Who is Jay Versace?
Jay Versace is an American teenager who became famous for the videos he uploaded to YouTube and Vine which were based on random topics and were full of comedy. His goal in life is to make as many people laugh as possible. His one-man skits, funny dances, shrieks and screams have been delighting a huge number of followers from the last two years. During the one month stretching from December 2014 to January 2015, the number of his followers increased drastically from 200,000 to 600,000 and at present he has more than 3 million followers on his Vine account., more than 237,000 subscribers on the YouTube, more than 573,000 followers on Instagram and more than 100,000 followers on Twitter. He re-vines some of the videos created by other Viners and has collaborated with them in creating some of his videos. The name ‘Jay Versace’ is based on a video he had downloaded from the Vine in 2014 where rapper Riff Raff was feeding his dog ‘Versace water’. Jay found this to be extremely funny and adopted the name for himself. The most viewed video made by him is ‘I got Kicked Out School’.
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The Meteoric Rise to Stardom
making videos for the video sharing service provided by ‘Vine’. His base of operations was his hometown Pleasantville in New Jersey. He would create a funny video of some incident where his friends or family members or other entertainers were involved and upload the six second video on the internet to Vine. Every day he uploads a new video as he tries out different things each time. He has the unique ability to impersonate various people starting from his own mother to well-known entertainers and convert it into a joke. He uses various kinds of facial movements, wigs and props to make people laugh at his jokes regarding the person he is imitating. Sometimes the celebrity entertainer who was the subject of his joke would tweet back to Jay saying how much he or she had enjoyed the joke. He is inspired by his own family to create jokes about them. His capacity of making simple things look highly funny has endeared him to thousands of people who have come to love his videos. His estimated net worth is $700,000.
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What Makes Jay Versace So Special
Jay Versace has a knack of turning serious things into funny jokes. Sometimes he would feel angry when his mother asked him to take out the trash when he was busy doing something else. Knowing that he could not disobey her he would turn the job into a joke and make a funny video out of it by impersonating his mother’s voice giving him the instructions. This would make everyone who saw the video laugh at the joke. Turning simple things involving his family members, friends and celebrity entertainers into comic videos has made Jay stand out in the world of hilarious entertainers and comedians. One of his videos impersonating Tyra Banks as she shouts at a function became the talk of the town. His accomplishments at the age of 18 years are the things that every teenager only dreams of!
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Beyond Fame
Jay Versace wanted to become an actor and a comedian when he grew up. He imagined that whatever happened around him was basically funny. Even the incidents that involved his family members and friends seemed funny to him. His mother was his inspiration to make funny videos of his interactions with her and upload it to the internet through Vines. Though he calls himself ‘Jay Versace’ in all his videos, nobody knows his real name till now.
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Behind The Curtains
Jay Versace grew up in a family which has its roots in Africa. He was brought up by his step-father who died of an illness in 2014. He always wanted to be an actor and a comedian when he grew up. At school he would make all the students, teachers and others laugh with the impersonations he made of various celebrities in different fields. He would enact what they had said or done in his own funny way which would make everybody laugh. His mother was the first person who inspired him to impersonate her in a video and upload it to the internet. He got a love for classical music from his grandmother and became familiar with the various personalities in the music world. Later he impersonated many of these personalities in his videos. He moved from New Jersey to California where he resides currently.
