- Welcome back y'all.
Since 2009, one show has been turning heads on the runway,
winning four consecutive Emmys
for outstanding reality competition program.
Proving as its namesake says,
"We're all born naked, and the rest is drag."
The new sea-
and I said naked, that's right.
Everybody who was like, whatever.
The new season of "Ru Paul's Drag Race All Stars"
premiers May 20th on Paramount+.
And we are so excited to have four of those All Stars
with us today.
(dramatic upbeat music) (audience cheering)
Please give it up for Raja, Shea Coulee, Yvie Oddly,
and Monet X Change.
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You look so stunning! - Thank you, my girl.
- Oh my gosh. - Pleasure.
- I feel underdressed and not cool.
It's like, oh my God.
Nice to see you, nice to see you.
Oh, I got your earrings.
I'm so sorry. - No, it's fine.
It's fine.
- I like hugged you, like with fierce strength.
- I love you too. - That was a really big hug.
Can we just like, take a minute.
Like you look... (audience cheering)
You all look, like so fabulous.
- Thank you, thank you.
I'm trying not to expose myself on daytime television.
- I want-
You're gonna Sharon Stone everyone.
I like it. (panel laughing)
I like it, I like it.
Sometimes it happens.
Wait, so could you all introduce yourselves to everybody
and then, oh, I see those contacts.
Okay, yes.
I like it, I like it.
So tell everybody your drag names
and how you got to your drag name.
- So my name is Monet X Change.
- [Kelly] Yep. - It is really simple.
I was eating some sticky wings at the Dallas BBQ
on Times Square.
- [Kelly] Oh, I love.
- And across the street was a currency exchange.
I was like, that's too boring.
What about money?
Put an E, an accent on E and T, Monet.
Monet X Change.
- I love that, you guys. - Right?
Every good drag name, you start with chicken wings.
- [Kelly] Oh my God, I love it.
Oh my gosh, your eyes are beautiful as well.
- Thank you. - Yes.
Okay, so say your name
and like how you came up with your name.
- Howdy all, I'm Yvie Oddly.
And I just like threw letters in a bag, pulled them out.
(all laughing)
- I was like,
I was like, fine.
This is, this looks good.
- No, people called me a weirdo.
So I ran with it.
I was like, maybe I can make a brand out of being weird.
So it's actually like a pun on even an odd,
but like I said, I can't spell.
- I like that, Yvie Oddly.
That's really cute.
I was called weird too.
Look at us now, whatever. - [Yvie] I know!
- Yeah. - And now we're so boring.
- Yeah, all those... (all laughing)
No, all those people peaked in high school.
We're so cool.
Okay, so your name and then how you came up with your name?
- Hi, I'm Shea, Ms. Coulee if you're nasty.
(all laughing)
I came up with my name because my middle name is Shea,
and it's Swahili, it means beautiful boy.
And I came up with Coulee
because there's this little African riddle
that's like,
♪ Shea Shea coulee, shea confissa ♪
♪ Confissa lala, allah kilala ♪♪
So-- - [Kelly] Allah kilala.
- Yeah, girl, I like to turn up to that song.
So I said, Shea Coulee.
- I love that.
I didn't know that that was Swahili,
or meant, beautiful boy. (audience clapping)
That's, I love that.
- [Shea] Thank you. - It was destiny.
I like that.
Okay, okay.
Raja, how about you?
Look at what's hap-
I love what's happening.
Like, okay, where...
So how did you come up with your name?
- I'm Raja.
And I got my name actually because I'm Indonesian,
and in Indonesia, Raja actually means king.
- [Kelly] Oh. - And also at the time,
when I was first starting to do drag,
"Aladdin" the film, had just come out,
and there's a tiger named Raja.
And I was also born in the year of the tiger.
So it all kind of went together.
- Oh, that was just kind of meant to be.
(audience clapping)
I love that.
That reminds me of John Legend.
His last name is Legend, right?
He just was like, "I'm a legend.
"I'm gonna call myself a legend."
- Really? - I know!
It's Stevens. - [Monet] Oh wow.
- I was like,
but I love that he was like, "No, let me take Legend."
Yeah, and I love that you were like, "King, this fits."
I like it, I like it.
I should have picked a cooler name.
So how did you,
how did you all get into drag?
Raja, I'll start with you.
- I'm probably here on this panel,
I've been doing it the longest.
And I think it was, you know,
it's been 30 years since I started doing drag
for the first time. - [Kelly] Yeah.
- And at that time it was,
it was irreverent.
It was rebellion and it was just kind of, you know,
it was just something to do
just to kind of make my parents a little--
- It's very creative.
I mean, good Lord.
It's so cool.
So Shea, how about you?
- It was like kind of an accident.
I went to school for theater,
and I was supposed to be dancing in the chorus
for this all-black burlesque review,
called "Jeezy's Juke Joint,"
and my good friend, Jeez Louise,
she sent out the email to everybody in the cast.
And she was just like,
in the email she goes,
"If you have a solo act,
"please reply with the details for your act."
And so naturally what I read was,
you Shea Coulee have a solo act.
So you will be (indistinct).
So I came up with a whole act.
I did this number to Beyonce's song, "Sugar Mama."
- [Kelly] Yeah.
- It is that cute little burlesque number,
and got a standing ovation.
And I've never had that response ever.
And I was like, "I think that there's something to this.
"Maybe I should do drag."
- Yeah, well, and it feels good when you're on stage
and you're doing something you love.
And then somebody that you know,
that-- - Absolutely.
- Love and vibe is reciprocated.
That's really cool.
I love that you filtered that,
it's like, they want me to do a solo.
(all laughing)
- Right? - I'm gonna say I,
that's how I filter critiques.
Like anytime a critic like says something,
I'm just like, "So you loved it?"
(panel laughing) Great, great.
Loved it.
Yeah, I feel good, okay.
So you're,
I have, I filtered that (beep).
So your parents found out you did drag
by watching "Drag Race?"
- Yes, well, you know...
So again, so being in the arts,
I was always coming home with like some crazy thing, right?
And then right when I started doing drag,
I would come home with like a wig like this.
My mom would be like, "What is that?"
I'm like, "It's this crazy performance
"of the 'Magic Flute Girl.'
"You're not gonna believe it.
"We're wearing wigs!"
And then I would come up with like eight inch pumps.
So like, "What's with the shoes?"
"Girl, 'The Marriage of Figaro' is getting crazy, mom."
(all laughing)
I was just building like that.
And then so, until I got in the show,
I got cast on the show, and I started for...
and the show was,
it was like two weeks before the show aired.
I was like, "All right here it is."
And I told her about it,
and she was like, "Girl, word."
- [Kelly] And she's in?
- Yeah, she was into it.
And now my family has like group chats about it.
- [Kelly] Oh my God.
- And they're like, "Oh my God, that Maddy Morphosis."
I'm like, "Y'all know more about the show than me,
"than I do."
So like, they love it.
They love, they love it, yeah.
- That's so cool.
That doesn't happen for everybody.
Everybody is not supported in like their,
especially people in the arts.
It's like, they're like, "No, I need you to get a real job."
Like, that's what they always tell us.
- Yeah, especially if you have Caribbean parents,
Caribbean parents are all about,
" You're gonna be a doctor or a lawyer.
"There's no ifs, ands, or butts."
And I'm like, "I'm kind of like a lawyer-ish."
- I play with it on TV.
(all laughing)
So Yvie, what was it like
when you went back home to Denver.
So after you won?
- No, it was just,
it was the most validating experience I'd ever felt.
'Cause I felt like growing up,
that Denver wasn't a place for me
to be anything bigger than a doctor or a lawyer,
which I should have been. (all chuckling)
But no, no.
I just felt like I had so much I wanted to do,
and that I was never going to be able to break out
and be bigger than that.
And so coming home and being celebrated for like,
something that I pushed so long and so hard for--
- [Kelly] Yeah.
- [Yvie] And to see like all these people
who helped build me, it was everything.
- And you know what's cool too is like, you said,
"Maybe you felt like you didn't fit in there."
But what's cool is that there's other people there right now
that might feel that way too.
And they're like, "You're a good example of like, you can...
"Anybody anywhere can achieve anything they want."
We all have big dreams no matter where you're from.
- Yeah,
That's like the biggest thing I honestly learned,
not even just from going back home,
but every everywhere I've gone
I've met "the other people."
The people who feel like they have no place.
And so I tell them they can't sit with me.
(all laughing)
- I tell them there's no room in the end, yeah.
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The new season is on Paramount+ starting May 20th.
And is the first season
to feature a cast of all past season winners.
(Kelly trumpets) Only winners allowed,
that's what they said.
- Hello. - Hello.
And Raja, so it's been 10 years since you did drag race.
So why did want to compete again in the all winners?
Did you just wanna remind people you're winner again?
- Exactly.
It's been 10.
It's been 10, 11 years.
- [Kelly] Yeah, yeah. (audience clapping)
- I just, yeah.
I just needed to remind the children who, you know,
who she is.
I mean, look at her.
- [Kelly] Oh my God, I love y'all so much.
Oh my God.
So Yvie, you said that you felt
that you wouldn't do well on an all winners season.
So what changed, and why would you not think so?
- Well, 'cause I like,
I really just won my first season by lying
and tricking the judges.
So I figured they'd see through it twice.
- Don't matter how you get there, it's how you stay.
(panel laughing)
- No, no, I just...
I realized how difficult it would be
because you're competing with people,
who not only are excellent,
like, everybody who gets cast in the first place
but who have proven excellence
and have like the confidence of it.
- [Kelly] Yeah.
- So like, there's just like no room for error.
However, I'm not gonna let that stop me
from going in, winning a crown or two.
- But watch out.
Watch out on this one though,
'cause she says she laughs with her.
I'm just saying.
Oh, so watch out, watch out.
So-- - Watch your purse
around this one here. - So watch your purse.
So Shea, what made you decide
to come back for another round?
- I would say it would be equal parts,
narcissism and masochism.
(all laughing)
'Cause this show...
This show is really, really difficult.
It's hard.
- Oh you God, the self-awareness is amazing.
- Yeah, look, I feel like every drag queen is a narcissist.
We're also extremely delusional,
but I think that's what it takes
to be like a successful drag queen.
You know, you just gotta go out there,
be like, throw caution to the wind
and be like, I have this fantasy,
I have this dream,
and I'm going to do whatever it takes to make it a reality.
- It might not be narcism.
It might just be bold.
You're bold, and you're creative.
- Oh--- - Yeah, I'm just saying.
- Yeah, I'll take that. - [Kelly] Yeah.
- But I also like narcissism,
'cause I just like the way it sounds.
(panel laughing)
You know?
- Oh my God, I love...
This is like what I need in therapy.
Okay, so wait.
So Monet, you won "All Star" season four
in a tie with Trinity.
Trinity The Tuck, I'm sorry,
which is the great name.
So was the chance to win alone
part of the reason why you came back?
- Yeah, you know,
but ultimately besides all that,
I just wanted to just prove to the world just,
I'm better than her.
(all laughing)
Yeah-- - My God.
I wanted the world to know.
I wanted to make a public declaration
to the international internet that I'm better than her.
- International internet, the World Wide Web?
- Yeah, everybody everywhere
that's watching-- - [Kelly] I love this.
Look, you have a throne. - [Monet] Yes, look at me.
- [Kelly] Where's her throne? - Hello.
No, Kelly is,
Kelly is reading on here.
You had to read huh, Kelly? - [Kelly] Where's my throne?
(all laughing)
I love this so much.
Oh my gosh.
So Raja, one skill based challenge in the show
is called "Lip Sync For Your Life."
So could you explain what that is?
- "Lip Syncing For Your Life" is--
- Do you die at the end?
- Yes, you do die.
- The loser does.
- Yeah, " Lip Syncing For Your Life"
is when the two finalists,
or the two, I guess winners of the challenges...
Is that how it works?
It's been so long.
It's been-- - Either bottoms or tops.
- Either bottoms or tops come together,
and then you duke it out,
and then you fight each other.
And then whoever wins the lip sync
is the winner of the night and so on.
- Okay, would you be willing to show us?
- Kelly-- - No.
- I don't like attention.
- Okay, you don't like attention.
I don't like attention either,
so you're gonna do it to my song.
(all laughing)
So here we go.
Let's see it.
(audience cheering) (RnB music)
Look at the walk. ♪ Miss on her own ♪
♪ Miss almost grown ♪
♪ Miss never let a man help her off her throne ♪
♪ So, by keeping her heart protected ♪
♪ She'd never ever feel rejected ♪
♪ Little miss apprehensive ♪
♪ Said ooh, she fell in love ♪
♪ What is the feelin' takin' over? ♪
♪ Thinkin' no one could open my door ♪
♪ Surprise, it's time to feel what's real ♪
♪ What happened to Miss Independent ♪
♪ No more the need to be defensive ♪
♪ Goodbye, old you ♪
♪ When love is true ♪♪
My God!
(audience cheering) (audience clapping)
(indistinct) (panel laughing)
(audience cheering) (audience clapping)
Like, I've never performed my song like that.
I'm so lame.
Give it Raja, Shea Coulee, Yvie Oddly,
and Monet X Change y'all. (audience cheering)
"Ru Paul's Drag Race All Star's"
premiers May 20th on Paramount+.