- Do your Ariana Grande impersonation.
- It's so hard, okay.
(unintelligible singing)
- Hi, I'm Trixie Mattel. (regal music)
- And I'm Katya.
- And we're two queens who like to watch.
- Now, today, we're watching the Netflix original series,
AJ and the Queen, of which I am a part of!
(Katya trilling) (Katya grunting)
- Do you play AJ, or do you play the queen?
It was you and Ru Paul in a casting agency.
- I'm BJ, BJ the queen. (Trixie laughing)
- BJ and the Queen.
(dramatic music)
Spoilers, hey! (regal music)
If you've never seen AJ and the Queen,
we're gonna talk a lot about it.
We don't wanna ruin anything.
- Ru Paul playing multiple roles.
- She cries, she laughs, she puts on wigs.
- She kicks through windows with boots.
- She has a hot boyfriend.
I'm excited to watch this show
because I think 85,000 of my friends are in it.
- Yeah, everybody's in it except you.
- Except me, I wasn't even asked, so I don't know.
Maybe I'm Ru Paul's nemesis.
- Nemesis, yeah, yeah, holding out for season two.
- But I'm excited to see it.
I love when things happen for my friends and not for me
and it's televised and that's cool.
(Katya laughing) (upbeat jingle)
How come Ru Paul's armpit is more moisturized than my face?
This looks like her in To Wong Foo.
Like, she looks the same age.
- Yeah, it's incredible.
- Notably, this was filmed the same week.
- Yet she somehow looks more toned.
(upbeat jingle)
- Your club is doing a good job
at being trash on its own.
(crowd laughing)
- Who's she calling trash?
- Eureka looks good.
- I hope she was like,
"I'm only coming if I can sit outside and smoke."
- It's a $100,000.
- [Trixie] Alexis Mateo.
- Bam.
- We need you to come in and say bam.
- I bet her line was like, "That's right, girl,
"and I've always respected you and you're my friend."
And she said bam and they were like, "That's fine."
- For once in my life, I won't have to answer to nobody.
I'll be my own man.
- She hates drag as much as us.
- [Trixie] Yeah, she does.
By the way, a beautiful dressing room
by drag queen standards.
- Yeah, that's like the Taj Mahal of dressing rooms.
There's no roaches, there's no addicts on the floor.
- You think we got this at Netflix?
(upbeat jingle)
- Matching credit cards.
Every time we charge something for the club,
we get Airline miles.
- I've been with my man for three years
and he don't even know my middle name.
(Katya laughing)
He couldn't even fraud get a card for me.
Listen, you shouldn't steal, and if you are gonna steal,
steal from a stranger and don't get caught.
Don't steal from a loved one.
- Steal from the place you work at like a normal person.
- I've been taking money from Netflix for weeks.
(laughing)
- Queen.
- I'm streaming AJ and the Queen
under the name Patricia Smith.
(upbeat jingle)
- Oh, hell no, oh, hell no!
- Ru Paul's getting ready to serve
Delta Comfort Economy Plus Class.
- Yeah, she is, warm nuts.
- She said, on today's flight, we have
whole wheat Cheez-Its or salted almonds.
- Another ginger ale for you, hun?
- Ru Paul climbing these stairs.
You know she was like, we're doing this once.
- [Katya] Yeah, totally.
- Ru Paul is so tall though.
She probably takes like three stairs at a time.
- Yeah, whoosh.
("I Will Survive" playing) - Oh, they did not fuck around
with the song licensing either.
- No, they sure didn't.
- Everybody thinks they can just steal from me
and take what's mine.
Well, that ends tonight.
- She's going out on the fire escape with boots?
- [Trixie] Okay, watching Ru Paul climb out a window is fun.
- [Katya] Yeah, this is great, me.
- Oh, is this your role?
- This is me, this is me. - Fierce.
♪ Somebody new ♪
You ever lipsynch this one?
- In Russian.
(singing in foreign language) (laughing)
- That is so stupid.
Oh, the child did take the money!
- That's my money!
- If I was a robber and I stole money
and I realized I was stealing from Ru Paul,
I would have been like, okay,
please don't tell anybody I was here,
and get the fuck out of there.
- Yeah.
(glass shattering) Oh, yes.
- Okay, I am very into Ru Paul chasing a kid.
- Get out of my apartment, bitch.
I'll call the police. (laughing)
- I am the mother F'in cops!
- Kick down the door, swirly, swirly!
- That's why I took the money.
My mother never came home and we got evicted.
- [Ru Paul] You want food, is that what you want?
- [Both] Well, let me tell you, you're never gonna get it.
(laughing)
- Ru Paul's like, "I know you want the money,
"but I have a red-eye that I have to be
"a flight attendant on in this outfit
"in about 30 minutes, so I gotta go.
"There are people at Delta Economy Comfort
"who need ginger ale."
- They need the warm nuts!
- [Trixie] Who is she calling, who is she calling?
- [Katya] Hi, I can't make the flight.
- [Trixie] Hi, Ghost Busters?
- It's not too late to give the money back.
- I believe Ru Paul right now. - Yeah.
- You can't give me my life back,
but you can give me my money.
- A real drag queen be like,
I don't care if my man leaves me.
I do want the money, though. - The money.
Men come and go, but dollar bills...
- It's fun watching Ru Paul dish it out of drag.
- Dramatic actor. - Yes!
(upbeat jingle)
I like to think that maybe she's so rich and famous
that she got up there and they were like,
"All right, Ru, you're gonna fake drive, action."
And she was like... (laughing)
She's just emphatically, like, gesturing.
(radio chattering) (Ru Paul crying)
- What is that?
What were they, SAT scores?
What is that? (Trixie laughing)
- [Trixie] You can't pull over on the left side.
- You can't, not in a big ol' vehicle.
- See, Ru Paul acting driving.
She's like, this is right, right?
Skip the median and hit someone.
- What, how did you, you're a girl?!
- It's a girl?
- Allison Janney, AJ.
- It's not Allison Janney.
- It is, they do a lot with the make-up.
- [Ru Paul] Hey, hey, wait, wait,
what are you doing? (truck horn blaring)
- Oh my God, that would have been
the way out of this relationship.
This is great for this kid, though.
He's probably too young to be starstruck by Ru Paul.
Who do kids know?
Amanda Bynes, Keanu Reeves?
- Blue's Clues.
- Kid's probably like, wow,
I'm really helping this man get his start.
(upbeat jingle)
- Oh my God, that's me.
There was an interview with Adam Driver.
He stormed out on Terry Gross.
I'm gonna do that right here, right now.
I'm gonna storm out on you and I'm never coming back.
This is it!
- So you're saying all I had to do to get rid of you
is shit on one of your shows?
- And you have a child?
I knew closing those Planned Parenthood clinics
would create a problem.
- Have you seen this yet?
- No!
- AJ, this is Magda.
- Magda, that's my name, they named me Magda.
Like Something About Mary.
- They cast you to be Ru Paul's old colleague?
- I'm almost 40!
- You're like, "I'm also 70, welcome."
- What's his problem?
- She and I had a little,
let's just say situation a long time ago.
- I'm the better Tina Turner, bitch!
(glass shattering)
- How are you the better Tina Turner, bitch?
You're white!
- That doesn't mean shit!
You do Cher.
- Cher's not white, Cher is everything!
(laughing)
- The drag bar where I performed at,
there was a lot of pissing in wigs.
A lot of pissing in wigs.
(crowd cheering)
- I love this, just beat the person to the stage
when the music starts.
(pop music) She looks so good.
- [Katya] Yeah, it looks great.
- This poor thing next to Ru Paul, Jesus Christ.
- Just Boo Boo the Fool.
- The real Ru Paul that we know
would just have her shot already.
- Yeah.
- You would just see a little red dot on her forehead,
boom, and then she would laugh like, ha ha ha!
(queens screaming)
- Dead, she killed her, dead.
Dead body, dance floor grave, bitch.
- Okay, I love this!
- Dance on her grave!
- Dance on that dead whore!
This is amazing!
That is so drag.
- I'm gonna lipsynch you to death
and I'm gonna twirl on your dead body, (beep).
- Now I do believe that a drag queen
had a hand in writing this
because only a drag queen would be like,
what if she's dead and I tap dance on her (bleep) corpse
and spin sequin fabric?
- [Katya] That was a very long flashback.
- Once they saw you, they were like, we gotta do something.
(Katya laughing)
Can we cut all her dialogue, film the flashback later?
- That has happened to me before.
- Like, pages of dialogue?
- Struggling days on set.
They just start whittling, and pretty soon,
my three page monologue is just like, "Yes, thank you!"
- That's what happened to Alexis.
Alexis' was like, Call Me Ishmael.
There was a lot and then it was just like,
"You know what, just say bam,
"and try not to make it too much of an accent.
"Just say bam."
- [Katya] The first child Jynx has seen in years.
- Ruby, girl, there are burgers at the bar.
Are you hungry?
- I am.
(laughing)
- What is this Miss Hannigan?
- [Katya] I know. (laughing)
- We have burgers at the bar.
(Katya laughing) Would you like a burger?
- She's running the drag orphanage
at the Harry Potter wing of fuckin' Universal Studios.
- Knowing Jynx, she was probably like,
"How do I pull focus?" (Katya laughing)
"I'm gonna do an accent."
Yeah, Jynx, yeah, no,
we're still getting Bellatrix Lestrange.
Can you reel it back?
She's like, "Yeah, I got it."
- Avada Kedavra!
- We've got burgers at the bar.
She's in Clue right now. (Katya laughing)
- First kid I ever met who was a top.
- Wow.
(Katya laughing)
- What kind of program?
Oh, you look great.
- What's the tea on the toddler?
- I'm doing that thing that I hate in movies
where I'm applying no make-up.
- I would have liked it if you were really doing it,
and on take 11, you just had red cheeks.
(laughing)
- Now I'm listening.
You see me in the mirror?
I'm listening.
- [Trixie] Doing acting.
- [Katya] Yeah, I'm acting now.
- This room's more tense
than a kitty cat in a box full of cucumbers.
- What?
- Ru Paul wrote that one.
- Now, did you see me?
I was acting.
Acting is reacting.
- That's why she left the room.
She saw you and reacted and she was like, "No, thank you."
- I'm gonna do a little bit of acting right now.
(regal music)
- That's it. (Trixie laughing)
(upbeat jingle)
(gasping) (sultry music)
- [Trixie] Did you get to pick the song?
- Yeah, I did, I did.
(crowd cheering)
Oh God, this is horrible watching.
- Were you feeling it?
Were you feeling it?
- I had to do it like 4,000 times.
(audience member retching) (crowd gasping)
- I'm so sorry!
- That really has happened to you too, hasn't it?
- Yes, and I've been peed on, I've been peed on.
- Girl, you got played.
- [Katya] Chad, you look great.
She's giving ABBA Cher.
♪ Money, money, money ♪
(unintelligible singing)
- Have you heard the Cher ABBA album?
- No. - It's ABBA songs unchanged.
It's just Cher singing a karaoke track of ABBA,
and it's great. - You're kidding.
- No, the songs are exactly as recorded.
Same music, it's just Cher singing.
(unintelligible singing)
- Yes! - Does she do that one?
(unintelligible singing)
Yeah. (laughing)
- Here's to those $100,000 lips.
- I didn't know Ru Paul was gonna look this good
in not fantasy lighting.
- I was there close up.
- She said, "Who are you?"
- Yeah, she went,
"Hm, are you the one that smokes the weed?"
Looked at her face, it was flawless.
- Well, she has a team.
- So? - Much like we do.
That's our hair person, our make-up person,
our manicurist, that's the cobbler.
- Stacy, Catherine, Barbara, Lesley.
- The baker, the butcher, the kettle chip maker,
and that's the lady who licks my (beep).
(laughing)
- He would never kiss me.
He kissed you?
- You're on, girl.
You're broke, girl.
(loud off-screen laughing)
(Trixie laughing)
- Yes, that's the line.
All right, you're gonna come in and break this tender moment
by calling Ru Paul broke and leaving.
That is so fierce.
- And screaming.
(pop music)
- I am the biggest (beep) in the world for this right now.
- This is so fucking gay.
Next stop, shoulder.
- That is hat on a hat of gay.
- In the bathroom right now, what's happening?
(unintelligible singing)
- I would have loved if Chad would have been like,
"He never kissed me on the lips.
"I mean, his whole leg was in my (beep),
"but he said he never kissed anyone."
(upbeat jingle)
- [Katya] Now Ru Paul says, "What's this now?"
- Someone help me, I've never used a Mac.
Is this a Mac? (Katya laughing)
Is this Apple, do you guys have Apple?
Do you guys have AOL, AOL?
- [Katya] Oh, that's the guy who robbed her.
- [Trixie] Oh, he is hot.
- He's wearing a gold chain.
You can't-- - That's hot, though.
That's like, trashy New York hot.
- He doesn't shave his asshole.
- I know.
He (beep) a wicker basket
and I am completely fine with it.
(Katya laughing)
In NY, it's Easter every day.
He never kissed Cher, but he kissed Ru Paul,
and so I think he really did have some feelings for him.
- Oh my God, I've never seen her kiss somebody like that.
(upbeat jingle)
(dramatic music)
- I'm having PTSD right now.
- You have not done this.
- I have done exactly this.
- At a house party, like a private event?
- Coming down the stairs for people
who don't give a (beep) about you.
Never heard of you, don't wanna hear about you,
don't wanna know about you.
- Yeah. - Don't wanna remember you.
- They wanna forget you. - They wanna forget you.
This is always the formula.
The person who books you loves drag,
but none of their friends do.
- Are they just like? (clapping)
- They're just like, or they're just like...
It's awful. - Mhm.
I love this outfit, holy (beep).
- Oh, a drag queen, how fun!
- Oh, leave it to Beth!
(group laughing)
- Oh, I'm not the coat check person.
- Imagine handing Ru Paul your jacket.
- She just throws it.
- Ru Paul would go, "Is that your coat, you wear that?"
- Why don't you mingle?
Have fun!
- I don't want a drag queen to sit next to me
and be like, "Where were you born?"
(Katya laughing)
I want, like, "Honey, ba-dapa-doop, ba-doop-boop-boop."
(tongue trilling)
Like, just say whatever.
Straight people think everything is cool.
- If there was a straight person,
I'd be like, "I can make my penis into a balloon animal."
- Introducing Ruby Red!
- Oh, shit, you guys.
- I'm gonna kill myself.
- Oh, God, I've been her!
- I'm gonna kill myself.
- I've been her at bars.
- Give it up for Ruby Red!
- Oh, God.
(exciting music) - [Trixie] Work.
- This is too much.
- I have been her. - I have been this.
- I feel like her now.
- I have done this and it's so humiliating.
- No, you are not performing in drag in my living room!
No, you are not!
- Oh my God, I didn't know she was in this.
- [Trixie] Okay. (laughing)
Oh, she's happy.
- Oh, thank God.
♪ What defines ♪
- [Trixie] (beep) these people!
- [Katya] (beep) these people in the (beep).
- Woo!
Tommy, you can stop the music now.
- This makes me wanna jump off a bridge.
- Anybody at home,
that is what it's like to be a drag queen.
- You're in a sequin snow suit,
grazing the chandelier in some (beep)
mid-century modern onkulenga and you're gyrating.
You can hear the sound of your own, like, exhale.
(gasping)
- That is the worst when you're doing drag, I know.
- You can hear you going--
- And the music is so quiet,
you can hear your heels and your lips.
(Katya unintelligibly singing)
When you lipsynch, do you sing like that?
- I sure do, at falsetto.
- No, you don't. - I do.
- So do it like right now.
(unintelligible singing) (Trixie laughing)
Oh my God, I hope I never hear that.
- Well, because one day, in Drag Race,
in the van on the way home, I was practicing the lipsynch,
and they were all laughing at me
because I didn't realize I was doing that.
- You were like, ha!
♪ I've got the eye of the tiger ♪
- Oh my God!
(upbeat jingle)
♪ One, two, three, one, two, three, drink ♪
- [Katya] Oh, look at this, Chandelier, this is amazing.
- Oh, shit! ♪ I'm gonna swing ♪
(crowd gasping) ♪ From the chandelier ♪
- What's happening?
Oh, what the hell, Kevin?
(Kevin laughing)
- Oh, is that Kennedy?
(laughing)
- Where's the big gay guy?
- Oh, he left because we paid him too.
(queens laughing)
- Oh my God, they're pulling the pag on her.
- She's slipping!
(crowd gasping) (slamming)
- This is very drag.
- Yeah, which Hamburger Mary's is this?
♪ One, two, three ♪ (crowd gasping)
♪ One, two, three, drink ♪
- [Trixie] Oh yeah, get up, sell it, sell it!
♪ One, two, three, drink ♪
♪ One two, three, one, two, three, drink ♪
♪ Throw 'em back 'til I lose count ♪
♪ I'm gonna swing ♪ (crowd cheering)
- Yeah, there he goes.
People in a drag number, they love a redemption arc.
♪ From the chandelier, from the chandelier ♪
- I'm really gonna like this show.
I'm gonna watch all of it.
- I'm gonna watch all of it too.
Do you really think my acting was that good?
- Yes, you were fine!
- That's fine, thank you.
(regal music) - AJ and the Queen,
starring Katya, featuring so many world-famous drag queens.
- 425 Drag Race alumni.
- The budget is lit. - It's huge.
- You need money for everything in television,
and finally, drag queens are getting money to make things.
It's fierce.
Congratulations, Ru Paul.
- Dramatic actor, see you at the Oscars.
- It is good. - It's really good.
- Go check it out, AJ and the Queen on Netflix.com.
- Bye.
(regal music)