Ben Relles

Ben Relles
Ben Relles
Born	1975; Wisconsin, United States
Education	University of Wisconsin–Madison, Wharton School of Business
Occupation	Head of Comedy, YouTube

Ben Relles (born 1975) is an American businessman currently serving as Head of Comedy at YouTube, as part of the YouTube Originals program. In this role, he oversees development of new content from YouTube's top comedy talent. Prior to joining YouTube, he was Vice President of Programming at Next New Networks.

Relles is the creator of the comedy network Barely Political, whose content has now been viewed over 2.5 billion times. Ben started the channel when he created the "Obama Girl" series of videos. He continues to oversee the Barely Political comedy network, which has featured the shows The Key of Awesome, Super Therapy, and Auto-Tune the News. He also developed the Vsauce network with Michael Stevens which has a combined 1 billion views across Vsauce1, Vsauce2, and Vsauce3.

He received his MBA in Marketing from the Wharton School of Business.

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