Kassem Gharaibeh (Arabic: قاسم الغرايبة; born October 10, 1983) is an American Internet personality and host of Attack of the Show!.[2] His YouTube channel Kassem G hosts several hundred videos, most notably the California On, Going Deep and Street Music webseries.[3] He won the 2013 Streamy Award for Best Host for his work on California On.
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 Gharaibeh on Season 3 of Dance Showdown | ||||||||||
| Born | Kassem Gharaibeh October 10, 1983 Amman, Jordan | |||||||||
| Nationality | American, Jordanian | |||||||||
| Occupation(s) | Internet personality, comedian | |||||||||
| Years active | 2006–present | |||||||||
YouTube information | ||||||||||
| Channel | ||||||||||
| Years active | 2008–present | |||||||||
| Genre | Comedy | |||||||||
| Subscribers | 2.43 million[1] | |||||||||
| Total views | 462.4 million[1] | |||||||||
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Last updated: 17 December 2020 | ||||||||||
| Website | www | |||||||||
Early life
editGharaibeh was born in 1983 in Amman, Jordan to a Jordanian father and an Egyptian mother.[4] He described his family as liberal Muslims. He lived in Saudi Arabia at a very young age then moved to Kissimmee, Florida when he was four years old after his father, who worked at a hotel, got a promotion.[3][5] His family moved to Ventura County, California when he was 10. Before his YouTube career, Gharaibeh was working at a Best Buy and doing stand-up comedy on the weekends, mostly performing in small venues like restaurants.[citation needed]
Career
editGharaibeh got the idea to start making YouTube videos when his friend Cory Williams had a video that went viral. After working in retail for nearly a decade, Gharaibeh finally quit his job and began making videos full-time.[5] In 2011, he co-starred in the YouTube film, Agents of Secret Stuff starring Ryan Higa as Mr. Anderson.[citation needed]
He won the 2013 Streamy Award for Best Host, beating out four other nominees including Larry King.[6] He has appeared on the cannabis culture-oriented podcast Getting Doug with High six times. He also appeared in a brief role in the 2014 film Transformers: Age of Extinction.[citation needed] In 2009, he co-founded Maker Studios along with Shay Butler, Danny Zappin and Lisa Donovan.[7]
On March 24, 2014, Maker Studios accepted a buyout offer from The Walt Disney Company for $500 million, rising to $950 million if financial milestones were met.[8][9] In March 2021, he made most of his YouTube videos private and not viewable by the public. Gharaibeh formerly hosted the Pajama Pants podcast alongside Sopranos actors Robert Iler and Jamie-Lynn Sigler; on it, he explained that as he got older he began to no longer identify with the videos he made earlier in his life, and found many of them offensive and unfunny.[10] In April 2021, he was revealed to be a new host of G4 as part of their relaunch later that year, and in November he was announced to be a host of their revival of Attack of the Show!. Both ended a year later when the network was shut down. Now he works with the YouTube channel,”BroughtYouThisThing” and streams himself doing a variety of things.
References
edit- ^ a b "About Kassem G". YouTube.
- ^ "Partners Project". Archived from the original on 2011-07-04.
- ^ a b "Partners Project". partnersproject.com. Archived from the original on 3 July 2015. Retrieved 14 August 2015.
- ^ "Kassem G: How I Got Here (Apr 2015)". YouTube. 7 January 2019.
- ^ a b Woolsey, Brittany (2011-02-01). "A Comedian's Youtube Success". DIG Magazine. Archived from the original on February 22, 2013. Retrieved September 15, 2013.
- ^ "3rd Annual Winners & Nominees". The Streamy Awards. Retrieved 14 August 2015.
- ^ Miller, Claire Cain (April 10, 2011). "Actors in Smaller Studios, Making Pictures for the Smaller Screen". The New York Times. Retrieved January 6, 2013.
- ^ Fritz, Ben (March 25, 2014). "Disney to Buy Online-Video Network Maker Studios". Wall Street Journal. Retrieved March 25, 2014.
- ^ Barnes, Brooks (March 24, 2014). "Disney Buys Maker Studios, Video Supplier for YouTube". New York Times. Retrieved March 27, 2014.
- ^ "Kassem's Private Video Library - Ep 79 - Pajama Pants". YouTube. Pajama Pants. March 23, 2021. Event occurs at 4m51s. Retrieved September 16, 2021.
I had over 500 something videos. I went through and privated almost all of my YouTube library