Randy Rainbow

Randy Rainbow (birthday: July 6) is an American YouTuber who makes musical parodies and political spoofs.
==Personal life==
At the age of ten, Randy moved from Long Island, New York, to Florida. He wrote skits for himself as a child in Florida, where his father, Gerry Rainbow, was a drummer and singer. His grandfather was a bandleader. Randy attended theatre camp, and performed in high school musicals. He moved to New York in his early twenties, where he started blogging and making videos. Randy’s career started in a cruise-ship bar after he dropped out of college. He then moved to New York at the age of twenty-one, where he was a receptionist at a Broadway production firm. He became bored doing this, and started writing behind the desk, before he began blogging. Randy is gay and Ashkenazi Jewish. Randy’s mother supposedly “knew he was gay by the time he was 3.”
He has a cat named Tippi.
==YouTube==
Randy began to focus on politics after the elections.
In October 2020, If Donald Got Fired, in collaboration with , reached #1 on the iTunes comedy chart.
In 2010, Randy became well known for Randy Rainbow is Dating Mel Gibson, in which he pretends to have a phone conversation with ’s offensive rants.
==Podcast==
In June 2021, it was announced that Randy would be recording a podcast with .
==Albums==
On November 8, 2019, Randy released his debut Christmas album, Hey Gurl, It’s Christmas. On November 21, the album debuted at No. 1 on Billboard’s Comedy Albums chart.
His first full-length studio album, A Little Brains, A Little Talent, was announced by on October 21, 2021. It features special guests , , Sean Hayes, Patti LuPone, and .
==Memoir==
Randy’s memoir, Playing with Myself, was announced on July 29, 2020. It was published in September 2021, by .
==Awards and recognition==
In January 2020, Randy was nominated for a Wilde Wit of the Year .
In September 2020, Randy was awarded Best musical parody spoofing Donald Trump by The Washington Post. In October 2020, Randy received Palm Springs International Comedy Festival’s Pioneer in Comedy Award.
Randy has been nominated for three Emmy awards. In September 2021, he began Randy Rainbow: The Pink Glasses Tour.
==Controversy==
In 2020, a series of tweets dating from 2010 to 2016 emerged, in which Randy depicted Black and Latino people as thieves and murderers, and ridiculed transgender women. These included a stereotypical joke about , portraying black people as drug dealers and violent, and Mexicans as thieves and lazy. He also used the t-slur, and made jokes about rape. Randy apologised in an interview with The Advocate, stating that the tweets “were completely offensive and insensitive.” He said he was “embarrassed,” and “deeply apologize[d] to anyone [he] offended.” He stated that he was “in no way” racist or transphobic.
==References==
Category:Music YouTubers
Category:Comedy YouTubers
Category:American YouTubers
Category:Users who joined in 2006
Category:LGBT YouTubers