Cameramen, do you know what a gay sauna is?
Are you a homosexual?
-No. -Do you know what a gay sauna is?
Do you not?
Basically, it's like a health spa.
-Yeah. -For gay men.
-Yeah. -You go in, you don't wear clothes,
-you put a towel on, and basically get... -They just go for health and wellness.
...bummed rigid.
Hi. I'm Monét X Change.
And I am The Vivienne, and we are...
Sorry, I fucked this up.
And we are...
-Queens - well - who like to watch. -Queens who like to watch.
Today, we are gonna watch one classic British sitcom, and one classic American.
-Mm-hm. -And we will see...
-Which one is... funnier? -Is better.
I don't know, let's say funnier. Better sounds so shady.
-Which one is funnier. -British, British.
Well you've seen Ab Fab, haven't you?
I've never seen it.
-What?! -I've never seen Ab Fab. I know, I know!
-Shame, I know! -Are you serious?
Vivienne, I'm sorry!
-I know, I feel so bad. -Well, girl...
Well, for you then, and people who are watching who have never seen it,
shame on you.
It's basically like a satirical look at the fashion industry,
and the kind of PR world.
It's just kind of the hilarity that ensues with them getting drunk, taking drugs,
and not doing their jobs correctly.
Ab Fab.
Which is basically what I do for a living, so...
Work.
I could probably sit here and quote this whole thing.
God, I can't find anyone I wanna look like, you kno-- Oh.
Ooh. Actually, she's not bad. Who's that?
-That's Ivana Trump. -Oh...
She's good, isn't she?
Oh, do you think so?
-Mm. -Looks like a classic bimbo to me.
All that terrible blonde hair piled on top of her head.
False tan. She's...
So Patsy was based on Ivanka Trump.
Work!
Skirt's too short.
Oh my God, me and this one are kind of wearing the same outfit.
You are.
Look at me.
It's awful.
I can eat as much as I like and I just don't get fatter.
I cannot put on weight!
-Ugh, terrible. -I know a lot of people like that.
That shit fucking drives me up a wall.
Oh, and they love telling you about it, don't they?
Oh, they won't stop telling you about it.
"Oh, I can't eat a thing. I can't put on weight if I tried."
And you're just like...
Girl, they eat crisps, they eat, they drink soda, they eat arse.
They don't gain weight eating nothing.
This was the '90s when everyone was smoking inside.
-Can you smoke inside here? -Oh, no, I wish. I love a ciggie inside.
-Do you smoke? -I don't.
-Well, I smoke, not cigarettes. Yeah. -Okay, okay.
-I love a ciggie in the car. Oh! -Got it.
Okay. I don't want to see a big movement,
just enough to get your head and your shoulders off the mat.
-Right. -Go for it, sweetie.
Here we go. And, one!
And, one!
-Feel those muscles... -This is literally me in the gym.
The best part of working out, you can't do anymore in the States,
because they closed the sauna.
So, you know, I used to like, go for the workout,
and go to the sauna to have another workout.
We know what you were doing in the sauna.
What do they call saunas that are like gay saunas? Do they call it a bath house?
Yeah, bath house. What do they call them here?
-Sauna. Yeah. -Sauna.
Do they have a bath house in London? A sauna?
There was a few, wasn't there? Yeah.
-They're all over the place. -Really?!
There's one round the corner.
-That one's shut down now. -Do you think it's open now? No, right?
Did you not know there were saunas in the UK?
After today, I'm gonna go do a little exploring in London.
"Oh, I thought this was a gym!"
Wow!
I'm gonna work out - my hole.
The cameramen are like, "Not this, girl."
The Department of Health in New York, like, during Coronavirus, they were like,
"If you must have sex, if you must do it, use glory holes."
Like, our state publication was like, "Glory holes are safe."
"They help stop the spread of Coronavirus if you must have sex."
That's always the thing. That's why I could never use a glory hole.
Because, I always remember me friend coming up to me one day and saying,
"Girl, I'm mortified."
They said this penis came through the wall
and it was the most lovely thing you've ever seen in your life,
so he has a proper good go on it, and did whatever he did,
and then afterwards, the fella who the penis belonged to
was literally like 97 years old.
Work!
You have to love a dick, that when it cums, it's just like a puff of smoke.
Like, "Uh, I'm cumming!"
I mean, also, I like low-hanging balls,
so the older you are, the more likely that is to happen,
'cause gravity happens, so I'm into it.
Girl, I'll be getting filler in mine.
Bit of Botox in the ball sack.
Not filler in your ball sack, girl.
No, Vivienne!
Right, I'm having a really healthy week this week, Pats.
-I'm not eating and I'm not drinking. -Right.
Fruit, obviously, just eating fruit.
Just eating fruit and not drinking.
Well you can't go to France and not drink.
I lo-- I'm gonna wa--
Oh, it's-- Girl, you need to watch all of it, it's so good.
Well, I'm not having sex.
-Are you sure, darling? -Mm-hm.
-Positive. -Alright. Okay.
Are we starting now, or when we land?
Well, I think I can safely start now.
But let's say when we land.
That's me.
Have you ever been to the Mile High Club?
-No. -Yeah, me either.
-But I definitely would. -I can't see it being that comfortable.
Like, toilets on aeroplanes are the smallest, compactest things.
But girl, sometimes sex is not about comfortability, it's about the experience.
It's like, I am, and honestly, it could be a thumb.
Like, we are up in the sky,
the experience of just getting a nice moment up in the sky,
I'm like into it.
Go for it, Eddy!
What? Come on!
Road, it's a road!
I will say, people in London, they... People are just walking everywhere.
-Oh, they don't care. -Lights are green, red, purple...
"Ooh, I'm just gonna walk."
Hey, what the hell?
You pig. What do you want? What are you doing to her? Put it--
I'm just taking my friend to hospital.
Has anyone ever been arrested?
Why did you look at me when you asked if anyone had been arrested?
I've been arrested a few times.
What's your arrest story?
Oh, girl, I threw a glass at someone's face,
punching, I broke someone's jaw...
Um...
And I got arrested in full drag, I got put in a cell.
-In full drag?! -Full drag, girl, yeah.
That's the fantasy.
I'd be like, "Oh, officer. Which cell is mine?"
-Don't go! -We're going!
Goddamn!
Get up those stairs. Darling.
-What is it? -She's given me a wedgie on my thong.
Can you give me a hand?
Just keep, keep...
Oh, God.
Ooh, that's better. That's a bit better. Thank you, darling.
Can you still see it? Is it still sexy?
Yeah. Well...
I am absolutely convinced to watch Ab Fab. This is really good.
So this was from, what, from 90...?
I'd say this was late '80s.
-Oh, late '80s. -Late '80s, into the '90s.
Did you hear they were trying to do an American version?
I did hear that.
I just realised, there are a lot of British shows come over to America
and I had no idea, like,
Dancing with the Stars, obviously Strictly.
-The Office. -Pop Idol.
The Office was here?
The Office is British first.
-Girl. -Shameless.
-Shameless was here? -Yes, girl.
See, you get it all from us.
Look, I'm 28 now, so Sister Sister would have been...
-I remember Kenan and Kel. -Kenan and Kel, yeah.
Sister Sister, I feel like I was just a tiny bit too young.
Yeah. I mean, this was like one of my coming-of-age things as a kid,
where I'm watching it, and like, it was a really funny show.
I don't know how well it's aged, though.
-I haven't watched it since I was a kid. -Uh-huh.
So we'll see. Maybe we're gonna watch this and be like, "Ooh, girl."
Sister!
Look at the little animation.
See, now, I don't even remember, this is like the original one.
There was like a second intro they did, like after like season three, I think,
that was so different.
Oh my God, Roger.
"Go home, Roger!"
I cannot stand when people would, friends would come round my house, and put,
sleep that way and put their fucking feet on my pillows.
-Oh, what do you call it, top and tail? -I hate that.
Do you call it top and tail in America?
No, we don't call it that. We call it, um...
Something else in America.
Which didn't make any sense.
Because, if it's, like, to "protect you" from being anything, like, gross,
the genitals are still the same place.
Like, what does it matter?
It's probably actually easier.
-Honestly, though. -Like, you just...
"Oops! We started sixty-nineing, Mum!"
"Sorry!"
Okay, I know this might seem a little confusing...
But we can explain.
How do you feel about the talking-to-camera scenario?
-I like it. -I quite like it.
-I think it really works for this show. -I like it here,
but I hate it in Sex and the City.
Season one, when Carrie keeps on talking to the camera,
I'm like, "This is so stupid." I hated it, but this is good.
How would you feel, having to like, work with your sister every single day?
Ah, I think I would love it.
'Cause twins have like a different bond, I feel, than regular siblings.
Would you do the whole switcheroo? Would you....
Well, I have a twin. You know I have a twin brother?
-Identical? -Yeah, identical twin brother.
-You ever...? -You know that?
-No! -Yeah, girl.
-Did you ever do, like, switcheroos? -Oh, all the time.
-Like, proper Parent Trap shit. -Uh-huh. Yeah.
Girl, I don't got no fucking twin!
Have you not?
-I don't have a twin! -No!
-No, I don't. -You fucker!
I don't know whether you're serious or not, now.
-I don't have... -Have you not? You're lying.
-I don't have a twin. -What you lying for?
-What are you doing? -We're going home.
-You let go of my baby! -What do you mean, your baby?
This is my daughter!
-Wait a minute! -Just a minute, here.
-Wait-- -What--
Dad?
Mum?
-That girl has my face! -That girl has my face!
And how did this happen, they were like, separated at birth.
Were they?
Yeah, they were separated at birth.
-So is that not the mum and dad? -No. I think they were both adopted.
What?
You cannot ask too many questions about the '90s. You just go with it.
Excuse me, I'd like to speak to Marjé.
-Is that Ru?! -Is that Ru?!
I am she.
This hair, though.
Bitch, that hair is so shiny.
I fucking love this tall bitch.
-Her tits look massive there. -They do.
He cut up two rugby balls, and just...
Also, this is so '90s, with the top and then the spaghetti dress on top of it.
Oh, darling!
That dress!
Heads will turn!
Yeah - the other way.
Look at Ru in them kitten hells, not flats.
Is she wearing flats?!
Not flats.
The Alaska of it all, girl. No.
-I do love a '90s Ru. -I do, too.
What's the first time you ever came across drag?
The first time...
Well, so I grew up in New York City, I went to school in New York City,
and when I would take the train to school,
I would get off the train at like, 8 o'clock in the morning,
and I would see queens getting on the train,
I'm assuming from the night before,
looking crazy, and I remember seeing them, like,
"These people are so weird. Why are they dressed like that?"
Ya ya ya. And now, cut to...
-Now, hello! -Hello.
Hello, hello, hello!
This is the one I remember.
It got real jazzy. This is like, season...
Come on, choreo!
I do my own style In my own time
-Girl. -Look at that '90s choreo.
Girl, right? So '90s.
Meet T.J. Henderson.
He's your tutor.
What are you all staring at? Let's hit the books!
Uh-uh.
It's so crazy how fashion comes back around.
Literally, what we're watching,
that's what I see everyone wearing in the streets now.
You're literally wearing like a Sister Sister outfit there.
I am, girl. Yass!
I feel like Sandy from Grease.
If you could be in any '90s sitcom, which one would it be?
Absolutely Fabulous.
-Ab Fab? -Yeah.
-Yeah. -I was in the movie.
-Oh, word? -For like, three seconds.
I was all made up, 'cause we got the script,
and then we did the whole scene, and they were like,
"Vivienne, can you stand at the back of the bar?"
You saw, like, a bit of my wig at the end of the scene,
and then heard my line, and I was like...
But we were sat in the premiere,
and my scene just came up, and I was just like this to my friend, I went...
I was fuming.
That was me with Madonna.
I was supposed to be in this Madonna "God Control" video.
You know, they like, jazz you up.
They're like, "Madonna personally picked you."
-She didn't have a fucking clue! -"She saw you."
"She wanted you, Monét. You're the one."
"I'm the director, I'm telling you, she loves you, girl."
I was like, "Werk, Madonna's living for me!"
Girl, there all day, 12 hours on set for a music video, dancing, corset, da da da.
I was in the video for maybe 1.5 seconds.
Literally, it was like...
I did meet her though. She's like this tall, and her arse looked crazy.
Was that when she'd just had it all filled?
She had just got it freshly pumped.
It looked crazy.
What kind of party is it?
A slime party!
They loved slime in the '90s, didn't they?
They did.
If there were kids on telly, they'd just throw slime at them.
Honestly, they should make that a Drag Race thing.
They should slime us on the show.
Every time you're about to get eliminated, whoever's going home...
Could you imagine?
The most humiliated you've ever been in your life.
I will say, overall, I think I would give it to British comedy here.
I laughed more.
Like, Sister Sister is good, but I laughed more at Ab Fab.
I feel like British sketch comedy, it's kind of like laugh-a-minute,
whereas American comedy is more like...
-The story is funny. -Yeah.
Whereas I think British just kind of do anything for a laugh.
Yeah.
Thank you all for watching. I'm Monét X Change.
And I am The Vivienne, and we will see you next time.