- Hi everyone, welcome to the ladies' room.
I'm Kelsey Darragh and today
we have a really fucking cool guest.
I'm so excited to have her here.
She's the host of the throwing-shade podcast,
soon to be TV show.
Erin Gibson!
- Oh, hi, I was just
lacquering my lips.
- You're also the creator of Gay of Thrones.
- That's right.
- Tell us about that.
- So Gay of Thrones is where my hairdresser
recaps Game of Thrones.
Recapping it and kind of regurgitating it
in basically "RuPaul's Drag Race" slang.
That's the best way to describe it.
- Can I get you a drink, do you want?
- Yeah, I would love.
You know what I would love?
- Please tell me.
- A lukewarm this.
- Yes.
Yeah, I can't.
Oh.
- Every dentist is
just shitting their pants right now.
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- So can you explain to me
like I'm an old person what shade is
for anyone that doesn't know what shade is?
- Okay, so when you're throwing shade at somebody
it's like you're giving them the side-eye
without actually telling.
They've done, they've fucked up.
- Ooh.
- But you're not gonna tell them they've fucked up.
It's usually reserved for people who deserve it.
- Mm.
- So we throw shade at politicians,
usually conservative that do anti-gay, anti-lady stuff.
We throw shade on those people.
- And that's deserving.
- But I'd never throw shade on you.
- No, God, no, I'd hope not.
I idolize you in the non-creepiest way.
Hey, Kate, save me from this.
Do you know Erin?
- Yeah. I mean, you're doing it all right.
- Thank you, so much.
- What do you think is the worst state?
- Uh, Mississippi or Florida, it's a tie.
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I feel like the PC thing for me to say right now
is North Carolina because they've just passed that.
- [Kelsey] Yeah.
- The bathroom discrimination law.
Hey, you know who the bathrooms aren't safe from?
Republicans.
- Ooh!
Zing, cheers to that.
Okay, how about this, "fuck, marry, kill"?
- Yeah.
- Trump, Ramsay Bolton, or the entire state of Florida?
- Okay, fuck Ramsay Bolton because sorry to say,
the worst guys are the best in bed.
- That is true.
- Kill Donald Trump.
Marry, wait, who's the third one?
- The entire state of Florida.
- Sure, sure, sure.
- Great.
What's one television show
that you could watch for the rest of your life?
It's the only show you can watch.
- "RuPaul's Drag Race".
(laughs)
- You like that, Kate?
- Yeah.
- Okay, yeah.
- It's so good and they have been
calling out how hard it is for these drag queens
in their lives and where they've come from.
I like that they're shining a light on that.
- If you have to uninvent a piece of clothing
what would it be, and ignore my lisp.
- Bodysuits.
- Oh.
- That snap in the crotch.
- Harriet Tubman's going to be on the $20.
- Tubman?
- Yes.
Who would you put on the "hundo" if you could?
- I would put Sacagawea because I think
she really got the shaft by being on the silver dollar.
It was like, carry this big piece of heavy coin around.
- Women.
If you owned a strip club, what would you call it?
- Holes, and it would be.
(laughs)
It'd be a male strip club
and all of them would be covered except for their holes.
Let's distill it to its finest point.
- Which is?
- Holes.
(laughs)
- Everyone's just interested in each other's holes.
- I support that.
Helping or hurting: Neil Degrasse Tyson?
- I think he's helping.
I think he's making astrology,
no, no, no.
- I didn't hear it.
I didn't hear it.
Miss Cleo's helping astrology.
I think he's making science cool.
He's great.
- So, helping.
- I do love when he tears apart gravity.
He's, like, "Excuse me, can't happen, Matthew McConaughey.
"You can't go into a library of time."
- Do you believe in aliens?
- Yes.
But honestly, isn't it a little arrogant not to?
- Yeah.
- Because you don't know what happened
in some lake somewhere.
- Ooh.
- The nebula gallery, galaxy or something.
- I just wanna make it clear
you're not drinking alcohol right now.
- Sorry, no, I'm not drinking alcohol
and I've never studied science.
- What's your most unpopular opinion?
- My dad's a Vietnam vet and so
I do believe you should support troops
even if you don't agree with why they're fighting.
- I think that's a pretty.
- Is that pretty standard?
- Don't-- (record scratch)
Don't punish them for the nonsense that
the government is.
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(clapping)
What are you most excited about for having your own TV show?
- For a long time, women and gay issues have been presented
on these "info-tainment" or political comedy shows
by men but we're gonna be focusing on
such a narrow part of politics that affect a
more than 50% of the population, so I'm excited.
- If you could give your 16-year-old self advice,
what would it be?
- I went to a lot of shitty colleges
and then I had a theater teacher who was like,
"I really think you have something,"
we're not gonna say talent.
- I thought you were gonna say HPV for some reason.
- "Yeah, I think you have HPV, no, I'm not a doctor,
"I'm a theater teacher but I know HPV when I see it."
- What's the worst advice you've ever been given?
- To give up.
My boyfriend in college said, "You shouldn't try
"to do comedy, it's not worth your time."
And he also said I wasn't good at it.
(laughs)
Suck it, Paul.
(laughs)
- Fuck you, Paul, though.
That's it.
- [Erin] Thank you so much!
- You did it.
The way we end this is we take a selfie
with this Polaroid.
- Oh, great.
- Okay get over here and then we hang it on our wall.
Ready, one, two, three.
(camera snaps)
Cheese.
- I hope I didn't say anything too sad.
The world is sad.
(toilet flushing)
- [Voiceover] Now we're done.
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