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Brandon George Rogers is an American: YouTuber, comedian, actor, writer, director, and editor. He posts satirical and often offensive sketches featuring various outlandish characters played by himself.
Brandon was born in Hayward, California but has since moved to L.A.
In 2006, after graduating from Livermore High School, he sought auditions for theatre and films but was unsuccessful. Because of this he started a YouTube channel which was originally called "hotbananastud".
On his channel (now named after himself), he posts numerous comedic sketches where he plays over-the-top and stereotypical characters. He dresses up as them and goes out in public, resulting in shenanigans that get him kicked out of various establishments. With these characters, he also often makes full-length series.
Some of his popular characters include:
Blah Blah the Clown, a hot-tempered clown who was accused of murder in Blood & Makeup.
Blame, a stereotypical "thug" who was tasked with saving the world from an apocalypse in Blame the Hero.
Sam, an upbeat and ditzy guy who get into shenanigan's in Stuff & Sam.
All of his characters live in the same universe and often reference each other in different videos.
In 2015, he accidentally started the "Try me, bitch!" meme, which was taken from a clip from Grandpa Hates Valentimes and posted on Vine. He was, however, uncredited for this.
In 2018, he came out as gay in the Drinkin' Bros Podcast.[2][3]
Rogers is also known for his Mad Tea Party video on his channel. Coincidentally, a fan of Hazbin Hotel made an animatic with selective bits from said audio and Vivienne herself commented on it; which may have been an influence for Rogers' involvement in the project, as well as the fact that both of them are friends.[4]
Incidentally, initial tests for storyboard work on the pilot involved developing boards using excerpts from Rogers' work amongst other material.
Rogers is the only Helluva Boss actor to not have a scratch track actor as he records his scratch tracks on his phone.
However, an early animatic for the episode "The Harvest Moon Festival" has actor Kestin Howard scratch track voicing Blitzo, assuming Brandon re-recorded the scratch track for either the purpose of the streams or/for when revisions of the animatic took place.[5]
According to Vivziepop, she inquired Rogers due to not only being a fan of his work but because his MCN wanted to inquire her to join them. Instead, she sent them the Helluva pitch and asked to acquire Rogers to only voice Blitzo. Immediately, Rogers agreed to sign to the project and co-wrote the script with her at a fast pace.[6]
Being a skilled digital painter and caricature artist, Rogers previously had a DeviantArt[7] where he made a series of self-portraits. Rogers eventually contributed a poster design for the Helluva Streamily autograph events. This makes him one of the two Hellaverse voice alumni to contribute merchandise design for the franchise; the other being Mick Lauer.[8]
The crude drawn Blitzo design was later recycled as a permanent easter egg located in the I.M.P headquarters from the episode "Seeing Stars" onwards.
Brennon Ragers
His in-universe character is a Holly's Wood star by the name of Brennon Ragers, as shown in "Seeing Stars". Albeit, his character-counterpart died in his debut episode, after breaking Octavia's fall from the grimoire's portal.
In 2023 Brandon Rogers was nominated and won a Streamy Award in the Scripted Series category for his series BRYCE.[9]
Brandon's favorite snack is cheese and hot sauce.
Brandon's favorite episode in Helluva Boss is "Ghostfuckers", explaining that he is biased because he "loves ghosts and loves fuckers, and he also loves John Waters".[10]
Ironically, while his character Blitzo loves horses, Brandon himself hates horses.[11]
Brandon never went to the Helluva Boss pilot premiere, which still pains him and he feels guilty about. He explained that he thought it was just another pilot or one-off thing that wasn't going anywhere and wasn't going to be as popular as it became, even despite Adam Neylan telling him it was goldmine in animation.[12]
Brandon explained that Vivziepop had watched his show Blame the Hero and liked that he wrote and acted in it, and was looking for someone for the lead role in a show and to help her write so she contacted him with three show options including Helluva Boss, and within a day he was Blitzo.[13]
Brandon explained that when recasting Katie Killjoy, Vivziepop asked him one day while they were hanging out if he would like to play her, which he excitedly agreed to as she was the one character he wanted to play.[14]
Richard Horvitz explained that Brandon is a huge improviser and will be asked when recording to do a line as written and also an improv line, and what he comes up with is often funnier in certain parts.[15]
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