I think I might have said this before, where drag queens had to have an act.

You know, either you were single, you were an actor, comedian, you were a dancer, you were, you know, whatever, whatever illusionist.

Um, they always had it with drag race now. It's a little different now. It's kind of like these kids that look great in Instagram photo. Now I want to do drag. They go on this show. They don't really have the personality.

They don't really, they've worked in a club for $50. You know, they don't know what that side of the world is like. So I think it was kind of like this blessed. Well, it was obviously in the end, it became a blessing.

But in the beginning, I didn't know what to expect or how these people were going to react to me, you know, so you just kind of get into the groove of it. You do what you can.

And you hope for the best. And I knew that even if I didn't win, I was like, it's all right. I mean, I'll still get something out of this, you know.

Absolutely.

Just the exposure alone and of course being a part of that family.

I feel like more is expected, you know, each season as an audience, we come to expect more and more from the Queens. And I, that's just a straight woman watching it. I pull everyone in because I'm like, look at what they have to make.

And so and do and conceptualize.

Yeah.

And you being funny and like a very shoot to kill comedian. Now when I watch it, I'm like, oh, you've got to have a personality and be able to do comedy.

And this last season, I don't know if you watch it. I never watched last comic standing after I was on it. Like I didn't care.

There's a there was one named Gigi good who was like model gorgeous, but could do the comedy. And it's the unlike that's right. But I don't know if she could have existed as that without someone like you being like, oh, by the way, you better have a fucking brain.

Well, you hope to have a brain. And what's crazy now is like when people ask me, you know, what do you think of a show? I go, it's a completely different show than then we did it back then.

You went on the show and you hoped you had a career. And now it's like people are banking on it, you know, and there's season right where they're on 12, 13 now or something crazy.

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