Cody Johnston
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Cody Johnston | |
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| Personal information | |
| Born | August 14, 1984 |
| Occupation | writer, podcaster, YouTuber |
| YouTube information | |
| Channel | |
| Years active | 2009–present |
| Genre | Political humour |
| Subscribers | 592,000[1] |
| Total views | 63,566,591[1] |
| Associated acts | |
| Updated 25 January, 2022 | |
Cody Johnston (born August 14, 1984) is an American writer, comedian, YouTuber and podcaster. He joined the humor website Cracked.com in late 2009 and gained prominence as both a columnist on the site and an actor in sketch videos released on its Youtube channel. His most popular series was 2017's "Some News", a satirical commentary on the recent American news headlines. After being laid off from the site in December 2017, Johnston continued the series as a separate Youtube channel "Some More News", which as of August 2021 had accumulated over 500,000 subscribers and over 50 million views. The show was nominated for a Streamy Awards in 2019 and 2020.
Johnston co-hosts a weekly "Even More News" podcast companion to the Youtube show with his Producer Katy Stoll. The two of them and Robert Evans also host another weekly podcast "Worst Year Ever".
Career[edit]
Born on August 14[2], Johnston did improv comedy throughout high school and college. Living in Ohio, Johnston worked in the payroll department of a temp agency while making short videos about the TV series LOST using Adobe After Effects. His submissions of these videos to the humor site Cracked.com led to an email from its editor Daniel O'Brien with an offer to write for the site as a columnist.[3]
Cracked.com[edit]
Johnston joined Cracked.com as a columnist in late 2009 and eventually came to work to the site full-time, moving to Los Angeles.[3] Along with the regular columns and articles, he also contributed to Cracked's 2010 New York Times Best Seller, You Might Be a Zombie and Other Bad News and its 2013 follow-up, The De-textbook.[4] At the 2011 SXSW festival, Cracked hosted Cracked Live, which featured live performances from Cody Johnston, Michael Swaim, Soren Bowie, Daniel O'Brien and Katie Willert.[5]
Johnston was involved in Cracked's own video content, appearing in series such as Webby Award-winning After Hours and the Streamy Award-winning Agents of Cracked. He created and starred in a series called "Marvels of the Science" which parodied the nature documentaries[3] and featured in other series such as "The Start-Up"[6], "Adventures in Jedi School"[7] and "Antiheroes".[8] He also appeared on Cracked podcast.[9][10][11]
Beginning in January 2017 Johnston began co-hosting "After the Trump", a web series that sought to do weekly recaps of his presidency as if it was a scripted television show, giving out spoiler warnings, discussing fan theories and making predictions for the upcoming episodes. [12] By May, that series has been replaced by "Some News", in which Cody Johnston appeared as a "Newsperson", giving out both comedic and analytical commentary on some of the past week's news stories.[13] The series was successful, with hundreds of thousands of views for each episode, and was released weekly until late November. On December 4, 2017, then-owner of Cracked.com E. W. Scripps laid off several dozens of key contributors of the site, including Cody Johnston and the entire video team, in an effort to cut costs.[14][15]
Some More News[edit]
Three months after his departure from Cracked, Johnston announced the return of "Some News" as a separate YouTube channel called "Some More News". Now appearing as a "News Dude" in a legally distinct version of the series, Johnston continued to host the show, covering topical events in American politics and online culture.[16] Released initially on a bi-weekly and later on a close to a weekly schedule, the new iteration of the show featured longer episodes, ranging between 20 and 70 minutes each.[17] The show is supported by a Patreon and produced in collaboration with other former Cracked alumni, including Producer Katy Stoll, Directors Abe Epperson and Will Gordh and writer David Bell. In March 2020 the channel was forced to abandon its studio space due to the COVID-19 pandemic, with subsequent episodes filmed by Johnston alone in his house.[18] The show was nominated for a Streamy Awards in "News" category in 2019[19] and 2020.[20] Some More News channel currently has over 592,000 subscribers.[1]
Several episodes of the show feature a framing device and a theme that initially appears unrelated to the American political climate. A long-running theme is Cody's fear and hatred of boars, who are depicted as foreign invaders seeking to supplant American people and culture.[21] Christmas of 2019 was celebrated with a Star Wars-themed episode, in which Cody Johnson portrayed several Star Wars-appropriate versions of his character who described the events of the Skywalker Saga from the perspective of political commentators while also drawing parallels with the current real-world events. Immediately prior to 2020 United States presidential election, a feature-length "The Movie" episode was released, with cameo appearances by Mara Wilson, Macaulay Culkin, David Cross and Philosophy Tube.[22]
The Youtube show also has a weekly companion podcast "Even More News", hosted by Cody Johnston and producer Katy Stoll.[23] In 2019 Johnston and Stoll started an additional weekly podcast "Worst Year Ever" with their former Cracked.com co-worker Robert Evans.[24]
Other works[edit]
Following their departure from Cracked.com, Johnston had appeared in several sketch videos on Michael Swaim's Small Beans Youtube channel. A low-budget series Family Meeting premiering in August 2018 starred Cody Johnston and Katy Stoll, alongside Swaim, as siblings who reconnect over webcam.[25] In April 2019, Small Beans announced the web series, Off Hours, a spiritual successor to After Hours. Swaim was the only After Hours star to return as a main cast member in Off Hours, joined in each episode of Off Hours by a rotating series of guest stars including Johnston, Stoll, Greg Burke, Maggie Mae Fish, Daniel Vincent Gordh, Teresa Lee, and Damian Washington.[26]
Johnston frequently appears on the podcast of his former Cracked.com co-workers, such as Robert Evans' Behind the Bastards[27], Michael Swaim's Small Beans[28] and Tom Reimann and David Bell's Gamefully Unemployed.[29]
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 "Some More News – About". Retrieved January 25, 2022 – via YouTube. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ Katy Stoll (August 14, 2021). "@katystoll". Twitter. Retrieved August 18, 2021.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Cody Johnston. "I am Cracked.com columnist and video writer/performer Cody Johnston. AMA". Reddit. Retrieved August 18, 2021.
- ↑ Cracked.com staff (2013). The De-textbook: The Stuff You Didn't Know about the Stuff You Thought You Knew. City of Westminster: Penguin. ISBN 9780452298200. Search this book on
- ↑ cracked. "CRACKED Live at SXSW". CRACKED.com. Retrieved 2022-01-28.
- ↑ Michael Swaim, Cody Johnston, Katy Stoll. "The Start Up". Cracked.com.CS1 maint: Multiple names: authors list (link)
- ↑ "Adventures in Jedi School". Cracked.com.
- ↑ "Antiheroes". Cracked.com.
- ↑ Soren Bowie, Jack O'Brien, Cody Johnston, Michael Swaim, Daniel O'Brien (August 24, 2015). "Inexplicable Movie Tropes That Make No Sense". Cracked.com.CS1 maint: Multiple names: authors list (link)
- ↑ Soren Bowie, Cody Johnston, Michael Swaim (May 30, 2016). "Why Humanity Is Doomed To Fight Over Insignificant Problems". Cracked.com.CS1 maint: Multiple names: authors list (link)
- ↑ Alex Schmidt, Katie Goldin, Cody Johnston (November 27, 2017). "All The Insane News Donald Trump Stopped You From Noticing". Cracked.com.CS1 maint: Multiple names: authors list (link)
- ↑ Cracked.com (January 31, 2017). "Why Trump's Presidency Would Make A Fantastic TV Series - After The Trump #1". Youtube.
- ↑ Cracked.com. "Cracked - Some News". Youtube.
- ↑ "CRACKED.COM LAYOFFS: JOB CUTS IN EDITORIAL & VIDEO STAFF PART OF COST-CUTTING MEASURES". America Closed. 2017. Archived from the original on December 5, 2018. Retrieved December 28, 2017. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "Cracked Lays Off 25 As the Great Digital Media Purge Continues". Splinter. Retrieved 2022-01-28.
- ↑ Downing, Peyton (March 6, 2020). "Opinion: Independent media is worth your attention". Daily Iowan.
- ↑ "Some More News". YouTube.
- ↑ Some More News (March 26, 2020). "Some Quarantined News - SOME MORE NEWS". YouTube.
- ↑ Streamy Awards. "9TH ANNUAL NOMINEES & WINNERS". www.streamys.org.
- ↑ Streamy Awards. "10TH ANNUAL NOMINEES & WINNERS". www.streamys.org.
- ↑ Some More News. "NO MORE BOARS!". Youtube.
- ↑ Some More News (November 2, 2020). "Our Popcorn Movie Dystopia - SOME MORE NEWS: THE MOVIE". YouTube.
- ↑ Some More News. "Even More News". libsyn.com.
- ↑ Worst Year Ever. "Worst Year Ever". iheart.com.
- ↑ Abe Epperson, Michael Swaim (August 25, 2018). "104. Family Meeting e01: Mandatoreunion". Small Beans. Patreon. Retrieved April 16, 2020.
- ↑ Abe Epperson, Michael Swaim (April 9, 2019). "NEW GOAL: Off Hours, The Show". Small Beans. Patreon. Retrieved May 11, 2020.
- ↑ Behind the Bastards (October 4, 2020). "Part One: The Jordan Peterson Episode". apple.com.
- ↑ Small Beans (February 14, 2020). "258. Frame Rate: Brazil (Feat. Cody Johnston)". soundcloud.com.
- ↑ Gamefully Unemployed (July 24, 2020). "Hypecast - 7.24.2020 - Featuring Cody Johnston". soundcloud.com.
External links[edit]
- Cody Johnston on IMDb
- Cody Johnston on TwitterLua error in Module:WikidataCheck at line 23: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).
- Some More News on Patreon
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