Book Excerpt: Randy Rainbow for President!
metroweekly.comLow-Hanging Fruit: Sparkling Whines, Champagne Problems, and Pressing Issues from My Gay Agenda (St. Martin’s Press, $28), the comedian whose scorchingly satirical, magnificently crafted YouTube videos set the internet ablaze whenever a new one drops, presents his case for taking on the highest office of the land.
It’s one chapter nestled in a book filled with tremendous wit, bitchy zing, and wildly zany observations from a satirist who has become this generation’s Tom Lehrer.“It’s not a memoir,” Rainbow says of the book during a recent chat. “It’s my first, I would say, humor essay book.
My first book, Playing with Myself, was a memoir, and it was more a chronological timeline of personally and professionally of how I arrived at this point.
This book was a lot more fun in that I just had the freedom to go wherever I wanted to.”He wrote it while on an eight-month tour of his live show.
