Top 60 Randy Rainbow Quotes

I don’t have a passion for politics, but I do have a passion for truth and justice.

My mom is probably my biggest fan.

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.

I don’t sleep too late.

It was really my grandmother who was the biggest influence because she’d talk back to the celebrities and politicians on TV. She was a combination of Joan Rivers, Elaine Stritch, Betty White, and Bea Arthur rolled into one.

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 am very proud to be a Jew.

It’s surprising how much hate mail I don’t get.

I think that I did inherit a very expressive face from my mother and my grandmother.

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 had a quick family. Very witty. I learned my rhythm from that.

I was never really a traveler.

Music in general, but really musical theater has always been a real coping mechanism for me.

Hopefully I work well with others.

I love to be silly as often as possible. I try to maintain a level of that in all that I do.

That’s the downside of total creative control: You’re isolated and after a while you can lose a little perspective. But I’ve taught myself not to listen to my own self-doubt.

I think I became a gay comedian out of necessity, because what else am I gonna do with that name? And it has worked out now, but it was a very difficult childhood. It sounds like the hokiest stage name ever.

My father was a textbook narcissist. If he didn’t like the narrative he’d start gaslighting you. He threatened the democracy of our family.

Comedy is able to point out things in ways that more serious people cannot.

Sondheim’s work especially, and musical theater like that, just spoke to me so much and taught me so many lessons.

I have to follow my instincts when I get an idea like ‘Desperate Cheeto.’

I’m not really that political and I love the idea of a sitcom. But a lot of people want me to become the next Jon Stewart.

I love Mayor Pete. I’ve always liked Joe Biden. I like Elizabeth Warren.

I’m not a political pundit by any means.

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.

If I have a passion for anything, it’s more the truth than politics, and I think that’s what got me interested in comedy in the first place, because the best comedy is the truth. People recognize that.

Well, the first restaurant I worked in was Hooters.

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.

There’s something really powerful about comedy. When the little guy, the comedian, punches up towards the big guy, or Trump, exposing him, calling out the emperor for having no clothes, that’s really important.

I moved to New York in 2003, I was a very young 22-year-old, so I just kind of started finding my way as a human and was working odd jobs here and there.

I used to take my little Disney figurines and turn them into stop-motion animation.

As far as inspiration, the most I got from YouTube was that I’m kind of self-taught by watching YouTube tutorials on how to use Adobe After Effects and Final Cut Pro. I just taught myself enough to produce the content that I had in my head.

Anyone who does social media, YouTube, Internet content will tell you it can be extremely isolating.

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.

I heard from Stephen Sondheim, who has become a great supporter of mine. There was no one bigger when I was growing up.

I mean, musical theater really informed so much of my life. It just so perfectly brings order to chaos, which is why we love theater.

I feel a responsibility to my fan base. But it’s great. I’m most fulfilled and happy when I’m being creative.

Comedy illuminates. And it unifies people, it’s not as polarizing as shows with specific political agendas.

My mother, she wanted the gayest child… and she got it.

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.

I did have a thing for mazes. When I was a kid, I remember drawing little mazes constantly and puzzles. I loved that.

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.

Into the Woods,’ ‘Sweeney Todd’ – those were my religion.

My mother was majorly into musical theatre – that’s how this happened. That’s how I became the gayest person in the world.

I don’t use an alarm, though sometimes Alexa wakes me, especially if I have to get up at a certain time.

I guess to long story short it, I was really just working day jobs when I moved to New York and trying to pay the bills, working in restaurants and as a receptionist, and at one of those reception jobs, I just got so bored, I started a blog, honing my writing skills a little bit.

I always wanted to tour with a band.

Comedy is math, music is math, and editing is, so I think those all work together.

I did a lot of children’s theater in Miami Shores. My base musical theater training happened there.

Whatever is going on in the news and whoever is in the spotlight is up for grabs and fodder for satire.

I celebrate everything. We always had a menorah and a Christmas tree – not for any reason other than we always liked celebrating things.

I really wasn’t raised with much religion. I mean we practice kind of the basic tradition, but for me it was always more of a cultural thing and that’s a part of me and my ancestry that I always loved. I mean, I think that a lot of my humor is ‘Jewish humor’ at its root. And so culturally I love that part of myself.

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.

I dropped out of college and worked on a cruise ship for a time.

I think that comedy is a great unifier.

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.

I’m a very casual person.

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’m such a huge fan of all this material that I’m spoofing.

There’s not one Yiddish word that is not perfectly funny.