- This is my boyfriend.
This is Jacob, Look at the camera, Jacob.
- Hi, camera.
- And now can you move this stuff
so people think I'm as neat as Sasha Velour?
That's my goal, I have to be perceived.
Well, she's incredibly organized.
And you know who else is freakishly organized?
Is Bianca del Rio. They're like so organized.
And I just um
I'm a little bit more chaotic.
Maybe I just need my phone.
- (phone) To keep going,
Google needs to use your device contacts.
- (Jacob) Oh cool.
- Car's here?
Ooooh.
There's no sexy way to walk downstairs.
I would rather step backwards.
It's easier this way.
(camera shutter sounds)
Let's do some DragCon, bitches.
(upbeat music)
There's a puddle.
Is my door locked?
Wait a second, sir.
I need to double check my door's locked.
'Cause we are in New York City, honey,
this is not Alabama.
So I'm gonna go in there, and I have about 30 minutes
before I, before the doors open basically.
You know DragCon starts at 9:30.
Once the doors open for the guests,
I'll be sitting in my section.
Ooh, another (bleep) DragCon.
Wooh!
Everyone calm down.
Everyone stop freaking out.
(upbeat music)
- Girl!
- NY in the house.
- My name is Bob The Drag Queen
and I am 29 years old.
My drag is funny, it's irreverent.
What you see is what you get.
My bodysuit says it all.
I've watched every episode of RuPaul's Drag Race.
Every single one.
- (Jacob) Oh she would've came that way?
- Alright.
My name is Alyssa Edwards.
I am the Vanessa Williams of drag.
And I'm ready to let the girls know
I still got it.
I need to get up in his gear, girl.
Then every once in a while just say random Drag Race quotes
just to keep my head moving.
Some of my favorite ones are
after a long night of hooking, Trey didn't like the session,
so he held a gun at me, and set me on fire.
But you know I didn't die.
I had crystallized, and now I'm a glamazon, bitch,
ready for the runway.
- The winner of today's mini challenge
(drumroll)
is Bob The Drag Queen.
(applause and cheering)
- You know I really think I'm gonna be funny.
- (Jacob) You are - I really tickle myself
and I think that that's the greatest show in life.
Being able to make yourself laugh.
You know what I mean?
Trish, I have a real question.
Do you have an extra credential on you?
- Yeah.
- Can Jacob use it just to get in?
- No.
- Patty. Give me a (bleep) credential right now, I'm gonna
- Okay, but I want it back.
- I'm gonna bully this middle school kid
into giving me his credentials.
Bob The Bully, bullying kids.
Get in there, right now!
That's right, well you can get it,
once we get past security you can have it right back.
- That's fine.
- I love seeing you walk through with this big heavy box.
I love you baby.
- Hi Bob.
- Not trying hit with your hair!
Hey, I saw you on the street, you look gorgeous.
- Thank you, you look so good.
- Oh thank you so much, I agree.
(upbeat music)
- What you got?
- Well don't just, I don't wear make up or anything.
- I like this, simple.
Give me the bag here.
(machine beeps)
Still set it off.
- I did not set it off!
It's probably my underwire in my brassiere.
(heels clicking)
Hey baby.
Did they make you get three credentials
for you and your friends?
- Yes, bitch, you know how that goes.
- It doesn't seem long ago, it seems like recent.
'Cause it was, it was like three years ago we filmed it.
- The time has come, to crown our queen.
(cheering)
- This is nerve-wracking.
- (RuPaul) The winner of RuPaul's Drag Race,
America's next drag superstar,
is Bob The Drag Queen.
(cheering)
- I knew it.
Congratulations.
(crying)
- Oh my god.
- Congrat, you deserve it.
- ♪ Dream everything I want to be ♪
♪ If I dream all the possibilities ♪
- Congratulations, I couldn't think of
a more deserving person than you.
No no no, get up.
- No I'm serious.
- This is your moment, this is your moment.
- Prance, now prance my queen! - You deserve it.
You deserve it, seriously.
- Since I won the crown, I mean it hasn't been a whole lot
of like, pauses, I took six months off drag,
consistent drag, to do Angels in America.
Well I was approached to do the show
and I did audition.
I think the reason I chose to audition was
because it just seemed like
an important piece of American theater.
And I thought it would be a learning experience.
And so far it has been.
I take a lot of what I learned from theater
and I'm putting it into my drag.
I went to school for theater but
I hadn't done professional theater for maybe like 12 years.
Being back in it I was like wow, I'm learning more again
and now I'm more excited about theater and about drag
than I ever was before.
Because I was going Angels for six months
I was doing drag twice a month.
It was able to really help me reinvigorate
being Bob The Drag Queen
because I, when you get yourself away from theater
you don't really realize how much you can do
when I wasn't in the throes of it,
'cause you know I was non-stop dragging,
drag racing, there's drag and then there's drag racing.
- (announcer) Bob The Drag Queen,
arriving through the main entrance right now.
(fanfare, laughter)
- I was non-stop drag racing since my season,
you know what I mean?
So being able to step back for a second
and then reinvigorate and think of new ideas,
it really helped me like drag,
I don't know if this is possible because I love drag so much
but even more than I did.
And it helped me make better work.
I feel like my work is now better than it was before that.
What has surprised me the most.
Not a lot of surprises, I mean
I think the fact that Drag Race is still continually growing
like still, it's never gone down once.
That's crazy, it's crazy!
- I wanna make a complaint!
- Just a quick
- Don't knock nothing down.
- C'mon.
- Oh my god. - Hello!
- You country ass bitch
- Late, so late!
- I want a picture too. - I miss you!
- Good morning. - This is too much, I can't
- It's too early for this
- Girl, why you here at 1?
- Girl, I was tired.
- She just got here.
- Everyone say "Monét's late!"
- Monét's late!
- Monét's my best friend in the world,
and Sibling Rivalry was pretty much a way for
me and Monét to stay connected
while she was on the road and I was in Berkeley.
It forced us to talk to each other a lot.
We just go to, I don't know kind of
cut up and kiki and chit chat.
She makes up her own facts, alternative (bleep) news.
Alternative facts, she is the queen of alternative facts.
Like Monét just says she is an Emmy Award winner
when she's just not an Emmy Award winner.
Monét was on an Emmy Award winning show but so was I.
I think my season was the first season to win an Emmy.
- For real
- Yes, so Monét can eat that.
Monét just chooses when she doesn't want to do something
and it's usually something I ask her to do,
and she's like "I'm not doing that".
I'm like bitch, I don't give a (bleep) anyway, ho.
- (Monét) Let me tell you something, okay.
Don't be ruining my merch.
I'm taking a shirt for that.
- I didn't ruin your merch.
- Yes you did, you kissed somebody's head
and it got makeup on his shirt.
- That's his head.
- 'Cause well
- Oh my god, get this hood bitch in my video right now.
Her hair was done by Thorgy.
(laughter)
Her jacket was made by me.
- You did not make this jacket.
- I gave her that jacket
- I took it from your closet and it's mine now.
- Oh my god, Monét came into my section,
Belinda China shot.
- Bob, I love you so much!
- I love you too, Monét.
- I really, I love her.
- Come on in, lick your teeth.
My hair, bitch.
- That there (bleep) rat's nest.
- How dare you.
My first love in life is performing.
(contemplative music)
- That's hand done, that's hand done.
See like there's missing glue and he moved it?
- Yeah.
- Where'd you get these?
- There's a guy right across from my booth.
He just does a bunch of sparkle shoes.
He only has one kind of shoe just in different colors.
- Like this shoe?
- Yeah, they're this year, so there are no like
crazy Betty shoes.
- She's like - Get out of here
(crashing)
- Good morning.
- Drag has performative aspects of it too, I mean
drag itself is not a performance.
You can do drag and you perform
which is what I prefer to do.
And I certainly love drag.
Drag is, I mean I think when I started doing drag
I felt like oh wow,
I didn't know I could be this good at anything.
I'm really really good at this.
♪ So sexual, she's like a female phenomenon. ♪
♪ She's a glamazon, female phenomenon. ♪
♪ Glama za a on. ♪
- You see this?
You see this string? - (Jacob) Yes
- On the other side there's one that's pulled
all the way tight, it's all the way in there.
Do you see that?
I need you to tug on it.
Alright now grab the very top string,
and pull it really hard.
Grab the next two at the same time and pull them.
Now the next two.
I just love performing in general.
And I do think that drag, doing drag and stand up together
is my favorite medium of performing.
But I just love acting and performing,
as long as I'm acting and performing I'll be pretty happy,
and left to my own devices I usually choose drag
as that mode for myself.
'Cause I really love drag.
(uplifting music)
Winning 100,000 dollars isn't the thing,
because money comes and goes.
But winning this title, that means something.
You get to go forth and carry a legacy
and do something, make a change in somebody's life
and put first things first, and do something.
(cheering)