I celebrate everything. We always had a menorah and a Christmas tree - not for any reason other than we always liked celebrating things.
Randy Rainbow
I'm a human person, so I do have some sort of compassion for even the people I'm mocking. But at the end of the day, I'm the little guy taking on the big guy. That to me is not bullying. That's satire.
Into the Woods,' 'Sweeney Todd' - those were my religion.
I think that comedy is a great unifier.
I'm very much a homebody. But I can't help to put CNN on and before you know it, I'm thinking of material.
I love Mayor Pete. I've always liked Joe Biden. I like Elizabeth Warren.
I guess to long story short it, I was really just working day jobs when I moved to New York and trying to pay the bills, working in restaurants and as a receptionist, and at one of those reception jobs, I just got so bored, I started a blog, honing my writing skills a little bit.
My parents always had a Christmas tree in the house and I was put in ballet at a very young age. So every year I would be in 'The Nutcracker.'
It's amazing that my career took off from my living room. It's an amazing time when everyone has a platform and everyone has the ability to get where they're going without the middle-man.
I mean, I'm from the Joan Rivers, Don Rickles kind of old-school comedy in that nothing is off the table, certainly not in politics. So, I think if you can find something to laugh at, that's got people kind of on edge, or, you know, stressed out, I think you gotta go for it.
I dropped out of college and worked on a cruise ship for a time.
I don't have a passion for politics, but I do have a passion for truth and justice.
I hear from people all the time from all sides of the aisle, and I hear from people strangely enough who say, 'I don't agree with you politically... But I love your videos. They make me laugh.'
Comedy is math, music is math, and editing is, so I think those all work together.
The fact that I am able to put myself out there in this age of social media and YouTube is really a gift to someone who never felt like I fit into any particular mold. One of the reasons people are responding to it is because it is coming from a pure place.
My family is very New Yorker.
Sondheim's work especially, and musical theater like that, just spoke to me so much and taught me so many lessons.
There's something really powerful about comedy. When the little guy, the comedian, punches up towards the big guy, or Trump, exposing him, calling out the emperor for having no clothes, that's really important.
Mom would go to bed at night and pray that God would make her Bernadette Peters.
I had a quick family. Very witty. I learned my rhythm from that.
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.
It's a great thing about this Internet thing we've got going. I have the luxury of not going through filters or network execs to do my art.
To perform live, to get that thrill of the audience reaction is great. There is no equivalent of watching someone stand up and clap on the Internet.
Making Internet content is very isolating.
I have to follow my instincts when I get an idea like 'Desperate Cheeto.'
Any comedic-type person will tell you there's no greater high in the world than someone to laugh at a joke or tell you, 'I haven't laughed so hard' or 'You made my day' with comedy.
If you think about it, it's the worst stage name that anybody can possibly think of, because it sounds ridiculous, but it's my real name.
I like the idea of sort of being able to stick a pin in something and deflate it with humor and just get a laugh, otherwise we'll cry.
I'm a very casual person.
I don't like gyms, but I try to get my heart rate up once a day. I don't do long workouts because it's boring.
I don't sleep too late.
I don't use an alarm, though sometimes Alexa wakes me, especially if I have to get up at a certain time.
I was really a very antisocial child.
I really spent most of my childhood in my bedroom watching Barbra Streisand movies and musicals and making videos. That was kind of where it all started for me. I would go to the beach occasionally.
I came out when I was like 17.
It wasn't until I moved to New York that I started actually leaving the house and doing things. You know, I was a typical theater nerd.
Hopefully I work well with others.
You have to be careful with parodies. I don't like when they're too obvious, 'cause it can be a little cheap.
It's surprising how much hate mail I don't get.
Music and comedy, musical comedy, specifically, really helped me through my childhood. I felt out of place, I felt lots of adversity, and I felt scared all the time.
I don't work with anyone. I have no editors. I have no directors. There's no one even holding the camera or anything. It's just me in my apartment.
I'm a big show queen to begin with. I think in show tunes.
I'm a tech-savvy person by nature, but I have had to train myself to do what I've got to do. I learned Final Cut and Adobe After Effects.
I'm such a huge fan of all this material that I'm spoofing.
TV, that's the ultimate goal. I hope to bring what I am doing now to a weekly television format.
I need Netflix to sort of wisen up and give me a staff and a budget, that would be fun.
Whatever is going on in the news and whoever is in the spotlight is up for grabs and fodder for satire.
My mother, she wanted the gayest child... and she got it.
I feel a responsibility to my fan base. But it's great. I'm most fulfilled and happy when I'm being creative.
I would love to be on a sitcom or on Broadway.
