Trevor Wallace

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Trevor Wallace
Born (1992-12-30) December 30, 1992 (age 33)
Naperville, Illinois, U.S.
Education San Jose State University
Occupations
  • Comedian
  • YouTuber
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Last updated: February 8, 2026

Trevor Auburn Wallace (born December 30, 1992) [1] [2] is an American comedian, writer, actor, and social media influencer from Camarillo, California. [3] Wallace is a regular on the YouTube channel All Def Digital and has been featured on BuzzFeed, UNILAD, Funny or Die, Super Deluxe, Fusion TV, WorldStarHipHop, and MTV2. [3]

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Early life and education

Wallace was born in Naperville, Illinois but grew up in Camarillo, California. He is Jewish. [4] [5] He graduated from San Jose State University. [6] During his time in college, he was a member of the Delta Upsilon fraternity. [7]

Wallace first took an interest in comedy aged 17, when his mother encouraged him to join a six-week comedy class at the Ventura Harbor Comedy Club. Despite his initial reluctance, Wallace "just fell in love with it" and would later remark that the class encouraged him to pursue a career as a professional comic: "once when I did stand-up, everything just clicked and I was like, this is what I was meant to do". [8]

Comedy career

Wallace's comedy career began with making short videos for the hosting platform Vine while attending San Jose State University. [6] After university, he moved to Los Angeles in 2015 and begun an internship with sketch comedy school and troupe The Groundlings. [8] He has created several viral comedy videos about the brand Zumiez that have been viewed more than fourteen million times as of 2017. [9] He also created a comedy video about AirPods that was widely viewed. [10] Wallace's May 2019 video about men named Kyle has furthered its appearance in memes relating the name to "angry, Monster Energy-chugging white boys". [11] In July 2019, Wallace released a viral video satirizing drinkers of White Claw Hard Seltzer, along with a line of t-shirts that read "Ain't No Laws When You're Drinking Claws"; the beverage company responded with a cease and desist order. [12]

As of 2018, Wallace works for All Def Digital, [6] which is based in Los Angeles. [13] He made regular guest appearances on the All Def comedy YouTube series, Great Taste. [14] He also performs stand-up comedy, including at venues such as San Jose Improv, [15] Zanies Comedy Club in Nashville, [16] and Orpheum Theatre in Arizona. [17] Wallace and comedian Michael Blaustein are the co-hosts of the podcast Stiff Socks, which began in 2019. [18]

Wallace's first 1-hour comedy special, Pterodactyl, premiered on Amazon Prime on November 13, 2023. [19]

Awards and nominations

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2020 Shorty Awards Comedy Nominated [20]

References

  1. ↑ "Jumped out the womb 26 years ago". Facebook. Trevor Wallace Comedy. December 30, 2018. Retrieved July 7, 2019.
  2. ↑ Trevor Wallace (July 25, 2017). Comedian Trevor Wallace Performs for food on FOX' . Retrieved May 23, 2024– via YouTube.
  3. 1 2 "Bio".
  4. ↑ "The Only Fight Trevor Wallace Has Gotten into - High School Fails". YouTube . March 15, 2020.
  5. ↑ The Trevor Wallace Interview | Stiff Socks Podcast Episode 19. May 22, 2019. Retrieved September 19, 2020– via YouTube.
  6. 1 2 3 "Episode 75 - Trevor Wallace: Laugh It Out". Radio Public. Purpose in the Youth. February 21, 2018. Retrieved July 7, 2019.
  7. ↑ "DELTA UPSILON's Instagram photo: "Happy birthday to our vine famous brother Trevor Wallace & DU's very own comedian! #howmanyyyY's ? @trevwall"". Delta Upsilon. Archived from the original on December 25, 2021 – via Instagram.
  8. 1 2 Jackson, Nate (November 20, 2023). "TikTok star or respected stand-up? Trevor Wallace shows us it's cool to be both". Los Angeles Times . Archived from the original on November 20, 2023. Retrieved March 20, 2026.
  9. ↑ Boyd, Tom (November 28, 2017). "Making viral content with Trevor Wallace". Boyder– via Medium.
  10. ↑ Gallagher, Jacob (February 19, 2019). "Do AirPods Make You Look Rich? These Millennials Think So". Wall Street Journal . Retrieved July 7, 2019.
  11. ↑ Ritzen, Stacey (July 16, 2019). "How 'Kyle' became synonymous with angry, Monster Energy-chugging white boys". The Daily Dot. Retrieved July 30, 2019.
  12. ↑ Lalomia, Felicia (July 11, 2019). "Viral 'Ain't No Laws When You're Drinking Claws' T-Shirt Blocked By White Claw Legal". VinePair. Retrieved July 26, 2019.
  13. ↑ "Company Overview of All Def Digital, Inc". Bloomberg. July 7, 2019.
  14. ↑ "Great Taste". YouTube.
  15. ↑ "Trevor Wallace with Shapel Lacey". Improv.com.
  16. ↑ "Trevor Wallace". Zanies.
  17. ↑ "The Orpheum and Jester Comedy present: Sean McBride w/Trevor Wallace". Arizona Daily Sun.
  18. ↑ "Ice skating at Thompson's Point, tribute to Phil Lesh, and Stiff Socks podcast show". The Portland Press Herald. November 25, 2024. Retrieved March 9, 2026.
  19. ↑ "Watch Trevor Wallace: Pterodactyl | Prime Video". www.amazon.com. Retrieved November 19, 2023.
  20. ↑ "Trevor Wallace - The Shorty Awards". shortyawards.com.


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