Brandon Rogers

Brandon Rogers (who's channel was formerly called hotbananastud) is an American YouTuber, actor, director and artist who is best known for videos where he impersonates various comedic characters. In the past he posted vlogs, but now posts mainly sketches and episodes for various web series, only one of which, Theater Class, has been completed.

His videos, whether they be sketches, vlogs or web series episodes, are often crass and offensive in nature, utilizing dark humor. However, Rogers claims that he genuinely has no hard feelings toward any particular race, gender, sexuality or ethnicity.

Sketches
In recent years, Brandon Rogers has become best known for his sketches, where he impersonates various outlandish characters, often lampooning the stereotypes associated with those characters. Recurring characters include Grandpa and the characters of Angry Office (where Rogers plays Dorian) while other character include hall monitor Helen, Deeno the Filipino, and a dysfunctional young mother in A Day With Mom. For his sketches he often goes out in public, dressed up, and acts out his characters, which has reportedly gotten him kicked out of various establishments.

His characters all live in the same universe, and are referenced in various videos.

Theatre Class
Brandon Rogers' longest running web series, Theater Class, follows a collage theater class and their teacher, Mr. Rimmer, in the style of a mockumentry. Alex Rimmer, a former standup comedian, decides to teach a semester of theater arts at a collage, despite not knowing anything about teaching. Tensions grown between him and his students, as they end up in predicament after predicament, but at the same time unwittingly grow closer together. The series ran for two seasons, each episode roughly 5 minutes long. The first season ran for 14 episodes, and the second season was ended at 10.

"Try me, b**ch" Meme
In the fall of 2015, a clip from Brandon Rogers' sketch Grandpa Hates Valentines was posted on Vine and went viral, prompting people to make various edits with the clip. The clip is a scene where Rogers is playing Grandpa, and his "grandson", who is off camera, picks up a box of Valentines candy, to which Rogers retorts "Put that candy back, I'm not buying you all that mess." His grandson throws the candy at his head, to which Rogers challenges "Try me, b**ch." The edits of the clip usually show scenes from movies or viral videos where someone is throwing something, and then switch to Brandon getting hit in the head, with the objects sometimes being edited into the original clip in place of the candy box.

Brandon went uncredited, and didn't immediately have a noticeable gain in subscriptions, many people unaware of who made the original clip. The meme was featured in an episode of Teens React by the Fine Bros., where they discussed the issue of stealing and not giving credit to original creators, and had the teens react to the original sketch.