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WE'RE LIVING FOR BENNY'S DRAMA 🍿 On Instagram, where he’s known as bennydrama7, Benito Skinner puts the self-inflicted indignities of contemporary life through a megaphone. In his sketches, which became a sensation during COVID, he creates over-the-top, often deranged caricatures of famous and local-famous personalities: a delulu twink with face tape; a chronically oversharing hairstylist; Lana Del Rey gazing at cacti. He is particularly skilled at zeroing in on micro-humiliations, like pumping gas in your Chromatica Ball look or, like, dating a 36-year-old with a podcast, escalating mildly uncomfortable scenarios to eldritch horror. The skits are loud and brash, making Skinner the pickleback of comedy: crave-worthy to some, off-putting to others, but pretty good if you just roll with it and take the fucking shot. Now, he's putting aside the drag getups he’s typically known for and drawing on experiences that hit uncomfortably close to home for "Overcompensating," the ribald and se...

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