# Daniel Thrasher

Daniel Cole Thrasher (born February 24, 1993) is an American internet personality, filmmaker, actor, comedian, and musician. He is known for writing, directing, and starring in his piano-based sketch comedy videos to his self-titled YouTube channel (@danielthrasher). As of August 2024, his main YouTube channel has accumulated more than 1.6 billion views with more than 5 million subscribers.

## Personal life

Daniel Thrasher was born on February 24, 1993 in Virginia, United States. He is the last of four children, having an older brother and two older sisters.

## Career

Thrasher went to Pinellas County Center for the Arts, a magnet school.
Thrasher created his main YouTube channel, then titled muffinman3000, on January 5, 2007, with the first video being uploaded on December 1, 2011.
On November 13, 2012, Thrasher uploaded a video titled "How I Accidentally Wrote The Office Theme Song," in which he explains how, after he got a new piano, he was testing a chord progression that sounded familiar, before he realized it was the theme song of The Office. A few years later, when Thrasher was in college, the video went viral, and as of April 2024 has over 22 million views and is the fourth most-viewed video on his channel.
In 2015, Thrasher graduated from Savannah College of Art and Design with Bachelor of Fine Arts in Performing Arts.
In 2019, Thrasher quit his job as a barista to pursue YouTube as a full-time career. By that point, he had accrued over one million subscribers. During the COVID-19 lockdowns, Thrasher continued to post videos. As a result, he almost tripled his amount of subscribers. He was able to increase the size of his operation to a four-person team.
In 2021, American comedy duo Rhett & Link of Good Mythical Morning announced that a fund called the Mythical Creator Accelerator was created to invest over $5 million into creators, through their production company Mythical Entertainment. Thrasher was the second beneficiary of the fund in April 2022.
On December 1, 2021, Thrasher performed a one-day show at the Palace Theatre in Los Angeles, entitled Daniel Thrasher: Laugh or Die. He also embarked on a five-show tour in August 2022, entitled Daniel Thrasher Live, traveling to three states across the Midwest. In October of the same year, he received a nomination for the Craft Award for Writing at the 12th Streamy Awards.
Thrasher attended as a featured creator at VidCon in June 2023; in May of the same year, it was revealed that he was set to feature in the US remake of British television sitcom Friday Night Dinner, titled Dinner with the Parents, which premiered on Amazon Freevee on April 18, 2024.

## Awards and nominations

| Year | Organization | Award | Result |
| 2022 | Streamy Awards | Writing | Nominated |

## Discography
### Solo albums

* Quick and Sketchy (2019)

### Singles

* "Once Upon a Paradise" (2018)
* "The After" (2021)
* "When You Make a Musical Promise" (2022)
* "I Play Piano Too" (2022)
* "Shiny Object Syndrome" (2022)
* "Igowallah" (2023)
* "The Wiener Song" (2023)
* "Leinad's Waltz" (2024)
* "Need to Calm Down" (2025)

## Filmography
### Film

| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
| 2018 | Song of Back and Neck | Alex | |

### Television

| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
| 2016 | The Millionaires | Daniel | 4 episodes |
| 2024 | Dinner with the Parents | Gregg Langer | Main |

### Web

| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
| 2022 | God of Work | Chris | 6 episodes |