- Hi it's me Trixie Mattel
and welcome back to The Pit Stop.
This week our guest is a meme worthy legend
who turns the party, Mayhem Miller.
- Hey.
- [Trixie] Hey.
Wow so can you like do like to the camera,
can you do that meme?
Or are you over it?
- No I'm never over it, of course I'll do it.
It's so hard without the music but.
(beat boxing)
(laughing)
- That's fierce.
- Who would've thought just blinking I would get famous.
- That'll be you in All Stars five.
You'll just like blink blink,
and they'll be like queen!
- She wins!
- So last week was an emotional rollercoaster.
Manila lost the lip sync,
Monique won the lip sync,
and sent home Manila's BFF, Latrice.
How do you feel about that?
- You know what?
I would've done the same thing.
You know I'm gonna play the game the way
I want to play the game.
Not how everyone else in the workroom wants me to play.
Because that was my mistake when I was on my season.
I wanted to be the nice girl.
I wanted to get along with everyone.
But at the end of the day you want to win this.
- I think it's a reality check as
a viewer of the show,
to watch Latrice go home early,
don't you think it was sort of like Drag telling you
you don't know everything.
- To see her have to walk away it's like oh,
okay well maybe this is not the game
I thought it was gonna be.
- [Trixie] It was almost surreal.
- It was sad.
And I could see why Manila was so you know distraught.
The tears kept going and kept going.
- So Manila is also hurting
and now she's sort of put a target on her back.
- It's a lot of stress put on you
because it's like okay,
do I want to please everyone in this workroom
or do I want to please everyone at home?
'Cause the thing is once you get home
and then this airs, you're gonna have to deal
with the world now on your back for sending someone home
that they didn't want to see go home.
- So for the Maxi Challenge,
it's a eulogy of Lady Bunny who has not really passed away.
How difficult if this challenge for queens
who maybe comedy isn't their thing?
- As a queen, and especially a seasoned queen
who has been on Drag Race,
you know you're gonna have to be funny at some point.
You have given, you have a opportunity,
they give you a notepad, write out the jokes.
Just sit there and just knock 'em out.
Even if they're bad.
Just throw out as much material as you possibly can.
Retain it.
That way when you're up delivering it,
you have something to refer back to.
- So Monique is assigning the order
for the queens and she puts Manila last
because she says ending the show is hard
but if you bomb you're going home.
- It was all strategy.
And I'm not mad at it at all
but me knowing who Manila is,
I know that she was gonna knock it out the park.
- Yeah I wasn't worried at all.
- No matter where she was in the lineup.
- Plus if you were assigning roles
and you really wanted her to do poorly,
wouldn't you put her first?
- First.
First out is always the hardest.
- All right let's get to the performances.
Which ones were your favorite?
- [Mayhem] Monét and of course Manila.
- [Trixie] I mean Manila probably gave
the best roast performance in Drag Race history.
- I will second that.
I'll co-sign on you with this.
- I mean walking on the stage and getting a paraverbal.
That means you know, above words, like response
by opening your veil and huh, genius.
- [Mayhem] It was lovely.
- [Trixie] You didn't even say a word yet.
- [Mayhem] Lovely.
- And your physical joke was better than some
of these girls' entire set.
- And physicality in comedy is important.
You need to know your body and how you deliver
your jokes and her using her body was even better you know?
- Your other favorite was Monét X Change.
- She was so commanding.
And she felt comfortable.
She looked comfortable.
And she sold it to me.
- She's one of those New York queens
where they're used to being handed
a microphone and being told you have a whole hour to fill.
- Go.
- And you can tell that she was comfortable
going off her script, leaning into things
if they were working.
I mean that's the kind of performance
that only like a comedy professional can do.
She turned it.
- She really did.
- Listen let's talk about who bombed
because this is going to be most of the episode.
- Oh my God.
- I mean first up, Trinity.
I've done roasts with Trinity and I know that it's sort of,
when I've seen Trinity's roasts,
they've succeeded because she's bombing
and she makes a joke of her bombing.
- You can find comedy in the non-comedy.
You just have to deliver it well.
- Totally.
Monique Heart, I wouldn't say is a bomb.
I would say she was somewhere in the middle.
Doing a character is sort of a,
do you think it's a strong choice?
- She is a church girl.
She knows those characters of people in the church.
I know that character.
And so I'm happy that she spoke from something
that she knew about.
Because you know, at the end of the day,
if you're gonna do a performance,
if you're not doing something that you believe in,
you can't convey it to the audience.
- It started big, it didn't grow.
- And that's what you want to happen.
You want to progress through the set you know.
You want to have a starting point
and a middle point and a end point.
- So then we have Naomi Smalls.
- Oh poor Smalls.
- [Trixie] Who is like the prettiest,
worst comedian I've ever seen.
- [Mayhem] My baby.
The comedy was not brown cow stunning.
It was like not.
- [Mayhem] No it wasn't.
- And she just kept laughing at her own jokes
and it just kept getting worse.
And the more she, it was almost like she was trying
to like ventriloquism throw her laugh into the audience.
So people were like yeah, it's funny.
- [Mayhem] Who was in the back laughing?
We can see you.
No, it's not working girl.
- Valentina.
(exhaling)
- [Trixie] Listen, she was in the chair
and I was like oh you look so beautiful.
And when she took those glasses off.
How many times are you gonna get caught
on Drag Race without makeup on?
- Where is your time going?
- Can we get a lash?
It's a roast.
Also it's a eulogy.
Do some running makeup.
- Smear all the black and just have it running
down the face like you've been going through it crying.
And give us that telenovela star that you say you are.
It should, that was not shade.
That was not shade.
- Give us that star you say you are.
(laughing)
Are you kidding me?
- No you know I love her.
You know I love her.
- All right it's time for the runway
which is angelic whites.
- Whites, my favorites.
- You have white outfits?
- I do, you remember my white outfit
from my season, the snow queen?
- Oh of course.
Monét X Change looked incredible.
- First out the concept was lovely you know,
if we're gonna go with this white angelic,
why not take it to church.
- [Trixie] She was giving the Pope.
- She gave us pope realness.
I was getting the vibes of Rihanna
when she did the Met Gala that one year.
It was beautiful.
- [Trixie] And that long.
- [Mayhem] Long train behind her.
The stigmata reference you know.
I loved it.
- [Trixie] Up next Trinity the Tuck.
Which I mean this look was transcendent.
- [Mayhem] Gorgeous.
- [Trixie] She looked, to wear the halo facing the front
in a full, I mean.
- [Mayhem] This girl, when it comes to drag,
she does not skimp.
She will spend every single dime she has
which I appreciate, the audience appreciates.
- Which is six dimes.
(laughing)
Up next is Monique Heart.
She has a great body.
This like built her up in the middle.
- [Mayhem] There was a lot of things happening.
It was a lot of things happening.
The signature heart, the head piece.
- [Trixie] The heart was too big and burdened.
- [Mayhem] It was kind of like,
like she just plopped at pillow there.
It was just like there and I'm like what?
- [Trixie] So up next we have Naomi Smalls
who of course has no problem on the runway ever.
- [Mayhem] My favorite.
- [Trixie] It was?
- [Mayhem] It was my favorite.
I am a huge Prince fan and I got the reference
right off the bat I was like, angel.
When Doves Cry.
It was just perfect and I love a girl
who steps out of the box and doesn't give us literal.
- And by the way it's a testament
to your own beauty when you can wear
a more masculine costume and still look feminine.
- Oh yes.
- I would look like Little Richard in that outfit,
do you know what I mean?
(laughing)
Up next Valentina.
It was like a maxi pad that tried to hang itself.
(laughing)
And to be that thin and to wear something quilted
it's like, it's not a choice.
- [Mayhem] The way it looked to me
was uncomfortable and it looked heavy.
- [Trixie] And the feathers.
And she kept saying how expensive it looked
and I was like.
(exhaling)
- I was like really girl?
- [Trixie] Up next Manila.
This looked like somebody dressed up
as Trinity for Halloween.
- [Mayhem] It's like that whole set of
when you order something and then when you get it.
- [Trixie] It got stolen off her porch
and the person decided they didn't want it
and put it back.
- [Mayhem] Put it back!
With a note like you know this is definitely for you.
- There were no real weak runways this week
but who do you think was say the best?
- You wanna do like top three maybe?
- Yeah.
- Monét.
- [Trixie] Sure.
- [Mayhem] Naomi.
- [Trixie] Definitely.
- [Mayhem] And Trinity.
- Those three has the best cleanest concepts,
best execution.
- Mm hmm, definitely.
- [Trixie] So it's judging time
and I don't think there's any real surprises here.
Manila and Monét are the top.
- Yes.
- Manila is on her third win.
This is her second win in a row.
I mean is she unstoppable at this point?
- You know she's coming from a older season of Drag Race.
And a lot of the fan base are more about
the current seasons.
So of course she had to come back and say no,
this is why I was selected before.
And this is why I've been brought back again.
And again.
And I'm gonna prove it to you guys.
'Cause she really wants this crown.
- All the girls left are suddenly the bottom.
Would you gag?
I gagged.
- I gagged.
I really did.
- [Trixie] I love to watch a drag queen.
- [Mayhem] I clutched my pearls, I did.
- [Trixie] Face crack, wig snatch.
- [Mayhem] With all those bottoms,
I would feel like I'm on top.
- All right.
- I mean.
(laughing)
- So back in the workroom all the girls
are pleading their cases.
Who is getting through do you think?
- Honestly I don't think anyone.
(laughing)
is getting through.
I think everyone is pleading their cases
but I don't think anyone has it in the bag to be okay.
- No especially not our little sister Valentina,
who is kind of like,
advocating for herself too hard.
So for her to be like I was great in that roast.
I'm like.
- Were you?
- What roast were you at?
- Were you though girl?
- A spit roast?
So it's time for the lip sync for your legacy.
It's Monét X Change, Manila Luzon.
- [Mayhem] I'm kinda torn because they're both
giving me good performances.
Both are serving comedy elements within it.
Both are still giving me dance
and they're giving me lip sync, they're giving me face,
they're giving me, it's just great.
I don't know who I would pick.
- [Trixie] Yeah it's hard to say.
Watching it you were like wow,
these are not even that different of a lip syncs.
They're actually like kind of coordinating.
This looked like a two girl,
it looked like a duet.
- [Mayhem] It seemed like it was like,
not a battle between the two.
It seemed like two girls having fun.
- Now the plot thickens.
- Yes it does.
- Monét and Manila both win.
And you know that those bottom girls are cracked.
- So now what?
Who's going home?
- Turns out RuPaul has changed the rules
and nobody's currently going home.
So All Star rules are suspended until further notice
and the girls come back in the room
and there's a mirror message that says,
get ready to lip sync for your life, life, life, life, life.
Which is not legacy, life.
Which means that you lip sync for going home.
- And I said wait a minute.
Oh.
And then I got triggered.
- Fully triggered.
- That feeling came back.
- I think these girls are gonna have a chance to stay.
That's usually the situation is they have
to do something to stay.
- I'm thinking now that we'll have to lip sync for our lives
they're probably gonna start all all over again.
- You think?
- I think so.
It's gonna be a clean slate now.
And now these girls gonna really have to work hard.
- That's the thing about All Stars.
It's a competition.
It's also a game.
- It's a game.
It's the game.
- Which means like do not pass go.
- Get out of jail free.
Or in some cases like mine.
- Go to jail and don't ever come back 'til Christmas.
- Ask your friends to start a Go Fund Me
and get some bail money.
- Well I want to thank Mayhem Miller
for joining us this week.
Thank you.
- Thank you.
- And don't forget to join us next week
on another episode of the Pit Stop
where we will hopefully find out what is going on
with these queens coming back.
We will see you next week, bye.
- Bye.
Oh yeah.
- Maybe the eye thing.
It only works with your eyes.