Mamrie Hart

Mamrie Hart was born on 22 September 1983, in Dover, New Jersey, in the United States. Her father, David Hart, is an actor, while her mother, Anne Tabor, is a high school teacher. Her parents divorced when she was only nine. She has two siblings, David and Annie. Hart attended the University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill, from where she earned a BA in theater. She is reportedly single, and is focused on her career.

Before she gained fame through YouTube, Mamrie Hart worked for ‘Cudzoo and the Faggettes,’ a band which was known for its humorous lyrical content. The band, which performed in New York, referred to their own style as a mixture between dirty doo wop and vintage rock. So far the band has released two albums, ‘The Prettiest Girls With the Filthiest Mouths’, which was out in 2009, and ‘Daddy Issues’, which was released in 2012. She joined YouTube in 2009, but her main channel ‘You Deserve a Drink’, where she posts instructional mixology videos, was created only in 2011.

Her past work experience as a bartender was of great help. In her videos, she occasionally makes drinks for celebrities, whom she feels deserve a drink. After the drink is finished, the viewers are encouraged to make the cocktail themselves, and watch the video again. They are to use it as a drinking game as well, where each time she makes a pun, the participant is supposed to take a drink. She has collaborated with other YouTube stars as well, such as Grace Helbig, Tyler Oakley, Hannah Hart and Flula Borg. Later, she introduced her other YouTube channel ‘Mametown’ to her viewers in 2013. Even though the channel had been created in 2009, it did not contain any videos till then and the viewers were requested to tell what kind of content they desired from her on this channel. As of June 2017, the channel has more than 400k subscribers, while her main channel has more than 1.2 million subscribers.

Mamrie Hart has also worked with the sketch comedy group ‘The Upright Citizens Brigade’, for whom she wrote and performed sketches. Throughout her career, she has appeared in several TV commercials, which includes a campaign for an American furniture manufacturer ‘La-Z-Boy’. In 2014, she starred in a comedy drama-film ‘Camp Takota’, along with YouTubers Grace Hellbig and Hannah Hart. Though the film was praised for being humorous and entertaining, it was also criticized for being predictable. She also played a role in the comedy webseries ‘Oscars’ Hotel for Fantastical Creatures’, as well as made five appearances on the ‘Comedy Central Quiz show’.