The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Refinery29 announced a slate of new initiatives during their Newfronts presentation on Monday, among them the launch of a separate YouTube channel dedicated to women in comedy. It’s called RIOT. “We need to move away from the idea of selling ‘empowerment’ to women. This generation of women has an innate …
YouTube stars, like most social media celebrities, appear to enjoy the most uplifting glamorous lives. But Lilly Singh, who has 7.8 million YouTube subscribers and counting for her IISuperwomanII channel and another 1.2 million-plus subscribers for her daily Superwoman Vlogs, wasn’t always in the mood to lead her followers to her …
A few years ago, YouTube invested $200 million in boosting the profiles and content of 100 of its already higher-profile channels. This time around, YouTube is going to try to beat the other streaming giants by joining them. YouTube announced YouTube Red today, a new membership service providing ad-free videos, webseries and …
Years before Thomas Middleditch was an award-nominated star of HBO’s Silicon Valley, he was just another comedian hustling for fame in Chicago, and in 2006, he didn’t imagine that his rap video mocking McDonald’s chicken mcnuggets would amount to as much as it has. Because McDonald’s bought the video Middleditch …
Wait. What now? Humza Arshad is a 29-year-old YouTube comedian in London, born to Pakistani parents and brought up Muslim. He studied performing arts in college and followed that up with drama school. In 2009, Arshad joined YouTube, where his first effort was a five-episode webseries, “Chronicles of Tuttoo,” about …
Jerry Seinfeld doesn’t need Crackle nearly as much as Crackle needs him. But the upstart webseries-turned-streaming provider is backed by Sony Pictures Entertainment, which just so happened to back Seinfeld’s hit sitcom and made billions of dollars to go around. So when Seinfeld needed a vehicle to get back on …
From YouTube to basic cable, from My Damn Channel to E!, Grace Helbig is headed for primetime stardom in 2015 The Grace Helbig Project is the tentative title for the comedian’s weekly primetime “hybrid comedy talk show” set to debut in April on E!, the network announced today. Helbig, 29, …
Move over, Tosh. Don’t be ridiculous, Ridiculousness. FOX thinks it can trump Tosh.0, Ridiculousness and all of the other comedians-talking-about-epic-fail-video series on cable by starting up its own such mocker talker in primetime on network TV. World’s Funniest Fails will premiere at 8 p.m. ET/PT Friday, Jan. 16, 2015. It’s …
Brittany Furlan was up for multiple 2014 Streamy Awards on Sunday, including Viner of the Year and Entertainer of the Year. Furlan won for the former category; in her acceptance speech, she thanked Vine’s creator, jokingly suggesting: “Without you, I’d still be living in a Fed-Ex box with my dogs.” A …
Ted Alexandro began his comedy career as part of a duo, with Hollis James. Two decades later, Alexandro and James are back working together, collaborating on the fun new webseries, “Teacher’s Lounge.” It also reunites them in old familiar roles, with Alexandro teaching music and James as the janitor of a …
