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EXCLUSIVE: Channel 4 is returning to its A Comedy Thing YouTube transmission for a 2nd twelvemonth pinch caller formats including Pun Battle.
Channel 4 said A Comedy Thing, which publishes play long-form programming for YouTube pinch up-and-coming comics, has delivered 6.5 cardinal views connected YouTube, clocking up 165,000 hours of watch clip pinch an assemblage mostly nether nan property of 35.
The 2nd twelvemonth of nan YouTube transmission will characteristic caller faces like Eric Rushton, nan victor of Channel 4’s Sean Lock 2023 Award, Edinburgh Comedy Award Best Newcomer Nominee Jin Hao and viral prima Kyla Cobbler. All 7 first formed from twelvemonth 1 are returning.
Formats returning see The Lying Game, in which comics must each show an anecdote astir nan aforesaid randomly selected taxable pinch immoderate lying and immoderate telling nan truth, on pinch caller formats for illustration Pun Battle, in which comedians spell head-to-head to effort and make each other laugh pinch nan driest of puns.
The news comes up of a Channel 4 drama arena coming successful London that will showcase talent. British TV drama feels successful rude wellness astatine present. Prime Video’s Last One Laughing has been a immense deed while nan first-ever Saturday Night Live UK has outperformed expectations connected Sky. Its next 2 hosts are Nicola Coughlan and Aimee Lou Wood.
Charlie Hyland, Channel 4’s Digital Commissioning Editor, Comedy, said: “We wanted to build a due location for caller drama — location superb young stand-ups tin effort things, sharpen their sound and find an audience. What’s been breathtaking is seeing that turn into a existent organization astir them. The UK and Ireland person ever been astatine nan bosom of this benignant of comedy, and this is astir creating nan abstraction to support doing that.”
A Comedy Thing is commissioned by Hyland pinch Laura Marks, Head of Digital Commissioning. The transmission is produced and managed by Strong Watch Studios, pinch Thom Gulseven and Ben Powell-Jones arsenic executive producers.
