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. 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, It's Your Show TV (www.iystv.com), and has regularly posted videos there. NBC has announced an "It's Your Show" television program associated with this website, with which Brodack will also be involved.
Brodack directs, edits, and performs in her videos, most of which have been set in and around her family home in Holden, Massachusetts. The New Yorker has called her videos "defiantly madcap."[1] Taken together, they have received more than 27 million views on YouTube alone. Her single most popular video, "CRAZED NUMA FAN!!!!," a lip-sync parody of an earlier internet phenomenon, Numa Numa by Gary Brolsma (itself a parody of Dragostea din tei by O-Zone), has been viewed on YouTube over 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."
Brodack appeared on The Tyra Banks Show on December 6, 2006, as a judge for a student video competition. In February 2007, she was featured in "The Sound of Your Voice," a music video by The Barenaked Ladies.
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] Personal
- Brodack's younger sister, Melissa "Missy" Brodack, performs alongside her in many of her videos, including ""CRAZED NUMA FAN!!!!", "Spice Flys", "Butterfly" and much more.
- Brodack graduated from Wachusett Regional High School and has attended Worcester State College, Quinsigamond Community College, and Mount Wachusett Community College.
- Brodack has worked as a restaurant hostess and a receptionist.
- Brodack has been making videos since she was 9 years old.
- Brodack volunteered from 2003 to 2005 for the NEADS program (Dogs for Deaf and Disabled Americans) in Sterling, Massachusetts.
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[edit] References
- Audette, Ashley. "Brookers Interview", brookerfanatics.com, June 3, 2006.
- 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.
- Thank Tonto It's Friday. "Brookers Interview", www.youthcomm.org.uk, February 5, 2007.
