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Barely Productions
The Key of Awesome (formerly Barely Productions and Barely Political) is a YouTube channel that produced comedy videos starring writer/performer Mark Douglas. "The Key of Awesome" was created by Mark Douglas and Ben Relles and is the channel's most popular series, mainly producing Viral video, viral music videos and parodies. Barely Political was created in June 2007 by Ben Relles and subsequently debuted its first music video, "Crush on Obama", starring Amber Lee Ettinger, Amber Lee "Obama Girl" Ettinger, created by Ben Relles and Jake Chudnow. Videos on the channel have been seen over 3.37 billion times online. "The Key of Awesome" became the central identity of the channel. The Key of Awesome created numerous videos covering political topics, the military, and news media. During the 2008 United States presidential election, 2008 presidential primaries, the channel invited some of the List of candidates in the 2008 United States presidential election, candidates to be featured ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Todd Womack
Todd Womack (born September 1, 1975) is an American stand-up comedy, stand-up comedian from El Paso, Texas. He is best known for his work on the musical parody web series The Key of Awesome. From 2010 to 2015, Womack worked as a writer/performer on ''Barely Political/Barely Production'' in Brooklyn, NY. He currently lives in Austin, Texas, producing content with Rooster Teeth, and running his own film studio, "Two Films." Biography Todd was born to David and Janet Womack, and has an older brother named Chris. He graduated from Coronado High School (El Paso, Texas), Coronado High School. He started doing comedy at the Velveeta Room in Austin, Texas in 1998. Womack also worked for Oscar Mayer, driving one of their famous Weinermobiles around the country for a year. He moved to New York City in 2000 to become a professional stand-up comedian, and eventually became a writer/performer on ''Barely Political'', one of the biggest YouTube channels, known for its high caliber sketch com ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Stevens (educator)
Michael David Stevens (born January 23, 1986) is an American educator, public speaker, entertainer, and editor best known for creating and hosting the education YouTube channel ''Vsauce''. His channel initially released video game-related content until the popularity of his educational series ''DOT'' saw discussions of general interest become the focus of ''Vsauce'', encompassing explanations of science, philosophy, culture, and illusion. As the host of ''Vsauce'', Stevens has become one of the most successful YouTubers (with over 24 million subscribers and over 5 billion views), as well as a leading figure in the internet-driven popularization of science and education. By October 2014, his Vsauce channel had nearly 8 million subscribers and 700 million views. In 2017, he created and starred in the YouTube Premium series '' Mind Field'', and presented the nationwide educational stage tour ''Brain Candy Live!'' alongside Adam Savage. Early life and education Stevens was born o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Parody Musicians
A parody is a creative work designed to imitate, comment on, and/or mock its subject by means of satirical or ironic imitation. Often its subject is an original work or some aspect of it (theme/content, author, style, etc), but a parody can also be about a real-life person (e.g. a politician), event, or movement (e.g. the French Revolution or 1960s counterculture). Literary scholar Professor Simon Dentith defines parody as "any cultural practice which provides a relatively polemical allusive imitation of another cultural production or practice". The literary theorist Linda Hutcheon said "parody ... is imitation, not always at the expense of the parodied text." Parody may be found in art or culture, including literature, music, theater, television and film, animation, and gaming. The writer and critic John Gross observes in his ''Oxford Book of Parodies'', that parody seems to flourish on territory somewhere between pastiche ("a composition in another artist's manner, without ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
YouTube Channels Launched In 2007
YouTube is an American social media and online video sharing platform owned by Google. YouTube was founded on February 14, 2005, by Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim who were three former employees of PayPal. Headquartered in San Bruno, California, it is the second-most-visited website in the world, after Google Search. In January 2024, YouTube had more than 2.7billion monthly active users, who collectively watched more than one billion hours of videos every day. , videos were being uploaded to the platform at a rate of more than 500 hours of content per minute, and , there were approximately 14.8billion videos in total. On November 13, 2006, YouTube was purchased by Google for $1.65 billion (equivalent to $ billion in ). Google expanded YouTube's business model of generating revenue from advertisements alone, to offering paid content such as movies and exclusive content produced by and for YouTube. It also offers YouTube Premium, a paid subscription opti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HappySlip
Christine Gambito (born August 16, 1975 in Virginia Beach, Virginia, United States), better known by her screen name HappySlip, is an American Internet personality, actress, and comedian. She maintained one of the most-subscribed-to channels on YouTube, a popular video sharing website. On January 25, 2008, Gambito, who is of Filipino ancestry, was appointed ambassador for Philippine tourism by the Department of Tourism. In March 2007, Gambito's video ''Mixed Nuts'' was nominated for the 2006 YouTube Video Awards for Best Comedy, resulting in second place. In May of the same year, she became one of the first users accepted into YouTube's revenue sharing program. Gambito's performances typically included comedy sketches in which she impersonates members of her family. She also sings and plays the piano and guitar. As Gambito has stated repeatedly in her videos, she is notably one of the very few top users who are acting, filming, editing and producing her shorts completely o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Muppets
The Muppets are an American ensemble cast of puppet characters known for an surreal humor, absurdist, slapstick, burlesque, and self-referential humor, self-referential style of Musical theatre, musical Variety show, variety-sketch comedy. Created by Jim Henson in 1955, the eponymous media franchise encompasses films, television, music, and other media associated with the characters. Owned by the Jim Henson Company for nearly five decades, the Muppets were acquired by the Walt Disney Company in 2004. The Muppets originated in the short-form television series ''Sam and Friends'', which aired on WRC-TV and in syndication from 1955 to 1961. Following appearances on late-night talk shows and in advertising during the 1960s, the Muppets began appearing on ''Sesame Street'' (1969–present) during their formative years in the early-mid 1970s and attained Celebrity, celebrity status and international recognition through ''The Muppet Show'' (1976–1981), their flagship sketch comedy t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Statler And Waldorf
Statler and Waldorf are a pair of The Muppets, Muppet characters from the sketch comedy television series ''The Muppet Show'', best known for their overly negative opinions and their tendency to Heckler, heckle people. The two elderly men first appeared in ''The Muppet Show'' in 1975, where they consistently jeered the entirety of the cast and their performances from their Box (theatre), box seats. Created by Jim Henson, the characters have been performed by numerous puppeteers, including Henson, in a variety of films and television productions within the Muppet franchise. Statler and Waldorf are named after two landmark New York City hotels, the Hotel Pennsylvania, Statler Hilton and the Waldorf Astoria New York, Waldorf-Astoria (in turn named after Ellsworth Milton Statler and the hometown of the Astor family). Characters The characters are known for their heckling. In ''The Muppet Show'', the two are always criticizing Fozzie Bear's humor, except for one occasion when ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harley Morenstein
Harley Morenstein (born July 20, 1985) is a Canadian YouTuber. He co-created, produces, and hosts the web show '' Epic Meal Time'' and its FYI television spin-off series, ''Epic Meal Empire''. He is one of the two remaining original members of the show along with Ameer Atari. Life and career Morenstein was born to English-speaking Jewish-Canadian parents in Montreal, Quebec. He attended Dawson College. He was a substitute teacher for a number of years at Lakeside Academy in Lachine, teaching history. Morenstein currently resides in Montreal and splits his time between Montreal and Los Angeles, California. Internet career EpicMealTime In 2010 he co-created '' Epic Meal Time'' with Sterling Toth. The channel has over 6 million subscribers, and over 300 installments, 2 spin-offs, and has had guest stars such as Seth Rogen, Smosh, Tony Hawk, Arnold Schwarzenegger, and Kevin Smith, who directed the movie ''Tusk'', in which Morenstein had a cameo appearance. He produces ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Epic Meal Time
''Epic Meal Time'' is a Canadian YouTube cooking show known for creating extremely high-calorie meals, generally out of meat products (with particular emphasis on bacon) and including alcohol (especially Jack Daniel's). It debuted in October 2010, and since then has started to release an episode every Tuesday. It is hosted by Harley Morenstein and a group of his friends. They are now represented by The Gersh Agency and Brillstein-Grey Entertainment, and have signed with multi-channel network Collective Digital Studio. ''Epic Meal Time'' won the 2011 Shorty Award in the Food Category. The series began in Montreal, Quebec, the group's place of origin, but episodes have been filmed in California, where guest stars including Tony Hawk, Kevin Smith, and Arnold Schwarzenegger have made appearances. In December 2012, ''Epic Meal Time'' spawned a spin-off series titled ''Epic Chef'', inspired by the Food Network series '' Chopped''. In this series, two chefs battle the 4 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
