![]() I think maybe in the age of the internet, we’re all narcissists. What was it about the zodiac sign videos that you think really hit? But it has been four years of really hard work. It kept me busy during a pretty terrifying time for all of us, I think. It was kind of a communal thing that would make me happier, and hopefully the people that followed me. Then I saw another boom during the pandemic, when everyone was inside and watching their phones. I had done a sketch about the Queer Eye cast that was the first one I saw really get outside of just the people that were following me, and I saw it kind of blow up. But what was the moment you realized that you can make this a full time gig as a career? You’ve been making videos for a long time. “To be in something that is, from my point of view, a very long sketch.” He’s also got a new podcast “It’s exciting for me to take a character outside of the internet,” he says. Last year, he was in an episode of Search Party, and next he’s in Queer as Folk and Billy Eichner’s upcoming movie Bros. While he continues to share on socials, he’s also moving on to bigger things. He considers it a sign of his success that both Jenner and Kourtney agreed to appear in a video with him: “It felt like a really big moment in my career that I would get that kind of sign-off,” he says. But he really made his name with his series on the Kardashians, in which he portrays matriarch Kris Jenner as a succubus who made a deal with Satan for her family’s success. The former high-school football player from Idaho started posting sketches on Instagram in 2016, but enjoyed a surge of popularity in 2020, following the explosion of TikTok during the Covid-19 pandemic, as well as a series of videos in which he pretended to be representatives of various zodiac signs. Tell me I haven’t been through something”) and Kooper the Gen Z White House intern. As Benny Drama, he’s amassed more than a million Instagram followers, creating characters like the chain-smoking Little Orphan Annie homage Throat Rippin’ Annie (“I grew up in an orphanage. But Skinner, 27, needs all the synthetic hair he can get. He’s referring to the mannequin heads behind him in his Los Angeles apartment: a pink-pastel number that would fit Bella Thorne’s OnlyFans days a brunette Jackie O pageboy complete with pillbox cap and a Marilyn Monroe blonde bouffant. “Sorry for my Buffalo Bill moment,” says Benito Skinner when he first logs onto Zoom. ![]()
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