American YouTuber and gamer Ted Nivison shot to fame with his comedy and other engaging content on his self-titled YouTube channel. Trained in cinema production, Ted initially worked at a couple of camera-rental centers, before he switched to a full-time YouTube career. Apart from his primary channel, he also maintains a gaming channel and a clips channel. He is also part of the collaborative comedy podcast channel Chuckle Sandwich.
Early Life
Theodore Kennedy Nivison Jr., better known as Ted Nivison, grew up in Boston. He was in 7th grade when he was drawn to YouTube and video production after watching YouTuber Freddie W.
In high school, Ted was part of many theater productions and sang in the chorus. He worked at Staples briefly before interning at a Los Angeles-based camera-rental firm named CSLA. He graduated with a degree in Cinema & Photography, majoring in Cinema Production, from the Ithaca College in Ithaca, New York, in May 2020. He also worked at the camera-rental center of the college.
Social Media Career
Ted had a host of YouTube channels before he launched his primary channel, Ted Nivison, on January 2013. In 2009, he launched the channel PivotTKN, which contained stick figure animation. The channel ended in 2010. The following year, he started the gaming channel Total Miner Builder. This channel was dissolved in 2013. The same year, he launched the channel JehBerDeh. While he initially posted gaming videos on the channel, around 2015, he decided to switch to other content, such as live-action comedy, to increase subscribers.
He then appeared on the Solitary Confinement podcast with YouTuber CallMeCarson. His current primary channel hosts comedy videos and commentary. Notable are his reactions on people on Fiverr in the series Fiverr Filth and his reviews of different flavors of milk. His other series on the channel are Reviewing Off-Brand Movies, Instagram Quotes, and Cooking with a Twist. One of his most popular videos is The Accidental 400mg Edible. He is also known for The Milkman persona.
Ted Nivison has two more channels: Ted Nivison Live (formed in 2017) and Ted Nivison Clips (formed in 2014). While the first consists of gaming streams of Minecraft, Demon's Souls, Watch Dogs: Legion, Among Us, and other games, the second channel consists of clips from his videos.
He is also part of the YouTube comedy podcast channel Chuckle Sandwich, in collaboration with jschlatt. The channel, formed in January 2021, has gained many subscribers.
Ted Nivison was part of the Lunch Club YouTube collective and podcast, which was dissolved in November 2020. He was also part of the Misfits podcast. In January 2021, he created the podcast Jschlatt and Slimecicle.
Ted also has a large number of followers on Instagram, Twitch and TikTok.
Family Life
Not much is known about Ted’s family. However, his father has been featured on his Instagram account.