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Kurtis Conner

Canadian YouTuber and stand-up comedian (born 1994)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 20, 2026
Entity authorityQ21621073
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Kurtis Matthew Kenneth Conner (born May 4, 1994) is a Canadian comedian, YouTuber, and podcaster. As of August 2026, his YouTube channel has accumulated over 5.67 million subscribers and over 1.20 billion views.

Early life

Kurtis Matthew Kenneth Conner was born at North York General Hospital in the North York district of Toronto, Ontario, Canada, on May 4, 1994. He has an older sister. He grew up in Whitby, Ontario until around the age of 12, when he moved to Hamilton, Ontario, where he lived until he was around 20. He was named after American actor Kurt Russell.

Internet career

Early online career (2013–2017)

Conner began social media on Vine, a now-defunct app that hosted only short-form videos. He amassed around 350,000 followers on the platform, but he later decided to attempt to create long-form content on YouTube.

Conner uploaded the first video on his channel in 2014. He originally made videos for fun after his full-time office job and uploaded around every week.

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Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1994, 2026, 2013, 2017—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1994-05-04. For this dossier, Kurtis, Conner and Canadian is the immediate research focus.
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