For Fogbow II, here are some classics. Gotta start with Barack:
Randy Rainbow Exit-Interviews Barack Obama Jan 9, 2017
Still our favorites:
Kim Davis
Alternative Facts
Covfefe
Buttons (Patty Duke Show theme - North Korea)
DESPERATE CHEETO Oct 11, 2017
Randy Rainbow Interviews Jennifer Holliday Jan 17, 2017 (Jen's been a friend since Dreamgirls, this incident was a nightmare)
A SPOONFUL OF CLOROX - A Randy Rainbow Song Parody
7,155,109 viewsâ˘Apr 25, 2020
Don't Tell Donald He's NOT RE-ELECTED TODAY! (See below for Randy's take on this song in 2011)
Vintage Randy!
From 2011, The Randy Rainbow Bea Arthur Halloween Special. You can see the beginnings of where Randy was headed. Also a fun version of Ding Dong The Witch Is Dead (the Streisand/Harold Arlen version*)
Bea Arthur and Randy Rainbow's Halloween Special | Randy Rainbow
33,834 viewsâ˘Oct 30, 2011
Mitt Romney, Kiss Me! | Randy Rainbow
33,320 viewsâ˘Feb 14, 2012
And Marcus Bachmann Is Not Getting Married to Randy Rainbow (Not Getting Married from Company)
27,677 viewsâ˘Jul 24, 2011
* Here's the Streisand/Arlen version, one of our favs
It's fun going back to watch some of these again now that DL2XIT is gone gone gone. This isn't Randy but SNL's Sean Spicer with Melissa McCarthy is a classic. What a fuc*ing mess those years were!
Re: The Fabulous Randy Rainbow!
Posted: Tue Mar 02, 2021 7:58 pm
by Kendra
Sorry (not sorry) for a FB link, but too lazy to find a YT link, so shoot me. Excellent background piece from CNN in 2019.
Re: The Fabulous Randy Rainbow!
Posted: Tue Mar 09, 2021 10:52 am
by Kendra
Re: The Fabulous Randy Rainbow!
Posted: Tue Mar 09, 2021 4:00 pm
by p0rtia
That is some world-class parody writing, that is. Damn that was fun.
Re: The Fabulous Randy Rainbow!
Posted: Tue Mar 09, 2021 4:19 pm
by Kendra
I was laughing so much. I can't wait until he takes on Cancun Cruz...
Re: The Fabulous Randy Rainbow!
Posted: Tue Mar 09, 2021 7:49 pm
by Luke
Hooray!! That was brilliant, The Robinettes
"And stick it in me like you really mean it!"
What a pleasure only seeing DL2XIT as a flashback!!
Re: The Fabulous Randy Rainbow!
Posted: Tue Mar 09, 2021 7:59 pm
by pipistrelle
A guy named Randy Rainbow canât mock Robinette, right?
THE FLASHBACK!
Re: The Fabulous Randy Rainbow!
Posted: Tue Mar 09, 2021 8:01 pm
by Kendra
Would the next reporter who books Fauci please show the kids clip and get his smiling reaction?
Re: The Fabulous Randy Rainbow!
Posted: Tue Mar 09, 2021 8:05 pm
by sad-cafe
that was great
Re: The Fabulous Randy Rainbow!
Posted: Mon Apr 05, 2021 9:24 am
by RVInit
RR has another video coming in just a few minutes! Made my day to see that.
Re: The Fabulous Randy Rainbow!
Posted: Mon Apr 05, 2021 12:07 pm
by RVInit
And here it is:
Re: The Fabulous Randy Rainbow!
Posted: Mon Apr 05, 2021 12:21 pm
by Kendra
Will he do Gaetz next
Re: The Fabulous Randy Rainbow!
Posted: Mon Apr 05, 2021 1:27 pm
by Sunrise
Kendra wrote: âMon Apr 05, 2021 12:21 pm
Will he do Gaetz next
Billy Porter's book is AMAZING, the audiobook is the way to go and most of the libraries have them. Billy really opens up and it's an impactful, tear inducing and courageous story. Highly recommend. Unprotected: A Memoir
NY Times:
Billy Porterâs New Book Isnât Just a Memoir; Itâs a Testimony
By R. Eric Thomas Oct. 19, 2021
UNPROTECTED A Memoir By Billy Porter
At the end of his 2005 live album, âAt the Corner of Broadway and Soul,â Billy Porter covers the song âSundayâ from the musical âSunday in the Park With George.â But this is no ordinary rendition. Porter refashions the Sondheim standard into a rousing gospel anthem and at the end shouts, âGod bless you all. Pay your checks and get out!â
An Emmy winner for playing Pray Tell on the vogue ballroom drama âPose,â and a Tony and Grammy winner for his role in the Broadway musical âKinky Boots,â Porter has built a career on blending theater excellence, gospel grandiosity and reading-for-filth realness, all through the astonishing instrument of his voice. This combination is vividly translated in Porterâs new memoir, âUnprotected,â which recounts his lifelong struggle to heal the deep wounds buried under the sheen of his charismatic presence.
Porter grew up in Pittsburghâs Hill District, where he attended a homophobic Pentecostal Black church that nonetheless stoked in him a devotion to performance. As he writes about his early years, Porter relates the darkness and the light of his youth, detailing his upbringing with a chatty and arch flair, such as when he describes first seeing âThe Wizâ on the same day that a lesbian teacher introduced him to the concept of a musical.
Porterâs talents propelled him to great heights â he made his Broadway debut in âMiss Saigonâ when he was 21 years old â but the actor found that both in church and onstage, he was embraced for what he could do with his voice while simultaneously rejected for who he was: an out Black gay man.
In âUnprotected,â Porterâs voice on the page aptly matches his go-for-broke vocal instrument. He holds little back, never shying from raw emotionality, but avoiding histrionics. He writes bluntly about not being accepted by his church, as well as his quest to heal from years of sexual abuse by his stepfather in his preteen years. In a bracing chapter, he recalls confronting his mother about the abuse, weaving horror and rage with a guarded empathy for a woman who, he says, did not have the tools needed to protect him. Elsewhere, he reflects on his career highs and lows, like finding himself homeless and bankrupt after early successes, notably as Teen Angel in âGrease,â left him lost in the wilderness that he memorably dubs his ââMillennium Coon Showâ era.â
This is not just a memoir, saints; this is a testimony. He is telling a story and he is spilling the tea and he is working through deep wounds in pursuit of a clearer path to a full experience of personhood. âHere I am all these decades later, at the height of my life and career â covered in alla my personal trauma,â he says early in the book.