Comedian Randy Rainbow is in hot water after tweets have resurfaced online in which Rainbow uses racist and transphobic language.
Rainbow, who identifies as gay, is most well-known for his parody songs and political spoofs targeting Donald Trump. Though much of his content comes from his YouTube channel, he appeared on an episode of “RuPaul’s Drag Race” in 2018 and was nominated for an Emmy award for outstanding short form variety series in 2019 and 2020.
However, a spreadsheet circulating on Twitter, containing over 60 now-deleted tweets mainly from 2010 and 2011, has greatly disappointed many of his fans. In the tweets, Rainbow frequently uses stereotypes of Black, Latino, Asian, Jewish, transgender and lesbian people as punchlines.
Rainbow wrote at least 20 tweets portraying Black people in a negative light, often generalizing that they were rowdy, dangerous criminals.
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Rainbow also retweeted a tweet from rapper Kanye West in which he used the n-word, writing above it “U sound like my grandmother!”
Latinos were also referred to as lazy criminals. In one painful attempt at ironic humor, Rainbow wrote: “Thank god I’m not Mexican, or all this laziness of mine might elicit some offensive ethnic stereotyping. People can be cruel.”
Rainbow also made fun of Asian people, specifically pointing out their small stature, and even commenting on the size of their penises.
.Although Rainbow was born into a Jewish family, Jewish people were also a victim of Rainbow’s jokes. “Comedy is so delicate. One wrong word and a joke can offend an entire group of people. Especially with dirty jews,” Rainbow tweeted. “I mean jokes! Dirty jokes!”
Lastly, Rainbow often dehumanized his fellow members of the LGBTQ+ community, using the offensive word “tranny” to describe a transgender person and furthering stereotypes of masculine lesbians. In one particularly offensive instance, Rainbow wrote: “If I coulda been, I woulda been. And that’s transgenderism.”
Rainbow has yet to address the situation and has not responded to Variety‘s request for comment.