Neil Patrick Harris Brings High Camp to New Show 'Drag Me to Dinner'

I gotta tell you I'm so humbled to meet you both because listen I know you hear it all the time but you are such Pioneers in our community and you're always doing something great so thank you for even just taking a few minutes today I appreciate it thank you so much actually was one of the original Pioneers in the Chicago wagons that's true corn cob pipe and all well listen you're continuing to be Pioneers because Neil we are so excited about drag me to dinner this is like the good feel type of fun show that we need especially right now in this crazy country we're living in so Neil let me just ask you what was the inspiration behind this show why did you want to bring a show like this to life we thought that drag queens deserve to be seen in positive comedic light every time we have interacted with Queens seen their shows produced content for them we laugh our faces hurt from smiling we leave buoyant and and just high on life and so sometimes the drag content that I've seen is a little more Cutthroat is a little more fighting for your survival singing songs you might not know in your repertoire and so we thought let's do something that showcases these Queens in a positive way that they are involved in that's that's sort of left up Center off the rails kind of like a fun messy party I come from the entertaining food world and you know we love drag queens Neil did drag we produce wig on HBO Max so we thought it was a perfect project for the both of us to produce uh and and create it seemed like it was you know right in our wheelhouse and I'm friends with almost all those Queens so I was able to make calls and say hey Bianca we gotta we gotta we gotta we got a gig for you would you be interested in doing this and they were so gracious to like help us out yes David you took the words right out of my mouth because the selection of queens that you have for this show is amazing you have so many of our favorite Rue girls but you also have a ton of amazing local girls that some fans might not know about how can you not have a show and not include a queen named puddin I mean a meatball yeah I mean it is seriously so perfect we Revere these people and these Queens are great and they have such positive energy and it's and a positive vibe and we wanted to be able to Showcase each episode and have it be unique and different and not not cookie cutter and we wanted to make sure that the queens were felt respected because we respect them so much beautifully said my friend well and what's so funny David I mean you and Neo really become like the dream Duo I mean every time you guys are doing something we're excited we love seeing what you're doing so how much fun are you having just working with your husband on all these great projects well honestly by show three we were just cracking up on set I mean a lot of this like most of the footage some of the footage didn't even make it that was just brilliant everybody's having so much fun and the crew is laughing and you can see that conveyed on camera I think the audience is gonna have fun too so that's what we really wanted we wanted everyone to have a laugh and have a good time it's about celebration of life and cooking and entertainment and and being with people and having a laugh and and that's what it's all about and you loved working with your husbands oh wait that was a question that was the question and the Queens are great and Beyonce is great and Marie I mean the talent yeah you know it's been it's been really that's a joy to work with these amazing people so including hanifa hahaha

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