Ross Smith
Comedy creator from Columbus, Ohio who has made videos with his grandmother, Granny, since the Vine days.
Comedy · TikTok · Updated Sep 23, 2026
Ross Smith is a comedy creator from Columbus, Ohio, and half of Ross and Granny, the act he has run with his grandmother since Vine in 2013. He plays the loud one and Granny plays the deadpan one, in pranks, skits and stunts filmed at home, at concerts and at games. He is one of the biggest grandma-content accounts on the internet, with about 25 million followers on TikTok, 12 million on Facebook and 5 million on YouTube.
Questions people ask
Who is Ross Smith?
Ross Smith is a comedy creator from Columbus, Ohio who has made videos with his grandmother since 2013. He started on Vine, moved the act to every platform that came after it, and today has about 25 million followers on TikTok alone. He played college football at the University of Dayton before the internet became the job.
Who is Ross Smith’s grandma?
Granny, or Gangster Granny, is his grandmother and the other half of the act. She plays it straight while Ross does the most, which is the whole joke and has been for over a decade. Ross calls her Granny on every channel, and so do we.
How old is Ross Smith’s grandma?
She is 100. Ross’s own bio reads “me and my 100 year old Gangster Grandma,” and she turned 100 in August 2026, a few months after setting a world record at 99.
Did Granny set a world record?
Yes. In May 2026 she crowd surfed during Brantley Gilbert’s set at Rock the Country in Bellville, Texas, and Guinness World Records recognized her as the oldest person to crowd surf, at 99 years and 274 days. Ross submitted the record. A month later she was at the World Cup holding a sign asking Messi to marry her.
What is the Grandma’s Self Defense Class video?
A series where Granny “defends” herself against a stunt partner, most famously Houston Jones, with Ross narrating. Part two has passed 64 million views on YouTube and it spun off a “Home Alone Self Defense” series.
How old is Ross Smith?
He is 34. Famous Birthdays lists September 2, 1992, and CNBC’s 2018 profile of the duo called him 25 at the time, which lines up.
Is this the Ross Smith who plays darts?
No. Ross Smith the darts player is a different person. This entry is about the comedy creator from Ohio.
Where is Ross Smith from?
Columbus, Ohio. He says so on his own profiles, and local press has covered him as a Columbus native since the Vine days.
Where can I watch Ross Smith?
TikTok @rosssmith, Facebook Ross Smith, YouTube Ross Smith, Instagram @rosssmith and Snapchat @rosssmith. The yearly “Granny’s Best Videos” compilations on YouTube are the best place to start.
What is Ross Smith’s net worth?
He does not publish a number and neither do we. What we can say is that an act with tens of millions of followers across five platforms, brand campaigns going back years and a decade of catalog is a real business.
Who represents Ross Smith?
He runs his own brand. Ames Create does not represent him; we cover him because Ross and Granny is the model for a lane we work in. If that changes, this entry will say so.
Our read
Ames Create does not work with Ross Smith. This is our view, from a team that works on creator brands for a living.
The format. Ross figured out the two-hander early: he is the energy and Granny is the reaction, and the reaction is always the punchline. It is a sitcom pairing that happens to be real, which is why it has survived Vine, Facebook, Snapchat and TikTok without changing.
Why it travels. Everyone has a grandmother, so everyone can send it to someone. The videos are clean, the joke is warm, and Granny doing something a 99-year-old is not supposed to do is a headline on its own, which the world record proved.
Brand fit. Anything a family buys. Energy drinks and snacks have already worked. The stunt videos are the sweet spot for brands, because a product is in a story instead of an ad, and Granny sells it by not caring about it.
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Sources: Ross Smith’s TikTok, YouTube and Snapchat profiles; Famous Birthdays; CNBC, May 27, 2018; WOSU, January 10, 2017; Guinness World Records, June 2026; beIN Sports, June 23, 2026. Follower counts via Social Blade, September 2026.
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