Tommy Edison
Tommy Edison | |||||||
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Born | Greenwich, Connecticut, U.S. | July 17, 1963||||||
Website | https://tommyedison.com/ | ||||||
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Genre(s) | Comedy, Review, Life Stories | ||||||
Subscribers | 678,000[1] (January 2024) | ||||||
Total views | 98.5 Million[1] (January 2024) | ||||||
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Alma mater | University of Bridgeport | ||||||
Last updated: January 2024 |
Tommy Edison (born July 17, 1963) is an American
Although he had never driven a car or seen a traffic jam, as a traffic reporter he used what he heard about traffic on
Motivated to review films by his frustration with their
Early life and career
Edison was born completely blind due to an underdeveloped optic nerve.[2] He was born and raised in Greenwich, Connecticut, and attended Canterbury School and the University of Bridgeport, where he studied music.[3] He has credited his parents for treating him the same as his sighted sisters during his upbringing.[10] His mother went to great lengths to make sure Tommy was put into a normal class rather than the school recommended special education class, stating "Tommy has a normal Cognitive Function, He is normal just like the other students, he just so happens to be blind."[11] After developing an interest in local and New York radio stations, he was hired as a disc jockey for the station WJAZ in Stamford, Connecticut in 1987, becoming its traffic reporter two years later.[3]
In 2016 he and his producer Ben Churchill moved to the Los Angeles area and began the next phase in his career as a public figure.[citation needed]
References
- ^ a b "About TommyEdisonXP". YouTube.
- ^ a b c d e f Buckmaster, Luke (December 3, 2014). "No spoilers: meet the film critic who's never watched a single film". The Guardian. Retrieved February 16, 2016.
- ^ a b c Weizel, Richard (September 28, 1997). "Connecticut Q&A: Tommy Edison; On the Air About Traffic, and Blind". The New York Times. Retrieved February 16, 2016.
- ^ Gannett Company. Retrieved February 17, 2016.
- ^ Bunbury, Stephanie (December 3, 2014). "Meet Tommy Edison, the blind film critic". The Sydney Morning Herald. Fairfax Media. Retrieved February 16, 2016.
- ^ Gibson, Megan (May 19, 2011). "Q&A: Tommy Edison, The Blind Film Critic With a Big YouTube Following". Time. Time Inc. Retrieved February 16, 2016.
- ^ Dahl, Melissa (July 2, 2014). "Could You Describe 'Red' to a Blind Person?". New York Magazine. Retrieved February 17, 2016.
- ^ von Baldegg, Kasia Cieplak-Mayr (May 7, 2012). "How Tommy Edison, the 'Blind Film Critic,' Became a YouTube Sensation". The Atlantic. Atlantic Media. Archived from the original on September 6, 2015. Retrieved February 17, 2016.
- ISBN 9781479867431.
- ^ McCurley, Mark (August 20, 2011). "Don't miss it: Milford blind film critic's website a must-see hit (video)". New Haven Register. Digital First Media. Retrieved February 17, 2016.
- ^ The Tommy Edison Experience (2017-09-13), Going To School As A Blind Person, retrieved 2018-01-27
External links
- Official website
- Tommy Edison at IMDb