In comedy, as in Hollywood at large, there are so many ways to be boxed in. And Caleb Hearon isn’t going for any of them.

This commitment has been a defining one for him from the early days of his career, when he began making waves with joke writing and sketch work on social media.

“Every time I did a type of video that people liked, [and] they wanted me to do only that,” he says, “I would just stop doing it immediately.”

Possessing a unique voice as a comic that’s as sweet as it is subversive, Hearon has amassed a major level of influence as a comedian in a short amount of time, even if that was never his goal. Recently taking sixth place on a Rolling Stone list of the most influential list of creators in 2025 — much to the chagin of MrBeast, who placed seventh — his instinct to ta

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