8/3/2023 0 Comments Benny dramaWe were in Queer as Folk together and he’s one of my favourite people in the world. Just by Looking at Him by Ryan O’Connell. The last book I stayed awake reading was… On that note, keep scrolling for Skinner’s most sick and twisted internet habits. The London dolls laugh at some of the most despicable things. “Obviously we’re looking at doing some shows in London – maybe even in New Cross Gate. “It’s so us, it’s so fun, it’s for the girls,” he says. Each episode, they have a no-holds-barred chat about whatever they happen to be obsessed with that week. Most recently, Skinner released his podcast Ride, which he hosts with his best friend and fellow comic Mary Beth Barone. The only way through that time was comedy and it saved my life.” But recontextualising his experience through the lens of comedy has helped him tremendously. “Being at a party with a bunch of straight guys wearing a backwards hat? I have to laugh, even though I was crying myself to sleep,” he says. Skinner doesn’t deny that what he went through was traumatic. But in all of that, pretending is really funny.” A lot of the show is about me going to college, being in the closet and finding this female protector that makes you feel like you can be yourself. “Not that there’s anything wrong with that – in fact, I do think that’s pretty much what TV is now. “That’s always been a dream of mine, acting in something that I’d conceptualised and that was bigger than something you’d see on your phone screen,” Skinner says. His pal Charli XCX is even doing the music for the show. Slickly produced social media sketches and viral success aside, Skinner’s also been hard at work behind the scenes – namely, writing the semi-autobiographical comedy series Overcompensating, which he’ll also star in, about his experience of being in the closet at university. Skinner promptly embodied Gen Z intern Kooper for the occasion, an acrylic nailed, Thom Browne suit-wearing, phone-tapping archetype that sent the internet into a frenzy. The year before, the actual White House commissioned him to film a skit encouraging Americans to get vaccinated. Last summer, his deadpan impressions of the Kardashian family were so spot-on that Kourtney invited Skinner to appear on an episode of their reality show. Over the last few years, he’s become one of comedy’s foremost figures, having amassed a legion of fans and followers (1.4 million on both Instagram and TikTok, to be exact) in the process, thanks to his hilarious skits and outrageous characters that are influenced by the very best of pop culture. Skinner has come a long way since the days of picking up buckets of chicken from his local Morley’s to eat in a “strange dorm” alone. I had a vintage Burberry jacket on and I was like, London! This is a fucking city. “I mean, I’m from Idaho! It was a culture shock. “I studied abroad in the UK, if you can believe that, at King’s College,” the 29-year-old says animatedly, Zooming in from his home in sunny Los Angeles. Who knew that super-glam comedienne, viral social media star, actor-slash-writer and the internet’s favourite impersonator Benito Skinner (better known to most as once lived in New Cross, South London?
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