Daniel Browning - The 'Rubber Boy' Contortionist

In a land and time far away, a bouncing baby was born.

OK, OK it wasn’t that long ago (1979) or that far away (Meridian, Mississippi) but a bouncing baby was born. bouncing off the wall in fact. The little boy made of rubber, Daniel Browning Smith, had the strangest abilities. He could form his body into any shape! He discovered this at the young age of four when roughhousing with his siblings, he jumped off the bunk bed to land in a split. His father, amazed at his son’s unique gift, collected some photographs of contortionists from the local library to show Daniel. . .

A dream was born, from that moment on Daniel wanted to be a contortionist. But not just any contortionist, THE WORLD’S GREATEST CONTORTIONIST ! ! ! To achieve his goal Daniel traveled many roads. As a teenager Daniel ran away and joined the circus.(no really, he did) later he toured with a traveling sideshow, meditated with a Sufi mystic, and trained with Master Lu Yi in the ancient art of Chinese acrobatics.

Now Daniel Browning Smith the Amazing Rubberboy tours the world living his dream in ....

THE MOST TWISTED SHOW ON EARTH!!!

You want unique? Well, you can't go past Daniel Browning, the 'Rubber Boy'. There really is no one like him in the whole world. Right from the start Daniel stands out as he's one of the only men out there in the world of contorsion, a genre which is entirely female dominated. Not only can he twist and wind himself up into all kinds of improbable shapes, he combines it with a stand up comedy routine!

Daniel's unusual talents have landed him in the Guinness Book of Records, as well as a featured artist on many popular TV shows such as 'Ripley's Believe it or Not' and 'The David Letterman Show'.

Television Guest Starring Roles: 

• Room 401 as Jack-Episode: “He Sees Dead People”. Original airdate: 2007
• Monk as Danny Chasen-Episode: ”Monk and the Big Reward”. Original airdate: 2006
• CSI: NY as Lukas Neiman-Episode 14:“Blood, Sweat, and Tears”. Original airdate: Feb 9th, 2005
• Carnivale as Rollo the Rubberboy-Episode 13: ”Los Moscos”. Original airdate Jan 9th, 2005
  
• Carnivale as Rollo the Rubberboy-Episode 14: “Alamogordo, N.M.” Original airdate Jan 16th, 2005
  
• Carnivale as Rollo the Rubberboy-Episode 16: “Old Cherry Blossom Road” Original airdate Jan 30th, 2005
  
• Carnivale as Rollo the Rubberboy-Episode 18: “The Road to Damascus” Original airdate Feb 13th, 2005
  
• Carnivale as Rollo the Rubberboy-Episode 20: “Outskirts, Damascus, NE” Original airdate Feb 27th, 2005
  
• Carnivale as Rollo the Rubberboy-Episode 24: Original airdate Mar 27th, 2005
  

Major Motion Pictures:

• Don’t Mess With the Zohan-Directed by Dennis Dugan
• Foodfight!-Directed by Lawrence Kasanoff
• 100 Feet-Directed by Eric Red
• Drillbit Taylor-Directed by Steven Brill
• Dark Blue-Directed by Ron Shelton
• Minority Report-Directed by Steven Spielberg
• Men In Black 2-Directed by Barry Sonnenfeld
• Kiss Kiss Bang Bang-Directed by Shane Black
  

Variety Show appearances:

• 100 Greatest Guinness World Records (only person to make the countdown twice!!)-Original airdate: January 27, 2008
• Ripley’s Believe It or Not. Episode, “Contortionists in a Box”-Original airdate 2000 on TBS
• Episode, “Luggage Contortionist”-Original airdate 2001 on TBS
• Guinness World Records Primetime.Episode, ”Fastest Time Getting Into a Locked Straightjacket”-Original airdate Dec 1998 on FOX
• Episode, ”Most Contortionists in a Box”-Original airdate 2000 on FOX
• Steve Harvey’s Big Time-Original airdate Oct 2003 on the WB
• Cirque Du Soliel’s Solstrom-Original airdate 2004 on Bravo
• Penn and Teller’s Sinn City Spectacular-Original airdate Oct 1998 on FX
• 30 Seconds to Fame (Daniel was the Grand Prize Winner!)-Original airdate 2002 on FOX
  

Talk Show appearances:

• Tonight Show with Jay Leno-Original airdate Jan 23rd, 2008-Original airdate Dec 31st, 2000
• Oprah Winfrey-Original airdate Oct 15th, 2003
• The Roseanne Show-Original airdate Mar 20th, 2000
• The Montel Williams Show
  

Sports Shows:

• Best Damn Sports Show Period-Original airdate Jan 4th, 2005
• ESPN’s Sports Center (Daniel’s was #1 of the top ten list!)-Original airdate Feb 8th, 2005
  

Independent Films:

• The Vaudevillian-Directed by Bryan Nest
• When Zachary Beaver Came to Town-Directed by John Schultz
• The Death of Doctor Island-Directed by Andy Davis and Mitch Deoudes
  

Documentaries:

• More Than Human
• Original airdate 2003 on the Discovery Channel
• World’s Weirdest Performers
• Original airdate 2000 on the Discovery Channel
• Xrtaordinary Humans
• Original airdate 2003 on TLC
• Body Benders
• Original airdate 2001 on TLC
• Twisted Lives of Contortionist
• Original airdate 2001 on the Discovery Channel
• National News Show appearances:
• Inside Edition
• BET Live
• Real TV
• Talk Soup
• International Television Appearances:
• Don’t Try This at Home! (UK)
• Open Mike with Mike Bullard (Canadian)
• El Rojo Vivo
• Primero Impacto
• Don Francisco Presentas
• Guinness World Records (Spain)
• Guinness World Records (France)
• Guinness World Records (Germany)
• Japanese, Chinese, Lebanese, Chilean, Finnish, Singaporean, New Zealand, Austrian
• Major Magazine Articles:
• GQ (USA)
• December 2004 Issue 12, pg. 169-180, by: William Speed Weed, "Amazing Bodies"
• Details (USA)  June 2003 Volume 21, Issue 08, pg. 152-159, by: Jeff Gordinier, "Rubberboy"
• Current Science (USA) 13 September 2002, Volume 88, Issue 2, pg. 4-5, by: Pearl Tesler, "Twisted!"
  

National or International Tours & Showcases:

• NBA Halftime Shows 2002, 2003, 2004

Teams include: Bulls, Knicks, Hornets, Mavericks, Hawks, Jazz, Wizards, Kings, Pistons, Bobcats, Rockets, Pacers, Bucks, Timberwolves, Magic, 76ers, Suns, Spurs and more!!

• CBA, NHL, NCAA, AFL, NIFL, WNBA Halftime Shows
• NACA National Convention

2005 Showcase

• Brooks and Dunn (Daniel was the main stage opening act!)
• Neon Circus and Wild West Show
• North American Tour 2002
• Zamora the Torture King's Touring Stunt Show
• North American Tour 1998
• North American Tour 1999
• USA Tour 1999
• Knott's Berry Farm Halloween Haunt
  

1998,1999,2000

• Ward Hall's World of Wonders
  

1998

• The Bindlestiff Family Cirkus
• 1998 East Coast Tour
• 1998 West Coast Tour