Brooke Brodack
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Brooke Allison "Brookers" Brodack (born April 7, 1986, in Putnam, Connecticut) is a viral video maker, believed to be the first performer to have been discovered on the YouTube website and offered a contract from the mainstream media.[1] She began posting her short comedic videos on YouTube in September 2005. By June 2006, they had earned her an 18-month development contract from Carson Daly, the host of a late night show on NBC and former VJ on MTV. Since August 2006, she has played a large role on a new Daly-hosted, NBC-sponsored video website, ItsYourShowTv.com, and has regularly posted videos there.
Brodack directs, edits, and performs in her videos, most of which are set in and around her family home in Holden, Massachusetts. The New Yorker has called her videos "defiantly madcap."[2] Taken together, they have received more than 21 million YouTube views. Her single most popular video, "CRAZED NUMA FAN!!!!," a lip-sync parody of an earlier internet phenomenon, Numa Numa by Gary Brolsma, has been viewed over 3.5 million times. Her video "Chips," a spoof suspense drama about eating potato chips, has been called "brilliant" by Entertainment Weekly, which has listed it among the "great moments in YouTube history."[3]
Brodack sometimes has been called a "videoblogger," but in fact she often criticizes and parodies the phenomenon of videoblogging. See, for example, her "V-Clog" series, and her video "Run of the Mill."
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[edit] Trivia
- Brodack's younger sister, Melissa "Missy" Brodack, performs alongside her in many of her videos, including "CRAZED NUMA FAN!!!!"
- Brodack graduated from Wachusett Regional High School and has attended Worcester State College and Mount Wachusett Community College.
- Brodack has worked as a restaurant hostess and as a receptionist.
- In June 2006, Brodack asked her fans if they would donate money to her PayPal account to help her buy a car. She raised over USD$4,000.
- Brodack claims that she has been making videos since she was 9 years old.
- Brodack aspires to direct her own feature film in the future.
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[edit] References
- Feifer, Jason. "Video makers find a vast and eager audience", Worcester Telegram, June 11, 2006.
- Martin, Denise. "Daly digs YouTube talent", Variety, June 12, 2006.
- Mahan, Colin. "Carson Daly catches a virus", TV.com, June 14, 2006.
- Collins, Scott. "Now she has their attention", latimes.com, June 19, 2006.
- Hardy, Michael. "The self-made star", boston.com, June 27, 2006.
- Juarez, Vanessa. "YouTube nation", ew.com, August 22, 2006.
