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Kassem G
Gharaibeh on Season 3 of Dance Showdown
BornKassem Gharaibeh
(1983-10-10) October 10, 1983 (age 41)
Amman, Jordan
NationalityAmerican, Jordanian
Occupation(s)Internet personality, comedian
Years active2006–present
YouTube information
Channel
Years active2008–present
GenreComedy
Subscribers2.43 million
Total views462.4 million
Associated acts
Creator Awards
100,000 subscribers2007
1,000,000 subscribers2010
Last updated: 17 December 2020
Websitewww.youtube.com/kassemg

Kassem Gharaibeh (Arabic: قاسم الغرايبة; born October 10, 1983) is an American Internet personality and host of Attack of the Show!. His YouTube channel Kassem G hosts several hundred videos, most notably the California On, Going Deep and Street Music webseries. He won the 2013 Streamy Award for Best Host for his work on California On.

Early life

Gharaibeh was born in 1983 in Amman, Jordan to a Jordanian father and an Egyptian mother. 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. 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.

Career

Gharaibeh 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. In 2011, he co-starred in the YouTube film, Agents of Secret Stuff starring Ryan Higa as Mr. Anderson.

He won the 2013 Streamy Award for Best Host, beating out four other nominees including Larry King. 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. In 2009, he co-founded Maker Studios along with Shay Butler, Danny Zappin and Lisa Donovan.

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. 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. 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

  1. ^ "About Kassem G". YouTube.
  2. "Partners Project". Archived from the original on 2011-07-04.
  3. ^ "Partners Project". partnersproject.com. Archived from the original on 3 July 2015. Retrieved 14 August 2015.
  4. "Kassem G: How I Got Here (Apr 2015)". YouTube. 7 January 2019.
  5. ^ Woolsey, Brittany (2011-02-01). "A Comedian's Youtube Success". DIG Magazine. Archived from the original on February 22, 2013. Retrieved September 15, 2013.
  6. "3rd Annual Winners & Nominees". The Streamy Awards. Retrieved 14 August 2015.
  7. Miller, Claire Cain (April 10, 2011). "Actors in Smaller Studios, Making Pictures for the Smaller Screen". The New York Times. Retrieved January 6, 2013.
  8. Fritz, Ben (March 25, 2014). "Disney to Buy Online-Video Network Maker Studios". Wall Street Journal. Retrieved March 25, 2014.
  9. Barnes, Brooks (March 24, 2014). "Disney Buys Maker Studios, Video Supplier for YouTube". New York Times. Retrieved March 27, 2014.
  10. "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

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