Oladeji Daniel "Deji" Olatunji (born December 9, 1996), formerly known online as ComedyShortsGamer (CSG), is an English YouTube personality, and the younger brother of KSI.
Deji began his career in 2012, two years after his brother and with great inspiration from him. Initially uploading a limited number of games, with some emphasis on Sketch Comedy, he now uploads various types of videos. Similar to his brother, he grew prominently due to his FIFA videos. Aside from LPs, he has a variety of other videos consisting of things like challenges and Q&As.
His main channel can be accessed here
, where he has over 10 million subcribers. He also has a second channel with more informal content.
Outside of YouTube videos, Deji works as a landlord and operates a clothing and merchandise line called Tank. He also worked on a graphic novel, Kung Fu Hero and the Forbidden City, which was released in November 2017.
Like his older brother, Deji has also gotten into music (although he's only released or featured on singles) as well as taken an interest in boxing. He made his boxing debut on 25 August 2018 when he fought Jake Paul in the last undercard match of the first "KSI vs. Logan Paul" event, and eventually lost by TKO after four-and-a-half rounds. He staged a return to boxing in the "YouTubers vs. TikTokers" event on 12 June 2021, where he fought Vinnie Hacker and lost via another TKO in the third round, which made him the only YouTuber of the event to lose his fight.
After taking a break to focus on his cardio, he returned to YouTube on 2 December 2021 and announced his comeback fight to take place on 5 March 2022 against YouTuber Alex Wassabi as the main event of the Showstar "UK vs. USA" event in the Wembley SSE Arena, which he ended up losing as well by split decision. His next fight took place 27 August 2022 against YouTuber Fousey in the undercard of his brother's fight against Swarmz and pro boxer Luis Alcaraz Pineda, where he would finally get a victory (in his professional debut, no less) with Fousey's team throwing in the towel.
"Hey guys, it's ComedyShortsTroper here!":
- Abusive Parents: His mom Yinka not so much, but his dad Jide definitely parodies and exaggerates this trope.
- A Day in the Limelight: Jide takes over the channel and proceeds to play Fortnite.
- Amazingly Embarrassing Parents: Played for Laughs with his parents, more so Jide.
- At Arm's Length: Deji's dad does this to him in "Fighting an Old Man".
- Awesome McCoolname: Deji's not a name you hear every day, and he knows the appeal it has.
- Badass Boast:
- Before taking the Cinnamon Challenge, Deji's dad says "In Africa, this is candy."
- He's jokingly spoken very highly of the "Deji Mode" he enters when gaming, such as that the nuclear energy it gives off would intimidate North Korea, or that it is like the sun colliding with the moon.
- Berserk Button: Joking about his 2016 car crash, or claiming that he lives in his brother's shadow.
- Bigger Is Better in Bed: Among Deji's running gags, he brags about his big penis.
- Big "WHAT?!": In his Façade (2005) video, he decides to type "i have aids".Trip: Try the special.Deji: WHAT?! I have AIDS, "try the special"!
- Big "YES!":
- Also from his Facade video, he uses the game's magic 8 ball to ask if he's sexier than his brother. The ball actually says 'Yes', and Deji takes it a bit too literally.
Deji: HELL YES! YES, BABY, YES!- Combines with Cluster F-Bomb when Deji opens a FIFA 14 pack and gets Maicon.
Deji: OH, WHAT? OH, FUCK YOU! YES! YES! YES! FUCK YEAH! Oh, pardon my language! - Black and Nerdy: Originally started out playing FIFA, Tekken, and other games. He became a lot less nerdy as his channel matured.
- Black Comedy Rape: A small part of his humor in his earlier videos, up to one of his animated intros ending with him drugging a girl that turns him down before dragging her away.
- Blatant Lies:
- From his Draw My Life video - "This is the honest truth. This is actually my life."
- Don't believe anything he says in "Study Time".
- Any time he claims he let his FIFA opponent score on him.
- He's also known for trying to say that he didn't swear immediately after he does so, or he'll say that he said a completely different word (like "vacuum" instead of "fuck you").
- Bloody Hilarious: The ending of his "10 LEGENDS IN A PACK" video, where he thinks the video's events are all a big dream and willingly commits suicide, thinking he'll just wake uBANG
- Boastful Rap:
- Parodied in "CSG Britain's Got Talent". Despite being X'ed by Piers and Simon, his rap gets a standing ovation and a yes from all 3 judges to the next round.
- During this video, where he spouts a comeback at a diss track of him.
- Parodied in "CSG
- Book Dumb: Although he's an intelligent guy, school isn't really his forte. His "Study Time" video is a prime example, especially when he says that the grades that he gets reflect his name (Deji).
- Book Ends:In his first boxing match against Jake Paul, Deji’s team threw in the towel ultimately giving the Jake the win in the process, come 2022, Deji wins against his opponent Fousey via Fousey’s team throwing in the towel.
- Breakout Character: Besides Deji himself, Jide is definitely this for his channel. The amount of comments asking him to start his own channel is endless.
- Breathless Non Sequitur: This story takes it up to the point where he barely remembers the character's names.
- Brilliant, but Lazy: Was accused of being this by his brother KSI. Especially after his three losses to Jake Paul, Vinnie Hacker, and Alex Wassabi. KSI said while Deji was naturally more talented than he was, his work ethic was nowhere close to being successful.
- Broken Win/Loss Streak: After four years of 3 consecutive losses against his opponents in boxing events, come 2022, Deji gets his first win against YouTuber Fousey.
- Butt-Monkey: He is one to his brother KSI as seen in his videos, and they are frenemies to this day.
- Catchphrase:
- "Hey guys, it's Deji!" (formerly "Hey guys, it's ComedyShortsGamer here!")
- "Damn straight!", which has since been turned into a sizable part of his brand (as seen in his clothing).
- Caught with Your Pants Down:
- Deji once recalled a moment in his life where his mother caught him masturbating.
- He gets caught by her again (in a more comic sense) at the end of "What We Do When Parents Aren't Home".
- Deji once recalled a moment in his life
- Cooking Episode: "Cooking with Comedy Shorts Gamer". He makes a dish called "rizoodles" or "roozles", a mix of rice, noodles, Maltesers, Coca Cola Zero, and 7-Up, and ends up getting sick.
- Cluster Bleep-Bomb: In "Interview Gone Wrong" after Deji gets asked if he has a small penis.
- Curb-Stomp Battle: In most of the skits where he fights Jide, Jide wipes the floor with him.
- Dating Service Disaster:
- In Getting A New Girlfriend, two of the matches he gets on Tinder end up being catfishes who send him the phone number of cab companies. Another match, on the other hand, dismisses him for being an "impostor" of Deji... ouch.
- Deji's experience as a catfish on Imvu parodies this trope, where the people he meets are very questionable, since the person Deji is playing as is only 14 (although they have no problem with it).
- This video, where Deji informs his watchers on how to spot a catfish. He also lists an experience with two of them.
- Deji getting banned from using phone dating services for spotting out catfishes leads him to him getting himself banned from making several coprophilia jokes.
- A much more serious example is this video, where Deji admits to being shocked about a girl he dated being a mid-transition transgender. However, he admitted to having no grudge against them, and hanged out with them for a bit before letting them go home.
- In Getting A New Girlfriend
- Didn't Think This Through:
- In this video, he sells off a player without even realizing what he's done until less than a second too late.
- In this video showcasing American candy, he ends up eating a Baby Ruth... without realizing that it has nuts in it.note He at least acknowledges this a few seconds later. Only a few minutes later, he decides to try out a Butterfinger bar, although he never realizes it actually does at all.
- In his diss track against Randolphnote , Deji posts JJ's personal Paypal information just to prove that "JJ paid for Randolph's wedding." JJ was pissed that Deji just posts whatever private things JJ spent for his friend, just for Deji's diss track.
- In this video
- Flanderization: Deji's first few videos, while slipping in adult humour in the vein of his brother and how Deji is a ladies' man, usually feature him as a casual everyday guy with a slightly dirty mind. Later on, both of these tropes were taken to the top. In his gaming videos, he was more of a curious player who makes a few beginner mistakes. His later videos featured him as either being lethally smart or being lethally stupid at times. However, this has started to invert itself, with Deji starting to becoming more of an everyday guy who just Really Gets Around.
- Flipping the Bird: You raise me uuuuuuuuup...
- Funny Bruce Lee Noises: Jide in this video while fighting his son.
- Groin Attack:
- In this Q&A, Deji reflects on once making his brother cry by punching him in the genitals.
- How To Sing Like Justin Timberlake.
- In this Q&A
- Hair-Trigger Temper: Played for Laughs with his mother Yinka. While she is usually very calm, she can fly off the handle quickly with Deji and even resort to hitting him with whatever is in her sight.
- Happy Dance: How Deji and his dad celebrate a million subs.
- Hurricane of Excuses: Expect him to do this every time he fails in a video.
- The Hyena: With an incredibly distinct laugh to boot.
- Hypocritical Humor: In one of his Omegle videos, he says to someone that people who wear glasses are pricks as he quickly removes the glasses that he's wearing. Deji tells the next person he comes across that people who wear hats are also pricks as he quickly takes off his hat.
- Incredibly Lame Pun:
- When he sees people hanging in Far Cry 3, he says "Quit hanging around, guys!" Cue Laugh Track.
- From his Q&A, one question asks "Why are you so much cooler than JJ?" He says it's because he stays in the freezer longer.
- Deji also says that if he's less cool than his brother, he's more hot.
- In his puberty video, he describes a situation where a boy sees a girl's butt and there's a connection between the two, while holding up a Kinect game.
- Insistent Terminology: It's not rage quitting, it's skill quitting.
- Large Ham: At times; obviously inherited from his brother.
- Male Gaze: Is known to fixate on girls' backsides in games; in the "AWKWARD AT THE ZOO" video, he even gets a close-up on his own mom.
- Mind Screw: His "Draw My Life" video goes sideways from the start."When I was born, I was six years old."
- Mistaken for Gay: A Running Gag of his early career was a recurring allegation that he was gay, with any attempts from him to clear his name often digging him deeper.
- Nerd Glasses: Look at the image above.
- Offing the Offspring: Played for Laughs; a few skits with his parents ended in them killing him. "NO ONE SAW THIS COMING" ends with Yinka shooting him with a carbine rifle, and Jide went after him with a chainsaw once.
- Once per Episode: At one point in his career, all his FIFA videos started with ads for websites providing affordable games or FIFA coins, as was the norm at the time for most all popular FIFA gamers.
- O.O.C. Is Serious Business: The end of his bully video, where he provides some real, genuine counseling to bullies and their victims.
- Pre-Asskicking One-Liner: Jide turns his Catchphrase "Are you mad?" into one in this video before curbstomping his son.
- Precision F-Strike: He used to do this when he got really irked. Now, he's spiced up his language quite a bit.
- Prison Rape: Discussed in one of his videos:Deji: Some people have fun stealing, that's why they carry on. And then they get locked up in prison, drop the soap, and then they're not having fun.
- The Problem with Pen Island: In this video, he disguises himself as P. Enis.
- Race Fetish: Has a strong interest in Asian girls, which his brother has called "Asian persuasion".
- Rage Quit: He does it a lot, but he doesn't rage quit, he skill quits. Get your facts right.
- Running Gag:
- Him being Mistaken for Gay in his earlier videos.
- Deji will go out of his way to bad-mouth his brother.
- Him being a great sexual performer, and an avid masturbator.
- The series of videos he did with female guests, which he always referred to as his "girlfriend" — as in a friend that was a girl.
- Screams Like a Little Girl
- Sex Comedy: The basic gist of his early humour, much like with JJ.
- Signing Off Catchphrase: An old one was "Please like, subscribe, and peace!"
- Got mutated in his video on Fifty Shades of Grey: "Please like, subscribe...and sex."
- Sir Swears-a-Lot: Used to avert this trope as often as he could, but he gradually grew into it over the years.
- The Stoner: Had a short-lived character named Rasta Deji that played into this Jamaican stereotype.note
- Tempting Fate: In Barack Obama In GTA V, a civilian sitting on a bench says to another, "Barack Obama sucks, man! Who's gonna vote for him?" Barack is standing right behind them, and tases the civilian.
- This Is for Emphasis, Bitch!: Both Deji and Jide are guilty of this, the latter more so.
- At the end of "NO ONE SAW THIS COMING", when Yinka shoots Deji dead. Even more so hilarious, due to her hatred of swearing.
- Toilet Humor: Pretty much the basis of "Shit Diarrhea People Say".
- Trademark Favorite Food: Chicken, specifically KFC. He's also fond of pizza to a lesser extent (it was his favourite as a child).
- Traumatic Haircut: Deji will never hear the end of it when it comes to haircuts.
- One time, Deji had embarrassingly thick curly hair in his earliest videos, which went away really quickly. Since then, Deji has admitted to it as being why he doesn't grow his hair out much.
- In one of his first vlog videos, Yinka gives Deji an extremely ridiculous mohawk. He later shaves it off.
- His most-known one is in THE BARBER RUINED MY HAIR, where he shows a haircut that has his hairline cut to the mid-back."I can't go out anymore! What girl wants a guy with old man hair!?"
- Later on, he gets Jide to try make his hair trendy...here's the result.
- Not even his girlfriend makes it any better.
- Eventually, he decides to do it himself. None-the-better, he makes himself bald by forgetting to add a clip to the razor.
- Unusual Euphemism: Once described masturbating as "peeling your banana".
- Vitriolic Best Buds: With his brother KSI. At times, they can actually get along.
- Vomit Indiscretion Shot: Almost all of his challenges in which he has to consume something results in this.
