Benny-Drama

“Literally, the homophobia. I can’t.” Benito Skinner is sat in a park in downtown Los Angeles when he’s asked to get up from a bench and sit elsewhere. “Let me move as I’m telling my story of being in the closet,” he jests as a man can be heard in the background telling him to leave. It’s proof that even when he’s not in makeup and a wig parodying Kim Kardashian on his social media platforms, his quick wit is present in everything he does. “I’m in downtown LA and it is a scene,” he tells us down the phone.

Benito – or as you most likely know him by, Benny Drama – is at the forefront of a new wave of queer comedians breaking the internet daily with their cleverly edited, perfectly contained, LOL-inducing brand of observational comedy. If you’ve not seen the video that propelled Benny to internet fame yet, you need to seek it out immediately. It includes Antoni Porowski’s signature Canadian twang with a lisp, Tan France’s obsession with “printed shirts” and Jonathan Van Ness’s “So, like, Ron is basically this little baby caterpillar, he is crawling up the tree ready to just get in his little cocoon and pop out. Metamorphosis! Hilary Duff! Yes! Hello! OK hunny!” Uncanny and on-the-head only just begin to describe