- Oh, we're filming from home.
I'm filming from my living room and what do you call that?
The smoking lounge.
- My dead grandmother's smoking lounge.
- Your couch that when you sit on it,
I think nicotine puffs out of it.
- Oh yeah, if you run out of smokes,
you just pat down the pillows and get a nice whoof, yeah.
(chimes) (classical music)
- Hi, it's me Trixie Mattel. - And I'm Katya.
- And we are two queens who like to watch.
- Love to watch.
- And today we're watching the critically acclaimed
docuseries Tiger King.
A Netflix original that took the world by storm
during the pandemic.
- Yup, took the world by storm but it thankfully spared me
who will be viewing it for the very first time.
- You're watching it for the first time!
- I love first times.
(laughs loudly)
(manic violin music)
- As usual you guys, there is spoilers ahead
although I gotta tell you, of all the shows,
this is your show.
- I know, I've heard all the buzzings and stuff.
It seems like an episode of my life.
There's marriage schemes, meth marriages and -
- Definitely danger.
Illegal activities.
- Well, lots of danger.
- Scandals.
- Sign me up.
- You're going to see how the Tiger King
and Carole Baskin took the world
by storm using a unique blend
of not at all self aware, self produced media
and murder scandals.
- (laughs) I have definitely a leg up.
- All right, let's roll the tapes, Margarine.
(chimes)
- [Katya] Oh, they really have lions and tigers.
They circus folk?
- They're animal people, exotic animal people,
which is a whole energy and vibe.
- You know, they're kind of strange but -
- [Trixie] I'm in the documentary.
- [Narrator] You know, there's not every day
that a zookeeper went to prison.
- Mama, that eyebrow ring is down here.
She is sagging.
- This clip on bang that's greased up.
- (laughs)
- Shut the (beep) up.
Oh! Lunch.
- [Joe] Going to work every day prepared to die
in a tiger cage.
- These animals are 49% beautiful, 51% terrifying.
Terrifying.
- Now what's the difference between a lion and a tiger?
- Well, a tiger is like "grrr" and a tiger is like "ahhh"!
- Perfect.
- Yeah. - That's all I needed to know.
- [Narrator] Don't own big, dangerous exotic animals
'cause it's a time bomb.
- [Katya] Is this Florida? Tell me it's Florida.
- [Trixie] Of course it's Florida.
Where the (beep) else could this be?
- No where else.
Florida needs to be blown off the map.
Sorry.
- I love that I can see a screen shot like this
and we both go, "Florida."
I think I performed in
that cage somewhere outside the gay bar.
- Panama City, baby. (laughs)
- He is on trial for a murder for hire plot.
- Completely insane, gay, gun toting, drug addict fanatic.
- [Katya] I'm right here.
You don't need to shout.
- It's not called Tiger King, it's called Drag Queens.
- [Katya] So, how many Joe Exotics are there going to be
for Halloween this year?
That's what I want to know.
- [Man] That's when the venom shoots out,
that's enough to kill everybody in this room.
- That's me when I nut.
That is enough to kill everybody in this room -
- Poisonous.
- Three or four times over. (laughs)
Venomous. Venomous.
- [Narrator] What is this snow leopard doing
in the back of this guy's hot van?
- [Trixie] I'm not a zoologist.
Snow leopards should be in the snow.
- [Katya] Not in Florida.
- [Narrator] What is going on with people keeping big cats
in this country?
- Ever since that chimpanzee ripped the face off that woman
and she went on Oprah, I just feel like humans,
we have to just stick together,
do you know what I mean?
Like, enough!
- (laughs)
They said, "Take the hat off". He said, "No".
- [Katya] Take your hat off, (beep), you balding (beep).
- Your whole audience will say, "Oh my God,
that guy has a mullet."
- He does seem like a nice guy.
If this guy was a bartender at a gay bar,
I would live for her.
- Famous last words though. "He was a really nice guy."
- "He seemed nice."
- [Katya] "Did you know that
he ripped the faces off 23 women?"
- [Trixie] What faces do they have to start with?
- Does it feel good to stand on my stage
and everybody envy you?
Absolutely.
- That's the psychology of it.
That's what I love about it.
Exotic animal people, it's about them.
It's not the animal.
You know what I mean?
It's like having a big house or having a hot girlfriend.
- [Katya] Have a white trash Lamborghini.
(chimes) (classical music)
Let me ask you something.
Now being from the woods, have you shot a gun before?
Have you picked up a firearm?
Have you ever?
- Of course.
- I never have.
- It's not that great.
It's really not.
- What kind of firearm did you use?
A handgun, pistol, shotgun, bazooka?
- I shot a .22, which is a very low gauge rifle.
- You didn't feel powerful?
- No, you know what it is?
It's the people who are, "I need to protect my family!"
- Absolutely.
- You don't even have cute children.
If I can't put your children through modeling school
and get some backing, I'm not kidnapping.
(chimes)
- When I got here, I was kind of on the end of my ropes.
- [Katya] Still looks like he's at the end of his rope.
- [Trixie] You could read that mouth like Braille though.
- Most of the staff was unique.
That's what I thought was really, really cool about this.
- [Katya] Oh, did the tiger bite off his leg?
- It was a place where all these misfits could come together
and be with a king of misfits.
- Ru.
(laughs)
- Seriously!
- I think RuPaul literally had that shirt on
in AJ and the Queen.
- ♪ Woke up this morning with the sunshine in my eyes. ♪
- ♪ It's funny how - ♪ - [Trixie] Stream Barbara.
- [Katya] I do appreciate the country music styling.
- It's not even the worst music.
No, not at all.
- ♪ Funny how smiling can making you want to (beep) a tiger. ♪
- [Interviewee] He had this live TV show that
he would do for a number of his followers.
- First of all, Uhnnnn.
Tell me that's not us at World of Wonder.
(laughs)
- Totally. Totally.
Why do they have a bigger budget than we do?
- I know, that green is just a little greener than ours.
- [Interviewer] Where does your TV show air?
- On the internet, worldwide.
- [Trixie] That is me talking to an Uber driver.
- [Narrator] With a mere touch of the flame,
it was instant Kirkham kabob.
- Who are these people?
Who are they?
And why do I feel like looking like
this, like the most normal person in the world?
- [Trixie] At least I know I'm stupid looking.
- [Carole] I really believe in life that
you can only be good at one thing.
- [Trixie] Or nothing.
- [Katya] That too. - I don't read the newspaper,
I don't watch news on television,
unless there's a cat involved.
- [Katya] She's feline-centric.
- You see how they go from being so sweet
to wanting to tear your face off.
- She would love you.
- Yeah! (laughs)
- [Carole] I live, eat and breath ending the captivity
of wild cats.
- I end the captivity of wild cats
by putting them in captivity.
- I don't get it.
- It makes about as much sense as these gays
who are social distancing with a dick in their mouth.
- Right.
- The reason that we have cats in cages is to provide
them a safe place to live until they die.
- That's all I want.
- Feline hospice.
- [Carole] Champlaine was a cat -
- [Trixie] Champlaine.
- [Katya] Champlaine Deveroe DuPree.
- You want to lead? (laughs)
Shalimar. Not Shalimar.
- [Trixie] Ladies and gentlemen, welcome
to the stage Shalimar Champlaine Shavenport DuPree Emonstar
- (laughs)
- Andrews.
(chimes)
Do you like cats?
- I don't.
- I don't either.
- I hate cats.
- Now that we found out cat people are murders, we're like,
"I don't know if I should say this.
I don't like cats."
- I don't like cats.
- But you know who else is murderers? Cats.
If a house cat was big enough, it would kill you.
It would kill you.
- Yeah. - It doesn't care about you.
- They're real mischievous, vindictive and spiteful
and they're two faced.
I'll never forget, we had a cat growing up.
My sister had a parakeet, a little parakeet in a cage.
One day, the (beep)ing cat,
she was victoriously trotted down the stairs
with that dead bird in her mouth
and paraded it in front of my sister who was balling
her eyes out crying.
- What if I just poured the tea all over my Macbook
and it just stuttered and that was it?
(laughs) (chimes)
- I've never been a person that had friends.
My friends were two imaginary white cats.
- [Trixie] Is that the same street slang as
"chasing the dragon"?
- Hello.
I got two imaginary cat friends, if you know what I mean.
- [Katya] George and Georgina Glass.
- [Carole] People remember, "Oh, that's the person
that's gonna be all over my case about why cats need
to be protected." - I don't get that vibe.
I get the vibe of that woman is insane.
- By that logic, if I was fighting for human rights,
I'd show up wearing skin.
- (laughs) Yeah.
- Animals should not be commodified.
That's going to be ten dollars to come into my zoo
and yes I did buy this animal print shirt.
Girl, mixedsignals.com.
Look at that closet.
- Seriously.
Oh God, that print is tack-o.
- We got honey, we got barbecue sauce, we have steak sauce.
Skin cream.
- He really is diversifying.
[Man] Sex gel!
- [Katya] Sex gel.
- I have my first two albums that I did.
- [Katya] I Saw a Tiger.
- [Trixie] I Saw a Tiger, that's right.
♪ Tiger ♪
- ♪ Now I understand ♪
- ♪ And I saw tiger... I saw man ♪
It's not even the bad music.
- Oh.
- [Trixie] Also, not to be that girl.
He's not playing that guitar. That's fake.
- When I first met Joe, I was a month out of high school.
- [Katya] Why put on a shirt?
- [John] I was with Joe from 2003 to 2014.
- Oh. Gay?
- [John] So, 11 years.
- [Katya] Gay. - [John] And he showed me.
- [Katya] Gay.
- When my father found out, he made me shake his hand
in front of my mom and promise not to come to his funeral.
- Oh.
- Also, who wants to go to a funeral?
- Nobody.
- You're not missing anything.
Lukewarm brunch?
- That's where my attraction to exotic animals-
- [Trixie] (mumbles) attraction.
- You gotta clear something up for me.
I want to make sure that there's no bestiality in this.
- Not that I saw.
Well, who's going to (beep) a tiger on camera?
- Well, maybe they allude to it?
I don't know.
I'm just trying to prepare myself emotionally
for some inter species.
- I think it's still fairly inter species.
- I don't have time for bestiality.
And who does? Nobody.
- (laughs)
- [Joe] I've learned from them, and they do therapy for me.
- [Trixie] What if in the next frame
he's raw dogged that kitten?
What would you do?
- I would-
- What would you do?
- I would hang up this wig and I would leave my apartment
and I would never come back.
- When I sign the papers to shut
his life support machine off and donate his organs-
- There's a lot of need for organs.
Churches, monasteries, vampire lairs, the Phantom
of the Opera.
- Then I started as magic.
- The showmanship. The showmanship.
- It's Micky's West Hollywood.
- Seriously. He is wowzing out.
- That's when he decided to change his name.
- [Trixie] Am I gross? Is he hot?
- [Katya] You're gross.
- Okay, the thing is I am damaged white trash.
So when damaged white trash enters the chat,
I'm like you know?
- [Katya] Why isn't that man wearing a shirt?
- [Trixie] He saw a tiger, Mama.
- Joe was taking tiger cubs, stick 'em in a semi
and cart them to malls.
- [Katya] Not at McDonalds.
- Come get your child mauled by a tiger
and stop by for a McFish.
Love the jacket though.
- [Man] I moved to Yogaville.
- [Katya] Not Yogaville.
- [Trixie] No to that ponytail, no to that ponytail.
- He can profit $100,000 on that cub.
Playtimes, photos.
- You better believe someday if I have a baby,
I'm doing the same business model.
- I think it's wrong and rotten.
- [Trixie] That's why I like it.
- [Carole] There's almost no government regulation.
- I love that the government's like, "Marijuana kills people
but you can have as many tigers as you want."
- Yeah, "Go wild with the exotic animals.
They can rip your face off.
Don't do a weed."
- [Reporter] The animals were unleashed on the town
by a man who kept them in his backyard.
- [Trixie] Imagine going for a walk and just seeing a tiger.
- What a way to go.
- "Oh my God, where's Steve? He's late."
"Oh, you didn't hear?
Steve gotten eaten by a tiger."
"Really? That is so Steve.
Always pulling focus."
- We didn't beat tigers at our zoo,
but we sure got accused of it.
- [Trixie] Fully you.
- That's totally me. - The blood on the legs?
- That's totally me.
- [Interviewer] Why do you carry that gun for?
- People. - [Katya] That's a cat person.
- I sleep with an AK-47 under my mattress.
- Jesus Christ.
- Mary, ain't nobody coming for your ponytail
or your golf cart.
No one cares.
- Nobody.
- [Joe] She's got tens of thousands
of people out there brainwashed.
- Meryl Streep is already vagina deep
in the character study.
You know it.
- Seriously.
- You know it.
- Now, is it Matthew McConaughey?
Who's going to play Joe Exotic?
- [Trixie] The corpse of Kris Kristofferson.
Possibly Matthew McConaughey.
And long white ponytail, Will Ferrell.
That ring, Sis!
- That droopy.
- I'd put a little fishing hook through it
and tie it to my ponytail.
- I was going to say, "Instant eyelift."
Yeah, if you like that fierce yank.
- [Trixie] And then there's Travis.
- Hi, I'm Travis.
- [Woman] Joe says -
- How straight are you?
- [Trixie] "How straight are you?"
Who hasn't tried that trick before?
- Who hasn't tried that, yeah.
- [Trixie] "So we're on the spectrum."
- And I said, "Do you watch porn?"
And he says, "Yeah."
I said, "Well, do you enjoy the guy with the women
or do you enjoy watching the guy with the big one doing it?"
- [Trixie] That is literally the monologue I gave
to get into NYU.
I walked in, I had the brow ring.
I said, "Do you like the little one?
Do you like to watch the big one?"
And they said, "Welcome."
(clapping)
- Honorary PhD.
(country music)
- [Trixie] Look at the wedding looks.
Love it.
- Just throw on a pink shirt, go down to the Piggly Wiggly
and get it done.
- (laughs) Not that Piggly Wiggly!
- [Katya] The merch.
- [Trixie] The porn DVD, the three cock ring circus.
(chimes)
- I'm all for alternative arrangements,
you know marriage, whatever,
but I just think it's hard enough
to keep track of one person,
I couldn't do two or three or four.
- The dynamics would turn into Marry (beep) Kill.
- Absolutely. Absolutely.
- You'd be like, "Oh, I love you, ugh,
I hate this third one."
- "You gotta tie this around?"
It's just not going to end well.
And between the three of them, not enough teeth.
- Well, maybe that's why he got the third.
He wanted a complete mouth.
- I have literally four or five extra sets
of human teeth just lying around in my apartment.
Tiger King, where you at? (laughs)
(chimes)
♪ You were my first love ♪
- [Katya] Wow. Those (beep)ing teeth.
- Lookin' like swinging saloon doors.
- [Katya] Like wooden slats.
- Listen, I'm not a hater.
That's coming from someone who has had a substantial amount
of dental work in their life.
- [Man] John's a muscled up, bully kind of guy.
- (beep) me though. (laughs)
I'm sorry. Whatever.
- The heart wants what the heart wants.
- I'm going to take my asshole and slide it in between
those teeth so fast.
- Ever flight he ever did after that,
and there were a lot of them, he was flying illegally.
- She feed him to a tiger?
- That's the tea, though.
They think he was.
'Cause everything is kinda like her account of like, "Oh,
he went out of town."
Everyone's like, "Girl, he didn't tell anybody."
Minny Siegfried is going for her Oscar.
- I don't believe a word about dementia or forgetfulness.
- [Katya] "It was murder!"
- "I don't know about dementia.
"I don't know about forgetfulness."
- [Reporter] According to diary entries allegedly written
by Carole.
- "Dear Diary, murdering my husband is something
I would never do. Love Carole."
That's every day. Same note.
- Seriously.
- [Interviewer] I need my clapper, I need clapper Mark,
what are you doing?
- [Katya] "Get me my clapper!"
- "Get the clapper."
Oh (beep), get this.
He makes a music video about Carole killing her husband
and hires a Carole lookalike to be in the video.
That's not Carole.
- I was just gonna say, "What the hell?"
- That's the lookalike feeding the husband to tigers.
- Oh (beep), that's amazing.
- Yeah, and they did it all in one take.
I don't know if that's true, I just said that.
By the way, this is Raiden from Mortal Kombat.
- These tigers have such an acidic stomach,
there's no bones that come out.
- Same.
I don't even take the trash out anymore.
- (laughs)
- I just.
- One of the buildings they built, there's a septic tank.
- [Trixie] "Don't touch me, my cage or Chuck."
Is that the front door of your house?
- Get me the (beep) out from under this septic tank.
- [Trixie] Tell me that's not a World of Wonder series.
- There is a God.
Her name is Karma.
- [Both] There is a God, her name is Karma.
- I said, "I know that queen.
She works down down at the, yeah."
- With Champlaine.
- Yeah, with Champ - (laughs).
- [Interviewer] Who were the other suspects?
- I think it was me and Carole.
- [Trixie] She said, "Light the candle, set the cornucopia,
it's time to film."
- Yeah.
- It must be Thanksgiving 'cause whose house is like that?
Is that a pumpkin?
(chimes) - Okay, so this is the tea.
As a new viewer of this program, do
you think Carole Baskin killed her husband?
- Listen, I'm not a detective, okay?
I don't work for the homicide department
of the police station,
but something tells me she did it.
- Maybe I'm too American, where I'm like, "Show me the body.
If there's no body, no one killed anyone."
You know what I mean?
In courtrooms, it's not really to prove
that something happened, only to prove
that there is reasonable doubt that it didn't happen.
You know what I mean?
- And also, I think it's totally could have been swayed
by the magic and whimsy of what's-his-name's music video.
I mean.
- When I think Tiger King, I think magic and whimsy.
(laughs) (Chimes)
- [Woman] Carole knows more than what she's telling.
- [Trixie] They keep filming her doing
this Orange is the New Black walk.
- [Joe] I'm taking Carole on.
- [Trixie] Tell me he's not a Chihuahua.
- Oh my God, very much, yeah.
- She's a little Chihuahua.
Do you clock the dark blue eyeliner he wears full-time?
- [Katya] I sure do.
- [Trixie] Love it.
- [Katya] It's so crazy.
- By the way, nothing's better for a mature eye
than just liner on the bottom.
- With that five pound dumbbell eyebrow piercing.
- (laughs loudly)
- It's like what in the ?
- He is lifting weights, Mama.
Every time he blinks he's not sure
those eyes are going to snap back up.
- Joe Exotic for the people of America.
- [Trixie] (laughs) A tiger!
I never noticed that.
- A tiger!
Love that.
- And he earnestly believes that
he could earn a presidential nomination.
I mean, stranger things have happened.
- Yeah, it's true, that's true, that's true.
- Donald Trump used to sell steaks.
Tiger King buys expired meat from Walmart
and feeds it to tigers.
- I'm not changing the way I dress, I refuse to wear a suit.
- Okay.
- I am gay, I am broke as (beep).
- It's a compelling platform.
- I mean, at least he's gay.
- Yeah.
- He had to walk so that Pete Buttigieg could run.
(laughs)
- I was Joe's campaign manager for about a year and a half.
- [Trixie] I love him.
[Katya] Vaping to get through it.
(laughs)
- I'm as gay as a three dollar bill.
- [Trixie] What the (beep) does that mean, girl?
- When I got the job offer to work for Joe
I was like, "Holy (beep), that's my dream job.
I'm going to take it, I don't care what he is."
- Me working with you.
- Yes, seriously. (laughs)
- [Interviewer] What did people think of Joe running
for governor?
- [Trixie] At least you know who you're voting for.
- [Katya] "I'm gay, I'm crazy and I don't know shit."
- What are you doing?
- [Man] Watch it, watch it.
- (laughs)
- That cat just took part of his ear off
and he said, "Oh oh."
- "Ha ha ha ha ha."
- "This is wild."
- [Carole] Those who are breeding these cubs and using them.
- [Trixie] If I could pantomime the way Carole walks
for you, it's sort of gliding like
she's a dementor a little bit.
She's said... like, floating.
- (laughs) Yeah.
(chimes)
- If I wanted to kill my husband and I own tigers,
I would live in fear of him disappearing
and then people blaming it on me.
If you own tigers you can't willy nilly kill
because you're going to look like a killer.
- That's a good point.
- See, I'd be a great killer
because I already have it all figured out.
I'd be like, "I let all those tigers go years ago,
what are you talking about?"
- Yeah.
- These? These are chickens."
All my tigers would have little chicken hats on.
(clapping)
"These are cats."
They'd all have little bells.
"Mama, that's a tabby.
That's not a tiger.
Is that a tiger?
No!"
(chimes) (Eye of the Tiger music)
Girl, they did her so dirty.
They did her so dirty.
And you know what?
She has no idea.
She thinks she's killing it.
(laughs loudly)
He dead ass thinks he is Steven (beep)ing Segal, bitch.
- He is literally Jean-Claude Van Damme
on that little skidoo.
- [Trixie] I betcha he said, "Why don't you shoot this
in slow motion?"
- [Man] He pays the staff $150 a week.
- [Trixie] $150 a week, Sis.
- Oh, no. No, no, no, no, no.
- Girl, you could go do a middle number.
- You can make more money panhandling on Santa Monica.
- Do a tips spot at Rocko's for brunch.
- [Man] This is probably going to get me in trouble, but.
- [Katya] He did not eat that meat.
- Expired meat, honey, that's me at after hours, honey.
Uh. Honey.
How much money to walk into that tiger cage?
How much money to pay you? - [Katya] I wouldn't do it.
- [Trixie] How about $150 a week, Sis?
Now how much for that weave she's got?
That 36 inch golden -
- That bundle of yak, that yakky bundle?
- [Katya] That yakky bundle.
- [Woman] Men are pigs and women are sheep.
- [Trixie] What does that make us?
- [Katya] Hela Monsters. - [Woman] He was a good tiger.
- [Interviewer] What happened to him?
- We didn't really ask.
- [Trixie] Cafeteria at Buzzfeed.
They're eating tiger.
They don't know it.
I can't prove it.
But I know it.
Love the monkey though.
- [Katya] I do too, but then again, the face ripping.
- I love that you think, because you saw one thing on TV,
that every monkey is here to snatch faces and snatch wigs.
- Right off the head. Swoop.
- [Trixie] That waterfall, you can't see it but if
you panned over a little bit, just me pissing.
Me pissing down a rock.
Just pissing.
- [Carole] They're here for level five and it's like,
"I've seen you around here a lot." (laugh)
- I will say, Carole's very charismatic.
Like if she dead ass said, "I killed him. (laughs)"
I'd be like, "Carole, you little weeny."
- (laughs) "You're a real card, Carole."
- [Joe] How does she brainwash all of them volunteers?
- Who is volunteering six days a week
to take care of tigers?
- Crazy people.
And she's taking advantage of it.
She's an evil genius, Miss Carole Basmin
or whatever the (beep) her name is.
- You know what I want to do to him?
You know those long, magnetic things that are like antennas?
- Yeah.
- Like car antennas?
I want to grab the end of it right on that ring
and just (pop) and then just pull
and see that skin batwing out.
I just want to see that skin stretch.
And then when I get far enough away that it recoils,
it will knock him off that chair.
- (laughs) (chimes)
- There is much darker parts of this.
There is mutilation on camera.
There is a suicide on camera.
- Oh I don't wanna, no, no, no.
- Yes, it's lit.
Sound off on the comments.
If you guys would like to see Katya
and I interpret the Tiger Saw Man song, let us know below.
I want to see you bitches at home literally go
(cracking knuckles) (keyboard typing)
- I'm willing to suck on any kind of expired bologna.
- (laughs loudly)
You in a liter box
with Ariana Grande cat ears on sucking on bologna.
- Hello, past due, who are you?
- It only expired yesterday.
- Yeah.
(classical music)