Jack Douglass

A series of smart, profane parodies of pop culture ephemera - informercials and user comments on web sites - helped to make Jack Douglass one of the most popular content providers on YouTube, with more than 2 million subscribers to his main channel, Jacksfilms., and more than 715 million video views. Born John Patrick Douglass in Columbia, Maryland, he began his career behind the video camera in high school, where he was assigned to make a short film about the books he had read that year. With the help of friends, he shot a series of comedy sketches that poked fun at classic titles like All the King's Men, and soon began directing other short-form videos of a satiric nature and uploading them to YouTube. While studying film at American University in 2006, Douglass launched his own YouTube channel, Jacksfilms, in 2006, which showcased many of his early advertising and product parodies. Among these was "The WTF Blanket (Snuggie Parody)," a spoof of as-seen-on-TV products with Douglass providing new and sardonic voice-over for the popular Snuggie infomercial. The short earned more than 22 million views, and was soon followed by other parodies of commercials for products from Apple and other companies. In 2011, Douglass launched "Your Grammar Sucks," a withering takeoff of poorly worded comments left by YouTube users. The series, which eventually reached 100 videos, were also seen by millions of viewers, and minted Douglass as a bona fide YouTube star. New series, including "JackAsk," which featured Douglass responded to fans' queries, and collaborations with other YouTube content providers like Toby Turner, Shane Dawson and Olga Kay soon followed, as did acting opportunities on projects outside of his own creation, including the animated series "16-Bit High" for Smosh Games. In 2015, Douglass was featured on the YouTube channel for the Regal Cinemas' theater chain in a series called "Jack Talks Trailers," which recapped new coming attractions, and co-starred with other YouTube figures in the video-on-demand feature "Bob Thunder: Internet Assassin" (2015).