Watch: Randy Rainbow's Got the 'Mueller Blues' in New Song Parody Video

Kilian Melloy READ TIME: 3 MIN.

Look out Broadway – and look out Beltway! Political song parodist and comedian Randy Rainbow has dropped his latest faux interview-slash-show tune spoof, this time taking a look at what it means that the Mueller investigation has cleared Donald Trump's 2016 campaign of colluding with Russia, and how the nation feels about it.

The video begins, as usual, as a fake interview segment – only this time, it's Rainbow who is being interviewed... by none other than Wolf Blitzer! After Blitzer seems to lay a montage of Rainbow's comments about Trump and the issue of whether the president did indeed collude with Russia to illegally swing the 20126 elections, Blitzer appears to ask the song parodist whether is he "Ready to accept" the Mueller report's conclusions on the matter.

"Hundred percent, Wolf," Rainbow responds. "This is only good news for the country, and I am here today to say that I am ready to leave this behind us an move on without some big song and dance."

As if.

As regular viewers of Rainbow's parody interview / show tune send-up clips know, a sing and dance is exactly what's going to follow. This time the tune is Stephen Sondheim's "The God-Why-Don't-You-Love-Me Blues," which is a selection from the 1971 musical "Follies."

"Excuse me," Rainbow says, and slips into the segment's musical component. "Thankfully there's been no collusion, so why don't I feel better yet?" muses the singing political commentator. "In fact, I feel worse!"

Rainbow goers on to investigate that very question.

"It's lasted 22 months; it's no wonder we're stressed. Wish we could just le tit go," Rainbow croons. "The things that we learned are not what we guessed – and as for the rest, we may never know!"

But with the report being promised for release only in redacted form, and so many of Trump's associates having been charged as a result of the investigation – not to mention the separate investigations into the president – the battle, as the media has noted of late, is really only just starting.

"I've got those 'Yay it's finally over, wait it's only just beginning' blues," Rainbow sings. "Those 'Damn you, Robert Mueller, I mean thank you for your service feelings. Those 'Give me that report, now throw this trash in the bin; congratulations Hannity, but wait: What'd you win?' "

Rainbow's lyrics went on to take note of the fact that collusion with Russia is the one thing the report definitively says Trump did not do; the report is far from the "total vindication" that the president has been crowing about.

"Those 'What about obstruction? Here comes Rudy Giuliani' feelings," Rainbow's sing continues. "Those 'Is it really over, com we still induct Ivanka blues."

That last may refer to Trump's daughter, Ivanka, reportedly using unsecured servers to send emails relevant to official government business. (Her husband, Jared Kushner, reportedly did the same.) It was that very issue that led Donald Trump to lead crowds at his rallies in 2016 in chants of "Lock her up!" that were directed at Hillary Clinton. No such chants have resounded during Trump rallies in relation to Ivanka's emails or, for that matter, the emails that Mike Pence reportedly sent during his tenure as Governor of Indiana, also using unsecured servers.

Rainbow also took note of Trump's long insistence that he had not colluded with Russia. "I guess that he was right," the political parodist sings, as a clip shows Trump asking at a public appearance, "Are there any Russians here tonight?" As a candidate, Trump famously invited Russian hackers to access Clinton's emails. Russian hackers did on fact breach the DNC, but Trump claimed that his invitation was made in jest.

Rainbow also took note of another striking fact: The was Mueller magically went from perpetrator of a "witch hunt" to a hero among the Trump crowd.

"His comments are off color; he'd constantly deny and slander Mr. Mueller. Now look who's his favorite guy!" Rainbow chirps. "He's got those 'Maybe if I hadn't been so shady in the first place' blues," the comedian goes on to add. "Those 'LOL, I told you so, oh God that was a close one' feelings. Those 'I'm so smart I knew it was a hoax and a hunt; now I'll play the victim until I get what I want'; that 'I should be more honest, but it's not what Daddy taught me' feelings! Those 'No, I haven't read it! Time for celebrations! How is it your business what I do with foreign nations? Hope they just forget those other 12 investigations' blues!"

Watch the full clip below.


by Kilian Melloy , EDGE Staff Reporter

Kilian Melloy serves as EDGE Media Network's Associate Arts Editor and Staff Contributor. His professional memberships include the National Lesbian & Gay Journalists Association, the Boston Online Film Critics Association, The Gay and Lesbian Entertainment Critics Association, and the Boston Theater Critics Association's Elliot Norton Awards Committee.

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