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Podcast: North Star with Ellin Bessner
Episode: TikTok star Josh Zilberberg dishes on his Canadian Jewish roots
Description: If you haven’t heard of Josh Zilberberg, you're clearly not one of his nearly 2 million followers on TikTok, nor one of his 438,000 Instagram followers. Certainly Zilberberg himself never expected this when he started posting videos about life as a 27-year-old living with his parents during the pandemic.
Yet Zilberberg has quickly ascended to social media stardom. He burst onto the scene from his bedroom in his parents' house in Markham last year by posting hilarious, fast-paced, bite-sized videos in which he deadpans a 10-second, rapid-fire monologue joke that invariably ends with what's become his tagline: "Thank ye...