Drag artists - am I the only one who doesn't find them funny?

Danny La Rue had a certain charm, I think. Dame Edna is funny because we aren’t expected for a moment to see her (him?) as female.

Interesting that there are are no high-profile male impersonators these days, such as Vesta Tilley in the late 19th/early 29th century. I wonder why that is.

None of them would be my choice of entertainment.

There is an Australian drag queen called Courtney Act, and she is actually very beautiful both as a man or a woman. I would not go out of my way to watch her but she is not hideous like most of them.

Dame Edna made me laugh. Never saw much of Lily Savage.
Chestnut creeps me out is how I feel too. In terms of men/women liking it, neither my DH nor DD1 and husband like it. So that’s 2 men 2 women.
My GD (who’s old enough to watch) thinks “they’re grotesque and their makeup is ridiculous”.
Undoubtedly we'll be seeing more of them.?

I don't find them funny either, but I once saw Foo Foo Lamarr give a very good performance in The Rocky Horror Show.

I agree with the consensus. Dame Edna (and to some extent Lily Savage) were funny because they were using the persona to satirise the dynamic between the sexes - men as well as women, but I don't find the likes of Ru Paul funny at all.

Not my idea of entertainment but each to his own.

I don't like them either seamstress but many must do as there seem to be more of them on tv these days.
I wonder who likes them more men or women?

I feel the same. They creep me out. The only one who ever made me laugh was Dame Edna, and for some reason I never minded her dressing up! I loved that she could get away with saying things that no-one else could, and somehow it never came across as offensive.

I’m not keen either and have never been able to say why but now that you mention it, there are undertones as you say in your opening sentence.