Donovan Strain

Donovan Strain (born November 22, 1985) is a stand-up comedian and skateboarder living in Los Angeles, California.

Donovan Strain
Strain at Maloof Money Cup in 2009
Born (1985-11-22) November 22, 1985
Camarillo, California, U.S.
MediumStand-up
NationalityAmerican
Years active2013-present
Subject(s)Observational
WebsiteTwitter.com/DonovanStrain

Biography

Skateboarding

Strain started the skateboarding-based comedy segment titled "Buttery Ass Mondays" on The Berrics, where he was credited for inventing the skateboarding tricks Grape Flip,[1] and Double Grape Flip.[2] The series ran until 2010 when it was cancelled and removed from the archives.[3][4] In October 2013, Strain's "Buttery Ass Mondays" returned to The Berrics' archive, suggesting new episodes of the series would be made for 2014.[3] On April 1, 2014 Donovan's series made a return to The Berrics with the newly titled series "The Donovan Strain Show".[5]

In 2008, Strain participated in his first professional skateboard contest for the original "Battle at the Berrics" where he won his first round match against Sean Malto,[6] only to be knocked out of the contest in the second round by Eric Koston.[7]

He received his first signature skateboard with the brand Sk8mafia in 2008[8] before a split with the brand and receiving his next signature skateboard with City Skateboards in 2009.[9]

Donovan Strain skating in City Skateboards advertisement featured in Thrasher Magazine's January 2010 issue for his 2nd signature board

In 2010[10] Donovan got involved with the Make-A-Wish foundation when he was able to help grant a wish for a kid from Florida named Alex that requested to meet him.[10]

In 2010,[11] he moved to New York City, where he hosted a video series on his own site MurkAvenue.com[12]

"It Was a Good Day"
Ice Cube and Donovan Strain at the Goodyear Blimp Airport 2014 event

In 2012, Strain wrote a post on the website Tumblr breaking down the lyrics to Ice Cube's 1993 classic "It Was a Good Day" deducing that everything in the song actually happened on the date January 20, 1992.[13] This was picked up by news outlets[14][15] including CNN,[16] Daily News (New York),[17] and Late Night with Jimmy Fallon where Ice Cube commented "It doesn't make any sense at all, but it's cool".[18][19] On January 20, 2014 Goodyear invited both Ice Cube and Donovan Strain to their Goodyear Blimp airport for a charity event to witness the blimp fly over south central Los Angeles reading "Ice Cube Says Today Was A Good Day".[19][20]

Stand-up comedy
Donovan Strain performing stand-up at Flappers Comedy Club in Burbank, CA 2013

Strain started performing stand up comedy in 2013 at Flappers Comedy Club[21] located in Burbank, CA.

Sources
  1. "World Grape Flip (Flat) Flip Tricks Skateboard Trick". Skater Evolution. Retrieved 2014-03-20.
  2. "World Double Grape Flip (Flat) Flip Tricks Skateboard Trick". Skater Evolution. Retrieved 2014-03-20.
  3. "Buttery Ass Mondays Return to The Berrics". Junkie Monkeys. 2013-10-23. Archived from the original on 2014-03-18. Retrieved 2014-03-19.
  4. "CURVEBALL « Hubba Wheels". Hubbawheels.com. 2010-03-23. Retrieved 2014-03-18.
  5. The Donovan Strain Show Archived April 3, 2014, at the Wayback Machine
  6. "Battle At". The Berrics. 2008-11-30. Retrieved 2014-03-18.
  7. "Battle At". The Berrics. 2009-01-18. Retrieved 2014-03-18.
  8. "Skate Mafia Buttery Ass Board Skate Decks at Premier". Thepremierstore.com. Archived from the original on 2014-03-18. Retrieved 2014-03-18.
  9. "City Donovan Buttery Ass Skateboard Deck < Skately Board Shop". Skately.com. Archived from the original on 2014-03-18. Retrieved 2014-03-18.
  10. https://twitter.com/makeawishsfla/status/28720740933
  11. "Donovan Strain's Murk Avenue (2010)". NYSkateboarding.com. 2010-11-30. Retrieved 2014-03-20.
  12. "Thrasher Skateboard Magazine | Office Space". Thrashermagazine.com. Retrieved 2014-03-18.
  13. "Murk Avenue, I Found Ice Cubes 'Good Day'". Murkavenue.tumblr.com. Retrieved 2014-03-18.
  14. "Cali native Donovan Strain calculates exact day of Ice Cube's "Today Was a Good Day"". TheSource. 2014-01-21. Retrieved 2014-03-20.
  15. "Ice Cube Leaves Rap Fans Disappointed - FishbowlNY". Mediabistro.com. 2012-03-04. Retrieved 2014-03-20.
  16. "Apparently This Matters: 'Ice Cube's a pimp'". CNN.com. Retrieved 2014-03-18.
  17. "Ice Cube's 'Good Day' is revealed: Blogger cracks music mystery, says date is Jan. 20, 1992". NY Daily News. Retrieved 2014-03-20.
  18. Christine Friar (2014-01-16). "Ice Cube Actually May End Up on a Blimp - Show Clips". Late Night with Jimmy Fallon. Retrieved 2014-03-18.
  19. http://www.complex.com/music/2014/01/donovan-strain-ice-cube-it-was-a-good-day-analysis
  20. Trinh, Jean (2014-01-20). "Photos, Video: Ice Cube Rides Goodyear Blimp That Says 'Today Is A Good Day'". LAist. Archived from the original on 2014-01-24. Retrieved 2014-03-18.
  21. "Flappers Comedy Club and Restaurant :: Burbank :: Claremont :: Comedy Workshops". Flapperscomedy.com. Retrieved 2014-03-18.
gollark: There are, IIRC, a business version of Glass and HoloLens available, at least.
gollark: There was "North" for a bit, but Google bought and killed it.
gollark: Consumer AR seems to slightly not exist, even without cameras. I'm not sure why.
gollark: I would *really* not trust Neuralink in today's computer ecosystem anyway.
gollark: It would be really weird if it was somehow universally impossible to give people more acute senses without pain.
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