May 09, 2019 at 4:17 pm

RuPaul Explains Met Gala's 'Camp' Theme on 'Late Show'!

RuPaul paid a visit to The Late Show with Stephen Colbert on Wednesday (May 8) and gave his definition of the word “Camp” as it relates to the recent 2019 Met Gala theme.

“With camp, you have to be able to see the facade of life, the absurdity of life, from outside of yourself,” explained. “So the idea of drag is camp because we’re saying, “I’m not this body. I’m actually God in drag playing humanity.’”

Ru explained that drag and camp are all about not taking life too seriously. Stephen then held up a photo of Celine Dion‘s Met Gala dress and asked if it was camp: “It’s borderline camp,” Ru said, “because Celine Dion is wacky crazy, and I love her, and she’s campy because she gets the joke. She’s in on the joke.”

“What we do in drag is more important today than ever before,” RuPaul concluded. “The job of the drag queen, the shaman, the court jester is to help people understand that life is not to be taken seriously.”