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Nothing brightens up our day quite like seeing Benny Drama popping up our For You Page. Whether it’s Jenni The TMI Hairstylist, or Cooper The Gen Z Intern, he always makes us laugh.
And not just us, BennyDrama is favourite of some major celebs atm.
He has collab with Kourtney Kardashian, Kris Jenner, Cameron Diaz, and Jennifer Aniston. But his list of celebrity fans is even longer including the whole KarJenner clan, Shawn Mendes, and Drew Barrymore.
So seeing as all our favourite celebs, have gotten to know Benny, it’s about time we did too!
1.His full name is Benito Skinner
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While he goes by BennyDrama on TikTok, his actually name is Benito, which he uses on YouTube.
2.There is still a whole treasure trove of characters for you to discover
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If you discoverd Benito through TikTok, you’ll know his most popular characters from there. But he actually got his start on YouTube and has a whole different cast over there.
Like the icon that is Benita and the hilarious Haley. All his YouTube videos are definitely worth a watch!
3. He has a degree in English and Media Studies
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Wondering where he learned to craft such hilarious characters? Well it seems at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C.
There he studied English, Acting, Film, and Media Studies, and it’s where he began making video, but not professionally.
4. He was a football player
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Considering how well he can dance in some of his videos, it won’t come as much of a surprise that he has an athletic background.
He played on his school’s football team, as a wide receiver. But Benito didn’t love the experience. Telling the New York Times, he “absolutely hated it.”
“Sometimes if I’m on a set and something’s taking a long time or difficult, I’m like, ‘It’s OK, I played football. I can honestly do anything in this life because nothing could be more opposite of my liking or core being.’”
5. Coming out improved his comedy
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While Benito is pretty open about his sexuality today, that wasn’t always the case. He came out as gay during his last year in college and has said that hiding so much of himself really hindered his creativity as he didn’t feel he could express his love for certain media while in the closet.
Telling USA Today, “I came out my senior year of college, it just kind of felt like everything I had hidden for so long from myself and from the people around me and from the Internet just kind of like flooded. It came out of me.”
“I think a lot of my sketches, whether it be Gossip Girl or Lizzie McGuire, are me kind of reconnecting with things that I feel like I wasn’t able to fully express my love for at the time,”
6.He’s a Scorpio
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One of Benito most popular sketch series on YouTube, was his ‘Dating A Star Sign’ videos. Can you…can you guess what is was about.
What is was like to date certain star signs? Correct!
Featuring some hilarious characters like his attention obsessed Leo, career orientated Capricorn, and his extremely emotional Cancer. But what sign is Benito himself?
Well, he was born on the 3rd of November making him a Scorpio.
But his version of a Scorpio was a sort of evil goth with trust issues… so make of that what you will.
7. He has a boyfriend
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So if you follow him on TikTok, you’ll probably know (and love) his Me to my boyfriend’s mom series. Well the boyfriend in those videos is actually is his real life BF.
Benito and his boyfriend Terrence O’Connor meet right after they both finished college, and now live together in Los Angeles.
8.He has some bizarre comedy icons
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Most comedians will have someone in the industry who inspired them to take a leap and join the comedy world, but Benito’s are a wild through.
Revealing to The Guardian that his two comedy icons were Robin Williams as Mrs. Doubtfire and SpongeBob SquarePants.
Honestly he has a point, they are both legends.
9.His favourite celeb to impersonate is Kris Jenner
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Turns out just like we have our favourite Benny Drama characters, so does he.
His current favourite is Kris Jenner, which make sense as she’s one of his most iconic impression. He told Rolling Stone; “My favorite right now is Kris Jenner. She is always fun for me to be. I gave her a backstory of actually being in cahoots with the devil, which makes it fun to play.”
He also loves his versions of Shawn Mendes, and Lana Del Ray
10.He is working on a very exciting new impression
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We love all his celeb impressions from Shawn Mendes to Grimes…but the most exciting is still to come. As Benito told Rolling Stone he is working on a version of the one, the only, Julia Fox.
Saying; “I’m very excited to do Julia Fox. She really feels like the moment, and there’s a lot to do there, especially costume wise, because I love latex.”
“I think I want her working at Urban Outfitters as performance art, you know, something like that where she’s showing the viewer how to make like a crop top out of a big skirt.”
Knowing Julia she would absolutely love this…and would probably want to collab, which we would genuinely die to see.