I think it’s difficult to step outside of the jokes and be like, Okay, what is appropriate and what isn’t? But we’re under such a time crunch that it’s difficult to remedy that. 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.
One viewer tweeted: “To everyone coming for Utica, keep the same energy with Gottmik, Rosé, Kandy, and almost every other remaining queen for also making the same jokes.Before RuPaul’s Drag Race season 13 even premiered, we were curious about Utica Queen. However, many highlighted the fact that other queens also made fat-shaming jokes, and weren’t called out for it. One fan accused her of “literally mocking plus-sized people everywhere”.Īnother said: “Being mean and fatphobic isn’t funny.” You didn’t say those jokes in mean spirit, you’re just not funny and that’s OK.”ĭespite Utica’s co-stars coming to her aid, many viewers were not impressed. Give yourself a little grace.”įellow season 13 contestant Kandy Muse replied: “Girl, don’t beat yourself up over this. Nina West added: “Babe! It is a roast, and we were all in on it and fully aware it was a roast. Michelle Visage came to her defence, saying: “Utica, you do not need to apologize to me love, it didn’t offend me, the point was just this: if you were gonna go for it, it had to be funny! Honestly, don’t beat yourself up!” Responding to Utica’s apology on Twitter, a number of Drag Race stars urged her not to be so hard on herself. Utica’s apology has received a mixed response on Twitter Love each other and your bodies in every shape and size.”Īfter her overwhelmingly negative critiques from the judges, Utica said she was still “learning what is comedy and what is offensive”. “I feel saddened that themes of body shaming are still prevalent in today’s TV, and I don’t want to perpetuate any body negativity with tasteless jokes,” she wrote. She reiterated the apology on Instagram, calling the episode “uncomfortable” and promising to “keep learning”. “Especially to Loni Love, Michelle Visage, and Nina West, the jokes were in bad taste and my attempt at roast humor was for the lack of better words, horrible. The Minnesotan queen tweeted shortly after the episode aired: “I want to apologise my performance in this ep of. Ultimately she ignored their advice, and in her set compared long-serving judge Ross Matthews to Pumba from The Lion King, said she thought Nina West “could speak whale” and called Loni Love’s comedy career “hard to swallow”.
She also asked Loni if she “speaks whale too”, which the guest judge called “harsh”. Utica hit back: “Does that trigger you? Does it? Whales, manatees… Does Dumbo ring a bell to you?” During the rehearsal, fans saw judges Michelle Visage and Loni Love discouraging Utica from some of her “offensive” material.
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