Low-Hanging Fruit
Sparkling Whines, Champagne Problems, and Pressing Issues from My Gay Agenda
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Publisher Description
"Tart, sassy, and hilariously funny from start to finish, Rainbow’s book offers laughter as a tonic for troubled times." — Kirkus Reviews
A new essay collection by adored comedian and New York Times bestseller Randy Rainbow
Randy Rainbow has a few things on his mind that he wants to talk about. As a savvy social commentator tuned into the public discourse, his unfailing intuition tells him that the perspective everyone in America is clamoring for is that of a privileged white male complaining about a bunch of shit. While writing his New York Times bestseller Playing With Myself, Randy saw an America in crisis. He knew that what the country needed to get back on its high heels was a hard-hitting gay agenda and here it is - Low Hanging Fruit - a book filled with sparkling whines, a few flutes of champagne problems and a Birkin bag of the most pressing issues facing the US, from dancing TikTok grandmas, to Elon Musk, the GOP, and Donald Jessica Trump.
On the down low, Randy dishes up some sex talk about life on the dating apps, Craigslist hookups and more. (“Gurl, wait till you hear the story about the fireman and the goggles...”) Randy’s longtime companion, the glamorous Chinchilla Silver Persian cat Tippi, makes an appearance as she dishes about her life Chez Randy. And, in the most highly anticipated sequel since Top Gun: Maverick, Randy continues the conversation with his mother, Gwen, because who knows better than the Jewish mother of a gay man about how to solve America’s problems? Randy Rainbow’s Low Hanging Fruit – a bold manifesto for a nation desperately in need of a makeover.
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YouTube comedian Rainbow (Playing with Myself) unloads on politics, dating, and social media, among other topics, in this side-splitting essay collection. Recounting an exasperating phone exchange with a customer service representative, Rainbow recalls his "inner Karen wanting to escape" like Bruce Banner transforming into the Hulk: "My short brown hair was suddenly sprouting a freshly ironed blond bob, and my normal civilian clothes began tearing at the seams to reveal mom jeans." In a eulogy to his attention span, Rainbow laments how the internet has eroded his enjoyment of offline activities, noting how much he misses "being able to watch an entire movie... without having to Wikipedia the plot less than fifteen minutes in." Elsewhere, he reminisces on memorable hookups, confesses to benign offenses to get ahead of potential attempts to cancel him ("I hoarded a large quantity of pocket-sized Bath & Body Works scented hand sanitizers during COVID"), and serves up a Shakespearean poem bemoaning his flat rear end ("O would that I had an ass, most coveted of gay-boy bumps"). Rainbow's saucy takes on the maladies of modern life position him as a kind of millennial Larry David, and the wry humor lives up to that comparison. This will leave readers with a smile.
