Danny Gonzalez
American YouTube comedian and commentator (born 1994)
Daniel James Gonzalez (born June 12, 1994) is an American commentary YouTuber, comedian, musician and former Viner who originally came to prominence for his short comedy sketches on Vine in 2014. He created his main YouTube channel that same year, subsequently moving over to YouTube full-time when Vine closed down in 2017. His three personal channels and three group channels have collectively earned around 10.27 million subscribers, and 2.3 billion views, as of April 2026.
Early life and education
Daniel James Gonzalez was born on June 12, 1994, in Chicago, Illinois, and grew up in the city of Wheaton. He lived in England for two years when he was around 8 or 9. He has an older brother, Matt (born 1992), and a younger sister. His brother is a server at a restaurant in Austin, Texas. Gonzalez attended Wheaton North High School. As a child in the mid-2000s, he and his friends uploaded short comedy sketches to YouTube, but they broke off when he went to college.
Gonzalez graduated from the Georgia Institute of Technology with a Bachelor of Science degree in computational media in 2016.
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