Ed Bassmaster

Industry Standard w/ Barry Katz

Barry Katz

Comedy

4.8 • 946 Ratings

🗓️ 4 August 2025

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of Industry Standard with Barry Katz, viral YouTube pioneer Ed Bassmaster shares his incredible journey from working retail at an AT&T store to becoming one of the most recognizable character comedians on the internet. He dives deep into the origins of his iconic alter egos and creations like Always Teste, Chip Diamond, Skippy, Tequila, and Mumbles—many inspired by real-life encounters in Philly. Ed reflects on his big breaks with appearances on MADtv, working alongside Keegan-Michael Key and Bobby Lee, and brand deals like his Pine-Sol commercial with the legendary Pine-Sol Lady. He also opens up about growing up without a father, raising his own kids with love, collaborating with his son on viral TikToks, and navigating the highs and lows of social media fame. Subscribe for more impactful interviews https://www.youtube.com/@BarryKatzEntertainment?sub_confirmation_1 Blueprint for Success https://www.blueprint-for-success.com Are you a comedian, actor, writer, director, producer, manager, host, podcaster or agent? Would you like personalized help to reach all of your goals in the entertainment business? Click the link to learn more & join our FREE industry networking group full of decades of experience!

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0:00.0	Hey everybody, welcome back to another episode of Industry Standard with me, Barry Katz.
0:05.8	Hope you're having an amazing, amazing year. I know I'm having a great year and some days are great
0:15.1	and some days are not so great. But I know when they're not so great, there's a great day around the corner,
0:24.1	and I wish the same for you. If you need to reach me, you can do so at Barrycats in Instagram
0:29.7	or Twitter, or as they call it, X, or you can go to my website at Barrycats.com. And I'm very excited about today's episode
0:39.3	with a guy I've been wanting to get on for a long time.
0:43.5	He's like one of the OGs of YouTube,
0:48.3	and I'm talking about Ed Bassmaster.
0:51.3	And when I think of Ed,
0:53.6	I think of an amazing, amazing guy who had nothing, started with nothing,
1:03.0	built something from scratch when he didn't know really what he was doing and grew it to over one billion views on YouTube.
1:15.1	Incredible, incredible, incredible, incredible man.
1:18.3	But a lot of adversity, worked a lot of jobs, got involved in a lot of television shows
1:26.4	and things of that nature and never really got the
1:31.5	opportunities that he was able to get for himself and all i ever think about when i think of
1:39.0	at bass master is a guy who created character after character after character never stopped, just mastered one.
1:49.5	And instead of riding the wave, just created more and more in his own lane of pranking people with these characters.
1:58.3	And just creating holy shit funny incredible moments a lot of times
2:06.2	people are afraid they're afraid to start something they're afraid to take that journey because
2:11.9	they're just comfortable where they are even if they know they shouldn't be there. And I know through meeting Ed and being
2:21.5	around Ed for a long, long time, he's an incredible family man. He's a guy who just really,
2:29.8	really is a special, special person when it comes to his personal life and his business life is a completely different thing.
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