"When I interview celebrities, I always try to throw them off balance. My favorite is to ask 'em about crazy sex stuff like donkey punches and Monroe transfers. Works every time"
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The named-drop of hyper-specific acts reads like deliberate shock-bait, but it’s also a flex of insider fluency. Perry isn’t merely being raunchy; she’s signaling that she knows the internet’s gross little dialects and can deploy them on command. That’s a cultural shift in celebrity media: the old bargain was access traded for polish. The newer bargain is virality traded for discomfort. A-list publicists can wrangle serious questions; they can’t easily inoculate a client against sudden, memetic sexual terminology without making the moment worse.
“Works every time” gives away the real metric. Not truth, not insight, not even entertainment in a generous sense, but the reliable capture of a reaction: the startled laugh, the flinch, the defensive joke. It treats the interview less like conversation and more like a prank staged on a person trained to never break. The subtext is that fame is itself a kind of vulnerability, and the interviewer’s job is to find the pressure point that punctures the brand.
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Perry, Rachel. (2026, January 16). When I interview celebrities, I always try to throw them off balance. My favorite is to ask 'em about crazy sex stuff like donkey punches and Monroe transfers. Works every time. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/when-i-interview-celebrities-i-always-try-to-93005/
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Perry, Rachel. "When I interview celebrities, I always try to throw them off balance. My favorite is to ask 'em about crazy sex stuff like donkey punches and Monroe transfers. Works every time." FixQuotes. January 16, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/when-i-interview-celebrities-i-always-try-to-93005/.
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"When I interview celebrities, I always try to throw them off balance. My favorite is to ask 'em about crazy sex stuff like donkey punches and Monroe transfers. Works every time." FixQuotes, 16 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/when-i-interview-celebrities-i-always-try-to-93005/. Accessed 12 Feb. 2026.





