YouTube dream come true: B'klyn comedian Craig Rowin asks for $1 million in video; man offers it


A Brooklyn comedian who made a YouTube video asking for somebody - anybody - to give him $1 million claimed Wednesday that his improbable dream has come true.

Craig Rowin, in yet another video, produced as proof of his stupendously good fortune a notarized letter from a mysterious moneyman named Benjamin.


He also played a telephone call from the purported plutocrat.

"Hi Craig, Benjamin, I was hoping to catch you in person," the caller said. "I want to talk about how to make you a millionaire."

Reached at his shabby digs, the 27-year-old funnyman was at a loss for words.

"I'm overwhelmed right now," he told the Daily News. "I'm trying to figure all this out right now."

Rowin said he would collect his check on Feb. 2 at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theater on West 26th St. in Manhattan.

Two months ago, Rowin posted a video in which he simply asked for a millionaire to step up and shower him with money.

"Millionaires, listen up," Rowin began. "I have a proposition. Please give me one million dollars."

Rowin said he didn't need the money for "anything specific."

"But I think it would be awesome," he said.

Among the people Rowin hit up for money were Lady Gaga, Warren Buffett, Gary Busey, Tom Seaver, Nelson Mandela, James Earl Jones, Rudy Giuliani, Ed Koch and actor Will Smith's kids.

Rowin also hit up the newly rescued Chilean miners for money and apologized if they weren't millionaires.

The comedian also made it clear he had no idea what he'd do with the dough.

"I haven't thought that through yet," he said.


Daily News

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