January 23, 2025 • 6 mins
American drag queen, comedian, actor, and costume designer Bianca Del Rio calls in to chat to Clairsy & Lisa about her upcoming 'Dead Inside World Tour', at the Astor Theatre Feb 5.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Bianca del Rey is coming to town.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
She's in Dead Inside the World Comedy Tour at the
Esta Theatre February five. Tickets are through Ticketech and she
joins us now, good morning, Bianca.
Speaker 3 (00:12):
Hello, how are you guys?
Speaker 1 (00:13):
Good?
Speaker 4 (00:14):
Good?
Speaker 1 (00:15):
You're not feeling dead inside, are you?
Speaker 4 (00:17):
What's going on there?
Speaker 3 (00:18):
Well, you know what's crazy is that the actual title
was basically a diagnosis from my doctor.
Speaker 4 (00:23):
So I just.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
Worked out well for a show title and I've been
running with it since. If you've seen me anytime before,
you can tell that I've been dead on the outside
for a few years. So now I'm just matching the interior.
Speaker 4 (00:35):
So what about the show? Can you tell us a
bit more? Banker?
Speaker 3 (00:37):
Oh my god. Well, it's just basically what I'm experiencing
now as an elderly drag queen, how I view the
world and as you know, as an American, we are
not short on any topics if you know what currently
is going on in the world. And you guys are
catching me at the end. So this is me wrapping
up the tour. It's my final twelve dates here in
Australia and New Zealand, which is surreal because I've started
(00:58):
the tour last February, and uh, it's just been surreal.
So when I wrap it up, it'll be one hundred
and twenty seven shows globally, which is why are Yeah,
it is a lot.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
It is a lot.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
Now you just touched on, you know, things happening in
the US. There is a bit happening. Of course we're
all familiar. But I mean, does it sort of the
good thing about Donald Trump being president? Does it guarantee
a little bit of content for every.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
Show without a doubt, not to mention it gives clowns
like me a better opportunity to work more. You know,
if people have faith in that clown, they have faith
in this clown. So I do look forward to it.
Speaker 5 (01:35):
It's a content face, I would please. When you want
to go out and have a good time and have
a laugh, who makes you laugh, Oh.
Speaker 3 (01:43):
Well, usually a mirror. But I don't believe venture out
that often.
Speaker 5 (01:47):
You know.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
I have a group of friends of mine because it's
this crazy thing is that when you spend your life
on the road traveling, everybody always says, well, where do
you want to go next? Where do you want to vacation?
Do you want to hang out with friends? And I go.
I think it's a great time to let everyone know
I hate people. You know, for me to have a
good time is to be home alone and to sit
back and go what a lovely run that was. I
(02:09):
often said that I was a lot like the late
Queen of England. I like to vacation at my house
and hide from everyone.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
Is it I think it was?
Speaker 2 (02:18):
Rachel Rudner said in the movie Pater's Friends with what
she hates about being in the public eyes, the public,
the public thing.
Speaker 3 (02:26):
I completely agree. I completely agree. There's a time and
there's a time and place for it. You know, you
know you have to do it to do it. But
I do like my quiet time. Not because I'm a
private person. Its seems I have many voices in my head,
so clinically I like to be home alone.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
You've already got enough going on.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
Look it is it's your You've been to Australia a
few times now, so you must suck a sabeese.
Speaker 3 (02:52):
Oh I'm not mad at you. I always say it.
Just tell everyone. I tell everyone that the Australian and
the UK audiences are my ideal group of people because
you have a rotted sense of humor, and you're very
welcoming to me. So just when I think that I'm
really bad and you guys laugh at it, I go,
you're worst because you paid for the ticket that I appreciate.
Speaker 4 (03:11):
Yeah, that's pretty well was you want people playing for tickets?
Speaker 1 (03:14):
Now?
Speaker 4 (03:14):
You bey to Australia, to Australia a few times now.
Speaker 5 (03:17):
And the things that you love doing whilst you're here,
apart from you know, just recovering between gigs.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
Well, you know, the best part about actually being here
is the fact that no one ever mistakes me for
Courtney act because I'm not pretty, so I'm not true.
I notice that I try to give the people a
good time and I love it. And the worst part
is I'm actually missing Courtney by a week, so it's
so unfortunately we haven't caught up in a while. But
I tell her all the time when I'm here, I'm
(03:44):
holding down the fort until she gets back.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
But I mean, Courtney is that's not fair to hold
us all up to Courtney because she she is proper,
pretty proper handsome when you know the other, whatever's going
on on that day, she looks good.
Speaker 3 (03:59):
Which is why I don't feel bad about beating her
on drag Race. You know, let someone ugly like me
have a chance. She's winning it life.
Speaker 1 (04:09):
You mentioned drag Race.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
You won season six of drag Race in twenty fourteen.
Can you remember where you were when you got the
call from whoever it was that made the call to
you to say you were going on the show.
Speaker 3 (04:22):
Oh my god, I remember vividly. I was in a
meeting with a bar, a bar that I was working
at for quite some time. We had a staff meeting
to discuss what was wrong with the show and how
the show wasn't selling, and my prepaid phone rang, and
then I had to exit the meeting and they said,
you're going to be on drag Race. I went back
to the meeting and said, figure out yourself. I'm out.
Speaker 4 (04:46):
That was that?
Speaker 1 (04:47):
Say?
Speaker 4 (04:48):
I love that?
Speaker 3 (04:49):
That is hilarious. The rest of history, I was.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
Going to say, the rest is history?
Speaker 5 (04:53):
Speaking of said history, Bianka, what's it like that first
moment meeting group, Paul? Is it just another day or
is it like holding my breath just quietly here?
Speaker 3 (05:01):
Well, I have to break it down to you. You're
going to be sadly disappointed to find out that she's
not a real person. She's a hologram. Very good, she's
a bause, she's just this this, this glorified thing that's
in front of you. No, it's it is kind of surreal.
I think it was the first time that I realized,
oh my god, I'm inside the television. You know, it
is being in the same room, being in the same room.
(05:25):
And how tall she is? Extremely tall?
Speaker 1 (05:28):
Well yeah, I mean we have.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
A bit of a connection with RuPaul here in Perth
in Wa. So you know, if people keep their eyes peeled,
you never know when you might say that very tall.
Speaker 3 (05:38):
Now we will mess them.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
We will see you at the Asta Theater, Beautiful Theater, Wednesday,
February the fifth. Tickets are available through ticket Tech. Lovely
to have you on the show this morning, Bianca.
Speaker 3 (05:50):
Well, thank you for having me and I'm looking forward
to seeing you all.
Speaker 4 (05:53):
So far from dead on the outside stop it.
Speaker 3 (05:55):
Yes, I take care. I'll see you Yeazon Bye.
Bianca del Rey is coming to town.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
She's in Dead Inside the World Comedy Tour at the
Esta Theatre February five. Tickets are through Ticketech and she
joins us now, good morning, Bianca.
Speaker 3 (00:12):
Hello, how are you guys?
Speaker 1 (00:13):
Good?
Speaker 4 (00:14):
Good?
Speaker 1 (00:15):
You're not feeling dead inside, are you?
Speaker 4 (00:17):
What's going on there?
Speaker 3 (00:18):
Well, you know what's crazy is that the actual title
was basically a diagnosis from my doctor.
Speaker 4 (00:23):
So I just.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
Worked out well for a show title and I've been
running with it since. If you've seen me anytime before,
you can tell that I've been dead on the outside
for a few years. So now I'm just matching the interior.
Speaker 4 (00:35):
So what about the show? Can you tell us a
bit more? Banker?
Speaker 3 (00:37):
Oh my god. Well, it's just basically what I'm experiencing
now as an elderly drag queen, how I view the
world and as you know, as an American, we are
not short on any topics if you know what currently
is going on in the world. And you guys are
catching me at the end. So this is me wrapping
up the tour. It's my final twelve dates here in
Australia and New Zealand, which is surreal because I've started
(00:58):
the tour last February, and uh, it's just been surreal.
So when I wrap it up, it'll be one hundred
and twenty seven shows globally, which is why are Yeah,
it is a lot.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
It is a lot.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
Now you just touched on, you know, things happening in
the US. There is a bit happening. Of course we're
all familiar. But I mean, does it sort of the
good thing about Donald Trump being president? Does it guarantee
a little bit of content for every.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
Show without a doubt, not to mention it gives clowns
like me a better opportunity to work more. You know,
if people have faith in that clown, they have faith
in this clown. So I do look forward to it.
Speaker 5 (01:35):
It's a content face, I would please. When you want
to go out and have a good time and have
a laugh, who makes you laugh, Oh.
Speaker 3 (01:43):
Well, usually a mirror. But I don't believe venture out
that often.
Speaker 5 (01:47):
You know.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
I have a group of friends of mine because it's
this crazy thing is that when you spend your life
on the road traveling, everybody always says, well, where do
you want to go next? Where do you want to vacation?
Do you want to hang out with friends? And I go.
I think it's a great time to let everyone know
I hate people. You know, for me to have a
good time is to be home alone and to sit
back and go what a lovely run that was. I
(02:09):
often said that I was a lot like the late
Queen of England. I like to vacation at my house
and hide from everyone.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
Is it I think it was?
Speaker 2 (02:18):
Rachel Rudner said in the movie Pater's Friends with what
she hates about being in the public eyes, the public,
the public thing.
Speaker 3 (02:26):
I completely agree. I completely agree. There's a time and
there's a time and place for it. You know, you
know you have to do it to do it. But
I do like my quiet time. Not because I'm a
private person. Its seems I have many voices in my head,
so clinically I like to be home alone.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
You've already got enough going on.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
Look it is it's your You've been to Australia a
few times now, so you must suck a sabeese.
Speaker 3 (02:52):
Oh I'm not mad at you. I always say it.
Just tell everyone. I tell everyone that the Australian and
the UK audiences are my ideal group of people because
you have a rotted sense of humor, and you're very
welcoming to me. So just when I think that I'm
really bad and you guys laugh at it, I go,
you're worst because you paid for the ticket that I appreciate.
Speaker 4 (03:11):
Yeah, that's pretty well was you want people playing for tickets?
Speaker 1 (03:14):
Now?
Speaker 4 (03:14):
You bey to Australia, to Australia a few times now.
Speaker 5 (03:17):
And the things that you love doing whilst you're here,
apart from you know, just recovering between gigs.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
Well, you know, the best part about actually being here
is the fact that no one ever mistakes me for
Courtney act because I'm not pretty, so I'm not true.
I notice that I try to give the people a
good time and I love it. And the worst part
is I'm actually missing Courtney by a week, so it's
so unfortunately we haven't caught up in a while. But
I tell her all the time when I'm here, I'm
(03:44):
holding down the fort until she gets back.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
But I mean, Courtney is that's not fair to hold
us all up to Courtney because she she is proper,
pretty proper handsome when you know the other, whatever's going
on on that day, she looks good.
Speaker 3 (03:59):
Which is why I don't feel bad about beating her
on drag Race. You know, let someone ugly like me
have a chance. She's winning it life.
Speaker 1 (04:09):
You mentioned drag Race.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
You won season six of drag Race in twenty fourteen.
Can you remember where you were when you got the
call from whoever it was that made the call to
you to say you were going on the show.
Speaker 3 (04:22):
Oh my god, I remember vividly. I was in a
meeting with a bar, a bar that I was working
at for quite some time. We had a staff meeting
to discuss what was wrong with the show and how
the show wasn't selling, and my prepaid phone rang, and
then I had to exit the meeting and they said,
you're going to be on drag Race. I went back
to the meeting and said, figure out yourself. I'm out.
Speaker 4 (04:46):
That was that?
Speaker 1 (04:47):
Say?
Speaker 4 (04:48):
I love that?
Speaker 3 (04:49):
That is hilarious. The rest of history, I was.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
Going to say, the rest is history?
Speaker 5 (04:53):
Speaking of said history, Bianka, what's it like that first
moment meeting group, Paul? Is it just another day or
is it like holding my breath just quietly here?
Speaker 3 (05:01):
Well, I have to break it down to you. You're
going to be sadly disappointed to find out that she's
not a real person. She's a hologram. Very good, she's
a bause, she's just this this, this glorified thing that's
in front of you. No, it's it is kind of surreal.
I think it was the first time that I realized,
oh my god, I'm inside the television. You know, it
is being in the same room, being in the same room.
(05:25):
And how tall she is? Extremely tall?
Speaker 1 (05:28):
Well yeah, I mean we have.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
A bit of a connection with RuPaul here in Perth
in Wa. So you know, if people keep their eyes peeled,
you never know when you might say that very tall.
Speaker 3 (05:38):
Now we will mess them.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
We will see you at the Asta Theater, Beautiful Theater, Wednesday,
February the fifth. Tickets are available through ticket Tech. Lovely
to have you on the show this morning, Bianca.
Speaker 3 (05:50):
Well, thank you for having me and I'm looking forward
to seeing you all.
Speaker 4 (05:53):
So far from dead on the outside stop it.
Speaker 3 (05:55):
Yes, I take care. I'll see you Yeazon Bye.
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