Toby Turner

Toby Turner (born "Toby Joe Turner" on March 3, 1985) is a famous actor/comedian who started his career doing stand up but also began publishing videos to the website Youtube under the username Tobuscus. Toby describes himself on his personal website as an actor/viral marketer and also as a consultant for viral video and social media platforms. Toby Turner has experienced an increasing popularity, hitting over 400,000 subscribers and averaging 500,000 views per video. His most viewed video, titled "David After Dentist After REMIX" has just under 9,000,000 views. His videos have produced over 32,000,000 views total.
Early Life
On March 3, 1985, Toby Joe Turner was born in Mississippi. He lived in a family with over 70 cousins. After only weeks of life he left his home state to live in Florida, where he later attended the University of Florida.
As he grew up in Florida he began making his videos. His first video was posted on June 23, 2006, entitled "What I Would Do With The Remote From Click..." In a year it started gaining attention. Today this video has just 100,000 views, as apposed to his many videos with 400,000 views or more.
As a child his life goal was to live in Los Angeles. In 2008, this goal was achieved. He still lives in Los Angeles where he performs his daily "LazyVlogs" on his second channel, TobyTurner. Over 50,000 people tune in to watch his videos. He has just under 2,000,000 views collected from his videos on this channel.
Career
His career started as a stand-up comedian who performed both music and comedy. His jokes revolved around crude humor, with songs such as "The Girlfriend Song."
He began posting his Youtube videos in 2006. In under a year he started becoming well known. He now posts videos as much as three times a week on his main channel and daily videos on his second channel. He created a third channel, Toby, and only posted one video. Whilst no other videos have been posted on this channel, Toby has still managed to collect 23,000 subscribers, 18,000 video views, and 47,000 page views.
Toby also posts videos under the Like Totally Awesome channel, originally a part of the Philip DeFranco nation. However, Toby is the only youtuber currently airing videos on this channel. Toby posts his popular "Literal Trailer' videos from this channel.
In 2009 MTV sent Toby around the country to interview bands for the VMAs. Shortly after, he hosted a holiday web-special for Comedy Central, Spike and VH1. Toby has starred in several shorts and one feature, "New Low", which was an official Sundance Selection in 2010.
Toby's Self-Written Short Biography
Toby Turner's self-written short biography can be found on his website.
Toby has performed at clubs across the country as a comedian and a musician. When he isn't channeling his humor on stage, he makes YouTube videos for his more than 100,000 subscribers. His videos have been seen over 20 million times - and they range from sketches and comedic songs to 'vlogs' based on his standup.
Buzz from his videos has led Toby to work with some major networks, including NBC, Disney, Fox, MTV, Sony Pictures, Spike, and others. In 2009, MTV sent him around the country to interview bands for the VMAs. Shortly after, he hosted a holiday web-special for Comedy Central, Spike and VH1. Toby has starred in several shorts and one feature, "New Low," which was an official Sundance Selection in 2010. He was also recently chosen to voice the lead character for an upcoming PS3/X-Box 360 title from Ignition Entertainment. Toby plans to happen to be playing that game every time anyone comes over to his house.
In 2008, Toby moved to Los Angeles to fulfill his lifelong dream of living in Los Angeles. His dream was achieved immediately upon arrival.
Watch Toby's acting reel here . It's one minute long, which is good if you and he have similar attention spans."
Literal Trailers
Toby Turner is the creator of the series of 'Literal' trailers. These can be viewed on his Youtube channel. The Literal trailers consist of Toby taking the trailer of well known, up-coming video games and movies, over dubbing it with him singing along and literally describing what is happening.
One example of this is a video entitled "Literal Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood". In this video, Toby sings "Guard just saw you, and he's gonna shoot you. But don't mind him, just keep looking awesome." This happens as the character in the video walks through a crowd while a guard on a rooftop spots him and takes aim. Toby's Literal Trailers often introduce a humorous aspect to serious videos and have developed a cult following. Toby's Literal Trailer videos have attracted many views, including his Literal Trailer for Halo: Reach which has over 722,000 views and was featured by Bungie on their offical website. At the end of each Literal Trailer, Toby often asks viewers which trailer he should make a Literal version of next. Three suggestions are provided and users can vote by leaving comments on the page below the video.

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