Career
He is best known for his work on Current television, Smash Cuts and Joe Goes. Hanson made his first television appearance in 2005, in the first season of the show The Beauty and the Geek. Joe and his partner Erica were eliminated in the second episode.
The series involved Joe exploring fish-out-of-water situations, like enteringed trips to California, Indiana, Nevada, Missouri, South Dakota, Alabama and New New York
Joe also made the satirical series What"s Wrong With, the music video parody Viral Superstar, and interviewed celebrities at Elton John"s Oscars Afterparty, including George Lucas, Eddie Van Halen, Prince, Carmen Electra, Carson Daly, John Waters, Salma Hayek and Rick Fox. In 2008, Hanson started "Bino White Weekly," in which he made a rap song every week as Bino White.
The topics ranged from Nintendo to Twitter to Science, and each track was accompanied by a YouTube video. He did this for 52 weeks, breaking Crooked I"s record for weekly rap songs.
In 2009, he joined the cast of Smash Cuts, a syndicated clip show on The CW and Columbia Broadcasting System affiliates.
In 2010, Hanson started the Web series "Joe Goes," in which he visits conventions, events and countries, to have funny interactions with people. The episode "Joe Goes To Exxxotica Expo" went viral, making the front page of the Huffington Post, and getting over 550,000 views combined on YouTube and Funny Or Die. Other episodes have included visits to Anime Expo, Amsterdam, London, Bangkok and the press junket for Tron: Legacy.
He also created the website Fake Rap News, which is like The Onion for hip hop.
Hanson is a graduate of the University of Chicago and grew up in Fosston, Minnesota. He also appeared in March 2012 in the music video for the song by Julian Smith on YouTube "Eat Randy" featuring as "Randy".
The video has gained over seven million views to date. He is mentioned as a writer for Ray William Johnson"s "equals three".
