COMEDY
by “Daveo Mathias” (2006 - 2012)
“Daveo Mathias” was a American teenage comedian and “OG YouTuber” who was active in the LA comedy scene and interwebs between the years 2006 - 2012.
In 2006, 16 year old Daveo began uploading comedy videos to YouTube in the first months of its existence, while also spending all of his spare time outside of high school running around the LA comedy scene. His 2007 written piece “So You Just Found Daddy’s Meth Lab” was published on McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, which weirdly kinda predicted the plot of Breaking Bad.
Two years later, Daveo dropped his first certified viral hit - “What Scientologists Say About Scientology” - which later mysteriously vanished from the internet (some fans speculate that Mathias himself deleted it out of paranoia that they were out to get him).
Throughout college, Daveo continued to drop more certified banger comedy videos, while also becoming the youngest performer ever to make it on a house sketch team at the once-prestigious-now-kinda-cancelled Upright Citizens Brigade Theater at the tender age of 18. His piece “s
From 2011-2012, Mathias was contracted by MTV (dot com) to create his own series of digital comedy videos that he wrote and performed in.
All bangers.
In 2013, disillusioned with his Hollywood dreams, Daveo Mathias mysteriously disappeared from Los Angeles and comedy. It is rumored that he relocated to Sweden and now lives a humble life as a hip-hop marketing guru.
MTV.com videos
“Investigating Swag Syndrome” (MTV, 2011)
“Twilight: Bit It & Quit It” (MTV, 2011)
“Haus of Gaga” Part 1 (MTV, 2011)
“Haus of Gaga” Part 2 (MTV, 2011)
“A Rapper Snitches on Himself” (MTV, 2011)
“A Rapper Has Some Emotional Issues” (MTV, 2011)
Self-produced
“Human Beings: Parties” - BBC’s Planet Earth parody (2010)
“Turning 21” (2010)
“Sexy Halloween” (2011)
“MK-ULTRA: Classified LSD Experiment” (2010)
“Anne Frank Goes to Bandcamp” (2008)
“The Last Supper” (2008)
“ONLY BUILT 4 CUBAN LINX” - Ghostface & Raekwon tribute (2011)
“$50 Million?! Who You Think You Got?!” (2012)
“World’s Worst Paparazzi” (2008)
“Young People” (2010)
“Countdown to Judgement Day” (2011)
“Hip-Hop Marketing Guru” (2014)