After years of social media stardom, Benito Skinner is making the jump to TV.

Skinner, known for his online persona Benny Drama, is the creator and star of Overcompensating, Prime Video’s new comedy that is loosely based on his life and follows Benny, a football player, in college as he struggles to accept his sexuality. The comedian is famous for his viral skits and celebrity impressions, particularly his spoofs of the Kardashians where he expertly plays every member of the family.

At the show’s Los Angeles premiere on Wednesday, Skinner told The Hollywood Reporter that the challenge of moving to traditional TV was just “trying to think of stakes,” but “doing Kardashian sketches of episodes was starting to help me with structure, I think in a way. Nothing could prepare me for this but I think I always wanted to do this and I wanted to tell these stories, so I think social media actually did a pretty decent job because I wore so many hats.”

In tackling the party-filled college genre, Skinner pointed to Animal House as an inspiration after watching it growing up — “I’m the youngest child in my family so it’s kind of fucked up that I watched that, but my parents were kind of like, ‘We don’t care, play it’” — as well as pulled a lot from his own experience. The show’s production designer recreated his real dorm room as he joked, “So the reference is kind of like my trauma, my life. Not that it’s all traumatic, but the disgusting experience I had in college was the reference in a lot of ways.”

Mary Beth Barone, who co-stars in the show as Skinner’s sister (and in real life the two best friends co-host podcast Ride), added, “I think American Pie was definitely an influence, we wanted it to feel like gay American Pie.” And when it came to her character in particular, “I think shows or even movies like Legally Blonde where you kind of discredit the bimbo but she has a lot of heart and depth, we wanted to play into that a little bit too.”

Barone also shares scenes with guest star Charli XCX, who plays herself in the show as well as serves as the series’ executive music producer. “Charli was such a professional. We had one day to shoot with her and I was lucky enough to be in scenes with her, so I was just excited as a fan to hang out with her,” Barone recalled. “She showed up, she knew her lines. She was a perfect scene partner, no notes.”

Skinner added, “She did that in between Sweat tour stops. She came, screamed at us for one day; she’s incredible, I’m so lucky and she was so down to I think be in on the joke and have a cathartic experience with the joke. It was so much fun. I had no idea she was going to go that hard though… she got something out of her system.”

Overcompensating, which also stars Adam DiMarco, Wally Baram, Rish Shah, Kaia Gerber, Connie Britton and Kyle MacLachlan, is now streaming on Prime Video.