Adejuyigbe Biography
Demi Adejuyigbe is a US writer, comedian, and social media star who was born in Britain. His work on the NBC comedy series The Good Place and the CBS late-night program The Late Late Show with James Corden, as well as his co-hosting of the podcast Gilmore Guys, have made him most famous. He was included as one of the “38 Comedians You Should and Will Know” in Vulture magazine in 2018.
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Born Oluwademilade Adejuyigbe, the actor is 32 years old as of 2 August 2024. He was born in 1992 in London, United Kingdom.
Adejuyigbe Family – Education
Nigerian parents gave birth to Adejuyigbe, and he remained in the country until he was five years old. After that, his family relocated to Dallas, Texas, and he stayed there until 2013 when he moved to Los Angeles, California. Temiloluwa, his younger sister, is his sister. After finishing high school in Texas, he enrolled at the University of Texas at Austin, where he graduated in 2013 with a B.S. in Radio, Television, and Film.
Demi Adejuyigbe Podcasts
From 2014 until 2017, Adejuyigbe and Kevin T. Porter co-hosted the Gilmore Guys podcast, where they discussed each episode of the TV show Gilmore Girls. He got involved with the podcast when Adejuyigbe replied to Porter’s Twitter request for guests and co-hosts. Porter and he had attended improv courses together at Upright Citizens Brigade. They were receiving between 150,000 and 200,000 downloads an episode by November 2016. Gilmore Guys was listed in Time magazine’s 2017 edition of “The 50 Best Podcasts Right Now.” In addition to doing live podcast performances across the nation, Adejuyigbe and Porter had a brief appearance in the Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life television series revival.
Punch Up the Jam was a podcast that Adejuyigbe co-hosted for 86 episodes, starting in 2017 and ending in late 2019. Actor, singer, and Vine celebrity Miel Bredouw was his co-host. During the broadcast, they talked about popular songs and then made parodies, or “punch-ups,” of them. Adejuyigbe announced his departure from Punch Up the Jam in June 2019 with a tweet consisting of photos referencing well-known album covers, including When the Pawn… by Fiona Apple, Brothers by The Black Keys, The Life of Pablo by Kanye West, and In Rainbows by Radiohead. “I’ve had a wonderful run, but it’s my time to move on,” he stated. “My last episodes will be dropping in September.”
As the podcast’s sole presenter, Bredouw carried on with it, rearranging it a little to make the songs that were discussed “unpunchable” and bringing Rob Moose of yMusic on board. In November 2020, Adejuyigbe made a comeback appearance on the podcast as a guest, featuring in an edition that focused on the Weezer song “Beverly Hills.” Adejuyigbe has also made guest appearances on a number of podcasts, including U Talkin’ Talking Heads 2 My Talking Head, Maximum Film!, Blank Check with Griffin & David, Comedy Bang Bang, and Home Cooking.
Demi Adejuyigbe
During the first season of NBC’s The Good Place, Adejuyigbe joined the writers’ room and received credit for the tenth episode of the season, “Chidi’s Choice.” He was a writer for CBS’s The Late Late Show with James Corden until the summer of 2019. He contributed to The Amber Ruffin Show in 2020. Adejuyigbe has also contributed essays to The New Yorker, The Guardian, Thought Catalog, CollegeHumor, and The Hairpin, among other magazines.
Adejuyigbe Career
Adejuyigbe first became well-known for his Vine account, where he went by the username “Electrolemon.” He relocated to Los Angeles after earning his degree from the University of Texas, where he started as an office manager for FOX Animation Domination High Definition shows before working as an intern at Red Hour Productions, owned by Ben Stiller. In 2014, Adejuyigbe joined the Funny or Die digital team as a Vine producer and went on to work as a digital producer for @midnight. Points Party was his talk show, a spin-off of @midnight that was broadcast only on Snapchat.
Adejuyigbe has become well-known for his humorous music videos that he uploads on YouTube and Twitter. A yearly video featuring him dancing to Earth, Wind & Fire’s song “September” was uploaded on September 21, the day the song mentions. Other parodies of Will Smith’s style include raps. 2018 saw him sell T-shirts that were exact replicas of the ones he dons in each video, with all proceeds—more than $17,000—going to the National Center for Transgender Equality, RAICES, and RAINN. He raised almost $300,000 for charitable causes in 2020 by using the movie as a fundraiser. The money was divided among numerous local organizations. He ended the series in 2021 with a farewell video that featured him dancing on the roof in a style reminiscent of Lionel Richie and Fred Astaire, with Earth, Wind & Fire members thanking him at the end.
His fundraiser brought in almost $800,000 for the Sunrise Movement, the West Fund, and Imagine Waterworks in a single day. He released a Lana Del Rey-inspired theme song for Stuart Little in 2022, featuring Natalie Walker on vocals, with the proceeds going to the New York Abortion Access Fund. In the 2020 Los Angeles race, he assisted Nithya Raman with voter outreach as a member of the Democratic Socialists of America. Demi Adejuyigbe is Going to Do One (1) Backflip was Adejuyigbe’s 2024 Edinburgh Festival Fringe production.
Adejuyigbe Movies and TV Credits
Adejuyigbe has appeared in various films including;
♦ 2024 – Smartypants
♦ 2023 – Strange Planet
♦ 2022 – Waffles + Mochi’s Restaurant
♦ 2022 – Sherman’s Showcase
♦ 2020 – The George Lucas Talk Show
♦ 2019 – Movie Trivia Schmoedown
♦ 2019 – Between Two Ferns: The Movie
♦ 2017 – Follow Me
♦ 2017 – Men
♦ 2016 – The Comedy Show Show
♦ 2016 – Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life
♦ 2014 – Keith & Heath