![]() Even if you don’t know the personalities she’s talking about, you get the gist pretty quickly. They’re everywhere, she feels, and reserves her most personally savage vitriol for anyone who took part in RuPaul’s Drag Race after her 2014 victory, especially if they wittered on about their ‘journey’. If there’s one thing Del Rio hates more than the scum in her audiences, it’s drag queens. Some even willingly submit questions at the end, just to be humiliated, as she brings some verbal S&M to the Q&A. Her crowd work is a torrent of uncompromising abuse about people’s looks, dress sense, sexuality, and life decisions – exactly the brutal mistreatment they paid for. But that she’s more obviously a comic exaggeration – and from the same LGBTQ community where she directs her most acidic scorn – makes her equal-opportunities hate a lot more palatable.Īnother comparison would be with Joan Rivers, having finessed her catty comments so they pierce like a stiletto – the knife or the footwear. ![]() She’s in the same EICC venue that banned Jerry Sadowitz – a ‘dump’ that’s far beneath her, of course – and could give the bitter Scotsman a run for his money when it comes to vicious slurs sneered out in a blizzard of profanities. I’m anxious to see how people are going to react when we go back to civilization."įor tickets and the latest tour announcements, visit /unsanitized-tour.Īlex Biese has been writing about art, entertainment, culture and news on a local and national level for more than 15 years.Bianca Del Rio is not your typical drag queen but a fierce, steel-edged insult comedian who just happens to sport vertiginous hair and a snazzy canary-yellow suit that dazzles almost as much as she does. ![]() We’re like, ‘This is so much easier’ on one extent, and the other one is kind of like, ‘I miss people, I miss going out, I miss cursing somebody out in their face.’ . “I think it’s (about) just getting out there and discussing the insanity that we all experienced," she said. "The pandemic is one thing, obviously, but just the behavior patterns, the way we existed, the way that everybody is performing from their home now, (with) Skype and interviews. How does Del Rio plan to distill that down into something audiences can laugh at? ![]() We've all been dealing with some especially trying, profoundly strange times. Everybody’s been washing, wiping, covering, masking," she said. "And also that we have a lot of social media warriors in the world right now, sitting home on their computers, giving their input, telling us what we can and can’t say in the world." “What’s not on my mind? That’s one of the reasons I called it ‘Unsanitized’ because number one, we were dealing with a pandemic. So as she prepares to return to the stage, what's on Del Rio's mind? The last year or so has been a lot, to put it mildly. “We’re all so happy to see other people - that’s the wildest, craziest thing ever," she said. "You know, I’m usually a pretty jaded (expletive) but I am looking forward to seeing actual people again.” While Del Rio hit the road earlier this year for a run of drive-in dates as part of Voss Events' "Drive 'N Drag Saves 2021" tour, she said she's looking forward to performing for audiences again.
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