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Gregory Charles Benson (born January 23, 1968)〔Ancestry.com. Texas Birth Index, 1903-1997 (on-line ). Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2005. Original data: Texas. Texas Birth Index, 1903-1997. Texas: Texas Department of State Health Services. Microfiche.〕 is an American comedian, actor and director. His production company, Mediocre Films, creates comedic short films, generally for YouTube. He is a frequent director for ''The Guild''.〔(Mediocre Films profile ) at YouTube〕 ==History== Born in Dallas, Texas in 1968,〔 Benson graduated from W. T. White High School in 1986. Eventually he moved to California, where he has since appeared in several television commercials. Benson is a sometime member of the ACME Comedy Theatre improv troupe in Hollywood, where he first worked with writer/actor Wil Wheaton, who has since appeared in a variety of Benson's projects.〔April MacIntyre."(Wil Wheaton interview: A Gorgeous Tiny Chicken C Spot )," Monsters and Critics, May 29, 2008.〕 He started making videos in 2005, initially hosting them on his own Mediocre Films website.〔Tommy Garrett. ("Nothing mediocre about Greg," ) ''Canyon News'' (Laurel Canyon, CA), April 20, 2008.〕 Eventually he moved his distribution from his own site to YouTube, where within one month, "Greg Hits Hollywood", one of his shorts, was featured on the site's home page.〔Kellie Hwang. ("With Mediocre Films, couple embraces Internet's viral video," ) ''The Arizona Republic'' (Phoenix, AZ), March 28, 2009.〕 The video and its sequels feature Benson interviewing strangers as a pretext for hitting them with his microphone to see "what people will put up with just because they want to be on TV, or even just YouTube."〔 Since then, he has become a popular YouTube comedian, number 47 on the list of most subscribed comedians on YouTube. His most popular video as of early 2009〔 was episode 1 of the ''Gorgeous Tiny Chicken Machine Show'', which was selected to be featured on YouTube shortly after being posted February 25, 2007, and subsequently drew nearly 2 million viewers. The series later was picked up by Sony Pictures,〔〔 who continued the show through two seasons on YouTube as part of its "C Spot" lineup; one reviewer for ''The Times'' of London described it as "Pee-Wee Herman meets Monty Python via the hyperkinetic madness of Japanese television."〔Nigel Kendall. "(The Web watcher: Gorgeous Tiny Chicken Machine; Mediocre Films," ) ''The Times'' (London, England), June 16, 2008.〕 Benson's most prominent directing credit is his work on the Internet series ''The Guild'', on which he worked again with his wife, Kim Evey, producer of ''The Guild, '' as well as creator and performer of the ''Gorgeous Tiny Chicken Machine Show''. He also as portraying one of the passengers on the short Docudrama "The flight that fought back". 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Greg Benson」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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