When Atlanta-native and comedian Desi Terrell Banks Jr. put his first comedy video on the online platform Vine back in 2012, it went viral.
“Growing up, I was always the young kid that could make people laugh,” Banks said. “People would always tell me that if I don’t make it with football, I should be a stand-up comedian or you should be an actor.”
Since then, the former college football player and Georgia State University graduate has amassed a following of about 3 million people on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook collectively.
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