


This is my first experience with a roast and this type of joke-telling, insult humor. The judges mentioned that a few of your jokes came off as mean, rather than funny. When I got flipped off by RuPaul and shaded by Loni, I literally was like, Well, I did it! I did the thing. What’s going through your mind at that point? Not many people can say that’s happened to them. “I feel like if we can have confidence when we’re definitely bombing so hard, and just enjoy the time even if it’s scary, that’s the true gift of it all,” Utica told Vulture, in an interview reflecting on her roast jokes, her UtiCan commercial, and yes, the Bob Ross wig.ĭuring the roast, you were standing up there getting heckled by Loni Love and flipped off by RuPaul.
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And she even nabbed a deserved win between it all, for coming out of her shell in a stunning B.A.P.S.–inspired look from Symone and pushing her partner with some of her signature weirdness.īut after radiating positivity throughout the series and worrying during multiple challenges about being offensive (see also: Her Bob Ross squirrel-afro for Snatch Game), Utica finally sashayed away after a roast performance that came up too mean-spirited - and even got her flipped off by RuPaul, multiple times, in a Drag Race first. And forget about that first lip-sync loss - Utica also became something of a lip-sync assassin as the season went on, sending home two impressive performers, Elliott With Two T’s and Tina Burner. Despite losing her opening lip sync to Gottmik, she quickly reemerged as a dark horse, especially thanks to an impressive sleeping-bag dress during the Bag Ball. The cast announcement introduced her as “the wacky, wavy, inflatable-arm-tube queen,” but not even that could’ve prepared us for the level of weird Utica Queen brought to the competition.

Before RuPaul’s Drag Race season 13 even premiered, we were curious about Utica Queen.
