Joel Haver

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Joel Haver
Born (1996-02-13) February 13, 1996 (age 29)
Bridgewater, Nova Scotia, Canada
Education Pratt Institute
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Channel
Years active2012–present
GenreComedy
Subscribers2.09 million
Views301.92 million
Last updated: November 6, 2025

Joel Haver (born February 13, 1996) is a Canadian YouTuber and filmmaker, best known for his rotoscoped skits and low-budget feature-length films. [1] [2] [3]

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Early life

Haver was born on February 13, 1996, in Bridgewater, Nova Scotia, Canada. [4] He grew up in Belchertown, Massachusetts, and has an older brother. [5] He studied film at the Pratt Institute in New York City, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts in filmmaking in 2018. [6]

Career

Haver produces comedy sketches and independent films, frequently using rotoscoped animation, a form of animation created by tracing on top of real world footage. [1] [2] [7] [8] His films are known for their low-budget style, with Haver typically playing multiple roles in acting and production. In addition to his own channel, he has contributed to film, voice-overs, and TV productions by other filmmakers, game studios, and YouTubers. [1] [2] [3] [9]

Haver has hosted an annual "Movies Shot During the Oscars" film festival, in which he encourages independent filmmakers to shoot feature-length films during the broadcast of the yearly Academy Awards ceremony. [10] Throughout the year, in 2024, Haver published a film anthology of 12 movies, each movie being shot and edited in the span of approximately one month. He remarked on the project, "There's nothing in this world I'm more passionate about than making filmmaking accessible, showing how accessible it is doing it independently, retaining the rights to my work, not waiting for anyone's approval. And I want to quadruple, septuple, 12-fold down on that". [11] [12]

In July 2022, Joel Haver published the "Toilet Paper Bears" comedy sketch on his YouTube channel, depicting a dispute between the Charmin Bears family, in which the son confronts his father about his dream to be a dancer, to his father's disappointment. [13] Later that year, Saturday Night Live aired the "Charmin Bears" sketch, with similarities to Haver's video. Notably, a young bear confronts his father about his dream to be a dancer, the bears are colored blue, and the father and the son wear similar attire. [13] In late July, following the SNL airing, Haver published a video entitled "SNL stole my video". Despite the title, he denied accusations of theft, rather attributing the similarities to parallel thinking. Haver remarked, "If I still was a smaller creator, which I was for a long time, I could see it rubbing me the wrong way." [14] [15] [16]

Filmography

Directed features [9] [12]
YearTitle
2016We Are Sasquatch
201731 Days in Marshall, North Carolina
2019Island [2]
Taking a Little Time to Feel Sorry for Myself
I'M GOING TO BE FAMOUS - The Movie
2020Forget About Everything for Awhile
Pretend That You Love Me
2021A Simple Smash and Bash Job Gone Wrong
Drowning in Potential
2022The Bad Guy, The Wolf and the Surprise Party
We Have to Leave Here Together
2023Things Could Always Be Worse
goodlongpee the movie
2024The Hero's Journey aka My Life aka The Caleb Johnston Story (I'm Caleb)
Anyone Else But Me
The Text
Hello My Beautiful Creatures
It Just Takes Time
Hiccups
The Diarrhea Brothers Save the Day
Love, Celeste
The 9th Movie
A Little Film About Friendship
You're Point Girl
Coming Home
2025The Call
Other Contributions
YearTitleRole
2020Sheep TheaterActor
2021 Off the Air (Season 11, Ep.3, The Galactic Trial) Director, Actor, Animator
2022Making YoutubeActor
The Paloni Show! Halloween Special!Actor, Guest Animator
Killer ThrillerActor
High on Life Voice Actor
2024 Smiling Friends (Season Two, Episode Five, Brother's Egg.) Actor, Guest Animator
Hello My Beautiful CreaturesAnimation, Soundtrack
2025 Dispatch Voice Actor

References

  1. 1 2 3 Shuman, Sean (2022-10-29). "Hulu's the Paloni Show! Halloween Special: Who Are the Artists Behind the Shorts?". MovieWeb. Retrieved 2024-06-25.
  2. 1 2 3 4 "Filmmaker Completely Removes His Movie From Availability". Streaming. 25 September 2022. Retrieved 2024-06-22.
  3. 1 2 "Island review: A small budget movie with a big heart". The Weather Vane. 2021-04-16. Retrieved 2024-06-22.
  4. ↑ "Joel Haver". Cult Critic Review Aggregator. Retrieved 2024-07-09.
  5. ↑ Richardson, Danielle (September 7, 2023). Interview with youtuber and content creator, Joel Haver (Video). Event occurs at 00:07. Retrieved July 2, 2024– via YouTube. I grew up in like rural Massachusetts in this small town called Belchertown.
  6. ↑ "Film, BFA". Pratt Institute . Archived from the original on 22 June 2024. Retrieved 2 July 2024.
  7. ↑ "'Rick and Morty' Co-Creator Parodies 'Star Wars' in Surprise New Video". Streaming. 14 November 2021. Retrieved 2024-06-22.
  8. ↑ Director, Graham Smith Deputy Editorial; Smith, Graham (2023-09-09). "Starfield's rotoscoped animated advert pokes fun at hoarding players". Rock, Paper, Shotgun. Retrieved 2024-06-24.
  9. 1 2 Joel Haver (2024-03-01). Anyone Else But Me . Retrieved 2024-06-19– via YouTube.
  10. ↑ "Joel Haver YouTube Filmmaker | Anti-Hollywood - YT Film Fest". 2023-05-09. Retrieved 2024-06-19.
  11. ↑ Coulston, John Connor (2024-01-28). "Beloved Filmmaker to Make and Release 12 Movies in 2024". PopCulture.com. Retrieved 2025-10-20.
  12. 1 2 "Joel Haver — spearheading an indie revolution with 12 feature films in 12 months". January 2025.
  13. 1 2 Bailey, Jonathan (2022-10-05). "The SNL/Charmin Bears Plagiarism Controversy". Plagiarism Today. Retrieved 2024-06-19.
  14. ↑ "Joel Haver addresses accusations that 'SNL' stole his sketch: 'I don't think it was malicious'". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved 2024-06-19.
  15. ↑ "'Wild coincidence' or 'parallel thinking': YouTuber defends 'SNL's' Charmin Bears bit". Los Angeles Times . 2022-10-05. Retrieved 2024-06-19.
  16. ↑ "YouTuber Joel Haver On Similarities Between SNL Charmin Bears Sketch and His Video". Yahoo Entertainment. 2022-10-05. Retrieved 2024-06-19.
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