![]() An executive had been badgering Kimmel for a television show to pitch, which started as scrounged together clips from the web and Jimmy Kimmel Live. Kimmel's endorsement led directly to MTV, according to Milonakis. Over the next couple of years, Milonakis would make guest appearances on the talk show, with Kimmel saying in a 2005 Washington Post article that "his comedy is something that probably would have been around a long time ago if kids had access to video cameras and editing machines and the Internet." One of those original viewers was Jimmy Kimmel, who had started hosting his Jimmy Kimmel Live show and found an affinity for the comedic actor. Radio stations across the country contacted Milonakis for interviews. So I was like, I'm going to make a video about it," Milonakis recalls.įilmed on a grainy webcam, Milonakis changed his life trajectory after he posted his breakout viral hit, "The Superbowl is Gay." The three-minute clip of Milonakis calling everything from DVDs to McDonald's "gay," outdated and somewhat offensive humor by today's standards, went viral at the time. "My friends invited me to a Superbowl game and I just, I didn't really like sports. In 2003, he was debating giving up on the videos because they weren't getting many views] but he felt the sudden urge to purchase a plastic ukulele from a lady selling them from a shopping cart. By the early 2000s, before YouTube was founded, Milonakis had posted over 100 videos on the site. "Back then, nobody succeeded making comedy on the internet, it wasn't even a thing," Milonakis said.īrian Lynch, the future screenwriter of "Minions" and "Hop" invited him to be a part of his website in "1999 or 2000" Milonakis recalls. In the late 90s, he was an early participant in internet comedy with his "child actor" website, where he posted photos of himself "making really weird faces" and wrote with "really bad grammar that's misspelled on purpose to just make me seem totally out of my mind." Milonakis was born in 1976 in Katonah, New York with a congenital growth hormone deficiency that gives him the appearance and voice of an adolescent.Īfter high school he moved to Queens in the late 90s and dabbled in the world of comedy, taking improv and writing classes at the Upright Citizens Brigade theater while working in tech support at an accounting firm as a day job. Milonakis was the first viral star to get his own television show Insider spoke to Milonakis about his career, how he got his start live streaming on Twitch and what he hopes he can achieve in this next phase of his career. Listing his accomplishments sounds a bit like you created a career with a random generator: he achieved mainstream success on MTV with "The Andy Milonakis Show," voiced a microwave in a children's television show, started a rap group with actor Simon Rex, and pioneered real-world live-streaming on Twitch. The 45-year-old television star, content creator, rapper, influencer, and comedian has managed to keep his career alive for nearly two decades after he went viral pre-YouTube. Almost every day, he livestreams the gorgeous landscape to thousands of viewers on Twitch. See more stories on Insider's business page.Īndy Milonakis has spent the past two months in the mountains on the island of Crete, Greece at his grandparent's house. Since creating his own television show in 2003, he's been a rapper, actor, performer, and live streamer.Ī pioneer of the internet age, Milonakis feels he gets "judged" for his appearance. Andy Milonakis is 45 now but shows no signs of slowing down.
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