Top 100 Quotes & Sayings by Randy Rainbow
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Last updated on September 17, 2024.
Music and comedy, musical comedy, specifically, really helped me through my childhood. I felt out of place, I felt lots of adversity, and I felt scared all the time.
I'm a very casual person.
I had a quick family. Very witty. I learned my rhythm from that.
Hopefully I work well with others.
If you think about it, it's the worst stage name that anybody can possibly think of, because it sounds ridiculous, but it's my real name.
I came out when I was like 17.
My family is very New Yorker.
Mom would go to bed at night and pray that God would make her Bernadette Peters.
I would love to be on a sitcom or on Broadway.
I feel a responsibility to my fan base. But it's great. I'm most fulfilled and happy when I'm being creative.
I'm a big show queen to begin with. I think in show tunes.
There's not one Yiddish word that is not perfectly funny.
TV, that's the ultimate goal. I hope to bring what I am doing now to a weekly television format.
I got a fan letter from Hillary Clinton, which was insane.
I love to be silly as often as possible. I try to maintain a level of that in all that I do.
I think that comedy is a great unifier.
I need Netflix to sort of wisen up and give me a staff and a budget, that would be fun.
I'm very much a homebody. But I can't help to put CNN on and before you know it, I'm thinking of material.
I'm just a boy with a dream from Queens. Just a queen from Queens.
It's a great thing about this Internet thing we've got going. I have the luxury of not going through filters or network execs to do my art.
It's surprising how much hate mail I don't get.
I'm very - I'm not very sure of anything in my life, but there's always been something in me that has known that I'm going to get where I'm going, one way or the other.
I've always wanted to be in concert and do a solo show.
I heard from Stephen Sondheim, who has become a great supporter of mine. There was no one bigger when I was growing up.
I'm a human person, so I do have some sort of compassion for even the people I'm mocking. But at the end of the day, I'm the little guy taking on the big guy. That to me is not bullying. That's satire.
Into the Woods,' 'Sweeney Todd' - those were my religion.
My parents always had a Christmas tree in the house and I was put in ballet at a very young age. So every year I would be in 'The Nutcracker.'
I have to follow my instincts when I get an idea like 'Desperate Cheeto.'
Making Internet content is very isolating.
I think that I did inherit a very expressive face from my mother and my grandmother.
Any comedic-type person will tell you there's no greater high in the world than someone to laugh at a joke or tell you, 'I haven't laughed so hard' or 'You made my day' with comedy.
I don't like gyms, but I try to get my heart rate up once a day. I don't do long workouts because it's boring.
Whatever is going on in the news and whoever is in the spotlight is up for grabs and fodder for satire.
I was really a very antisocial child.
I don't sleep too late.
I mean, I'm from the Joan Rivers, Don Rickles kind of old-school comedy in that nothing is off the table, certainly not in politics. So, I think if you can find something to laugh at, that's got people kind of on edge, or, you know, stressed out, I think you gotta go for it.
I love Mayor Pete. I've always liked Joe Biden. I like Elizabeth Warren.
I dropped out of college and worked on a cruise ship for a time.
The fact that I am able to put myself out there in this age of social media and YouTube is really a gift to someone who never felt like I fit into any particular mold. One of the reasons people are responding to it is because it is coming from a pure place.
I'm a tech-savvy person by nature, but I have had to train myself to do what I've got to do. I learned Final Cut and Adobe After Effects.
My father was always in bands. He played drums and could sing. And my grandfather was a band leader.
Well, the first restaurant I worked in was Hooters.
I think kind of what you see in the videos is true to me, if not maybe a slightly heightened version of my real self.
I don't work with anyone. I have no editors. I have no directors. There's no one even holding the camera or anything. It's just me in my apartment.
My mother was majorly into musical theatre - that's how this happened. That's how I became the gayest person in the world.
I really spent most of my childhood in my bedroom watching Barbra Streisand movies and musicals and making videos. That was kind of where it all started for me. I would go to the beach occasionally.
It wasn't until I moved to New York that I started actually leaving the house and doing things. You know, I was a typical theater nerd.
My mother, she wanted the gayest child... and she got it.
I hear from people all the time from all sides of the aisle, and I hear from people strangely enough who say, 'I don't agree with you politically... But I love your videos. They make me laugh.'
To perform live, to get that thrill of the audience reaction is great. There is no equivalent of watching someone stand up and clap on the Internet.
People, I think, are more interested in being offended than getting to the heart of a situation. And to go after comedians to me is so counterproductive, because comedy is kind of a medicine.
I'm such a huge fan of all this material that I'm spoofing.
You have to be careful with parodies. I don't like when they're too obvious, 'cause it can be a little cheap.
I don't use an alarm, though sometimes Alexa wakes me, especially if I have to get up at a certain time.
The best comedy is truthful. So if you say something in a way that is amusing, but is rooted in truth, you can get away with it.
I don't have a passion for politics, but I do have a passion for truth and justice.
My father was Donald Trump in many ways. His narcissism. I grew up with that generation of guys from New York, a generation of New York phony snake-oil-salesmen kind of energy.
It's amazing that my career took off from my living room. It's an amazing time when everyone has a platform and everyone has the ability to get where they're going without the middle-man.
I like the idea of sort of being able to stick a pin in something and deflate it with humor and just get a laugh, otherwise we'll cry.
I have parents coming to the live show saying that they watch my videos with their kids. I have teachers saying they have used the videos with their students.
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