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Encyclopedia > Brooke Brodack
Brooke Brodack
Background Information
Birth name Brooke Allison Brodack
Born April 7, 1986 (1986-04-07) (age 21)
Flag of the United States Putnam, Connecticut,
United States
Other name(s) Brooke Alley
Internet activity
Web alias(es) Brookers
Period active September 30, 2005 - Present
Host service(s) YouTube, MySpace, Revver,
Stickam
Genre(s) Comedy, Parody
Official site brookebrodack.tv

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.[1] 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.[2] She was named "Crossover Star" by the Wall Street Journal on its New Media Power List on July 29, 2006. [3] April 7 is the 97th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (98th in leap years). ... Year 1986 (MCMLXXXVI) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link displays 1986 Gregorian calendar). ... Image File history File links This is a lossless scalable vector image. ... The Putnam Town Hall Bell is now located in Rotary Park. ... is the 273rd day of the year (274th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... An example of rack mounted servers. ... YouTube is a popular video sharing website where users can upload, view and share video clips. ... MySpace is a social networking website offering an interactive, user-submitted network of friends, personal profiles, blogs, groups, photos, music, and videos. ... Revver is a video sharing website that hosts user-generated content. ... Stickam is a social networking website that features user-submitted pictures, audio, video, and most prominently, live webcam chat, a unique feature. ... A genre [], (French: kind or sort from Greek: γένος (genos)) is a loose set of criteria for a category of literary composition; the term is also used for any other form of art or utterance. ... The word comedy has a classical meaning (comical theatre) and a popular one (the use of humor with an intent to provoke laughter in general). ... In contemporary usage, a parody (or lampoon) is a work that imitates another work in order to ridicule, ironically comment on, or poke some affectionate fun at the work itself, the subject of the work, the author or fictional voice of the parody, or another subject. ... April 7 is the 97th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (98th in leap years). ... Year 1986 (MCMLXXXVI) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link displays 1986 Gregorian calendar). ... The Putnam Town Hall Bell is now located in Rotary Park. ... The term viral video refers to video clip content which gains widespread popularity through the process of Internet sharing, typically through email or IM messages, blogs and other media sharing websites. ... YouTube is a popular video sharing website where users can upload, view and share video clips. ... 2005 : January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December- → Deaths in September September 28 : Constance Baker Motley September 25 : M. Scott Peck September 25 : Don Adams September 20 : Simon Wiesenthal September 14 : Robert Wise September 10 : Hermann Bondi September 8 : Donald Horne September 7 : Moussa Arafat... June 2006 : ← - January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December- → Extraordinary renditions. ... Carson Jones Daly (born June 22, 1973 in Santa Monica, California) is an American television personality. ... Last Call with Carson Daly is a late night NBC talk show, hosted by former MTV VJ Carson Daly. ... This article is about the television network. ... A video jockey (usually abbreviated to VJ or sometimes veejay) can mean two things: One describes an announcer who introduces and plays videos on commercial music television such as MTV or VH1. ... This article is about the original U.S. music television channel. ... The Wall Street Journal is an influential international daily newspaper published in New York City, New York with an average daily circulation of 1,800,607 (2002). ... is the 210th day of the year (211th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2006 (MMVI) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...


From August 2006 to April 2007, she played a large role on a Daly-hosted, NBC-sponsored video contest website, It's Your Show TV (www.iystv.com), posting many videos there.[4] In May 2007, Brodack started her own "web channel," www.brookebrodack.tv, which is offered through www.me.tv, a new service Daly helped to found. August 2006 is the eighth month of that year, and has yet to occur. ... April 2007 is the fourth month of the year. ... May 2007 is the fifth month of that year. ...


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."[5] Taken together, they have received more than 35 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[6]), has been viewed on YouTube over 6.5 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."[7] Holden is a town located in Worcester County, Massachusetts. ... For other uses, see New Yorker. ... Lip-sync or Lip-synch (short for lip synchronization) is a technical term for matching lip movements with voice. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... New York Times article (26 February 2005) about Gary Brolsma and the Numa Numa dance. ... Gary Brolsma (The Numa Numa Guy) (born January 14, 1986 in Saddle Brook, New Jersey). ... Dragostea din tei (pronounced ) is the most successful single by the Moldovan band O-Zone. ... O-Zone was a pop group made up of Dan Bălan, Radu Sârbu, and Arsenie Todiraş (aka Arsenium). ... In contemporary usage, a parody (or lampoon) is a work that imitates another work in order to ridicule, ironically comment on, or poke some affectionate fun at the work itself, the subject of the work, the author or fictional voice of the parody, or another subject. ... Saratoga chips Potato chips (British English or Hiberno-English: crisps) are slim slices of potatoes deep fried or baked until crisp. ... Entertainment Weekly (sometimes abbreviated EW) is a magazine published by Time Inc. ...


Brodack appeared on The Tyra Banks Show on December 6, 2006, as a judge for a student video competition. In February 2007, she released "The Sound of Your Voice," a viral music video for The Barenaked Ladies. The Tyra Banks Show is an American two-time Emmy Award-winning talk show hosted by former supermodel and Americas Next Top Model creator Tyra Banks. ... December 6 is the 340th day of the year (341st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2006 (MMVI) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... February 2007 is the second month of the year. ... Barenaked Ladies (BNL for short) is a Canadian alternative rock band composed of Kevin Hearn, Ed Robertson, Steven Page, Tyler Stewart, and Jim Creeggan. ...


Brodack sometimes has been called a "videoblogger,"[6] but in fact she often criticizes and parodies the phenomenon of videoblogging in videos such as "Run of the Mill" and the "V-Clog" Series. Videoblogs is a variant of weblogs using video as their main content, often with additional text as in a standard weblog. ...

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See also

YouTube celebrities are those persons or groups who have grown to prominence and become Internet phenomena on the basis of their appearance in YouTube videos. ... YouTube is a popular video sharing website where users can upload, view and share video clips. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ...

References

  1. ^ Martin, Denise. "Daly digs YouTube talent", Variety, June 12, 2006. 
  2. ^ Collins, Scott. "Now she has their attention", Los Angeles Times, June 19, 2006. 
  3. ^ "Moguls of New Media", Wall Street Journal. Retrieved on 2007-05-20. 
  4. ^ "Daly expands domain with Net projects", The Hollywood Reporter, 2006-11-27. Retrieved on 2007-05-15. 
  5. ^ Ben Mcgrath. "It Should Happen to You", The New Yorker, 2006-10-16. Retrieved on 2007-05-15. 
  6. ^ a b Feifer, Jason. "Video makers find a vast and eager audience", Worcester Telegram, June 11, 2006. 
  7. ^ Juarez, Vanessa. "YouTube nation", ew.com, August 22, 2006. 
  8. ^ a b Hardy, Michael. "The self-made star", The Boston Globe, June 27, 2006. 
  9. ^ Audette, Ashely. "Brookers Interview", brookerfanatics.com, June 14, 2006. 

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