22 Facts About GloZell

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GloZell established her YouTube channel in 2008, with video interviews, comedy about her life and song parodies.

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In 2015, GloZell interviewed President Barack Obama in a YouTube livestream hosted at the White House.

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In December 2020, it was announced that Green would be hosting "The GloZell Show" with Million Stories Media.

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GloZell was born to Gloria and Ozell Green, her name being a portmanteau of the names of her parents.

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GloZell has one sister, DeOnzell, who is an opera singer.

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In 1997, GloZell graduated from the University of Florida with a BFA degree in musical theatre.

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In 2003, GloZell moved to Hollywood, California, to pursue a career in acting and comedy.

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GloZell joined The Groundlings and studied her favorite comedian, Jay Leno, by attending 600 consecutive tapings of The Tonight Show with Jay Leno.

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GloZell began a blog that included a series of interviews with other audience members at Leno's show, but she soon began using YouTube as a video host for the interviews.

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GloZell began to create and post original comedy videos when people she met at Leno tapings told her that she was funny on her own.

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GloZell began to make more frequent YouTube comedy videos focusing on her daily life, celebrity impersonations, song parodies, and Internet fads.

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Also 2012, GloZell was featured alongside Danny Trejo and Flavor Flav and fellow YouTube personalities Antoine Dodson and Colleen Ballinger in the musical web series Dr Fubalous, where GloZell played the titular doctor's "ranch dressing-loving secretary", Maude "Ma" Cakes.

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GloZell has performed her stand-up act at such comedy venues as The Comedy Store, The Improv, the Laugh Factory, Showtime at the Apollo, Steve Harvey Talent Show, and the J Anthony Brown's J Spot Comedy Club.

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Each year since 2013, GloZell has hosted a free live variety show called GloZell Fest, with celebrity and YouTube guests including Sisaundra Lewis, Meghan Tonjes, Frankie Grande, Miranda Sings and Far Young.

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In May 2013, GloZell released her first single, titled "Pick Up After Your Dog", on the iTunes Store, and the music video was released on YouTube.

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On January 22,2015 GloZell interviewed Barack Obama in a YouTube livestream hosted at The White House.

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GloZell talked to him about, among other issues, racial profiling and officer-involved shootings, relations with Cuba and cybersecurity.

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GloZell made a guest appearance in the Nickelodeon sitcom Game Shakers and played a role in the 2015 film The Wedding Ringer.

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GloZell plays the voice role of Grandma Rosiepuff in DreamWorks' animated film Trolls.

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GloZell has a docuseries, Glo All In, about her and her husband's quest to have a child, ultimately with a surrogate mother.

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In 2016, GloZell had a lead role as the Jazz Singer in the YouTube Red original series Escape the Night.

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GloZell lived in Los Angeles with her manager and husband Kevin Simon.