Ginger Billy

Shirtless and tattooed, Ginger Billy gives viewers a humorous look into life in rural Upstate South Carolina. And he’s doing it all on his own. He lives between Union and Lockhart, South Carolina, with his wife and family. For years, he says, he was a respiratory therapist. But one day, after the retirement of Dale Earnhart, Jr., he thought maybe he’d make a video.

After that, it was the men’s romper craze, so he went to JCPenney’s and bought the biggest girls’ romper he could find and did a video about that. The video has almost 840,000 views on YouTube alone. He estimates it got between 40 and 50 million views across all social media channels. From there things just took off. The next thing he knew he was doing stand-up. A manager signed him on and got him a gig at a casino.

After that, he started touring with Catfish Cooley and others. It was a whole new world, he said. The only thing he won’t talk about, he says, is politics. The goal is to give people a place to breathe for a while.

Shirtless and tattooed, Ginger Billy gives viewers a humorous look into life in rural Upstate South Carolina. And he’s doing it all on his own. He lives between Union and Lockhart, South Carolina, with his wife and family. For years, he says, he was a respiratory therapist. But one day, after the retirement of Dale Earnhart, Jr., he thought maybe he’d make a video.

After that, it was the men’s romper craze, so he went to JCPenney’s and bought the biggest girls’ romper he could find and did a video about that. The video has almost 840,000 views on YouTube alone. He estimates it got between 40 and 50 million views across all social media channels. From there things just took off. The next thing he knew he was doing stand-up. A manager signed him on and got him a gig at a casino.

After that, he started touring with Catfish Cooley and others. It was a whole new world, he said. The only thing he won’t talk about, he says, is politics. The goal is to give people a place to breathe for a while.