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For awhile, I stopped religious posting Randy Rainbow videos, since I didn't want to be all Randy all the time.
But I can't resist.
Last week, Rainbow borrowed fromStephen Sondheimand Leonard Bernstein with his take on "Gee, Officer Krupke" from "West Side Story." Sondhein and Rainbow are enthusiastic fans of each other, so why not?
Don't worry, Rainbow doesn't have a problem with Fauci. He's begging the good doctor to save us from lots of other idiots.
By the way, Rainbow hasn't been able to have a hair cut in five months, but his do still looks fabulous. Just saying.
Sarah Cooper is just one of my gallows humor lifelines in this terrible pandemic era.
Sarah Cooper. Julie Nolke. And, of course, Randy Rainbow.
These are people I absolutely rely on as this depressing, awful, horrible pandemic roars on.
LIke everybody else, I get anxious, depressed, angry, frustrated over the way things are, the bad direction the nation is going in, and the so-called leaders who have utterly failed us.
Negative emotions like this are not sustainable. The wear you down, and you become brittle and hostile and standoffish and not somebody you want to be around
So you look for an antidote. The best way to do it, at least for me, is to just embrace the gallows humor the current situation has us in. Which is why these three people are my lifeline.
You can look Cooper, Nolke and Rainbow up on social media. I have featured all three on this here blog thingy before, but it's always good and to highlight them again. Maybe they can be your lifeline
First, here's Julie Nolkewith Anna Akana in "Pandora's Box" We watch Pandora and Zeus having a Zoom meeting. And it is the ultimate example of a bad, stereotypical mess up of a corpoerate meeting between a boss and underling.
It turns out, both are culpable here, and it's a parable of how the leaders and their middle managers are incompetendly mucking up our lives.
I know many people will disagree with me, but Donald Trump's voice just grates on me. I clench my teeth every time I hear that idiot spout his word salad. Sarah Cooper comes to the rescue with her delicious lip syncing of Donald Trump.
And who can forgetRandy Rainbow? I've stopped posting every video he puts out, like I used to, because as much as I love Randy, I can't be exclusively a Randy Rainbow fan club. It's so easy to ind his videos anyway.
Between his singing talent, his top rate ability to throw shade, the lyrics, and the ideas, and his pretend participation in news conferences, you can't beat him. He also has an encyclopedic knowledge of songs he can tap to turn into his perfect parodies.
And his naughtiness. I'll spoil a joke because I love it so much: Rainbow sings that lately all his rallies and events are like his sex life: Nobody comes.
A bit of a scary screenshot from Randy Rainbow's latest Time for a Clorox treatment!
After Donald Trump's ill fated appearance Thursday in which he "sarcastically," so he said, suggested using household cleaners in our bodies to kill the coronavirus, people have of course reacted with an appropriate mix of horror and derision.
However, as usual, Randy Rainbow has the last word on this subject with a new video dropped perfectly timed this morning - a nice Saturday treat.
The target in this video is New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, and the good gov survives the video unscathed.
Rainbow's "Andy" is a love letter to the level-headed, fact driven, compassionate but tough Cuomo, whosedaily televised coronovirus updates and briefings are some of the most informative, reassuring information we get about the Corvid-19 pandemic.
I certainly feel myself drawn to Cuomo's briefings. They sure are, ahem, a big contrast from what we're getting from the Trump administration.
Rainbow is so smitten by Cuomo in "Andy" that he sings that he now identifies as a "cuomosexual." I kinda do, too, frankly. If only all our leaders could be as good in a crisis as Cuomo.
Here's Rainbow's latest to give you a little levity in this dark week:
As always, Rainbow starts with a news interview, this time with who he describes as "The dance captain of the coronavirus task force Mike Pence."
Rainbow notes that, at least in Donald Trump's mind, the disease is now called the "Hillary Flu." At first, Rainbow resists Pence's call for social distancing by noting he already has purchased tickets and doesn't want to cancel his Passover plans to participate in the Black Light Underwear Foam Party in Cancun.
Luckily for all of us for a lot of reasons, Rainbow pivots, quickly and wholeheartedly embracing the idea of social distancing as he launches into the song. "I will save the human race by lying on my couch," he vows. Rainbow adds, as he patriotically wraps himself in an American flag, "I'll defeat the enemy by binging 'This Is Us,'"
He concludes by singing "But for now just suck it up and stay the f**k inside," while we see an image of the of-so religious Pence solemnly nodding to the line in approval. Watch:
The ever-productive Randy Rainbow released a new video during Super Tuesday, urging us to vote for a Democrat. Any Democrat. He doesn't care. As long as it's not GOP Trump.
This parody is from the song "Any Dream Will Do," from Andrew Lloyd Weber's "Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat."
Instead of "Any Dream Will Do," Rainbow switched it to "Any Dem Will Do."
In the fast-pace time of primaries, certain aspects of this video were outdated upon release, even though he clearly made the video in the past few days. Democrats featured in the video include Peter Buttigieg, Amy Klobuchar and Tom Steyer, who all dropped out of the race in the day or so before Super Tuesday. (Then Mike Bloomberg dropped out just this morning).
Of course, Rainbow doesn't even remember Steyer's name in the video, Todd or something, because this candidate wasn't exactly an overpowering presence in the Democratic lineup.
In any event, Rainbow, in his song adheres to his motto, "Any Dem will do," because despite any and all of the Democrats' individual quirks and shortcomings they're better than Trump. Such as Bernie Sanders, "He's more kvetchy than my mom."
To brighen your Tuesday, Randy Rainbow has dropped another great video. Dance to "No Rules For Donald"
Any week is good when Randy Rainbow drops a new video, which I always report here. And we got a hot new one today called "No Rules For Donald."
As usual, he starts with a news interview this time with U.S. Attorney General Bill Barr. Rainbow and Barr must be on a first name basis, since Rainbow calls him "Roseanne."
But anway, once we get into the song, which is based on Dua Lipa's hit "New Rules," we get into all of Trump's GOP enablers.
Other than the fact that I will never unsee that brief glimpse of Devin Nunes in ruby red lipstick, this is another video to brighten hour dystopian, gloomy February day. Watch and enjoy!
In these gloomy impeachment times, Randy Rainbow just dropped another gem
YouTube star, satirist and singer Randy Rainbow hasn't made as many hit funny videos lately as he did earlier last year.
He's been touring and supporting his wonderful schtick on the road. That doesn't mean he's stopped making videos, oh, no.
Rainbowdropped another gem yesterday. He starts by introducing the president of the United States, ("at least at the time this video was recorded)."
Then, Rainbow offers Trump help with his marketing, his self-branding if you will, with a song that's a takeoff of "Gaston" from "Beauty And The Beast."
Without further delay, here's "That Don" by Randy Rainbow:
Just as I expected, Randy Rainbow has a new videonow that Robert Mueller has submitted his report to the Attorney General.
As we now know, the report apparently doesn't say Donald Trump criminally colluded with Russia. But he's not "exonerated" either, despite the spin you hear from the White House and his Republican patsies.
All these mixed messages has us all feeling conflicted, including Randy Rainbow.
So, the latest parody is called "The Mueller Blues," to the tune of Sondheim's "Buddy Blues." Another classic, including the murderous crime of Sarah Huckabee's pink blouse. Here you go:
At the start of this video, like all Randy Rainbow videos, it starts with a "news" interview. This time Randy introduces President Donald Trump as "the castoff from Bachelor Hanoi." This, of course focuses on the star-crossed recent summit between Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.
I won't give away anything else, but one is full of zingers, as usual. And as always, this video is a delight.
But I have to say Randy Rainbow, in his latest video that was dropped today, has improved upon the song greatly with his new version, called "Border Lies."
He didn't get his money for his stupid wall, and his predictable tantrum took the form of declaring a fake emergency for his border wall, or fence or whatever.
You have to admit, Trump gave Rainbow a nice assist with his sing-song speechabout how his "emergency" will wend its way through the courst. "I love this song," Rainbow gushingly stage whispers to his journalistic colleagues in the video.
Then the performance of "Border Lies" gets underway.
Sample lyric:
"Border lies Great for distracting from Russian ties More insulting than your skin tone Talkin' 'bout border lies."
Unlike a list of men the women in Chicago's "Cell Block Tango" knocked off, Rainbow gives us a who's who of Trump sycophants who are now in trouble, or soon to be in trouble. It's a long list and it's a wonder Rainbow managed to edit things down for his video.
Rainbow knows the Trump list is long, so he has a subtitle to his video "Part One, Probably."
Rainbow does get his digs in, like when he notes Roger Stone was "indicted on multiple counts, including lying, obstruction of justice, witness tampering and lacking basic fashion sense."
You'll have to see and hear the rest. Some of the visuals in the video are priceless.
Sample lyric: "There is nothing like an unnecessary 2,000 mile barrier that says hey look at us world we're a bunch of mother***ing assholes."
As is almost always the case with his videos, Rainbow starts off with a news "interview," this time with Vice President, and as Rainbow puts it, "Ru Paul's Drag Race Season Three Finalist" Mike Pence, then launches into his tune.
I wonder whatJulie Andrews thinks of this Randy Rainbow video.
Anyway, as usual with Randy Rainbow, I kinda think this video is NSFW. A little off-color. And plus it's not good office etiquette to trigger co-workers who might be fans of Trump.
Also as usual, this video is brilliant. Sample lyric:
"Burying Tax Returns After You File 'em/Tear Gassing migrants for seeking asylum"
Randy Rainbow (right) wants you to vote today. I'm not sure if Trump wants you to. go with Randy's advice and vote.
I admit, as I have before, this has turned into the Randy Rainbow channel, but I just CANNOT resist.
Speaking of resistance, today is Election Day! Want to give Donald Trump heartburn? Wreck the GOP agenda and turn the government over back it well, us where it belongs?
The first step is to vote today, unless you've already voted early.
Voting today won't solve all our problems, but it will be a nice start.
Viral video sensation Randy Rainbow, who matches songs, often from Broadway to the current political zietgeist, has hit upon another one. This time, he's wisely urging us to vote.
He's taking a page from the song "What Is This Feeling"from Wickedto tell us to get to the polls. Funny how fitting it is that he's taking a song from something called "Wicked" to get his point across.
So watch the video, then, go out, as Randy tells us, and put on some makeup and get your ass in line and vote, or else Randy will hate you. We wouldn't want that!
Randy introduces the video by introducing Melania Trump as "the First Lady of the United States if you don't count Mike Pence."
The early part of his videos usually are like a cable news interview. During this, Randy tells Melania, "You always have the best taste in fascists, er, fashion."
Zing!
There's a bit of a campaign out there that wants Randy Rainbow to host the Tony Awards. I think that's a terrific idea.
The latest entry, hot off the presses today, is Randy Rainbow skewing our troubled drunk frat-boy Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, who is battling his, um, potentially complicated sexual assault-ish past.
The video co-stars an unwitting but always reliable Kellyanne Conway.
I hope Randy is not resting on his laurels or on his pink reading glasses after issuing this video. After the chaos of seeing what's going on with Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, who might be resigning or fired, or not. And who knows what that will do to the Mueller investigation.
Randy certainly has a lot of material to work with. I'm sure he'll get cracking.
Randy Rainbow's parody songs on the Trump administration are awesome
His latest, the one that went the most viral is "If You Ever Got Impeached."
If you're a Donald Trump fan, you might as well move along to the next post, nothing to see here, you don't want to be offended.
Those of you who aren't such ardent fans of the president might like the video at the bottom of this post.
It's a little strange but brilliant.
Randy Rainbow has a YouTube page in which he gaily parodies famous old songs. He's got more than a bit of Broadway in him, and he uses these skills to great comic effect.
Each video starts off with Randy pretending to be one of those awful cable news reporters doing interviews, then he breaks into song. Before you start watching any of these awesome videos, do know they're definitely NSFW.
He does have a great voice, in addition to the comedy.
Before we get into that, he's got other gems you might check out. "Omarosa!" about Trump's former reality star performer and aide, is set to the music of "Oklahoma!" Another one, involving Rudy Guiliani, is "Rudy And the Beast," set to "Beauty And The Beast." From last fall, there's a performance called "How Do You Solve A Problem Like Korea,"which of course if from the "Sound Of Music."
Perhaps his song "Yes, We Have No Steve Bannon" is my favorite. Over the top, for sure, but awesome. There's a bonus reggae track in there in which Randy Rainbow comforts Bannon bh singing "Everything's Going to Be Alt-Right." Spoiler Alert: At the end of the video Randy, playing a fruit salesman says, "Can I interest you in a rotten orange with thin skin and no taste?"
There's many more Randy Rainbow videos to check out as well. This guy is brilliant!
By the way, I also absolutely love Randy's reading glasses.
Here, the performance is "If You Ever Got Impeached." It starts off as a bizarro world effort as a news interview with Trump, and then it goes from there. Worth the watch for some of us, at least:
For awhile, I stopped religious posting Randy Rainbow videos, since I didn't want to be all Randy all the time. 
