![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() No other platform in today’s fragmented media landscape could facilitate a gem of a one-liner like that, and Alaska claimed that platform as her own to give us as tight of a comedic performance as we’ll see on television. “Why don’t you come up and fuck me in the ass sometime?” You’ve got to be kidding. There was not a moment wasted, not a joke missed, not a dip in the commitment to the character, nothing. The platonic ideal of a Snatch Game performance, full stop. Jinkx Monsoon as Little Edie Beale (Season 5) This Snatch Game might not have been worth putting on La Mer, but Chad very easily walked away with the challenge win. The reinventions via wig reveals, the casual profanity, and yes, the voice were all here, cultivated to Goddess of Pop perfection. After all, this is someone who has made her life’s work being the best goddamn Cher impersonator there is. I’m an Oscar winner!” We were convinced that not only was this true for Cher, but also for Chad Michaels herself, who is simply in a different league than almost every other queen when it comes to celebrity impersonations. “I don’t know why they book me on these chicken shit gigs. ![]() This performance was a bit meta in that Chad’s Cher became absolutely fed up with the foolish antics on season four’s infamous Snatch Game and declared herself to be better than the whole operation. Alaska Thunderfuck as Lady Bunny (Season 5)ĭrag Race’s best version of pure, unadulterated celebrity drag impersonation, which is different from comedic caricature and in some ways more elevated. Pandora set the standard for future Snatch Game performances in the very first iteration of it, and her legacy remains strong.ġ1. We aren’t necessarily in the “Pandora was done wrong!” crowd overall, but it’s very difficult to argue that this wasn’t the single best comedic performance on season two of Drag Race, maybe excluding Jujubee’s work in the soap-opera scene opposite RuPaul, but we digress. Everything you would wish for in a drag queen’s take on Carol Channing was here: the voice, the irreverence, the manic look in her eye, the reference to a lovely bunch of coconuts. A quick look back at the tape confirms that Pandora’s Carol Channing made RuPaul laugh the hardest of any contestant that day, and therefore her loss is all the more confusing given that the challenge is simple: Make Ru laugh. Truly, Pandora was the rightful winner of the very first Snatch Game, and so we are placing her here, higher than the victorious Tatianna-as-Britney. Between the obvious duds and the wide swath of mediocre performances that take us through to the all-time greats, let’s see where we’ve got a match! Ahead of season ten’s highly anticipated Game of Snatch, we look back on all the performances throughout Drag Race herstory with this comprehensive list of every Snatch Game impersonation (not counting the first season of All Stars, which had an alternative take on the game), ranked from least to most hilariously Snatched. It’s the mother of all comedy challenges on a reality show, and we’ve seen some, shall we say, varied results over the years. Though rules and restrictions change from season to season, the objective has always remained the same: Make RuPaul laugh. For almost as long as RuPaul’s Drag Race has been on the air, fans each season have waited with bated breath for the recurring challenge that, in RuPaul’s own words, “separates the basic bitches from the fierce-ass queens.” Such is the cultural importance of Snatch Game, a parody of Match Game that tests drag queens’ skills at impersonating pop-culture icons, living or dead (or, in one rare case, nonexistent). ![]()
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