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Jinkx Monsoon Wins Challenge on 'RuPaul's Drag Race'

With a spot-on Little Edie Bouvier Beale impersonation.

By Laura Dannen March 1, 2013

Image grab via Gawker.

Because every Friday should start with a little RuPaul's Drag Race...

Seattle's Jerick Hoffer, a 25-year-old actor known by many as Jinkx Monsoon, is competing to be America's Next Drag Star on the fifth season of RuPaul's Drag Race—and she absolutely dominated this week's challenge.

The annual "Snatch Game" has the contestants impersonating celebrities during a faux Match Game, and Jinkx did a little Little Edie impression that was "so spot on, all it was missing was the scent of cat urine." (Well said, Gawker. Watch the whole clip here.) She had RuPaul and judges Julie Brown (yes, as in MTV's Julie Brown and "Downtown" Julie Brown) cracking up — and from now on, we will only refer to Ke$ha as "Ketchup."

If you, like Jinkx's competition, don't have a clue who Little Edie is, go see Grey Gardens at ACT this month.

Jerick Hoffer—a 25-year-old actor known around Capitol Hill as Jinkx Monsoon—will compete to be America’s Next Drag Superstar on the new season of reality show RuPaul’s Drag Race (premiering January 28 on Logo). - See more at: http://www.seattlemet.com/arts-and-entertainment/culture-fiend/articles/a-fiendish-conversation-with-jerick-hoffer#sthash.tsnfx19g.dpuf
This may be the year that one of Seattle’s biggest exports is a drag queen. - See more at: http://www.seattlemet.com/arts-and-entertainment/culture-fiend/articles/a-fiendish-conversation-with-jerick-hoffer#sthash.tsnfx19g.dpuf
This may be the year that one of Seattle’s biggest exports is a drag queen. - See more at: http://www.seattlemet.com/arts-and-entertainment/culture-fiend/articles/a-fiendish-conversation-with-jerick-hoffer#sthash.tsnfx19g.dpu
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