Daniel Cole Thrasher (born February 24, 1993) is an American
internet personality, filmmaker, actor, comedian, and musician. He is known for writing, directing, and starring in his piano-based
sketch comedy
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videos to his self-titled
YouTube channel. , his main YouTube channel has accumulated more than 1.5 billion views with more than 5 million subscribers.
Personal life
Daniel Thrasher was born on February 24, 1993 in
Florida, United States. He is the last of four children, having an older brother and two older sisters.
Career
Thrasher went to
Pinellas County Center for the Arts, a
magnet school.
Thrasher created his main YouTube channel, then titled ''muffinman3000'', on January 5, 2007,
with the first video being uploaded on December 1, 2011.
On November 13, 2012, Thrasher uploaded a video titled "How I Accidentally Wrote ''The Office'' Theme Song," in which he explains how, after he got a new piano, he was testing a chord progression that sounded familiar, before he realized it was the theme song of
''The Office''.
A few years later, when Thrasher was in college, the video went
viral
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, and has over 22million views and is the fourth most-viewed video on his channel.
In 2015, Thrasher graduated from
Savannah College of Art and Design with Bachelor of Fine Arts in Performing Arts.
In 2019, Thrasher quit his job as a
barista
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Etymology and inflection
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to pursue YouTube as a full-time career. By that point, he had accrued over one million subscribers. During the
COVID-19 lockdowns, Thrasher continued to post videos. As a result, he almost tripled his amount of subscribers. He was able to increase the size of his operation to a four-person team.
In 2021, American comedy duo
Rhett & Link
Rhett James McLaughlin (born October 11, 1977) and Charles Lincoln "Link" Neal III (born June 1, 1978) are an American comedy duo. Self-styled as "Internetainers" (a portmanteau of "Internet" and "entertainers"), they are known for creating and ...
of ''
Good Mythical Morning'' announced that a fund called the Mythical Creator Accelerator was created to invest over $5 million into creators, through their production company
Mythical Entertainment. Thrasher was the second beneficiary of the fund in April 2022.
On December 1, 2021, Thrasher performed a one-day show at the
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Australia
*Palace Theatre, Melbourne, Victoria
*Palace Theatre, Sydney, New South Wales
Canada
*Palace Theatre, housed in the Robillard Block, Mo ...
in Los Angeles, entitled ''Daniel Thrasher: Laugh or Die''. He also embarked on a five-show tour in August 2022, entitled ''Daniel Thrasher Live'', traveling to three states across the
Midwest
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. In October of the same year, he received a nomination for the Craft Award for Writing at the
12th Streamy Awards
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.
Thrasher attended as a featured creator at
VidCon in June 2023; in May of the same year, it was revealed that he was set to feature in the US
remake
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of British television
sitcom ''
Friday Night Dinner
''Friday Night Dinner'' is a
British television sitcom written by Robert Popper and starring Tamsin Greig, Paul Ritter, Simon Bird, Tom Rosenthal, and Mark Heap. The comedy is focused on the regular dinner experience of the middle-class Bri ...
'', titled ''
Dinner with the Parents'', which premiered on
Amazon Freevee on April 18, 2024.
Awards and nominations
Discography
Solo albums
* ''Quick and Sketchy'' (2019)
Singles
* "Once Upon a Paradise" (2018)
* "The After" (2021)
* "When You Make a Musical Promise" (2022)
* "I Play Piano Too" (2022)
* "Shiny Object Syndrome" (2022)
* "Igowallah" (2023)
* "The Wiener Song" (2023)
* "Leinad's Waltz" (2024)
Filmography
Film
Television
Web
Notes
References
External links
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1993 births
Living people
21st-century American comedians
Comedy YouTubers
Music YouTubers
American male comedians
Comedians from Florida
YouTubers from Florida