Hayrettin Karaoğuz

Hayrettin Onur Karaoğuz is a comedian, presenter and actor who is one of the first popular faces of social media and YouTube in Türkiye with his street interviews, short skits and the characters he portrays. He was born in 1984 in Bakırköy district of Istanbul. He studied at Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar Primary School and Yahya Kemal Beyatlı High School, and then studied advertising at Kadir Has University.

From internet to television

He was interested in theater during his university years. He became widely known with the short film titled Kızsız Adam, which went viral on the internet in 2009, and in the same period, he began to take part in commercials of various brands. In 2011, he presented his own entertainment program called Hayrettin on Star TV; In 2013, he hosted the competition program Harry on ATV. He spent a while in Los Angeles during 2013-2014 and produced content there.

On the acting side, he appeared in films such as A Day in the Future (2010), Queen's Finger and First Kiss. He played the character of Ercan in the TV series Kalk Gidelim. He participated in the Survivor competition broadcast on TV8 in 2021.

He has been preparing and presenting the entertainment program Hayrettin ile Kaos Show on his own YouTube channel since 2024.

Karaoğuz continues his work as an entertainment figure, starting with internet videos and moving to television, cinema and digital broadcasting.