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Playing with Myself
by Randy Rainbow
CW: I did not expect this book to require a trigger warning, but here you go: SA, bullying/verbal abuse, eating disorders, and pet death (I sobbed)
I bought the audiobook for this one, and I'm very glad I did. Randy's inflection and comic timing require his voice, and the emotion behind several of the chapters comes through clearly in his own voice. I wasn't planning to listen to the entire book in one sitting, but I was hooked and entertained from start to finish.
I have loved Randy Rainbow since "The Kim Davis Cell Block Tango" and "Super Callous Fragile Racist Extra Braggadocious" before the 2016 election. (My favorite is "Desperate Cheeto." *chef's kiss*) I saw him live in 2017 on his first tour, when he was still working out some of the tech of a live show. During the Q&A, I stood up and asked, "What day job did you quit to be this fabulous?" He deadpanned, "All of them." And now I know a little more detail about that path to fame and fabulous.
For sure, there was a LOT of luck, right-place-right-time, and personal connections that catapulted him to stardom, but he would not have been successful without his TALENT, charisma, and fantastic humor -- much thanks, I have learned, to his Nanny and to the undying support from his mother. With role models like these two women, Randy could not have failed.
This book does not pull punches, and he drops many names. Randy Rainbow may not be Broadway royalty (yet), but where he dreamed of being friends with Patti Lupone and Carol Burnett, my friends and I have wished we could be friends with Randy Rainbow. Maybe one day, I'll get a chance to buy him a mango margarita and get the rest of the story...
I bought the audiobook for this one, and I'm very glad I did. Randy's inflection and comic timing require his voice, and the emotion behind several of the chapters comes through clearly in his own voice. I wasn't planning to listen to the entire book in one sitting, but I was hooked and entertained from start to finish.
I have loved Randy Rainbow since "The Kim Davis Cell Block Tango" and "Super Callous Fragile Racist Extra Braggadocious" before the 2016 election. (My favorite is "Desperate Cheeto." *chef's kiss*) I saw him live in 2017 on his first tour, when he was still working out some of the tech of a live show. During the Q&A, I stood up and asked, "What day job did you quit to be this fabulous?" He deadpanned, "All of them." And now I know a little more detail about that path to fame and fabulous.
For sure, there was a LOT of luck, right-place-right-time, and personal connections that catapulted him to stardom, but he would not have been successful without his TALENT, charisma, and fantastic humor -- much thanks, I have learned, to his Nanny and to the undying support from his mother. With role models like these two women, Randy could not have failed.
This book does not pull punches, and he drops many names. Randy Rainbow may not be Broadway royalty (yet), but where he dreamed of being friends with Patti Lupone and Carol Burnett, my friends and I have wished we could be friends with Randy Rainbow. Maybe one day, I'll get a chance to buy him a mango margarita and get the rest of the story...