Edwin Rodriguez (born February 4, 1973) is known as Ed Bassmaster, an American

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focused on prank comedy and playing many characters. He stars in the CMT

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prank series, ''The Ed Bassmaster Show''.

Early life

Rodriguez was born in the

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neighborhood of

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. He describes his mother as "half Italian, half Russian Jew", and his father is Puerto Rican who left the family when he was a toddler. He left

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in 10th grade.

Career

Bassmaster began posting videos in 2006, and gained wide attention in 2015 with his and fellow YouTuber

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's faux surveillance video purporting to show the destruction of the Canadian hitchhiking robot

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, whose real-life destruction was not filmed. Some news organizations were fooled by the video. During the

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live event in 2013, Skippy, one of Bassmaster's characters, went on stage unannounced and was kicked out of the event. In January 2015, CMT's ''The Ed Bassmaster Show'' launched as a

series where his characters prank people as on YouTube. It premiered on April 14, 2016.

Personal life

As of 2014, Rodriguez is a married father of four in

Filmography

Television

References

External links

Official channelEd Bassmaster biography
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