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Jash
Jash (JASH) is an American comedy production company and YouTube-native network founded in 2013 by Daniel Kellison with Sarah Silverman, Michael Cera, Reggie Watts, and Tim & Eric; a profit-sharing co-op acquired by Group Nine in 2017, now based at Sunset Gower Studios.
King Star King
King Star King is a 2014 Adult Swim animated series by J.J. Villard about a space prince fry cook in the Gigantiverse; its six episodes premiered online June 15, 2014, with a 2023 special revival.
Lasagna Cat
Lasagna Cat is a YouTube channel created by the comedy duo Fatal Farm that parodies Garfield via low-budget live-action strip reenactments, returning in 2017 after nine years.
Magic Funhouse!
Magic Funhouse! is a 2016–2017 American comedy-drama web series by YouTube creator Brandon Rogers on Fullscreen, about the adult behind-the-scenes lives of a children's TV show cast; 14 episodes, 2 seasons, cancelled when Fullscreen shut down.
Map Men
Map Men is a British educational comedy YouTube series by Jay Foreman and Mark Cooper-Jones, running since May 2016, explaining maps, borders, and geography through sketches, songs, and deadpan humor; also authors of the book This Way Up.
Masyanya
Masyanya (Масяня) is a Russian flash-animated comedy web series created by Oleg Kuvaev on 22 October 2001, starring Masyanya, Khryundel, and Lokhmaty; a 2000s internet phenomenon later on NTV, now crowdfunded on YouTube and anti-war, with its creator sentenced in absentia in Russia.
Monica Toy
Mônica Toy (Monica Toy) is a Brazilian dialogue-free 2D web series launched in May 2013 for Turma da Mônica's 50th anniversary, showing toy-art versions of Mônica, Cebolinha, Magali, and Cascão in roughly 30-second YouTube episodes with billions of views.
Mr. Freeman
Mr. Freeman (Мистер Свободный Человек), Russian animated web series premiered on YouTube 21 September 2009; a monologuing cartoon character voiced by Vadim Demchog, created anonymously by Muntyan, Ponomarev, Dobrozan, and Demchog until the 2012 reveal.
MyMusic
MyMusic is a transmedia mockumentary sitcom by the Fine Brothers, on YouTube from April 15, 2012 to January 2014 in two seasons (34 and 24 episodes), about a music news company whose staff go by genre names like Indie, Metal, and Idol.
Nostalgia Critic
Nostalgia Critic, also called The Nostalgia Critic, is a Doug Walker comedy web series reviewing 1980s and 1990s films with exaggerated rage; running since 2007 on YouTube and Channel Awesome.
On Cinema
On Cinema at the Cinema is a satirical American movie review web series by Tim Heidecker and Gregg Turkington, begun as a 2011 podcast, aired on Adult Swim from 2013, and streaming on HEI Network since 2021, famous for its Five Bags of Popcorn ratings and sprawling fictional universe.
Play It Again, Dick
Play It Again, Dick is a 2014 meta comedy web series, a non-canonical Veronica Mars spinoff by Rob Thomas on CW Seed, in which Ryan Hansen pitches a fake "Private Dick" spinoff with the original cast.
PONY.MOV
PONY.MOV, also written PONY Mov, is Max Gilardi's (HotDiggedyDemon) six-episode adult Flash parody of My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, on YouTube 2011–2013, known for grotesque characters, SHED.MOV, and catchphrases like "CRUSH. KILL. DESTROY. SWAG."
Potter Puppet Pals
Potter Puppet Pals is Neil Cicierega's Harry Potter parody web series, begun as Newgrounds Flash animation in 2003 and continued as live-action puppets on YouTube from 2006; "The Mysterious Ticking Noise" (2007) won a YouTube Video Award and passed 190 million views.
RWBY
RWBY (pronounced Ruby) is an American 3D anime-style web series created by Monty Oum at Rooster Teeth, premiering 2013; nine volumes, 117 episodes, now owned by VIZ Media with Volume 10 in production.
RWBY Chibi
RWBY Chibi is a Rooster Teeth animated comedy spin-off of RWBY (2016–2018, plus 2021 Neon Konbini shorts), created by Miles Luna and Kerry Shawcross, with chibi-style characters in non-canon 2–4 minute skits.
Salad Fingers
Salad Fingers is a British Flash-animated web series by David Firth, first posted on Newgrounds on 1 July 2004, about a green, spoon-obsessed figure with finger puppets; it went viral pre-YouTube and shaped 'weird YouTube'.
Screen Junkies
Screen Junkies is an American YouTube entertainment channel founded by Break Media in 2008, best known for the Emmy-nominated Honest Trailers parody series; owned by Defy Media from 2013 and Fandom since July 2018.
Seth MacFarlane's Cavalcade of Cartoon Comedy
Seth MacFarlane's Cavalcade of Cartoon Comedy is a 2008 American animated web series of one- to two-minute YouTube comedy shorts by the Family Guy creator, sponsored by Burger King, Priceline, and Nike, with 50 shorts and over 14 million views in three weeks.
Sex House
Sex House is a 2012 ten-episode Onion Digital Studios web series on YouTube parodying The Real World and MTV reality shows; six housemates locked in a house descend from sex-show satire into survival horror.
Shut Up & Sit Down
Shut Up & Sit Down is a British board game review website and YouTube channel combining game criticism with comedy, founded in 2011 by Paul Dean and Quintin Smith.
Shut Up! Cartoons
Shut Up! Cartoons was a Smosh-run YouTube animation channel by Ian Hecox, Anthony Padilla, and Barry Blumberg, funded by YouTube's $100 million channel initiative, running April 30, 2012 to June 23, 2017 with series like Oishi High School Battle, Pubertina, and Smosh Babies.
Sin City Saints
Sin City Saints is a 2015 American comedy series, Yahoo Screen's first original scripted show, about a fictional Las Vegas pro basketball expansion team owned by Silicon Valley tycoon Jake Tullus (Andrew Santino), with Malin Akerman and Tom Arnold; all 8 episodes premiered March 23, 2015.
SuperF*ckers
SuperF*ckers is a James Kochalka satirical superhero comic from Top Shelf (2005–2007, issues 271–279) and its 2012–2013 Cartoon Hangover animated web series of 12 five-minute episodes directed by Fran Krause.
Talking Friends
Talking Friends is a 2012 Disney Interactive web miniseries of ten 3-minute episodes based on Outfit7's Talking Tom apps, running June 8 to August 31, 2012, with Tom, Ben, Angela, Ginger, Pierre, and Gina in a desert trailer.
TeamFourStar
Team Four Star (TFS), founded May 25, 2008 by Scott Frerichs, Nick Landis, and Curtis Arnott, is the internet group behind DragonBall Z Abridged, Hellsing Ultimate Abridged, and later original projects like HFIL and Tales Unwritten.
The Adam Friedland Show
The Adam Friedland Show (TAFS) is a weekly comedy interview podcast and YouTube video series hosted by Adam Friedland, formerly of Cum Town, launched in 2022 as a Dick Cavett-style long-form talk show with a center-left political bent.
The Big Lez Show
The Big Lez Show is an Australian adult animated comedy web series by Jarrad Wright, Izak Whear, and Tom Hollis, drawn in MS Paint and streamed on YouTube from July 16, 2012 to January 26, 2019, following alien Lezly Mackerel in Brown Town with sasquatches Sassy and Donny and the Choomah war.
The Earliest Show
The Earliest Show is a 2016 improvised Funny or Die web series parodying a 3 a.m. talk show, created by and starring Ben Schwartz with Lauren Lapkus; Cap'n Crunch-sponsored, Emmy-nominated, now a TV adaptation.
The Kicks
The Kicks is a 2016 Amazon Original live-action kids series based on Alex Morgan's book series, following Devin Burke (Sixx Orange) leading the Kentville Kicks soccer team; one season of ten TV-G episodes on Prime Video.