Shane Dawson

Shane Lee Yaw, known by his stage name Shane Dawson, is an American vlogger, YouTube celebrity, comedian, actor and musician. He is known for making comedy videos featuring many recurring characters, impersonations, and spoofs of popular music videos and television shows. As of November 2013, his main YouTube channel, Shane Dawson TV, has over 5.2 million subscribers and 986 million video views.

Biography
Shane Lee Yaw was born and raised in Long Beach, California. He attended Lakewood High School. Dawson has revealed in a video, that as a teenager he was over-weight and would get bullied a lot, as well as being beaten by his alcoholic father, who then abandoned the family. He has since lost 150 pounds.

Shane has four dogs, Miley, Charlie, Chocolate and Unicorn as well as two cats, Muffins and Snoop. They often appear in his videos. He used to work in Jenny Craig, Inc. along with his mother and brother, but was fired after he uploaded a video of himself pole dancing in the building he worked in. His mother, brother and about 6 other coworkers who appeared in the video also got fired after the company saw the video. In a video he said he is a virgin, and plans to stay one until he is married as he believes strongly in sex after marriage.

Dawson currently resides in Sherman Oaks, California.

YouTube
Shane Dawson created his main YouTube channel, ShaneDawsonTV, on March 10, 2008. His first proper sketch video was "Hodini's street magic". Dawson's breakthrough video was his "Fred is Dead" video. Dawson is known for making comedy videos featuring many recurring characters (such as Shananay, Ned the Nerd, S. Deezy, Mom, Aunt Hilda, and Fruitlupe), impersonations (such as Paris Hilton, Miley Cyrus and Sarah Palin), and spoofs of popular music videos and television shows.

Music
Shane Dawson released his debut single and music video, SUPERLUV!, on March 31, 2012. It was released on iTunes and on his YouTube channel. The song managed to chart at 87 in Ireland, 16 on the UK Indie Chart, 163 on the UK Singles Chart and reached the 28th spot on the US iTunes Pop Chart.

Dawson's next original song, The Vacation Song, was released on June 23, 2012.

His latest single, Fuck Up, was released on YouTube and iTunes on March 30, 2013.