Watch Drag Race icon Jinkx Monsoon revive Snatch Game characters — plus do Jennifer Coolidge! — on Seth Meyers
Do we have the time? In RuPaul’s Drag Race Double winner Jinkx Monsoon‘s world, there’s Always Time for another Judy Garland impression.
The All Stars 7 Champion and new star of Broadway’s Chicago Participated in Thursday’s episode Late Night With Seth Meyers To promote her debut on stage, she spent no time recovering her memorable. Drag Race Celebrity impressions from the fan-favorite show Snatch Game challenge.
“Oh, Seb. Seb, Seb, it’s so great to be here. Seb, your show is amazing,” Jinkx stated to Meyers in a style similar to that of Garland on the TV. All Stars 7 Snatch Game in May 2022 — right down to mispronouncing the host’s name (she famously called RuPaul “Broom” on Drag Race).
“Are your familiar with Johnny Carson?” I think I saw the Carson show. Jinkx said that I am sure I did,” before Meyers asked her to change gears and portray Natasha Lyonne, who she also performed on the Carson show. All Stars 7): “Oh my gosh, Seth, I woke up late, I took a little washy-showey. Seth, New York! You are familiar with New York!”
Lloyd Bishop/NBC via Getty Images, Paramount+/World of Wonder Jinkx Monsoon resurrected her Judy Garland Snatch Game’ character from ‘Drag Race” for Seth Meyers.
Meyers joined in the conversation, and the pair continued their dueling. Jennifer Coolidges.
Seth: “You know something?” I’m loved by the gays. And, uh,” Jinkx replied, “Thanks to the homosexuals, the three us have been in the show business for forty years, and still going strong, yeah.” Meyers then responded, “Wow. It’s almost like looking in the mirror.”
Jinkx’s performance during the All Stars 7 Snatch Game Garland’s mannerisms and her frequent schtick of singing random RuPaul songs throughout the show make her one of the most popular contestants.
She also looked back on a little bit of her past. Drag Race, hilariously absolving her season 5 makeover subject, Dave, of any wrongdoing The death of the Wizard of Oz Nearly nine years after Navy veteran first told the story, actress RuPaul On camera, he said that he felt he was a part of the entertainer’s 1969 suicide after supplying her barbiturates.
“I was deeply touched that she would do that shout out,” Dave told EW after the episode. “It has caused the 100 or so people that remember me to talk about it and to this old man, that’s trendy, girl! I loved it. It was touching that she would do that… I don’t think drag queens impersonate. They channel some of the people they are portraying or being. As gay people, that pain that we all have in us — we all have pain — I think that’s what the drag queens are doing. They channel that pain and bring it to us, so we can see that sometimes it is okay to just accept it.
Watch Jinkx make her Garland and Lyonne Snatch Game impressions — and channel Coolidge — on Late Night with Seth Meyers above.
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