Boman Martinez-Reid

Boman Martinez-Reid, also known as Bomanizer, is a Canadian creator of TikTok comedy videos.[1] His videos parody reality television by featuring his own family and friends getting into overly dramatized fights and feuds about small, everyday matters.[2]

Boman Martinez-Reid
NationalityCanadian

Martinez-Reid, the son of a Jamaican Canadian father and a Spanish Canadian mother,[1] grew up in Mississauga, Ontario.[3] and launched his TikTok account in 2019 while studying radio and television arts at Ryerson University.[2] He broke through to mass popularity on the platform in 2020.[4]

In 2021, he appeared in a second season episode of Canada's Drag Race as a celebrity contestant in the Snatch Game,[5] and did work with The Gag, Comedy Central's internet-based platform for emerging LGBTQ comedians.[6] In the same year, he was named as an Icon in TikTok's inaugural Discover List of top content creators on the platform,[7] and was first runner-up for Best Local Comedy TikTok in Now's annual Best of Toronto reader poll.[8]

In 2023, Crave announced production on Made for TV, a mockumentary series in which Martinez-Reid will play a version of himself trying out various television occupations as he tries to "find his genre" for a television series.[9]

He is out as gay.[10]

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