Kassem G

Kassem G
Kassem G
	Gharaibeh on Season 3 of Dance Showdown
Born	Kassem Gharaibeh; October 10, 1983 (age 40); Amman, Jordan
Nationality	American, Jordanian
Occupation(s)	Internet personality, comedian
Years active	2006–present
	YouTube information
Channel	Kassem G;
Years active	2008–present
Genre	Comedy
Subscribers	2.43 million
Total views	462.4 million
Associated acts	Ray William Johnson; NicePeter; Lisa Donovan; Shay Carl; Jacksfilms;
Creator Awards
	Last updated: 17 December 2020
Website	www.youtube.com/kassemg

Kassem Gharaibeh (Arabic: قاسم الغرايبة; born October 10, 1983) is an American Internet personality and host of Attack of the Show!^[2] His YouTube channel Kassem G hosts several hundred videos, most notably the California On, Going Deep and Street Music webseries.^[3] 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.^[4] 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.^[3]^[5] 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.^{[citation needed]}

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.^[5] In 2011, he co-starred in the YouTube film, Agents of Secret Stuff starring Ryan Higa as Mr. Anderson.^{[citation needed]}

He won the 2013 Streamy Award for Best Host, beating out four other nominees including Larry King.^[6] 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.^{[citation needed]} In 2009, he co-founded Maker Studios along with Shay Butler, Danny Zappin and Lisa Donovan.^[7]

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.^[8]^[9] 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.^[10] 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.

References

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