“Camp today. Oh, Jesus.” “Camp now.” “Camp now.” “Camp now —” “As opposed to before?” “I have no idea.” “Because of the Met show, it’s like everyone’s talking about, what is this definition of camp?” “It’s difficult to discuss camp in a very serious way, because it’s basically antiserious.” “How do I define camp? Boy.” “Exaggerating something to the point of absurdity. It’s a form of humor associated with gay people, but not exclusively.” “I don’t think Susan Sontag knew what camp was either. A Tiffany lamp is not camp. At that price, nothing’s camp.” [laughs] “You know, it’s not like kitsch. It’s a different thing, say, like, a John Waters film. Divine is camp. But I think of John Waters and the film as being, sort of, kitsch. I think!” “It seems like camp, today, is not so based on white, gay male cultural references.” “So someone who gives me that camp vibe is Solange Knowles. Love.” “Liz Lemon is female camp. For me, it’s better than Mae West.” “Jack Smith, Split Britches, Holly Hughes and The Five Lesbian Brothers.” “I mean, camp hero Carmelita Tropicana.” “Yes. It is me.” “Faye Dunaway! It’s that moment when she goes cross-eyed that just totally takes it into the realm of camp.” “The movie ‘Valley of the Dolls,’ everyone says, was camp. I thought it was just bad. Bad and camp aren’t the same thing.” “We know, like, RuPaul’s camp. Divine is camp. But in our culture, like, things like Kardashians —” “Just about anything can be camp anymore, it seems. And that’s — what’s special about that?” “Gay culture has penetrated mainstream culture, and that means that it will be very hard to separate out camp from the mainstream.” “You know, we’re just in a time of such artifice that it’s like camp is all around us.” “Camp is forever evolving.” “Camp, today, is whatever was outrageous in 2009.” “And it’s many other things to other people. But to me, existentially, I am camp. But maybe other people would not claim it as such. And that’s O.K. Yeah?” “You nailed it, girl.” “O.K.”