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Snatch Game is all about quick wit, bold choices, and unforgettable impressions, but these queens took it to another level by sending RuPaul into full-on cackle mode. From iconic divas and campy legends to bizarre, unhinged character work, these performances proved that the best way to win is to keep Ru laughing and completely off balance. Which queen made you laugh the hardest?
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00:00Stop hiding behind that wall and show yourself!
00:04You and your dirty old questions, you dirty old man!
00:08Welcome to Ms. Mojo, and today we're counting down our picks for the moments
00:12when queens fully understood the cardinal rule of the snatch game, make Rue laugh.
00:22Shut up!
00:24Number 20. Trinity the Tuck.
00:27Considering she had to fight off Gia Gunn to play her,
00:30Trinity knew impersonating Caitlyn Jenner was the golden ticket for her.
00:33There's no denying Trinity killed this one.
00:36I found her to be quite jealous, to be honest.
00:38I find you quite annoying over here, baby.
00:42I don't know if that's you, Gus, but that's not a first date I want to go on, honey.
00:47She kept one foot on the gas and the other on her competitor's necks,
00:50and Rupaul wasn't safe either.
00:53The host was eating up every second of Trinity's performance.
00:56Well, this car has had a lot of miles, honey.
01:02But you know what?
01:03The engine's still running, so I'm ready to get on the road.
01:07You ready, Gus?
01:08Every time Trinity puts that weird but incredibly accurate growl into Jenner's voice,
01:14Rue is cackling.
01:15There's even a moment when she seems to be looking at the crew for help.
01:19Everybody likes to smell like an old person in the sun of California.
01:30Caitlyn Jenner is really stealing the show, and I'm so entertained.
01:35Number 19.
01:36Bend LaCreme
01:37Hi there, Rue.
01:38I'm glad it's you.
01:39For a second, I thought somebody had gift-wrapped Flip Wilson.
01:42Playing flamboyant actor and Hollywood Square's regular Paul Lind,
01:46two-time Snatch Game winner Bend LaCreme smartly played on two of Rue's favorite things,
01:5170s references and vulgarity.
01:53Well, I said, a cocktail weenie.
01:56Because it's to scale.
01:59Sorry, it's not a match, Carson.
02:01Not a match.
02:01Circle gets a square.
02:03Lind's campy sense of humor was already boundary-pushing in the classic TV era.
02:07All-Stars 3 frontrunner Bend LaCreme's interpretation turns up the dial on the late star's persona,
02:13seasoning it with some good one-liners and a dash of naughtiness.
02:16This is why I don't keep the company of the ladies.
02:18Yes, Paul Lind.
02:20What are those, Grace Jones?
02:22That's the thong.
02:23Carson, I've been meaning to get these back to you.
02:25My apologies.
02:27I think she's also wearing your gloves, but I didn't recognize them without the Chris.
02:30Ru Paul spends most of the challenge lapping up every single one of Ben's X-rated double entendres.
02:36And sometimes, she's even cracking up over the single entendres, too.
02:40My famous recipe for spaghetti and blank balls.
02:43Well, Ru.
02:44I just said the ones that I found the most delicious.
02:47Uh-huh.
02:47Anonymous.
02:50Number 18.
02:51Safira Cristal.
02:52Do you remember the first song you wrote?
02:55First song I wrote was a little ditty that I did when I was in prison.
02:59It was called, let me the f*** out of here.
03:01In season 16, playing Jane's trademark insult humor had Ru Paul looking guilty for laughing.
03:06When she called Morphine Lovedian an ugly man, we thought the host was going to faint.
03:12Jelena and I used to date back in the day.
03:14No, it's not true.
03:15You're a very ugly man.
03:18I would never, I would never touch you.
03:22Safira Cristal's James Brown was on another level entirely.
03:26It almost looked like she had Ru Paul questioning his reality entirely.
03:30She refuses to yes and Safira's insistence that James Brown isn't wearing character shoes.
03:36But that just makes their back and forth that much more unhinged.
03:39I ain't got no character shoes.
03:40My name is James Brown.
03:43The last time I met you was 1969.
03:46You're telling me you can see me in character shoes?
03:49Oh, you're wearing character shoes!
03:52The impression continues to get wilder and wilder.
03:56Ru can barely keep it together every time.
03:59If one queen ran this snatch game, it was Safira.
04:02Let me tell you something.
04:03Michelle Visage is one hot, sexy thing.
04:06So I said, thank you for being a hot, sexy thing.
04:11Number 17, Chad Michaels.
04:14I've been there, done that.
04:15I spread La Mer on my toast in the morning, all right, you know?
04:20I'm Cher, bitch!
04:22Yes, you are!
04:24Talk about having a reputation to live up to.
04:26Chad Michaels is one of our foremost Cher impersonators.
04:30So if she didn't smash the snatch game, it could have been a once-in-a-generation blunder.
04:35Fortunately, she more than delivered.
04:37I see you're wearing your Academy...
04:39Well, actually, you did not win the Academy Award that year.
04:41I didn't, but I'm wearing the shit out of this headpiece. I paid a lot for it.
04:45Yes, you did. Yes, you did.
04:47Those girls are real sleazy. They're scabies, crabs, and fleas.
04:50Don't move.
04:52Considering what a disaster the rest of the challenge was,
04:55you could argue that RuPaul was already broken by the end of season four's Snatch Game.
05:00Disgraceful.
05:01All right, Beyoncé, calm your ass down.
05:04This is worse than when I had Omarosa on my show. Get off me!
05:07However, Chad was able to put a perfect period on the end of the mess.
05:12Ru's wheezing laughter was a testament to how much a good laugh was needed after all that.
05:17Shy Sheila is so shy that she's afraid to...
05:20I don't give a rat's ass because this game is boring the shit out of me.
05:25I don't know why they book me on these chicken shit games.
05:29Number 16. Gigi Good.
05:31I'm so sorry. I'm unable to receive that information.
05:34I wonder if you can receive a big black ******.
05:38Oh, yes. Let me tell you, I've got quite the USB port for it.
05:44Speaking of breaking, Maria the Robot was having quite a few issues on the Snatch Game panel.
05:50Ru's ability to volley with the queens is a major part of why Snatch Game works.
05:54Maria, stop.
05:57You trying to control me?
06:00How very dare you.
06:03Gigi's aggressive robot challenged her to play along at every turn.
06:07It made her ridiculous and totally hilarious series of malfunctions and monotone attempts at human communication all the more hard
06:14to keep a straight face.
06:15Do you know, um, Siri and Alexa?
06:18One second, searching.
06:20Okay, here's what I found.
06:22She's my sister, bitch.
06:24It's one thing to make RuPaul laugh.
06:26It's another to prove her wrong at the same time.
06:29The host had doubts about whether she could make a robot character funny.
06:33Gigi Goode's performance corrected that impression.
06:36Are you losing it, Maria?
06:38Oh, oh, oh, I smell smoke.
06:40There's smoke coming out of her backside.
06:42Get a fire extinguisher.
06:45Reboot, Maria, reboot.
06:47I've seen Brandi Glanville do that a couple times.
06:50Number 15, Mikey Meeks.
06:52I've done enough work with Adam Sandler.
06:55I don't need to go back.
06:56Okay.
06:58If you ever have the chance to be on the Snatch Game of Love, do not miss out on the
07:04opportunity!
07:05Sometimes a great Snatch Game winner can almost disappear behind the makeup.
07:10But Mikey Meeks' expressive eyes and pouty lips were working overtime from the start.
07:14Maybe that's why it took just one look to make RuPaul fall apart with laughter.
07:18Drew, um, you've come-
07:24Well, I've never been kissed, but I'm no stranger to a dirty Sanchez.
07:31Do with that as you will.
07:33Mimicking Drew Barrymore's penetrating gaze pretty much primed the host to cackle at anything Mikey said after that.
07:39But today I would say loving too hard.
07:43But do you have love in real life?
07:46Yes, Lizzo.
07:51Given that Ru has worked with Barrymore in the past, there's something a little extra special about how good Mikey's
07:57work is here.
07:58There was little competition on the panel, so the laughs were sorely needed.
08:02Sometimes the best love is the love you have for yourself.
08:07Number 14, Ginger Minj and Kylie Sony Glove.
08:10Sometimes it takes two to make RuPaul gasp for air in the middle of a challenge.
08:14Part of what made it so hard to keep it together during this Snatch Game is that the queens playing
08:19Phyllis Diller and Dolly Parton were often working together.
08:22I'm that kind of girl.
08:24We can all see what kind of a girl you are.
08:26Oh.
08:27Well, honey, I don't know when the last time you were able to see what kind of girl you are.
08:32The only thing I haven't been able to see in years are my feet.
08:36Me too.
08:37Ginger Minj put on a white fright wig to impersonate the legendary comedian, while Kylie Sony Glove took on the
08:43beloved country icon.
08:44Their punchlines were a one-two punch of well-timed insults back and forth that built into a runaway train
08:50of funniness.
08:51I wish that I hadn't gotten that Navy ship tattooed on my chest.
08:56I figured it was the only way I'd ever get semen across my tits.
09:00Oh, my goodness, honey.
09:02You are a dirty girl.
09:04They even broke their competitor, Trinity K. Bonet.
09:07Realizing her Whitney Houston was never going to measure up, she just decided to surrender and watch Ginger and Kylie
09:13work their magic.
09:14Don't listen to them, honey.
09:15This place is Jurassic Park.
09:19Because they look extinct, and they are dead.
09:25Number 13.
09:26Kennedy Davenport.
09:28Are you feeling a little more tootie or a little more fruity?
09:31A little more tootie, baby.
09:38Shut up.
09:39It's hard to explain just how risky a choice Little Richard was back in Season 7.
09:44Kennedy Davenport's decision to play a man for the Snatch Game had the potential to send her home.
09:49She fully embodied the architect of rock and roll's boisterous personality.
09:53Dorothy Blanks, the Tin Man.
09:56She tightens the screws, because we all love a tight screw.
10:07The best and most hysterical touch was her random vocalizations, an even more exaggerated version of Little Richard's lending a
10:15touch of insanity to the performance that Rue clearly found irresistible.
10:18Well, you know, me and Batman and Robin have a lot in common, baby.
10:23I said a bathhouse in a dark room with glory hoes.
10:27There'll be a lot of singing going on up in there, honey.
10:33Even though Kennedy scored a joint win with Ginger Minj, it seems like Kennedy got Rue to break way more
10:39than anyone.
10:39She's using my EBT coin.
10:42Oh, Lord!
10:45Wrong note, sugar.
10:47Number 12.
10:48Bob the Drag Queen.
10:49Once a queen named Amon remind me of the sun.
10:56Instead of her supermodel life, she can be my wife.
11:03Other than make Rue laugh, Snatch Game has few rules.
11:07No one ever said you can't do two characters.
11:10Midway through, Bob the Drag Queen switched from Orange is the New Black Star Uzo Aduba to Broadway legend Carol
11:16Channing.
11:17Bob's audacious choice to play two different characters paid off in a big way.
11:22Haven't taken anything but Lipitor for the past 10 years.
11:25You don't really get a buzz off of that.
11:27Now, is there an anal option?
11:29I might happen to have a fleet or two in my home.
11:32A fleet in a month?
11:34Now you're talking my language.
11:35If you stay ready, you ain't got to get ready.
11:37However, her bonkers take on Channing is the impression that really sent Rue over the edge.
11:42She took over the show.
11:44Frankly, Rue Paul seemed more than happy to let her.
11:47She got a nice little break while Bob took the reins.
11:50By the way, Eartha, I didn't know that was you down there.
11:53From here, I couldn't tell if you were Della Reese or Luther Vandross.
11:58I couldn't see.
11:59These aren't even my good glasses.
12:02Number 11.
12:03Jimbo.
12:03Well, hello, Rue.
12:07I won the hearts of America and the world.
12:11Yes, you did.
12:13Are you ready to win the heart of a nice snatchler?
12:16I don't know.
12:17Does he know how to babysit?
12:19There's something to be said for brute forcing your way through the snatch game.
12:23Jimbo's Shirley Temple is consistently loud, manic, and totally disturbing.
12:28She is so delightfully and undeniably chaotic that Rue Paul has no choice but to fall back when she has
12:34the mic.
12:34What song best describes your love life and why?
12:38I would say the good shovel lollipop because I'm a sweet trip to the candy shop.
13:13I'm all grown up now.
13:19The overstuffed snatch game gave plenty of queens the opportunity to shine.
13:24Some just fell on their faces.
13:26Rue could barely get past a nitrous feminized Gordon Ramsay character's name.
13:36But it was Lucy LaDuca's Joan Rivers that really had Rue Paul losing it on set.
13:50If it wasn't her pitch-perfect impression, it was her constant back-and-forth between contestants who weren't performing quite
13:56as well.
13:57The host was already over Sugar and Spice's bizarre performances.
14:00But when Joan shut Sugar down in the middle of an attempt at a joke, Rue Paul didn't laugh so
14:06much as scream.
14:07Let's move on down to the Mona Lisa.
14:09Mona Lisa, what'd you say?
14:10You know, they say a picture's...
14:11What is that saying?
14:13Like a picture...
14:13Worth a thousand words, asshole.
14:16Number 9. Bag of Chips
14:18This Drag Race UK contestant found the right combination of pop culture references and butt kissing to get Rue Paul
14:24on board.
14:25Who's your favorite author?
14:26You, Paul, sit on my face.
14:30In the first edition of Rue Paul's Drag Race UK vs. The World, Bag of Played Kathy Bates for the
14:36Snatch Game.
14:37Although, let's be real, it wasn't Kathy Bates.
14:39It was Annie Wilkes, Bates' Oscar-winning and copyright-protected role from Misery.
14:44She played her as a deranged superfan who set her sights on Rue Paul himself.
14:48I'm halfway through Guru. Please tell me more. Please.
14:52Oh my God. Does Michelle get rid of her crabs?
14:56Does Cheryl Hall win a badge?
14:59Not only was it free advertising for Rue's book Guru, but Baga's increasingly unhinged jokes actually took the host back
15:06several times.
15:07Hey, Paul, catch this.
15:09Mwah!
15:14Thank you, Kathy Bates.
15:17At some points, it's hard to tell if Rue is genuinely laughing or terrified.
15:22Pray to the Lord. The fornication. You don't need it, Paul. You don't need the fornication.
15:27I don't go to the bank and say, hey, Mr. Bollinger, sign me a big bastard of a trick!
15:34Number 8. Gottmik
15:35Paris Hilton has enough quirks and trademark lines that any queen could coast on an impression.
15:40Hey, Rue, how's it going?
15:42Just let me know when the cameras are rolling and we'll kill it.
15:44Well, we've started. The cameras are rolling.
15:46Oh, shit. That's so embarrassing.
15:49Sorry.
15:50But season 13 finalist Gottmik really made some incredible and subtle choices to bring the heiress, businesswoman, reality star, and
15:58DJ to life.
15:59From the voice change to the hilariously out-of-touch answers, Mick had Rue and her fellow contestants in stitches.
16:05There was a girl winning on my flight, and I mentally counseled her because she smelled insane.
16:11If there's one thing Rue loves, it's crude humor.
16:14It was a particularly well-timed joke about a specific part of the human anatomy, of all things, that made
16:19Rue Paul practically fall to the floor.
16:22Gottmik could have won the whole challenge on that moment alone.
16:26I'm not good at this one.
16:27No, no.
16:29Number 7. Alaska and Katya
16:31Yes, it's a competition, but when two queens play off each other so effortlessly, we all win.
16:37I'm very excited because I also said clinic.
16:40You said clinic?
16:41Yeah.
16:41How many bones do I win?
16:43How many bones do you want?
16:45On the long-awaited All-Stars 2, eventual finalists Alaska and Katya were a dynamic duo.
16:50See you after the show, Bubbles.
16:52Aww.
16:55As classic Hollywood bombshell Mae West and Icelandic singer Bjork, the two matched wits and quips to hilarious effect.
17:02I'm down for anything, especially I'd like to eat her hair. It looks like pastrami.
17:07Their risque exchanges had Rue actively feeding them more joke setups.
17:12It's such a notable difference from how he treats Tatiana and Detox, who weren't serving quite as much.
17:17Alaska and Katya had him wheezing and gasping for breath, but he couldn't help himself.
17:22Someone get Rue and inhaler because we're a little worried at this point.
17:26You don't beat around the bush, do you?
17:27I beat around the bush all the time.
17:29What are you talking about?
17:31Number 6.
17:33Alexis Michelle.
17:34Rue Paul loves a queen who knows her herstory.
17:36Rue, it's Liza.
17:38With a Z.
17:39It has a Z.
17:40Liza with a Z.
17:41With a Z, Rue.
17:42Contestants who bring classic divas to Snatch Game are sure to get some attention from Rue.
17:47When Alexis Michelle played Liza Minnelli, she had big sparkly heels to fill.
17:52And she filled them well.
17:53Her Liza was a great impression, but also paid tribute to her status as a gay icon.
17:58But most importantly, she had a lot of fun with it.
18:01I said, Lady Bunny's palace.
18:04Her palace?
18:05Because there's nothing like playing the palace.
18:10So did Rue.
18:11By the time Alexis began showing off Liza's manic jazz hands and talent for kicking fabulously
18:16at nothing in particular, Rue just couldn't catch a breath.
18:20Rue, I said that you can swap jazz hands.
18:23Can you show us your jazz hands?
18:28Shut up!
18:33The UK queens already know a heavy British accent goes a long way with Rue Paul.
18:48For that reason alone, playing tabloid mainstay Katie Price is an inspired choice.
18:54But what's better is that Price is the kind of person whose behavior just attracts attention.
18:58Even if she doesn't always understand why.
19:01I walked in the stables and caught my horse cheating on me again.
19:06As Price, Drag Race UK season 2 favorite Bimini Bonboulash was operating on another plane.
19:12Bimini's loopy statements about various body parts and wild stories about her life were so
19:17unexpected, Rue Paul was guffawing with laughter.
19:20He nearly fell off his mark and left the frame at one point.
19:23I didn't have time to write anything.
19:28Number 4, Raja O'Hara.
19:30This All-Stars season 6 contestant had a very simple approach to pulling the comedy out of
19:35her LaToya Jackson.
19:36Do you do any dating, LaToya?
19:38Well, nowadays I just sit at home with mother.
19:42Make a bunch of statements about herself and then say something that completely contradicts
19:46what she just said.
19:47Well, I am a fitness expert, although I don't like to work out.
19:55It was a winning formula for Rue.
19:58Raja O'Hara's airheadedness as LaToya had Rue doubling over with laughter.
20:02Considering Eureka and Pandora weren't shining nearly as much, it made Raja's incredible
20:07impression stand out even more.
20:09So I would have to say catnip.
20:12I tried it once back in the day.
20:14You remember that, Rue?
20:15Uh, no, I don't actually.
20:17I don't either.
20:20Number 3, Jinx Monsoon and Trinity the Tuck.
20:23The all-winner snatch game was wild from start to finish.
20:27Even the worst performances were hilarious.
20:29It's so wonderful to be here.
20:33It's wonderful to be anywhere, really.
20:35You know, I've been dead for quite some time.
20:40Jinx Monsoon slayed the challenge the second time around, and had Rue Paul and the other
20:44queens in stitches the whole time.
20:46While the season 5 winner's original appearance as little Edie Beal is still an all-timer, her
20:52rendition of the legendary Judy Garland stole the show.
20:55Now that we're at the midway point, is that my camera?
21:00By the time Rue Paul was wrapping things up, the challenge had devolved into a free-for-all
21:04of laughter.
21:05But, it was Jinx and Trinity the Tuck's moment of comedic one-upmanship that sent Rue over
21:10the edge and into a fit of hysterics.
21:21They changed it to Drag Queen.
21:26Number 2.
21:27Juju Bee
21:28She may be the perennial runner-up of the franchise, but this celebrated queen knows how to serve
21:33up comedy and impersonation.
21:35Now, Eartha, does love have nine lives?
21:39Love has many lives.
21:41Like cats.
21:42She killed it as Cher on UK vs. the World.
21:45But it was her viral moment as Eartha Kitt in All Stars 5's Snatch Game of Love that
21:50made Rue and everyone at home cackle.
21:52The first thing somebody notices about me is my big, wet smile.
22:02Even before Juju Bee finished answering a question about how she'd keep her lover warm
22:06at night, Rue Paul was losing it.
22:08Juju Bee had to pause to even get to her now iconic punchline about turning the thermostat
22:12up to a sensible 74 degrees.
22:15So if we went up there for a winter visit, how would you keep me warm at night?
22:20I would sensually walk to the thermostat and turn up the thermostat to a sensible 74 degrees.
22:33Rue's screams of laughter are probably still echoing through the rafters.
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23:04Number 1.
23:05Alyssa Edwards
23:06Not a season of Drag Race can go by without a Mommy Dearest reference, it seems.
23:11How are the kids, Joan?
23:12Are you deliberately trying to embarrass me in front of these reports?
23:16Oh, ho, ho, ho, ho.
23:17That's why Alyssa Edwards' choice to do Joan Crawford by way of Faye Dunaway in the infamous
23:22biopic about her is so smart.
23:25While Alyssa famously failed the first time she did the Snatch Game, she delivered this time.
23:30She blurted out lines from the movie even when they didn't necessarily make sense.
23:34Wire hangers, Joan?
23:36No wire hangers ever!
23:41Why?
23:42Well, that don't make no kind of sense.
23:44But Rue could not help himself because her entire performance was too entertaining to ignore.
23:49That's why the number one rule of Snatch Game is always make Rue laugh.
24:02Did these queens have you laughing as hard as Rue Paul?
24:05Let us know in the comments.
24:06It's just it.
24:06What was the name of Óומa?
24:09Well, it seems.
24:11You're welcome.
24:12We'll always live on what http said, Sean.
24:12I'll see you in group喬lish.
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