Cole Hersch (born May 29, 1993) is an experienced American social media star and writer based out of Los Angeles, California. He is best known for his comedy sketches and pranks.^[1][3]

Cole Hersch has worked as a writer and actor for the Smosh comedy channel founded by Alex Padilla and Ian Hecox. He has contributed to Smosh since 2017, working on popular sketches and episodes of shows like Every [Blank] Ever, If It Were Real, and Smosh Pit Weekly. Cole's first appearance on Smosh was in the skit "If People Acted Like They Do Online."^[18]

In 2016 Cole was cast to appear on a Youtube dance competition that featured popular internet personalities. He claimed he was clearly chosen not for his dancing skills, or content, but the number of followers he had amassed.^[42][44]

Cole Hersch appeared on the show in a cut-off t-shirt that read "Back At It Again," pink rimmed sunglasses, and exercise pants. His signature dance move was the "Hello Father", a sassy wave and hip shake combo. He displayed comedic confidence, stating in a humorous fashion that he 'trusts his body' and that he'd win because he's 'cute as hell.'^[42]

The first challenge on the show was for the contestants to use a prop in their choreography. Cole appeared with a giant inflatable ball that he mounted and bit in a ridiculous fashion. After disappointing the judges he still advanced to stage two, where he blew everyone away with the memorization challenge, where he had to perform a dance move he had learned earlier. Unfortunately it was during the third round of elimination that Cole was sent home, when he was paired with an actual professional dancer that Cole comedically insulted by saying that he felt he would have to carry the weight for both the professional dancer and himself, and referring to his partner's 'musk.'^[35]

In August of 2019 Hersch would tweet about the experience, with footage from the show added highlighting the comedic elements of his performance and funny behind the scenes moments, like how the producers edited out an extra storyline Cole was trying to create in one-on-one interviews about being in love with his competition co-star Ashley.^[43]

In 2019 Cole and Andrew Michaan launched their own podcast titled Podcast But Outside. The podcast is entirely filmed outside and features random people walking by as well as invited guests to discuss a variety of topics.^[18]

As a writer, Cole has worked on the following productions:^[41]

As an actor he has also appeared in:^[41]

Hersch grew up in the suburban town of Beachwood, Ohio alongside his brother Brock. Cole later relocated to Chicago to pursue a career in comedy.

Cole began posting his comedy videos on Youtube and Vine in 2013. On Vine he had accumulated over 245,000 followers and more than forty million loops. He posted his first clip, a close-up video of his smiling and talking mouth, in March of 2013. He also introduced his character Cornib Bleau.^[1]

In 2015, The Cornib Bleau Show was launched on Youtube. Cole portrayed a Harry Caray-like talkshow host who interviewed fellow Vine stars and Youtubers. The first episode was posted on September 7, 2015 and featured Karl From Online.^[17]

As of December 2019 Cole's Youtube channel, Cole Hersch, has over 77,000 subscribers. His first video was posted on January 2, 2013 and features a heavily medicated Hersch who had just had his wisdom teeth removed. The video, titled "Cole's Wisdom Teeth" had many hilarious one-liners like "I'm a mermaid" and "Have you ever urinated on a stranger by accident thinking it was your wife or child?" The most-viewed video on the platform, with over 15 million views is 2016's "Filmed My Boss Firing Me," a sober yet hysterical back and forth between Cole and his ex-employer.^[14][15]

On Instagram Cole goes by the handle @cole.hersch and posts comedic selfies and funny videos to his 77,500 followers. Hersch's Twitter has a following of over 113,000.^[3]

Hersch is known on Tiktok as Senator Cole Hersch, with the account handle of @cole.hersch. He has amassed over 287,000 followers and continues in with his theme of posting funny videos.^[16]

Hersch's astrological sign is Gemini.