After years of social media star Benito Skinner is hopping on TV.

Skinner, known for his online character Benny Drama, is OvercompensationPrime Video's new comedy is based on his life and follows Benny as he struggles to accept his sexual behavior in college. The comedian is known for his viral skits and celebrity impressions, especially his deception of the Kardashians, where he professionally plays every member of the family.

Skinner said at the Los Angeles premiere Wednesday Hollywood Reporter The challenge of turning to traditional TV is just "trying to think about the bets", but "doing Kardashian's sketches starts to help me solve the structure, and I don't think there's anything to be prepared for it. But I think I've always wanted to do this story, I want to tell these stories, so I think I think social media is actually a good job because I wear a lot of hats."

When addressing the college type of party, Skinner notes Animal House After watching it grow up inspiration - “I’m the youngest kid in my family, so I looked at it that was a little screwed up, but my parents were kind of like ‘we don’t care, play with it’” - also drew a lot from his own experience. The show’s production designer joked that he recreated his real dorm room, “References are a bit like my trauma, my life. Not that it’s all painful, but my disgusting experiences in college are references in many ways.”

Mary Beth Barone, Skinner's sister (a podcast co-hosted by two best friends in real life ride), adding: "I think American pie Definitely an influence, we want it to feel like gay American pie. "When it comes to her role, "I think the show is even a movie Legally blonde Where you kind of discredited bimbo, but she has a lot of heart and depth and we want to participate in that too. ”

Barone also shared the scene with guest star Charli XCX, who played himself on the show and served as executive music producer for the series. "Charli was a professional. We filmed with her one day and I was lucky enough to be in the scene with her, so I was just excited to hang out with her as a fan," Barron recalls. "She shows up and knows her lines. She is a perfect scene companion, without notes."

Skinner added: “She did it in between sweat Tour station. She came and screamed at us for a day. She is incredible, I'm lucky, I think she's joking and having cathartic experiences on jokes. This is so interesting. I didn't know she would work so hard…she got something out of the system. ”

OvercompensationIt's also Adam Dimarco, Wally Baram, Rish Shah, Kaia Gerber, Connie Britton and Kyle Maclachlan, who are now streaming in Prime video.