He's cute, he's charismatic and he's gone viral with his March Madness picks.
The Kid President, also known as Tennessee's Robby Novak, 9, picked up a page from President Obama's book by doing his own version of the president's picks to advance in the NCAA tournament.
In a hilarious spoof of President Obama's NCAA bracket picks this week-a bracket that was busted with Gonzaga's elimination-Novak recreated his picks with his childlike flair for enthusiasm.
"GON-ZA-GAA!" he exclaims when pronouncing the name of Obama's projected pick to win the whole thing as ESPN Sportcenter's Robert Flores watched on-and occasionally gave Novak a boost, literally, when writing in his bracket.
"I weigh 61 pounds, that's why I'm so heavy," Novak informed Flores while he was being lifted to reach to top of the bracket board.
The video, which debuted on March 20, has since generated more than 895,000 viewers as of Monday, only five days after it was posted.
As Ted.com notes, Kid President started out as a collaboration between Novak and his older brother, Bradley Montague. What started as simple, hilarious videos for their family and friends to enjoy soon drew the attention of SoulPancake, a Youtube channel created by The Office's Rainn Wilson. Since then, Novak has done 19 videos in his alter ego of the Kid President.
Not bad for a couple of kids who started out goofing around with a camera, eh?
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