Episode #5 - Snatch Game
Part Three
Having popped out for a fag and a Wispa, Ru returns to quiz the queens on their Snatch Game selections. First up, Nicole, who has decided to impersonate reality star and former White House staffer Omarosa. “She’s just such a ridiculous personality,” she explains to Ru. “It should hopefully be quite easy to make fun of her and generate some comedy from that, especially if I can try and play off of VinChelle as Stormy.” While she admits that improvisational character comedy isn’t her forte, she says is up for the challenge, which Ru clarifies just in case there was any doubt (“you have to make Omarosa funny”). Also having contemplated weaving politics into Snatch Game glory, Lady Boi taks Ru through her options. “Well, I was going to do Tomi Lahren, but I had a hard time finding the white hood and burning cross. So I’m doing the next worst thing: Derrick Barry.” In a confessional, she elaborates that one deciding factor in not choosing Tomi was seeing Jessica’s reaction to a joke made by Big Dee in relation to the Trump administration. “I think it’s best to avoid touchy subjects around certain queens here, although at times it feels as though we’re having to walk on eggshells. Which, in six inch heels, isn’t easy.”
Heading clockwise around the werkroom, Ru asks Yvie about her Snatch Game choice, noting that a lot of people do Oprah impressions and that she’ll have to do something extra special to stand out. “Especially considering you don’t look a whole deal alike,” Ru adds, to which Yvie feigns mock offence before Ru wishes her luck. She then turns to Drü, who it transpires is in something of a quandary, having acknowledged that she has a standard to maintain as last week’s challenge winner. “I have several ideas for who to impersonate,” Drü tells Ru, before reeling off a list consisting of fashion designer Vivienne Westwood, feminist activist Gloria Steinem, Vogue editor-in-chief Anna Wintour and Sunset Boulevard actress Gloria Swanson, each of which she has brought a separate outfit for. “I guess I wanted to show that I have fairly old school, eccentric tastes, I’m not just some young, arty queen living in a vacuum,” she explains. “The job now, I guess, is to decide which one I’m doing. At this moment in time, I’m most confident with Vivienne Westwood.” As Drü shows off a snippet of her old northern English lady accent, Ru reminds her that whoever she ends up impersonating, the goal is to “make me laugh”, and doesn’t want to see her get so bogged down in her own ideas that she forgets about the comedy part of the challenge. “I promise I won’t let you down, ma’am,” is Drü’s response.