Randy Rainbow on Writing a Letter to ‘Stupid People’ and a ‘Declaration of Cancellation’ for Himself in Satirical New Book: ‘I Tried to Make This a Cathartic Thing’
Rosemary Rossi Randy Rainbow — comedian, political satirist and musical parody performer extraordinaire — has a hilarious new book of essays out today called “Low Hanging Fruit.” Its introductory three little words are the beginning of a letter he hopes will help him escape his current mindset: “Dear Stupid People,” or as he puts it, “how we’re feeling about everything and everyone.” For many, including myself, it’s easy to go to the “this man is speaking my language” place because, well, no matter which side of the aisle you choose to loiter, it has become increasingly difficult not to tell some people that they’re idiots.
But Rainbow is now approaching those individuals with a letter of resignation in which he says he’s done “trying to fix you, effective immediately.” And he expands upon that honestly, eloquently, humorously and in a great I-don’t-give-a-fuck-anymore style. “In a way, I tried to make [writing] this a cathartic thing for myself, because I gotta let go a little bit.
It’s making me crazy,” he says of politics, social media and the quicksand it creates that can suck you right in and pull you under.
He has a point. If one spends an excessive amount of time neck-deep in the political world, it can certainly be crazy-making, especially when one leans one way and those who lean the other way get mean-spirited.
