Brandon Rogers (YouTuber)


Brandon Rogers is an American sketch comedian, writer, director, actor and YouTube personality. Rogers is best known for the many characters he portrays on his eponymous YouTube channel.

Career

Brandon Rogers began creating videos for his job in Los Angeles at a personal-injury law firm where he made documentaries that were shot by Gabriel Gonzales on the daily life of plaintiffs that were used in court. Rogers had the idea to make humorous versions of these documentaries with Gonzales and started his YouTube channel on January 7, 2006 as "HotBananaStud."
Rogers first gained recognition in 2015 when a Vine user uploaded six-second clips of his videos without crediting Rogers. After a clip from one of his videos went viral on Vine and it was featured on Fine Brothers Entertainment's React series, the original creator of the video became publicly known, and Rogers quickly gained on-line fame.
In 2016, Super Deluxe offered to produce a show for Rogers. The show, Magic Funhouse was available on Fullscreen's short-lived subscription service and was the service’s most watched original show. Magic Funhouse was nominated for Best Comedy Series at the 7th Annual Streamy Awards.
In 2017, Rogers was named a New Face: Creator at the Just for Laughs Comedy Festival. In addition to co-hosting the event, he was nominated for four awards and won the awards for Scripted Series and Acting at the 9th Annual Streamy Awards for his web series Blame the Hero. In 2018, Rogers was a 10th Annual Shorty Awards finalist for the Best Youtube Comedian award.
Rogers collaborated with Comedy Central in 2019 for their "Under the Influnecer" program which had him take over the company's social media platforms for a week.

Personal life

Rogers is from Livermore, California and is of Spanish descent. Despite growing up in a conservative town, his parents were very liberal. His mother is an accountant and his father works for Cisco. He has two younger siblings. Rogers is openly gay. He credits John Waters as his main inspiration and idol.

Filmography

Awards and nominations