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Template:Infobox internet celebrity Brooke Allison Brodack (b. April 7, 1986, Putnam, Connecticut) is a viral video comedian known as Brookers. She is believed to be the first performer discovered on the YouTube website and offered a contract from the mainstream media.[1]
Brodack has been making videos since she was 9 years old.[2] Graduating from Wachusett Regional High School, she attended Worcester State College, Quinsigamond Community College and Mount Wachusett Community College. Brodack worked from 2003 to 2006 as a receptionist and hostess at the 99 Restaurant,[3] and she volunteered (2003-05) for the NEADS program (Dogs for Deaf and Disabled Americans) in Sterling, Massachusetts.[4]
Massachusetts madcap
She began posting her short comedic videos on her "Brookers" YouTube channel 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.[5] From July 3 to August 17, 2006, her "Brookers" channel was the most subscribed on YouTube. She was named a "Crossover Star" by the Wall Street Journal on its New Media Power List on July 29, 2006. [6]
Brookers directs, edits and performs in her videos, most of which have been set at her family home in Holden, Massachusetts. The New Yorker has called her videos "defiantly madcap."[7] Taken together, they have received more than 40 million views on her "Brookers" YouTube channel alone. Her single most popular video, "Crazed Numa Fan!!!!", a lip-sync parody of an earlier Internet meme, Numa Numa Dance by Gary Brolsma (itself a parody of "Dragostea din tei" by O-Zone),[8] has been viewed on YouTube over 7.5 million times. Her younger sister, Melissa "Missy" Brodack, performs alongside her in many videos, including "Crazed Numa Fan!!!!"[3]
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."[9]
From August 2006 to April 2007, she played a large role on a Daly-hosted, NBC-sponsored video contest website, It's Your Show TV[10] posting many videos there.[11] She appeared on The Tyra Banks Show (December 6, 2006), as a judge for a student video competition. In February 2007, she released "The Sound of Your Voice," a viral music video for The Barenaked Ladies.
From May 2007 to March 2008, Brookers had her own web channel, brookebrodack.tv, which was offered through www.me.tv, a new service Daly helped to found. She participated in the 777 (July 7, 2007) YouTube gathering in New York City. In November 2007, she released, "Ozzy's Magical Glasses n' Stuff," a viral video advertisement for a live auction of Ozzy Osbourne items on the Auction Network, for which she was paid "a solid five figures" by the Palisades Media Group.[12]
Brookers has experimented with non-comic videos, such as The Falling, and she has collaborated with other talents, including the New York based comedy troupe The Tenderloins, the Los Angeles based comedy troupe Studio 8, viral video creator Caitlin Hill ("TheHill88") and the lifecaster Justine Ezarik ("iJustine").
Viral videos
In addition to her "Brookers" YouTube channel, Brodack in January 2006 established a second channel, "QuietRiot," and she began posting videos there regularly in the summer of 2007. Collectively, they have received about 500,000 views. Since early 2006, she also has given improvised, audience-interactive comic performances on live webcam video, hosted by such services as Stickam, Ustream, and currently Blogtv, where in May 2008, she launched "BrookeBrodack's Show." Many of these performances have been recorded by fans, who have released them or sections of them as viral videos.
See also
References
- ^ Martin, Denise (2006-06-12). "Daly digs YouTube talent". Variety.
- ^ Audette, Ashely (2006-06-14). "Brookers Interview". brookerfanatics.com.
- ^ a b Hardy, Michael (2006-06-27). "The self-made star". The Boston Globe.
- ^ NEADS
- ^ Collins, Scott (2006-06-19). "Now she has their attention". Los Angeles Times.
- ^ "Moguls of New Media". Wall Street Journal.
{{cite news}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter:|coauthors=(help) - ^ Ben Mcgrath. "It Should Happen to You". The New Yorker.
- ^ Feifer, Jason (2006-06-11). "Video makers find a vast and eager audience". Worcester Telegram.
- ^ Juarez, Vanessa (2006-08-22). "YouTube nation". ew.com.
- ^ It's Your Show TV,
- ^ "Daly expands domain with Net projects". The Hollywood Reporter.
- ^ "Crazier Train". OMMA. January 2008.
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