Oh Shit! Randy Rainbow is Racist as Fuck!!

Leave Randy alone! He'll survive......his critics are humorless cretins.

I bet Twitter is eating this up. Every time a white gay man's past comes up they hungrily lick their lips and think about all the ways they can use this to further the "white gay men are stupid faggots who should be eradicated" message.

Gay Twitter is very excited to cancel him. There's no better meal than eating your own.

A quick apology video that details how he grew up in a bad environment and he'll be back on his feet in no time.

Are we supposed to know who Randy Rainbow is? All those tweets have few likes, so how famous can he be? Also, he is unfunny as hell. He should be cancelled for that alone

Those tweets are pretty bad. That's disappointing, Mr. Rainbow.

OP when are they putting up your stained glass window at the cathedral of St. John the Divine?

From two days ago: "Thank you. I’m trending along with Rush Limbaugh."

How prescient.

Keeping online and public an archive of one's tweets is only giving enemies ammunition and is of no benefit to public figures.

Randy Racist? Randy the Racist? The Randy Racist? The Racist Randy? We need a new name for him.

If these are all correct, then he is toast! I would recommend he begin writing his own bye-bye song.

OK most of those jokes were wrong. But godammit, they were funny and trueish.

r12, you'll be sad the day that DL posts are associated to real people.

also, those jokes aren't funny.

and so all this guy does is take show tunes and put some current event theme to them?

He's a brilliantly funny satirist and progressive in what he advocates, anyway.

He's a true Datalounger.

he's a boring satirist, if these broadway tunes with trump lyrics on his twitter are any indication.

just because he's on our team(s) doesn't mean he's actually good at what he does.

he isn't.

but none of that probably matters anymore anyway.

You're right about that, R15! I've known him in real life for years and he definitely posts here! He love self promo!

And that was his response to this stuff coming out? If so, seems accurate.

I have never found his song videos funny, but if he made some politically incorrect jokes years ago in a pre-woke world, WHO CARES?

his interviews are hysterical - especially his Melania interview.

r20 = randy ra(c)i(st)nbow

He's also never been funny or clever.

He is as entertaining as that guy with a bowtie who played satirical piano tunes on PBS 30 years ago.

Meh he is being targeted for going after Trump by fake wokes.

How do you even find tweets from 10 years ago?

All of his punch lines are "me as a black lady" which are not funny but are very white baby-gay trying to be funny. The jokes are stupid but so old that who even cares?

r16 = Boris.

He's won Emmys. He's funny.

cancelled

It's so strange how people from a group that has been systematically enslaved, denied human rights, denied education, denied fair work and pay, denied legal rights and denied equality can be so touchy about satire.

But it's also strange how some people do not recognize that personal responsibility is involved, as well as social responsibility, with the fact that high crime, violence, and failure to nurture children are huge problems worse than stupid jokes.

Did he really write those? Wow, I forget how truly stupid people are, and then I take a look at something like that. Why would anyone EVER write such stupid racist shit? And no, “It was a decade ago” is NOT an excuse.

Thank you for your privilege!

it's really rather startlin'

it's how i got my startin'

now someone's looked at it

so to my great frustration

i am facing cancellation

for tweeting racist shit

Those jokes are hilarious!

̶E̶l̶l̶e̶n̶ Randy is cancelled.

Horton hears a....who?

He spent his time a-tweetin'

When he should've been deletin'

So he's hoist on his petard

His career, it's erasin'

But his agent found a placin'!

In my next door neighbor's yard

The tweets aren't funny or clever.

Even 10 years ago, they weren't funny or clever.

Maybe his twitter account was hacked.

I'm sure R12 and R28 will go to their graves hating Eddie Murphy and Kevin Hart for making homophobic jokes but have no problem excusing Randy Rainbow's racist bullshit.

You just gotta love the hypocrisy on DL.

And just more proof that social media will be the destruction of us all. Thank God DL is still anonymous.

Oh, for christ's sake! Randy Rainbow is one of the cleverest satirists on the planet. You fucking woke snowflakes get so excited about the slightest "racist" hint that you're all over it like stink on shit. I like it that someone upthread called him antisemitic. You do know he's Jewish, don't you?

To Randy's detractors, I suggest you go down to CitiBank, take out a loan and buy yourselves a fucking clue.

[quote]It's so strange how people from a group that has been systematically enslaved, denied human rights, denied education, denied fair work and pay, denied legal rights and denied equality can be so touchy about satire.

It wasn't just one or two tweets. It wasn't just ten tweets. It was a hell of a lot of tweets that barely got any likes when they were tweeted. There are 23 at the link and that isn't even all of the ones people found.

Not even that lady that was hired for SNL, who had her racist tweets found, had as many tweets as he did.

One might actually believe with as many tweets as he had that he might, in some small part, actually believe some of the things he said.

There are thousands of people who have tweeted millions of things over the past decade of that platform who don't have as many fucked up tweets as he did and some of them are comics who knew better even back then.

But the issue R40 is that people can't discern satire form Tweets. So old Tweets taken out of context are going to be used against him. This is why everyone with a little bit of fame should hire one of those scrubbers to remove problematic posts or just get remove the posts and stay off social media forever.

r28 = Deplorable

You can cancel him but don't lie about his talent. He's hilarious.

To say otherwise is just like those liars who claim the Cockgobbler isn't hot just because his politics are Deplorable.

Woke people are worse than cancer! Who the fuck cares what he wrote 10 years ago?!

He’s obviously a Datalounger.

[quote] Oh, for christ's sake! Randy Rainbow is one of the cleverest satirists on the planet. You fucking woke snowflakes get so excited about the slightest "racist" hint that you're all over it like stink on shit. I like it that someone upthread called him antisemitic. You do know he's Jewish, don't you? To Randy's detractors, I suggest you go down to CitiBank, take out a loan and buy yourselves a fucking clue.

His comments are not satirical and they are neither entertaining nor amusing. They are idiotic.

Told ya Randy posted here!

Ok, a couple of the offensive Tweets were funny, but the rest are lame jokes that sound like they were made my racist uncle. And the song parodies? Not even as “clever“ as the annoying political satirist/piano-player bowtie guy on PBS. Check out Randy’s “Kamala” song. Weird Al is an edge-lord in comparison.

Really???

R47 = liar.

Just stick to the racism, Toots.

I always look for the good in everyone. Anyone who hates Donald tRump can't be all bad. But he did say some hideous things.

His career was on such an upswing that I wonder what effect this news will have. He just recently celebrated being able to afford a beautiful new apartment in the city.

I think the tweets are offensive and not funny; however, I do hate to see people's lives and careers torn to bits because of shit they texted/blogged/tweeted years before. It just always feels like someone bringing up the past solely to destroy someone else.

Never liked him. I lasted through one of little "bits" and felt nauseated.

Randy—call me!

RR’s social media followers are mostly white, middle-aged fruit flies who adore him, so it’s doubtful he’ll actually be cancelled over this peccadillo.

R28 If you're asking woke people to focus on the bigger picture you're asking too much. They'd rather attack their allies than attack Trump and his supporters.

The only people that find Randy funny and are "fans" of his are middle aged or elderly white people whose ideal politician is Joe Biden. None of them even know how to use Twitter, so no, they won't be cancelling him for it.

Which course will his future take - the Joy Reid or the Dropped-Pie Face Paul?

Now you want to cancel Randy and the Rainbows? Hell no. They get away with this and next thing you know they'll cancel Lou Christie.

The tweets are dumb and he should apologise.

But as the country is being led by actual fascists, I find it hard to get riled up about some things somebody tweeted the years ago in an attempt to be performatively provocative. We have people in power who actively wish harm on minorities in this country. RR’s ill-advised attempts at humour are benign in comparison.

At first I thought this was a thread about "Reading Rainbow". OMG.

The jokes were lame and pretty stupid. His poor attempts at humor were extremely unfortunate, but no reason to “cancel” him. He’ll apologize and we can all move on.

The idea that he was racist before, but now that time has past. he's not, is absurd. He's still the same person and should have been cancelled a long time ago.

Aren't most of his fans on Facebook anyway? Those old fraus don't care about Twitter.

There’s five easy steps he needs to complete to rehabilitate his character.

1. Almost die of Covid

2. Declare they are non binary

3. Marry a trans woman of color and adopt an infant with fetal alcohol syndrome

4. Appear on Oprah

5. Get cast in a Ryan Murphy series

LMAO R65

I like to think this is karmic retribution for his performance of By the Sea at the Sondheim birthday thing.

People should not be held accountable for words they've said in the past. Instead, we should just look into their hearts.

Wow, I'm not the most PC kind of person but even I find that stuff offensive. Why in the world would you post that stuff on Twitter for all the world to read?

That’s a hard 39. I thought Randy was pushing 50! The botox is making her look like the Pee Wee Herman doll that terrified me as a child.

Not that Randy Rainbow is as talented as Joan Rivers, but

This is exactly what people are talking about when they say that a comic as brilliant as Joan Rivers wouldn't be allowed to exist today, because of social media hyper-wokeness and shaming.

When the whole point of what JR did was to say societally considered "offensive" shit to expose it.

He was a young comic experimenting with style and voice — nothing he said was anything worse than what Joan said.

R71 You are wrong about that. Rivers did not do racially offensive jokes in her act.

Wow, what a dipshit. Stop trying to blame this all on "cancel culture" or SJW's. Those jokes (which aren't even funny) are just flat out racist and transphobic, and basic. We see your true colors Randy.

[quote]He's still the same person and should have been cancelled a long time ago.

No, he's not, you imbecile. Personalities, opinions, knowledge change over time (not always to the better, but they do change). Even your ugly-ass body will have renewed every cell within the next 10 years (give or take).

Good news for you: It also means that there is a chance for you... you don't have to stay stupid forever!

First of all, Randy Rainbow is JEWISH, so that sort of negates the anti-Semitic bit. I'm going to reserve judgment about the other stuff until there's more confirmation and/or unless he releases some sort of statement about it. Most of these tweets strike me as rather poor attempts at 'edgy' shock humor a la Andrew Dice Clay or someone of that ilk and not very in keeping with Randy's other material.

He should simply say: that was 10 years ago. I regret it. I do not feel that way now and would never say such things now.

And that should be that.

RR’s Tweets sounds like he was experimenting with a parody of a racist white gay man rather than actually insulting his targets, similar to Stephen Colbert’s persona of a conservative bigot.

[quote]Why is it OK to call it a “white noise machine,” yet offensive to say I bought it to drown out all the “black noise” in my building?

Strong parallel structure conveys the idiocy of the analogy.

[quote]This snow is like all the guys I sleep with; looks all white & pretty now but by morning it’ll seem more hispanic & my wallet will be gone.

This one is sloppy - another intentional bad analogy but the clumsy wording derails it. “More” hispanic? Does that mean the snow-white guys he slept with looked “somewhat hispanic” the night before? Even an absurd joke needs its own internal logic, unless the punchline is about the bad logic of the joke itself. Maybe RR was going for the latter, but it falls flat. He should stick to youtube where he can convey his intentions via facial expressions and vocal inflections.

That was years ago! He didn't mean it! He's a totally different person now and besides, it was more for comedy more than anything else so it makes it okay!

Racist tweets aren’t satire.

R69 I agree it's not that hard not to post racist things unless you don't recognize them as such. R77, you're putting in the work to make it better, but that joke really can't be made better, He said what he meant to say in the way he meant to say it. What makes it seem like he's doing a parody there of a racist other than wanting it to be that way.

Did I miss something? People keep saying years ago, but they span to 2016 don't they? Three years ago isn't, YEARS ago. Even if it was 10 years ago, he would have been 29 and certainly knows better. There are also more than enough racists in the world, why do we need people making 'parodies' of racists?

Randy posts here on DL so much for validation it's no surprise he'd post in defense of himself in order to see what might work before he actually addresses it.

Randy, you just say you're sorry for offending anyone. You're not the same person as you were when you posted it. You've truly learned that in trying to be funny and edgy you made poor decisions and you will do better. Make a statement that you will learn from this and pledge that you will use what you've learned to make a difference. Then pledge some donation to BLM and encourage your fans to do so the same.

You'll be good in two weeks.

I've always found him cringe-worthy.

Same R82. Not remotely funny either. He’s a minstrel show f*g.

She is a bottom right?

He hasn't apologized yet because he's apparently too busy going back and trying to delete all his old posts.

People here saying he's such a genius? This is an example of what you think is genius?

[quote]“This snow is like all the guys I sleep with: Looks all white & pretty now but by morning it’ll seem more Hispanic & my wallet will be gone.”

He's also apparently busy blocking anyone that brings up his past content.

Those are the actions of a guilty mind. So he’s as racist as this all makes him out to be.

Those tweets are pretty bad and I’m surprised he left them up.

His cringe-worthy work will no doubt survive this attack.

Randy claiming he's so brilliant and yet this is what he offers to the world:

It's funny that he also has all these white women defending him saying this is a, "hit job."

Can it be a hit job if you actually did the thing that people are bringing attention to?

Sic gloria transit mundi.

Sick Gloria should be his drag name!

He seems to really hate Asians. Of course that means 90% of DL'ers will say that's ok.

Even in 2010 how does one not have the sense not to say shit like this?

This sort of nails it.

I've never cared for him and something about him always felt off about him.

One thing I’d like clarity about. I’m not sure there’s a logical justification to be given, but I’d like one. The accusation of racism includes him retweeting Kanye West making a comment that included the ‘N’ word. I’ve never quite got this. I find the word abhorrent, I don’t think anyone should use it. Where I can’t see the logic is that Black people use the word in song lyrics, comedy routines and conversation, and even though it’s the same vile word, that’s not only ok but almost encouraged. But a white person doesn't have to use the word in a deliberately insulting way: singing along to the lyrics or retweeting a Black person using it is enough to attract condemnation. So you can laugh at the joke at a comedy club, or like the song on MTV or the radio. But not reference a Black person’s use of the word, even in admiration (I’ll repeat: I’d prefer no-one to use it). This just seems like bad logic.

I don’t feel that Black people using the word has disempowered it, or empowered them, or raised their self-esteem or stopped non-Black racists using the word offensively. I just don’t get it. When Black people use the word, it seems self-harming and without any benefit, almost a way of repeating an old, terrible injury, of mocking and demeaning their own people. What justification for doing this am I not identifying?

I imagine the Randy defenders are the ones ready to burn Ellen at the stake.

Can't stand this fucker.

That’s a dumb take and it makes no sense, R98.

Sieg Heil! r28

So true r15 If these tweets are real then Randy is a very racist gay white man. Datalounge should be loving his ass. As I'm sure they do.

[quote]Racist tweets aren’t satire.

They are when you're trying to make excuses for someone.

I feel like we saw some of these tweets about two years ago, I wonder if someone here on DL posted links to them at one point?

So the party that was complaining about cancel culture yesterday wants to cancel Randy Rainbow today? Makes sense.

How can these social media celebs be that unaware about their social media past coming back to haunt them one day? If I were on social media I'd do some spring cleaning after a while to check uploads from the past which no longer serve their purpose or make me look bad.

I know, right? It's the easiest thing in the world to delete your old tweets, or do a search for certain words and delete those. Yet these morons always keep their tweets up.

Yawn.

LGBTQ Nation has sounded Trumpian for awhile. Randy is a comic/singer/short segment video producer, not a politically correct icon.

Rainbow is Jewish. Calling him antisemitic falls rather flat.

[quote]If I were on social media I'd do some spring cleaning after a while to check uploads from the past which no longer serve their purpose or make me look bad.

Or better yet, don't post them in the first place.

The Alt-right wants Randy to be like their flopping Diamond & Silk.

R95, Twitter was FULL of assholes like that in the early days, from 2007 to roughly 2013 that was the kind of joke you saw all the time.

Actually it wasn't just Twitter, it was on the political blogs too, and sports, music and film blogs, articles on places like Pitchfork and Gawker, forums like Fark and DailyKos. If you weren't really online much from about 2002 through 2012, you wouldn't have seen it and it's hard to understand now, but there was this weird "post-racism" idea floating around on the internet, so people would make jokes about blacks or Chinese people or Jews or gays or what-have-you.

If you didn't live it, it's not easy to understand how much things changed almost literally overnight, mainly because of the Tea Partiers and their ilk. These edgelords making post-racist "jokes" would get replies from bigots and Tea Partiers showing up saying "yeah, the Jews need to be driven out" or something heinous and quickly everyone stopped "joking" like that in the first place.

Love RR.

[quote]Randy is a comic/singer/short segment video producer, not a politically correct icon.

If only he did any of those things even half well.

Trump’s been going after all his enemies really hard lately & it will get worse. I’m suddenly being followed around Twitter by obvious political bots. I just block them. No use engaging. Twitter is putting a lot of people in jail lately because they’re being reported. Like someone said “He should jump off a cliff” & they get reported for “encouraging self harm.” Anyone who insults Trump gets reported as “this tweet is offensive” by rightwingers. So look for a lot of this kind of thing with outrage bots sputtering about racism.

I'm not a fan of the guy. I never understood what was so great about his little skits or whatever, but I'm tired of people getting cancelled for ancient writings with all the context removed. They will scream a thousand screams at this comparison, but the "cancelers" are no better than book burners and the racists and sexists they're always calling out. Comedians can't tell jokes. Satirists can't engage in satire. Don't become the thing you claim to hate.

Here's his classic Melania interview. I forgive him for everything.

So you didn't like him until you found out he was racist but now you support him r116 I get it.

When I find out that someone I wasn't that intrested in is a big time supporter of Black lives matter and very progressive I kind of think of them differently and start to like him more so you and I are kind of flip sides of the same coin.

I'm turned on by social Justice Warriors you're turned on by racists and neo-nazis

Trump cult members & whoever handles Trump’s account are reporting anyone who criticizes Trump claiming it’s offensive & threatening.

This will go on until forever.

Randy Rainbow anti-Semitic!? Ummm... he’s Jewish

True, R120, though it's possible I guess he could be self-loathing on some level.

He’s not “Jewish” like Milo. He’s actually Jewish.

I really hate when tweets and jokes from the comedians early efforts are dragged up and re-evaluated by modern standards. It’s such a huge part of a creative persons process and development to try to figure out where the line is between hilarious and offensive. He didn’t get famous off of these jokes, which I have not seen. He got famous off doing musical parities on YouTube He didn’t get famous off of these jokes, which I have not seen. He got famous off doing musical parities on YouTube

[quote]I really hate when tweets and jokes from the comedians early efforts are dragged up and re-evaluated by modern standards.

Modern standards? Uh...he wasn't writing those tweets in 1958. The standards of 10 years ago for this sort of thing were exactly what they are today.

Those posts are worse than I thought. I hoped they would be twisted out of context - but no.

Why wouldn't you go through and delete your post history? I don't get this. It has happened to so many people .

They wouldn't have been funny 10 years ago either.

Zero tolerance.

Ellen just needs to forgive him and all will be forgotten!

This thread is useful for gauging DL’s gay/frau ratio. It’s about 50/50.

You can't really be cancelled if you're creating your own content. Roseanne was fired by ABC and that SNL guy was fired before he even started. RR may lose some viewers in the short run but it's not like YouTube or Facebook will take away his platform.

I'm not trying to excuse his stupid and unfunny tweets. I just don't think it will really matter in a few weeks/months etc.

Yeah those tweets are blatantly racist. They were in 2010 and they are today.

The gay Stepin Fetchit.

Karen’s not a homo hater, ‘cause she lurrrves Randy Rainbow!

heavy, man

[quote]Yeah, I’m totally sporting a beard and a baseball cap today. If I weren’t also wearing a “Mamma Mia” t-shirt I’d almost look like a lesbian.

Ugh. Seriously Randy, you’ve turned us ALL into lesbians by getting us to say “that’s not funny”

[quote] But a spreadsheet of tweets from 2010 to 2016 has been shared on Twitter that shows another side of Rainbow, depicting Black and Latino people as thieves and murderers, ridiculing transgender women, and using anti-Semitic language."

A typical day at DL

I'm all for anti-P.C. humor, but it has to be funny. The folks on It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia can make it work, because they're genuinely funny. These tweets might as well just be saying "I said black people. Laugh!" It's never even clever or an interesting observation.

However, to call someone out like this means that we believe people can't change and evolve, which I think is bullshit. Why call people out for things that happened in the past if there's no proof they're still doing this in the present? If someone were to have made a list of all the shitty things we all did from out teens to twenties, I'm sure we'd all be in trouble. We've all said and done lousy things at one point or another even if we were too stupid to realize it at the time.

How does he make money? All his videos are free, right? He recently moved from Queens to a nice Upper West Side apartment so he must be making decent money somehow.

^^ He goes on concert tours -- at least until the pandemic.

Ads on YouTube videos can help.

R60 nailed it with, “The tweets are dumb”

These are sophomoric attempts at humor from 10 years ago.

I look forward to his new videos.

you can look forward to his new book too, r141!

i bet there's a great new chapter too!

I've just never thought Randy to be entertaining or funny so who cares.

Joy Reid just got a prime time cable slot. Kevin Hart still makes millions. Nobody cares.

[quote] Joy Reid just got a prime time cable slot. Kevin Hart still makes millions. Nobody cares.

Datalounge cares. Datalounge continues to denounce them both.

"Datalounge cares. Datalounge continues to denounce them both."

And in the strongest possible terms, even!

>>Ugh. Seriously Randy, you’ve turned us ALL into lesbians by getting us to say “that’s not funny”

Your anti-lesbian response is hilarious!

[Quote]to call someone out like this means that we believe people can't change and evolve, which I think is bullshit.

I disagree with it being bullshit, r137. This is actually a concern, because it's unclear if these quips were attempts at edgy humor, or his opinions veiled as such. If he has changed and evolved in both those regards, then he needs to come clean and explain himself. The offended people thought he represented a progressive point of view, in contrast to the bigoted viewpoints he parodies. As of right now, that's in doubt, because he's still keeping quiet about all of this.

Sorry, to say that these tweets were from 10 years ago and it was a different time and therefore it's not that bad is just off. First of all, these jokes would have been considered racist back in 2010, unless you had no common sense. Second, those excusing it saying that they were from such a long time ago... the Tweets are from 2010 - 2016. Are you all forgetting that 2016 was not that long ago?

By that logic you must forgive Dotard for his Birtherism attempts and for saying Mexicans are all rapists and drug dealers.

Then again, I imagine most that are rationalizing this kind of behavior are most likely not any of the minorities that he targeted.

That being said, he'll be just fine. He'll make an apology and all will be forgiven and forgotten.

Randy, I've got tons of Max Factor Light Egyptian when you need it.

I don’t recall It's Always Sunny making racial or ethnic jokes. Maybe I'm wrong but...

R151 Lethal Weapon 5, The Gang Turns Black, The Gang Gets Racist was the first episode. Hulu removed the billboard episode because of Dee's characters, plus a few other episodes as well.

I probably never saw them then

[quote]Where I can’t see the logic is that Black people use the word in song lyrics, comedy routines and conversation, and even though it’s the same vile word, that’s not only ok but almost encouraged.

You don't have to get it.

Just listen to black people and don't use it.

If there's a possibility that a word could hurt someone's feelings why intentionally use it? IDGI

This sort of tells you that Randy doesn't really give a fuck about his racisist posts, or rather, only cares about them now that it's garnered a lot of attention.

I just noticed that this post calling him out was from back in May 2020. You'd think that Randy would have deleted this shit back then but he didn't. I think instead he just blocked the guy and left the Tweets up.

So what does that say?

Also, it's not a good idea to repeat what rappers say in polite society because by and large rappers say really rude things.

He's a top DLer now.

Unsubscribed to him on YouTube.

Too bad Oprah’s show isn’t around to feature a big Randy Rainbow Apologizes show. Maybe he can head to rehab for exhaustion, America loves to give shamed performers a second chance.

At least he already got a deal for his biography. Can the publishing company take back any money they gave him upfront, or cancel the deal outright?

Those old jokes seemed funny but in bad taste to me, like a lot of good jokes, and I can see how they wouldn't at all fit in with Mr. Rainbow's current image of a truth-teller to the mean orange man in the White House. They did at least cause this extremely funny caption from the LGBTQNation article to be written: "In one tweet, he made fun of the Civil Rights movement by equating it to eating ice cream."

R158 I would love to go to rehab for exhaustion right about now!

Trolls be tryin so hard

[quote]If there's a possibility that a word could hurt someone's feelings why intentionally use it? IDGI

Because using that same word repeatedly in music that non-blacks buy, and then claim it hurts your feelings when someone "else" uses it?

You're selling racism down Old Man River for some coin.

THERE is your reparation.

Which side are the trolls?

[quote]Which side are the trolls?

Under the rainbow bridge.

Fresh Air interview.

r148 of course they are attempts at humor you idiot. They just aren't funny. I love politically incorrect humor and even I don't find any of these tweets in the slightest to be funny but then I find RR to be one of the most annoying, ingratiating entertainers around. I actually can't stand people that DO like him. I suppose people like R148 think Dave Chappelle are not funny either because they are showing all their "anti" whatever -ism too. I'm glad somebody found this schtick of Randy's funny at some point in time so it wasn't totally wasted but man this guy is one comedian I'll never watch so I'll never have to worry about canceling or unsubscribing from. I know most of DL loves him though so i am in the minority here.

When RR, much like Ellen Degeneres, found he could make lots of money criticizing Trump, he ditched the racist comments rather than living his truth like Mel Gibson or Roseanne Barr, who do little to hide their nasty personalities. RR’s fakeness is astounding.

Most bullies and bigots DON’T evolve because it’s a trait ingrained in them since early childhood. They simply fake being nice, tolerant, woke, etc. He also reminds me of Shane Dawson because the sheer volume of comments indicates either an obsession or deeply held beliefs about race, just as Shane Dawson seems to have an obsession with race AND pedophilia based on the dozens of “jokes” he made about both subjects. Kevin Hart was nowhere near as prolific.

R152, that sucks they took that episode down. Especially for the shower scenes, ahem. ;-)

Seriously though, they weren't mocking black people, they were poking fun at how absurd doing blackface itself is. The characters are all miscreants, alcoholics and drug addicts to begin with.

R168 don't forget Shane's penchant for bestiality. Specifically repeatedly making jokes about raping his pets.

R151, there's too many to list. There's one episode, for example, where they are on a mission to get some crack/cocaine so they drive around stopping random black people on the street to try and score some shit.

"The gang" are all hot messes.

The "It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia" episode that got taken down was actually criticizing black face.

Who is Shane Dawson? I’ve only ever heard of him in DL comments.

The Gang is always, always the butt of the racial jokes, not black folks, and Charlie Day is actually a great musical satirist while RR is an embarrassing hack:

I rolled my eyes when I saw the headline but the tweets are really pretty bad. Many are just distasteful racist jokes but taken in sum he kind of seems like an actual racist.

[quote] The standards of 10 years ago for this sort of thing were exactly what they are today.

In 2008 (so, 12 years ago), during Project Runway’s fourth season, Christian Siriano casually used the term “hot tranny mess” — and as a result so did a lot of gays for many, many months afterward. Siriano got grief for it from GLAAD and people gradually stopped using it. We now know that term is not acceptable during public discourse. (Though there are some people here on DL who continue to use it.) That’s not to excuse his use of it, just to give some context that at least in regard to that word, standards have evolved.

But who will Twitter fraus adopt as their sassy, musical, comfortably asexual, virtual gay friend now?

R176 Siriano is a prime example of someone who did a great job of rehabbing his image.

[quote]You can't really be cancelled if you're creating your own content.

Yes, you can be because companies that give a shit won't work with you or advertise with you. So that decreases the amount of money you will make.

[quote]Because using that same word repeatedly in music that non-blacks buy, and blah blah blah, I'm an asshole prick who who just wants to be racist! You're selling racism down Old Man also I'm stupid. THERE is your I'm a Republican vote for Trump in 2020!

Thank you for being honest R163.

Isn’t he Jewish?

[quote]You can't really be cancelled if you're creating your own content.

How does this make sense? Who are you going to create that content for if people have "cancelled" you and won't consume it?

R180 Is that supposed to make him tolerant and socially aware? Does that mean he is not cynically faking it for $$$ ?

[quote]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. Before he died, my father said of Trump, ‘I can’t watch him, because he reminds me of me.’ My father had all that phony B.S.

Yes - the snake-oil salesman energy is quite strong.

From the article at link:

In a recent sit down with The Advocate, Rainbow, who is nominated for his second Emmy for Best Short Form Variety Series for The Randy Rainbow Show, took a moment to speak about the tweets.

“Twitter has recently reminded me about 10 years ago, in my maiden quest to be funny, I tweeted some jokes that were completely offensive and insensitive to look back on them now, especially with no context or nuance and through the prism of where we are in 2020 with racial inequality and the fight for social justice, which I'm proudly a part of,” he begins. “In light of issues that are now at the forefront, which I'm passionate about and have spoken up about over the years, these tweets just sound racist and awful. I'm embarrassed by them. They make me sick to my stomach, in fact, and I deeply apologize to anyone I offended.”

The aforementioned tweets, some of which have been deleted, span from 2010 to 2011 and reference racist tropes.

Rainbow explains that at the time, he was in the early stages of crafting the “character” he’s now known for.

“The comedy landscape was completely different back then,” he argues. “This kind of edgy shock comedy was not only acceptable but a prevalent style. I was an aspiring comedian in my 20s working the stages in gay nightclubs where we said the most outlandish, raunchy things we could think of. I was searching for my comedy voice, my persona, and I was emulating styles and jokes of people that I was seeing in the mainstream.”

“I am in no way a racist. I am in no way transphobic,” he adds. “I’m a gay Jew who was brought up in a very open, accepting family. There is not a racist or intolerant bone in my body. When I say that I have evolved with the times, I mean that my comedy has. I did not need to be taught not to be racist or transphobic because I never was.”

Rainbow goes on to explain it’s been “determined” that he’s being politically targeted and there's an ongoing investigation.

“I'm being threatened. I'm being harassed,” says Rainbow, who earlier this week posted a video dedicated to Kamala Harris, referencing a song from Lerner and Loewe's Camelot. “It’s no coincidence that it's happening in the midst of a very contentious election because I use my platform every day to speak truth to power and shine a light on inequities and injustices of the world, and expose truly intolerant and racist people. There are nefarious people out there who want to silence me because they don't like what I really have to say.”

So he's been targeted by using his own words?

I also hate the "no context" argument for tweets. What context can a tweet have? Unless it's part of a thread - and if it is, it will show as a thread - then by it's very nature it's without context. Anyone using that argument should be forced to give the context for each of their tweets which suddenly makes them okay.

God what a hot mess. Those tweets are something else - really poor judgement, crass as fuck, and its not like I'm classy and shit neither.

Its a pity because he is cute and sexy as fuck. I'd pay for his OnlyFans if he had one

I reckon he looks great for 39 too

Thanks, R183. All of which we expected and much of which we predicted. He’ll likely be able to survive. That said, he should have been aware that when you issue an apology you never add the qualifier “to anyone I offended.” You offended everyone except the bigots.

[quote] “I'm embarrassed by them. They make me sick to my stomach, in fact, and I deeply apologize [bold] to anyone I offended.” [/bold]

R186 That's only if you actually are sorry.

He's sorry he got called out for it. That's about it.

Also did he apologize first on his own social.media or did he only do it in an interview? That in itself will tell you a lot.

He’s not that big a part of my life to care actually

I love all the very earnest captions in the article: oh noes, he implied lesbians are mannish and humorless! And that Asians have small dicks.

[quote] I also hate the "no context" argument for tweets. What context can a tweet have? Unless it's part of a thread - and if it is, it will show as a thread - then by it's very nature it's without context.

See R191. The article added captions because otherwise no one would understand the joke or know if it was part of an act.

R189, on Twitter he posted twice both with links to the Advocate article. He quoted from the article in one post, and wrote an apologize on the other.

I never thought RR was funny.

After reading the tweets, he’s actually pretty hilarious

At least he addressed it. For that alone he doesn’t get a pass, but he shouldn’t be crucified for his stupidity in the past.

[quote]At least he addressed it.

You say that like he had a choice.

And don't forget, this was brought to his attention months ago and he didn't care to address it then nor did he care to remove the Tweets. He kept them up until it got more traction and blew up.

I think his apology is adequate. I'm over it. Comedians do weird shit sometimes.

We should forgive all locker room talk too. Especially if it was years ago.

[quote]“hot tranny mess”

Like "retarded", certain words and phrases just capture the description perfectly, no matter un-pc they are.

[quote]We should forgive

Forgiving and cancelling are not mutually exclusive. We can forgive him for being a racist, but that doesn't negate the need to cancel him for it.

The problem with the “cancel culture” is the seemingly constant, insatiable, and never ending nature of it. When we’re cancelling people left and right each week, it not only becomes exhausting, it also begins to lose its potency.

Wow. A racist, transphobic, lesbophobic gay man. Color me unsurprised.

Considering he made these comments ten years ago when he was still figuring himself out as a comic, 98% of DL is still more transphobic and racist than RR. And, I don't particularly care for him.

Why do people keep saying he made these comments 10 years ago? The comments were from 2010 - 2016. Four years ago was not a long time ago.

Four years ago we were still not in the middle of this insane woke culture that's threatening to destroy our ability to laugh at ourselves.

Randy, if you're reading this, I never thought you were all that funny but I hate the stupid woke culture that's trying to destroy you over a bunch of tweets that clearly had no malice in them and were pretty fast and funny. What are you gonna do, these are the times we live in, subjected to a bunch of simplistic cretins who get to play moral censors and deviate the culture to their whim. I really do hope you recover.

It’s wrong today.. I get it and won’t use it... but the word “tranny” was common 10 years ago. We learn, we stop using it and we move on. I remember saying “retarded” as as kid, and would never use it today. Does that make me a horrible person?

We weren't four years ago?

So four years ago was it acceptable to say Mexicans were all rapists and drug dealers?

[quote] We weren't four years ago? So four years ago was it acceptable to say Mexicans were all rapists and drug dealers?

It didn't hinder your fellow countrymen to elect someone who said it regularly to the highest office of the country. So, yeah, apparently, it was acceptable to most Americans...

R209, it wasn't acceptable to "most Americans." "Most Americans," did not vote for him.

My jokes were always taken out of context too.

[quote]In 2008 (so, 12 years ago), during Project Runway’s fourth season, Christian Siriano casually used the term “hot tranny mess” — and as a result so did a lot of gays for many, many months afterward

"Hot tranny mess" was a common phrase long before that, too; I used it in an article I wrote in 2006 for a gay website and had to change it in about 2012 when that website did a thorough vetting of past posts.

Like I said above, this edgelord kind of humor was everywhere back then, you were often asked to specifically include something like that in your article.

Who cares, RR should just ignore it and keep tweeting and making videos

I cut comedians a lot of slack, particularly when they're young. They are searching for who they are and how to be funny in a way that's true. He obviously hadn't found it when he wrote those awful tweets, but unless he starts tweeting that way again tomorrow, I'm over it. I like his music parody videos. He's very clever. And I'm not going to stop liking them now bc of some stuff said years ago.

Yes, youve told us multiple times now.

Is DL the only place trying to cancel Randy?

He makes jokes, get the fuck over it.

[quote]At first I thought this was a thread about "Reading Rainbow". OMG

Thanks, the theme is stuck in my head now, lol.

Twitter feed from the past

Will bite you in the ass

Racist jokes - delete them, folks.

Oh Randy Rainbow

If...you’ve slurred Mexicans,

Your right wing foes

Will give you woes

Oh Randy Rainbow.

Black... trans or lesbian,

You’ve scorned them all,

Forget Stonewall

Oh Randy Rainbowwww

Oh, Randy! Glad to have you back!

And R218 and that was better than anything dear Randy ever put together.

They know he’s Jewish, right?

[quote] Rainbow also attacked Asian people, like referring to actor B.D. Wong as a woman (based on the stereotype that Asian men are feminine).

This one is news to me.

His original videos were laughably bad and looked like they were put together but someone who didn’t even know basic photoshop. Willam Belli had a field day with him. I guess he blew someone with computer skills.

[quote] He's won Emmys. He's funny.

He has?

These tweets will follow him for the rest of his career.

[quote] Sorry, to say that these tweets were from 10 years ago and it was a different time

It’s utterly laughable that so many here are insisting these tweets were from “a different time.” 2010 was not 1958; if anything, open racism was tolerated LESS than today.

The story has now been picked up by every major publication. He’s fucked.

Or maybe not. I don’t know if he’s big enough to be cancelled. It lose him a number of offers though.

If that was the case, R226, then we wouldn't have these scandals from old social media posts happening on a once-a-month basis.

I agree that it's easier for someone like James Woods or Chuck Woolery to be utter scum online, but we've seen relatively normal folks targeted, like Sarah Cooper, James Gunn, Chrissy Tiegen, a few dozen sports dudes, even an everyday guy who raised $1M for charity who tweeted something dumb when he was a teenager and got screamed at for a week about it.

The thing is that cancel culture is usually aimed at the Liberals for some reason. Why? Is it because everybody knows you can't shame anyone conservative from the right wing?

The double standard has to stop. Otherwise, cancel culture is just a rigth wing ploy to discredit and hurt outspoken Liberals.

His Twitter followers are already saying how they forgive him. This story is going to be a distant memory by next week.

There are a lot of comments here defending his use of ‘tranny’ because the word had a pop culture moment...but did you defenders not notice alllll the other tweets? The guy put a lot of seriously racist shit out there. And whether he wrote those things four years ago or 10 years ago, many of those tweets are just overtly racist, the sort of thing that Milo Yiannopoulos would have tweeted.

I’m not a ‘canceler.’ People can be extended grace for past mistakes when they apologize and show they have evolves. And I am not that invested in Randy Rainbow although I have enjoyed many of his videos. All that said, a lot of these tweets would be genuinely shocking written by anyone, and if they had been written by someone you hate, you’d be inclined to eviscerate them for it. He does need to demonstrate contrition. And people can decide individually whether or not they place any faith in his political messaging going forward.

I can't be bothered looking at this person's tweeting history.

Which are his most HEINOUS tweets?

Which are his most SHOCKING and his most UNFORGIVEABLE?

The most shocking thing about all of this is that Randy Rainbow is his birth name.

That’s his birth name????!!!!!

My God, I so don’t care about this issue

Oh hi, Melania at R236!

Seems like shock comedy like Sarah Silvermans’s old schtick. My friends and I used to try to shock each other with pretty horrible stuff looking back. We weren’t serious, but none of it would fly today and I wouldn’t say any of it now.

[quote]That’s his birth name????!!!!!

I heard his father Gerry was a talent agent who changed his last name from Ribner to Rainbow before Randy was born. They sound like the Nutter family from Showbiz Moms & Fads.

^^ I meant “Showbiz Moms and Dads” lol.

"Seems like shock comedy like Sarah Silvermans’s old schtick. My friends and I used to try to shock each other with pretty horrible stuff looking back. We weren’t serious, but none of it would fly today and I wouldn’t say any of it now."

Yes, that's right. I still say it with my closest. It's like you have to form a secret society with your closest friends nowadays to be yourself. What a crock. So fucking sick of the cancel culture.

I still use the words retard and retarded to describe people and situations. Who cares about being PC to retards? It's not like they'll know the difference.

The words f*g and f*ggot are still popular to describe any man who’s “less than.” Like the Fox sportscaster who recently got caught saying it on a hot mic. And it was so casual. Imagine if everyone involved in pro sports were cancelled for saying the f*g word. There would be no pro sports.

People who are "exhausted" by minor pop culture kerfuffles sound so silly. Physical labor is exhausting. If you are "exhausted" by looking at stuff on the internet-- go do something else.

I'm not one much for cancelling, but he annoys me enough to kinda hope it happens in this instance.

It wasn’t so much words but the excruciating detail Randy goes into about the criminality of POC, the femininity of Asian men, etc. I think it was stupid even if he was experimenting as the gay Andrew Dice Clay for a year and he should of deleted the Tweets, but his huge Frau base is Teflon so he’ll be fine. Lorna Luft is on his side, for god’s sake! An heir apparent of Judy’s f*g hag dynasty!

Randy apologizing.

Of course, the haters will not be convinced.

Why should they be convinced? He didnt just do it once or twice, as some people commented he seemed fixated with those particular groups he targeted. Those that aren't bothered are most likely not the people he targeted. Had he been someone you dislike, like Drumpf, you may not be so quick to dismiss him. If you want to believe him, great, why do you care if others don't?

r248. So, you didn't read his apology then? You ignore his reasoning completely.

Why would you assume I didn't, R249? It was already posted above.

His apology is a non-apology and he's full of shit. He wants to make it sound like he did this 10 years ago before he discovered his comedic "persona." These tweets were not just from 10 years ago... they were also from 2016, well after he established his newest "persona."

Additionally, as I mentioned above, I have known Randy in real life for years. I know that he didn't make comments like these "just" in an attempt to be funny. He would routinely text things like this to his friends all the time and he'll be lucky if one of them doesn't decide to throw him under the bus by leaking some of those them.

He also isn't sorry he did it.. he's sorry he got caught. As previously mentioned, this was brought up to him back in May and he didn't apologize then, nor did he delete the Tweets. He only did it after it blew up and got traction.

His "reasoning: is that he was doing it as a "character," and people should take it in that context. People are welcome to. Others will see it more like he used a "character" to hide behind so he could say those things.

And just to clarify, I'm not advocating that Randy get "cancelled," I don't really care one way or the other. He made his apology and he'll be fine because people will forget about it in two weeks. But not everyone has to believe he's sincere or actually believe he isn't the person who Tweeted these things four years ago.

Randy, I think it's funny you spent more time blocking people who were calling you out than you did on deleting the Tweets and making your apology!

[quote]He's also transphobic.

Mother Nature was the world's first TERF.

[quote]I have known Randy in real life for years. I know that he didn't make comments like these "just" in an attempt to be funny. He would routinely text things like this to his friends all the time and he'll be lucky if one of them doesn't decide to throw him under the bus by leaking some of those them.

He’s like Ellen, pretending to be an agent for social change because it’s profitable and his raunchy bigot schtick that is his true personality didn’t work for him, so he did a 180.

That said, I doubt his friends or colleagues will throw him under the bus unless he’s slighted them in some way ala Ellen. Even then, why would his mostly female or eldergay fans who adore him care?

So his Trump-bashing had nothing to do with any political convictions and was just a cover-up for his own unexamined prejudices.

So, he apologizes and it's not good enough. What is an acceptable apology? This is what bothers me the most about all this stuff. Everyone says "oh, if he'd just apologize, people would forgive him and everything would be fine. All we want is an apology" and then that apology is never good enough.

Bitch, I've been reading rainbows for decades!

R254 hit the nail on the head.

Which is the "persona," the one he first did which was racist and homophobic and didn't work? Or the new one which has him being a conduit for political change?

Which one is truest to his real personality?

With regard to who would throw him under the bus? He has a number of people in his close circle who he's managed to piss off.

R256, some people want an apology and what he did will be enough. Others don't care if he apologizes or not because they don't believe it and don't really care if he is cancelled or not. Both can exist.

[quote] Imagine if everyone involved in pro sports were cancelled for saying the f*g word. There would be no pro sports.

I'm not seeing a downside.

No more hot jocks to jerk off to.

R261 Quite the opposite - they'd all be creating their OnlyFans, not like they'd want to get real jobs.

I'm not white nor am I a woman and I thought his trans mesh and white noise joke was pretty funny, so sue me!

I don't think he should've apologized. I don't really watch his videos, they're a little too vanilla on the humour for me, but if he incorporated some of that "offensive" streak he had in his earlier days I would definitely watch them.

[quote]Why do people keep saying he made these comments 10 years ago? The comments were from 2010 - 2016. Four years ago was not a long time ago.

Let me guess, new math?

2020 - 2010 = (surprise) 10

R73, Lol You must be new here because no one on DL gives a damn about "transphobia".

Note to all aspiring "comedians"...

Btw gay men have been using the term tranny since forever, and way before the transgenders co-opted it and claimed it to be offensive. So they can fuck off.

R264 Perhaps you can try again?

2020-2016 = 4.

[quote]So his Trump-bashing had nothing to do with any political convictions and was just a cover-up for his own unexamined prejudices.

No - I think he’s a hustler much like his father, doing anything that brings him attention, fame and $$$. In the WaPo interview, RR says “My father was Donald Trump in many ways... his narcissism.” However, like his father and Trump, RR’s only true political conviction seems to be “do whatever benefits my career.”

More hot goss about RR in real life! Is he a sloppy drunk? Have you ever seen him giving head at a party? Is he a thoughtful gift giver?

What about Reading Rainbow? And what about the 1970s PBS show "Zoom"?

Ritchie Rainbow says whatchu talking bout Willis? Dyno-MITE!

I think he is very talented.

So I am very disappointed in those old tweets -- because the jokes are so lame.

He's clever and he's fast. And he loves Broadway. He is a bit tame and another in the long list of gay court jesters for straight white women of the leisure class. An archetype. So, I'm not heartbroken to see Randi brought down to earth. His fairy dust was a bit too precious and regressive. He won't be cancelled. He's amusing. People were going to tire of his schtick soon anyway. The old tweets ain't cute and he's lying when she says that he was trying on a persona. Because he's nothing like that in his fey gay way at all. Randy Rainbow reminds me of Yashar Ali and Shaun King. They like access to important people of cheap acclaim more than anything. And they chase whatever ambulance will get them there fastest. Of course he's racist and transphobic. He has to pay for dick. And he like them young, white and smooth.

I always suspect when a well-known person in this situation feels the need to apologize, it's because they're truly beginning to feel the effects of the blowback, which in turn means their fear of it causing lasting damage to their career has gone up up up. Plus there's the fact that, going forward, people may think of him as a hypocrite if he posts clips mocking Dump and Rethugs for being racist when his own racist shit is out there.

[quote] People were going to tire of his schtick soon anyway.

Well, like Colbert, when tRump is out if office, he will have lost the main source of material for much much of his satire/comedy.

If you want me to hate him, it's going to take more than mocking crazy trannies to do it.

Racists on DL see themselves in RR so there's nothing that is going to convince them that he did anything wrong.

He likes the Jeffersons, he can’t be racist.

[quote] The words f*g and f*ggot are still popular to describe any man who’s “less than.”

No they aren’t.

[quote] Well, like Colbert, when tRump is out if office, he will have lost the main source of material for much much of his satire/comedy.

You never saw The Colbert Report. You’re beyond ignorant.

Colbert is a boring old fool. Old before his time kind of dude. Those bad suits and his terrible timing at everything. His talk show TANKED until trump was elected. Colbert is neither funny or a good interviewer, attractive or dynamic in anyway. His only reason to exist is to do his cringeworthy Trump imitation erryday and have on democratic leaders or pundits every DAMN night of the week. For years. He's had a few good musical guests but no one can get through his show to wait for them. He was a terrible choice to host Letterman's old show. The Colbert Report wasn't very good either, but that satire would seem very tame these days anyway. He's smug for no good reason. Colbert works best from home. Without a camera on him. Or a show.

^ I'm not American so I've been mystified by the clips I've seen of Colbert. I had assumed the character's nerdishness is all a satirical joke just like Edna Everage and Titania McGrath.

[quote]Rainbow also attacked Asian people, like referring to actor B.D. Wong as a woman (based on the stereotype that Asian men are feminine).

M. Butterfly dear. Google it.

R278 is right but left out transgender and lesbian hatred.

R285, those two things are not remotely related at all.

No, of course not, R286. Racism, sexism, transphobia, and homophobia are in no way connected.* 🙄

[quote] You never saw The Colbert Report. You’re beyond ignorant.

🙄

Colbert struck gold when tRump was elected. He has been rather adept at skewering that fat fuck. But Cheatolini is an easy target, and whenever Colbert strays from that topic, his humor often falls flat. More than that, it can be just downright odd. I know that he thinks he’s extremely clever and exceptionally witty, but he’s really not. His jokes are not particularly funny or amusing unless he’s mocking the Dotard.

His interviewing skills are uneven at best, but they are distinctly disadvantaged when he rather jarringly tries to switch from serious interview questions to making inappropriate jokes at the guest’s expense.

So, I guess we’ll find out in about six months just how good of a comedian / talk show host he is when he doesn’t have the principal object of his derision to mock any longer.

How I wish he were better looking.

Bottom line: its 2020. He's finished. I hate 2020.

Oh dear. The ancient bigots of DL are having a national holiday because someone young has turned out to be as bigoted and nasty as them.

Just don't dare to bring Colbert into it. You're not worthy to be in the same sentence as that man.

Colbert is God.

[quote] Just don't dare to bring Colbert into it. You're not worthy to be in the same sentence as that man.

🙄 MARY!!!!

I’ll bring up anyone I damn well want to. And, if you don’t like it, 🤷‍♂️

Seems fake. Russians? Who knows but it is hilariously large in scope. Fake.

[quote]*Except They Are only connected in the minds of racists, sexists, and homophobes of which R287 is one of the worst.

Fixed.

Russians are desperate to earn their rubles (worth nothing). DL has been infiltrated. Guess what? We are on to you this time. Your low IQ shtick is hilarious.

He hates Trump so that makes his other tweets okay.

No, it doesn't. But yeah. You think just like Debra Messing, Alyssa Milano and Patty Arquette R297.

They want to cancel him. Cancel. Hmmmm

Cancel him

And let him go

Yeah, sister!

They're gonna wash that man right outa their hair,

They're gonna wash that man right outa their hair,

They're gonna wash that man right outa their hair,

And send him on his way!

Randy has excellent diction

He should blame the tweets on Russian hackers. That always works.

Yes Joy. That's been suggested 3 or 4 times already on this thread.

If you think bigotry is limited to old people, R291, you are grossly mistaken.

Nobody, but nobody plays the nobility game better than Alyssa Milano. She's not gonna let you get her down. Take lessons and take charge of your story Randy. I'm starting to admire that crazy woman.

R301 and he's beautiful, absolutely gorgeous, pity he has such poor judgement. No doubt he will learn from this though

At least he's apologised

To each their own. But Randy Rainbow is not gorgeous. He looks like Pee Wee Herman.

^. Pee Wee Herman had to go away for nine years until we forgave him for his sins. I guess Sinful Randy will be waiting until 2029.

I guess this is no news to many, but it was only recently that I figured out that Randy Rainbow is the male stewardess who sings the word "diarrhea" in the Pepto-Bismol commercial. I [italic]knew[/italic] he looked familiar.

[quote] Pee Wee Herman had to go away for nine years until we forgave him for his sins.

It was just a couple of months

Randy looks like that character Stewart from MadTV.

[quote]This story is going to be a distant memory by next week.

That's how these "cancellations" almost always go. The vast majority of people who are "cancelled" are really just people who got criticized for a few days, plus the alt-right shit-stirring trolls all over the internet crying "He's finished! I hate SJWs! They have ruined the world!" to try to rile people up.

Sure, this will be forgotten next week (given our ever-changing news cycle) but I don't think it will be forgotten in terms of RR's career. That doesn't mean his career is finished, it just means anyone wanting to sign him or do business with him will find this information in their research on him (if they don't just outright remember it) and will take it into account before making a final decision.

[quote] Pee Wee Herman had to go away for nine years until we forgave him for his sins.

It was a porno theatre. It is an insult to my intelligence to believe he wasn't the only one playing with his pee-wee. It's not like he was whipping it out in front of kids at a screening of [italic]The Rescuers Down Under[/italic]. That whole thing was blown three times out of proportion.

R309, The guy who sings “diarrhea” is Olivier Renaud.

>>male stewardess

Oh dear!

Two thirds of the DL respondents here say this comedian is evil, sinful and must be cancelled.

The remaining third say it's all OK.

No one called him evil or sinful R317. But I'm with the 2/3 who think his career should suffer. There are a lot of old white gay men who don't understand Black Lives Matter or care that Asian gays are really discriminated against in our community. Or that outright diminishing people of other cultures because you're ashamed of being a girly jew is not cool. But most any dolt can recognize clearly racist and transphobic tweets. Randy has quite a cache of them.

Rainbow has no warmth or real persona to his work that we know of. That was part of the fun. He's a bit sinister it seems. But when he claims that his old tweets (from 5 years ago, when he was 34) make him sick to his stomach - it reminds me that he recently moved into a pricey new upper west side place. That he was proud to show off. Guys like him are a bit of a mystery. No one wants to fuck them, but they also don't come across as very real to other gay men. He's a court jester for rich white women. But he no doubt has his taste and proclivities. He's single but he can afford dick. Like Billy Eichner - they are paranoid to the point of resentful that some find them attractive now. It's a gay jew thing, based in reality. The white ladies of Twitter and Broadway will continue their private support of him. He's gonna be fine. But the dude was busted. This isn't a fake scandal. He really was outed for a queeny white piece of princess who thinks its funny to degrade people and mock his superiors. He's a racist. Every black man is more desirable to me than Randrew Rainbow. He looks like a bloodless plastic doll wearing lipstick. I assumed it was a character. But it's really him. Prissy bitch.

R318 For how long should this person suffer?

I think Catholics say sinners should suffer in purgatory for aeons.

I just do not understand the motivation for cancelling Randy Rainbow. Clout? That should give you reverse clout. "Girl, you spent your whole night digging through his tweets?"

He's not suffering. He's hiding. He can hide for the rest of his life. Fine with me. What would we be missing? His talent is disposable and forgettable.

[quote]He is a bit tame and another in the long list of gay court jesters for straight white women of the leisure class.

RR reminds me of a less-talented, out-of-the-closet version of Danny Kaye: also a Jew with a goywashed surname who put on the innocent, asexual naif act that is so loved by the Frauen. Both complete assholes IRL.

R320, R321 Small-minded haters LOVE to hate. Mercy is not in their vocabulary.

Is that like spreading hate by making racism and bigotry the center of your "comedy" at the expense of others?

Mercy? We don't have to condemn Randy Rainbow. He doesn't have a job you can fire him from. But I have blocked him and will never watch another of his Youtube videos again. That's his career. Some of you old white fags love to make fun of other youtubers. That's all Randy Rainbow is. Was. Clever and fast. Good with whatever that tool is that edits his videos. He was starting to do quite large theater shows too. I'm aware. I suspect he'll come back. But his talent is not the kind that anyone needs to support for long. It's a fleeting kind of amusement. He's not Sarah Cooper who is a discernible human being with a personality of her own. And her OWN comedic voice and talent than SHE can expand beyond 3 minutes and 30 seconds of showtune parody. She's not limited to Tiktok. Randy had a good thing going. And it's not gone. But I won't watch him anymore. Let him lose followers and views. He should. What the fuck does mercy have to do with it? Are you drunk gay gramps @ R323?

I'm plenty merciful when a dude fucks up. His snivelling lies about it are what gets him cancelled.

Fuck you, cancelers! You, R318, you say he shouldn't shame other cultures and you call him a girly Jew? Jesus what a crock of shit.

Who *is* he? Never heard of him. Never watched him, read about him, noticed him. Never heard friends/family/colleagues/neighbors mention him.

I am on Twitter a lot and I don't sense that this is sticking on Randy Rainbow.

Next week is the Republican convention. Randy will have new videos out. I'd be surprised if he's not working on "I Never Promised You a Rose Garden" right now.

[quote]The most shocking thing about all of this is that Randy Rainbow is his birth name.

That's some RuPaul Charles Realness right there!

R327 have no fear, Randy will be here shortly to tell you all about how wonderful he is!

331 comments on this guy? Really?

R332 A goodly amount of these 331 comments are more interested in this new phenomenon of the Cancel Culture brigade.

Conservatives bitch about cancel culture, but they love to weaponize it against liberals they can dig up dirt on and watch the liberal circular firing squad eliminate their enemies for them.

Who expected Randy Rainbow to always be politically correct and to have never said things that would offend some others?

He's a silly entertainer. Republican politicians, certain news and sportcasters, TV blow-hards, Hollywood actors, televangelists, etc. have gotten away with worse.

None of that makes it right, R335.

[R332] A goodly amount of these 331 comments are Randy Rainbow more interested in himself than in this new phenomenon of the Cancel Culture brigade.

Does he sing "Oh, Denise, Dooby Do"?

Mrs. Rainbow is all up in this thread trying to do damage control.

Holy shit! OP is homophobic as fuck. He’s anti-Semitic, too.

R340 I would not be surprised if OP is Randy herself. Seriously. She’s that much of an attention ho.

How big is Randy’s cock?

Why are there so many

Posts about Rainbow

And what's on his dark inside...

Rainbow is vicious, and somewhat pernicious

And Rainbow has something to hide....

Agreed R344. But Randy just played his Trump Card. A duet with......Patti LuPone!!! He's not going anywhere, yet. No longer cancelled.

LEAVE RANDY ALONE!!!!

He’s not! He’s fine! He sends his love!

Was this duet recorded before all of his old tweets were exposed? If so, I wonder if Patti is regretting having done the duet with him. Didn't Lady Gaga get a lot of flack for her duet with R Kelly?

I have a hard time imagining anyone coming for Patti. She scares me.

For fuck's sake, once again it was "shock humor". Howard Stern has made over a billion dollars being a "shock jock". Now he rescues kittens . There was no malice in RR's jokes.

JK Rowling bashed the trans and got “cancelled” which means cruising around Iceland on her super-yacht in expensive furs and getting support from the majority who agree with her while the fringe element calms the fuck down and moves on to their next target (although being criticized or boycotted is not exactly “cancelation,” come to think of it.)

J. K. Rowling's problem is that it doesn't matter if most people agree with her -- most of them are afraid to say so.

Why, R352?

R350 is right. And I really had to check out what he said about Howard Stern From Wikipaedia;

[quote]Stern is a supporter and fund raiser for North Shore Animal League America. In 2012, Stern said he had adopted a pescetarian diet.

He's not important. Leave him alone. Let him do his thing. If he made a SJW cry, boohoo and move on.

His thing was just about to take off to the bigtime and mainstream. I don't think that will happen anymore. But he won't suffer too much making YouTube videos. He doesn't have the followers that many others do. The jury is out on Randy Rainbow. I hope he doesn't lose his newly purchased upper west side apartment? Dude offended a lot more than a "SJW" which couldn't be a more racist and old white fag antiquated term in the first place. Randy Rainbow was born an old white fag. That's exactly why the famous white Twitter Fraus and old gay white man embrace him. *SHOWTUNES*

I want to see his cock, or at least him shirtless.

No one else gets canceled until Trump get's canceled, can we all just agree on that?

Russians, Trolls, Lipstick Alley cunts, and Log Cabin Repugs shut the fuck up. We already know what you think.

Where is Racist Pedo Milo in the news when you need him?

I imagine he’s very pale but probably had a decent sized cock.

LMFAO Everyone knows Milo is a tiny meat bottom who loves to be fucked by token black guys. But thanks for playing Milo.

Some of these jokes are really funny. Like a lot of these bullshit scandals, it's a young comedian trying out new material, playing with being edgy and trying to walk a line that has evaporated today. A lot of comedy of the 80s and 90s played with often really despicable ethnic stereotypes but I'm not reading a lot of hate or bigotry in the comedy here. Even the more "offensive" jokes aren't particularly shocking or mean spirited.

Also, the "tranny" jokes seem to be only offensive because the word "tranny" is used. It's inappropriate today. I get why it shouldn't be used. But I live in LA, I'm gay, but I don't think I got the memo on not using that term until about 2014 or so and spent a lot of years after giving others the heads up. And his use of the N word was quoting a Kanye West tweet and joking his grandma said the same thing (and the joke was about abortion, the N word was incidental)

Hi, Randy.

Jesus, this kween and her defenders are tiresome!

CUNTZ R US!

This thread gives Randy's videos more hits and spreads his name recognition.

Good!

Sure it is, Randy.

Wow, in reality, his stats have dropped significantly. He's down 45% in subscribers over the past 30 days and his views dropped 70,000.

down 45% in subscribers total or in terms of his normal monthly growth? Because im finding it hard to believe that nearly half of all subscribers clicked to unsubscribe. (Not sure how that many people would have even heard about this, its not national news).

Are Randy's anti-Asian tweets going to come back around again?!?!?!

See R94!

Cancel!!!!

[quote] No one else gets canceled until Trump get's canceled, can we all just agree on that?

Neaupe.