Kassem Gharaibeh (; born October 10, 1983) is an American Internet personality and host of ''

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''. His

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channel Kassem G hosts several hundred videos, most notably the ''California On'', ''Going Deep'' and ''Street Music''

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. He won the 2013

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for Best Host for his work on ''California On''.

Early life

Gharaibeh was born in 1983 in

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, Jordan to a Jordanian father and an

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mother. He described his family as liberal Muslims. He lived in Saudi Arabia at a very young age then moved to

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when he was four years old after his father, who worked at a hotel, got a promotion. His family moved to

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, California when he was 10. Before his YouTube career, Gharaibeh was working at a

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and doing stand-up comedy on the weekends, mostly performing in small venues like restaurants.

Career

Gharaibeh got the idea to start making YouTube videos when his friend

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had a video that went viral. After working in retail for nearly a decade, Gharaibeh finally quit his job and began making videos full-time. In 2011, he co-starred in the YouTube film ''Agents of Secret Stuff'' starring

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as Mr. Anderson. He won the 2013

for Best Host, beating out four other nominees including

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. He has appeared on the

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-oriented podcast '' Getting Doug with High'' six times. He also appeared in a brief role in the 2014 film '' Transformers: Age of Extinction''. In 2009, he co-founded

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along with Shay Butler,

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and

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. On March 24, 2014, Maker Studios accepted a buyout offer from

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for $500 million, rising to $950 million if financial milestones were met. In March 2021, he made most of his YouTube videos private and not viewable by the public. Gharaibeh formerly hosted the ''Pajama Pants'' podcast alongside ''

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'' actors

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and

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; on it, he explained that as he got older he began to no longer identify with the videos he made earlier in his life, and found many of them offensive and unfunny. In April 2021, he was revealed to be a new host of G4 as part of their relaunch later that year, and in November he was announced to be a host of their revival of ''

''. Both ended a year later when the network was shut down. Today, Gharaibeh works with the YouTube channel "BroughtYouThisThing" and streams himself doing a variety of things. He has also made appearances in projects with other content creators from early YouTube, such as The Grumps in their video
Worst reviewed Pop Tarts of all time w/ Kassem G.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Kassem G 1983 births Living people 21st-century American comedians American people of Egyptian descent American people of Jordanian descent American stand-up comedians Comedy-related YouTube channels American comedy YouTubers Comedians from California English-language YouTube channels Jordanian people of Egyptian descent Jordanian emigrants to the United States Maker Studios channels Maker Studios people People from Newbury Park, California YouTube channels launched in 2006 Comedians from Florida YouTubers from Florida YouTubers from California