Joe Bereta - Biography

Joe Bereta was born on November 13, 1982 in Montana. He is an Internet and YouTube personality, one half of the popular YouTube sketch comedy group Barats and Bereta. Their channel has accumulated more than 400,000 subscribers. He was born and raised in Columbia Falls, Montana, just outside of Glacier National Park. After graduating from Columbia Falls High School, where he was a multi-sport, hall of fame athlete, he attended Gonzaga University in Spokane, WA. It was there that he jumped into the acting and comedy worlds. He teamed up with Luke Barats to create Barats and Bereta Productions (Mother's Day, MANtage, Cubicle Wars), an online comedy group that has earned over 100 million views online, created a pilot for NBC (This Is Culdesac), and earned numerous awards (Variety's Comedy Impact List.) Joe is also known for being the head writer of SourceFed, a news and comedy show owned by Discovery Communications, where he was one of three original hosts alongside Lee Newton and Elliott Morgan. In 2013 SourceFed won the Streamy Award for the Audience Choice Series of the Year. To date, the channel has 1.4 million subscribers and over 600 million views. Joe is also a main stage performer at ComedySportzLA. Before fame, He and Luke Barats first joined YouTube on December 28, 2005. In an amazing trivia, His channel features the video series Great Pick-Up Lines and Skitlets. He was a host for SourceFed from 2012 to 2014. He married Heather Bereta, and has two children, a daughter named Hayden and a son named Jackson. After being challenged by fellow YouTubers Rhett and Link, he posted a series of popular YouTube challenges all in one video in May 2013.