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Speaker 1: Jonesy and Amanda's Well.

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Speaker 2: Our next guest is the hilarious comedian who isn't just

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Speaker 2: a favorite at comedy festivals. He's appeared on The Cone

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Speaker 2: and O'Brian show, he's been nabbed by the BBC, and

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Speaker 2: now he's spreading his TV wings even further. He's joining

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Speaker 2: the cast of judges on RuPaul's Drag Race down under

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Speaker 2: Rhys Nicholson High.

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Speaker 1: Good morning everyone.

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Speaker 3: They would be fabulous TV wings too. I would imagine.

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Speaker 4: Oh, they're beautiful, they're gold, they're crystal encrusted, they're quite

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Speaker 4: they're too heavy to be wings.

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Speaker 1: Actually, they don't work with wings very well.

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Speaker 2: Victorious secret of the Rue Paul Dragon.

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Speaker 4: Yes, people have often said that about me. I'm a

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Speaker 4: Victoria's Secret model of comedy.

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Speaker 2: This is a I don't make you nervous. This is

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Speaker 2: a massive gig and a much loved and much desired gig.

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Speaker 2: I imagine how'd you feel when you got it?

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Speaker 1: Oh my god, it was bonkers like it is.

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Speaker 4: And that's the word I keep you sing every time

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Speaker 4: I can ask about because it was like I you know,

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Speaker 4: we know in the business sometimes you hear word You

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Speaker 4: might be on a very long list of some thing

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Speaker 4: and my agent hearing that words work don't hold your breath,

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Speaker 4: so you know that. And then on a Sunday morning

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Speaker 4: before nine am, I got a call from her, which

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Speaker 4: usually if you get called by your agent at that time,

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Speaker 4: usually it's like, oh, they've found the tweets.

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Speaker 1: I've been canceled.

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Speaker 3: You've seen the front page of the paper.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, it's like maybe maybe pop down to the newsagent

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Speaker 4: this morning or don't. But no she called to say that, yeah,

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Speaker 4: I'd been picked to do it. RuPaul had seen me

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Speaker 4: do comedy and he picked me specifically out of the

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Speaker 4: big list. I thought it was a mean prank. And

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Speaker 4: then a few weeks later I was sitting next to

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Speaker 4: him on the Bloody panel Wow talking about Drag. It

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Speaker 4: is like, it's so because I'm obsessed with the show.

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Speaker 4: Like it's not often you get to do work you

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Speaker 4: really believe in sometimes this business. It's like, yeah, I'm

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Speaker 4: doing this, but no, it is something I've been obsessed

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Speaker 4: with for you know, the better part of a decade.

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Speaker 4: And then I was like, the weirdest moment of my

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Speaker 4: life so far was walking in the studio And if

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Speaker 4: you've watched the show before, you know there's it's got

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Speaker 4: a very particular looking set. I sat down and I

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Speaker 4: looked at a monitor, and I was sitting at the

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Speaker 4: desk like I was sitting there like in a nice suit,

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Speaker 4: and I just couldn't I couldn't believe it.

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Speaker 1: I still can't believe it.

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Speaker 3: And when you look at the premises the show, it's

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Speaker 3: a crazy show, isn't it. Really? You know, twenty years

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Speaker 3: ago this show, you wouldn't have imagined that there would be

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Speaker 3: a show like this on TV NO.

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Speaker 4: And I think because you know, on the surface, it's

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Speaker 4: a competition reality show about drag queens. You kind of

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Speaker 4: the concept of it is that kind of run of

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Speaker 4: the mill, you know, America's Next not Bottle kind of.

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Speaker 1: Show, but it is.

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Speaker 4: I think what makes it work and what makes it

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Speaker 4: has kind of outlasted all those a lot of those shows.

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Speaker 1: Is because it's it's about more than that.

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Speaker 4: It's kind of about people being there, true and authentic

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Speaker 4: selves and all those types of things, Like it is

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Speaker 4: just so undeniably watchable and undeniably like I've had some

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Speaker 4: of my biggest cries watching this show because you're really

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Speaker 4: learning about people. And I also think like as a comedian,

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Speaker 4: and I think you both were kind of like I

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Speaker 4: think everyone kind of in show business. I think no one,

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Speaker 4: no one gets into this business because everything's gone right

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Speaker 4: in their lives leading up into that, you know, I

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Speaker 4: mean there's kind of you strive, like you want to

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Speaker 4: be able to, you know, tell your story and all

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Speaker 4: that kind of stuff, and I think drag is no

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Speaker 4: different to that.

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Speaker 1: And there are just some incredible stories in our season.

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Speaker 3: And do you know much about drag? Like where is

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Speaker 3: it something that you know?

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Speaker 1: Yeah?

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Speaker 4: Absolutely, I've been into drag for a long long time.

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Speaker 4: I wanted to do it when I was six, I

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Speaker 4: was sitting at a dinner. I think I'd seen some

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Speaker 4: of Priscilla, but not the bits that a six year

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Speaker 4: old shouldn't see. I think my mum had maybe kind

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Speaker 4: of shown me like the you know, the the hugo

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Speaker 4: weaving and drag kind of part.

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Speaker 1: And I remember asking you, like, what is this or she.

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Speaker 4: Reminded me of this recently and she said, oh, like

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Speaker 4: these are drag queens. And I didn't understand what it was.

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Speaker 4: I just thought, oh, these like you can be anything,

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Speaker 4: like you can be a man or a woman or whatever.

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Speaker 4: And so we were at a dinner party and someone

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Speaker 4: didn't standard, as the six year old what they want

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Speaker 4: to be when they grew up, and I said, very confidently,

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Speaker 4: a drag queen.

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Speaker 1: And so that's and it's all been, And I kind

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Speaker 1: of do. I don't.

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Speaker 4: I would never say that I do drag even close

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Speaker 4: to it. But I wear a lot of makeup on stage.

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Speaker 4: I wear nail pop. I like to my stand up

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Speaker 4: is kind of a if you've seen it before.

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Speaker 1: I don't know. I'm playing a kind of character which

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Speaker 1: I think everyone kind of yea.

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Speaker 2: And this is the first time the show has had

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Speaker 2: a local franchise, so that's pretty exciting.

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Speaker 1: Oh my god, bonkers.

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Speaker 4: Like the first thing Ripaul said to me was welcome

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Speaker 4: to the family. And I think that it does kind

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Speaker 4: of feel that way, like Australia is now part of

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Speaker 4: this kind of juggernaut, this cultural juggernaut, and they were

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Speaker 4: really excited to make it.

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Speaker 1: Like I think we do a very particular.

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Speaker 4: Thing here when it comes to drag, like bring up

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Speaker 4: Priscilla again, we do like a very camp A lot

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Speaker 4: of this is a broad generalization, but a lot of

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Speaker 4: drag around the world is kind of could be boiled

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Speaker 4: down to there's a lot of female impersonation out there,

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Speaker 4: like it's just kind of, oh, that person looks exactly

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Speaker 4: like Beyonce and their lips thinking perfectly to a Beyonce.

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Speaker 4: But I think we do a particular thing here that's

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Speaker 4: very camp and very funny, and everything is dipped in

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Speaker 4: like so many references and things, and a lot of

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Speaker 4: the queens that we have here are like intricate kind

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Speaker 4: of you know. And yeah, another example is like the

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Speaker 4: thong dress in Priscilla is a perfect example.

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Speaker 1: Of what we do.

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Speaker 2: And the hilarious names for the drag queens, I think

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Speaker 2: that might be various trailing.

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Speaker 3: It's so quirky.

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, have you ever thought about what your drag

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Speaker 1: name would be?

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Speaker 3: Amanda has a list as long as you're.

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Speaker 2: Are, I know, I'm trying.

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Speaker 1: Amanda is a good start.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, of course.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, you did have diabetes, that's true.

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Speaker 1: You like diabetes, that's good.

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Speaker 4: I've always thought mine would be diner hunger. Yes.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Oh well, look, I can't wait to see this show.

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Speaker 2: And Reese a big fan of yours, and this is

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Speaker 2: just wonderful that you're part of.

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Speaker 3: All this, and those ginormous TV wings that you've got.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, heavy wings, they're not made of wax.

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Speaker 3: I don't want to see you be a nicrous type,

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Speaker 3: don't want to fly to you.

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Speaker 1: You'd be licorice.

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Speaker 4: That would be your that would be your drag now

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Speaker 4: or other things that run with that RuPaul's Drag Raced

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Speaker 4: down Under is coming soon to Stan Reys Nicholson.

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Speaker 3: Thank you for joining us.

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Speaker 1: Thanks very much. Happy Mardi Gral, Thank you, Jonesy and

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Speaker 1: Amanda's Gamation