In honor of his Netflix show, Jonathan Van Ness took a stab at Marie Claire's "Pop Quiz," answering questions about his favourite couch snacks and least favourite words.
00:21The best gift I've ever received was from my mom
00:24and my great-grandma.
00:25My great-grandma, she would doodle
00:27and she made this one really cool doodle
00:29and gave it to my mom, the doodle was like of a lady.
00:32And so I always loved it
00:33and always thought it was really cute.
00:34My mom was like, I'm never giving it to you.
00:36It's my favorite thing.
00:37So my mom had like taped her head on
00:38because her head was falling off.
00:39And then for my birthday last year, my mom gave it to me.
00:42Next question.
00:43Oh my gosh, that's so pretty over there, look.
00:46Last text I sent to my husband,
00:49probably about like our dog or one of our cats,
00:54which is one of seven possibilities
00:56because we have two dogs and five cats.
00:59Cute, liked it.
01:00Oh, I was just minding my own business this one day
01:02and then, ah!
01:03Word your friends would use to describe you.
01:07So I would hope that like the official answer
01:09would be like hilarious,
01:11but I bet the actual answer would be like nightmare
01:15or gorgeous.
01:16Three, two, one, and go.
01:19Oh no, ooh, you survived, honey.
01:21Come back here.
01:22Boom.
01:23Have you ever had a more dramatic balloon popper, Marie Claire?
01:26Favorite couch snack.
01:28Wow.
01:29I feel like the snacks at my house
01:30are about to have a fight.
01:35I love mini powdered donuts.
01:40I love mini powdered donuts.
01:42You know, it's like Michelle Obama says,
01:45when they go low, we go high.
01:48Last song you got stuck in your head.
01:49Okay, this is a great question
01:50because it literally just happened this morning.
01:52It was, turn it up, turn it up,
01:54turn it upside down, down, down.
01:56Hear percussion, na, na, na, na, na.
01:59It was that.
02:00What song is that?
02:01Well, obviously, it was Gloria Estefan
02:05turned the beat around.
02:06To hear percussion.
02:09It was just like that.
02:10I'm going this way.
02:12I'm going, no, I'm not.
02:16You never know which way I'm gonna go, honey.
02:19Word that makes you cringe.
02:21Actually, bangs.
02:24Bangs instead of fringe.
02:27Bangs.
02:28Yeah.
02:30Call it fringe.
02:31It's much chiquer.
02:32Fringe is Emily in Paris,
02:34and bangs is like Supermarket Sweep,
02:38but I guess it's Supermarket Sweep in the sense like the old version where there's like a lot of like, you know, puffy 80s bangs.
02:47Was that fun?
02:49Ah, wow.
02:51I feel drunk with power when I do this.
02:53Last book you read.
02:55Not to be dumb, but it was my own because I just recorded my audio book, which is called Love That Story, and it's coming out in April.
03:03And I'm really excited about it, and wha!
03:07Are you going to be okay?
03:08Is your nervous system going to be okay from all these pops?
03:11How did I make my first dollar?
03:14My auntie was a lawyer, and she, and in the early days of the internet, she was looking for cases to brief for her law class that she was teaching.
03:23So I would like, use the internet to like, find different cases out of Illinois to like, write for her law class, and then I called myself a paralegal, but really I was 11, and that was the first dollar I made.
03:34Ah!
03:37I did it.
03:38Chocolate or cheese?
03:39Both.
03:40I'm, here's the thing, as a non-binary person, I find this question offensive, okay?
03:44I'm going to eat both.
03:46Ah!
03:47Mmm, wow.
03:48Worked up a sweat on that one.
03:51That almost even scared me.
03:52It was so good.
03:53What should every woman try at least once in her life?
03:58Not listening to someone's advice.
04:01I say, go for it.
04:02Live your life.
04:03Live your truth.
04:04Ah!
04:05This has been so much fun.
04:07Can I just say that?
04:08Oh my God.
04:09Guess what question this is?
04:11Name a movie that makes you cry.
04:13Forrest Gump.
04:14What doesn't make me cry about Forrest Gump?
04:18Mmm.
04:19Oh, what can you not miss on TV slash streamer?
04:22Getting Curious with Jonathan Van Ness, I'll tell you that much.
04:25Watch it.
04:25And I think if you do watch it, you won't even regret it.
04:27You're going to have so much fun.
04:28Ah!
04:29I hope that was as good for you as it was for me.
04:31That was so much fun, Marie Claire.
04:32I love playing Pop Quiz.
04:34I also love it when you guys, like, get Netflix and then watch the shows that I do on there.
