YouTube stars Rhett & Hyperlink are getting again into the scripted comedy area.
The duo, who host Good Legendary Morning and personal Legendary Leisure, will launch a brand new scripted collection on their Rhett & Hyperlink YouTube channel in August. The brand new collection, Wonderhole, “combines docu-comedy, sketch comedy, unique music, visible FX, movie star cameos, and outright bonkers perspective,” per Legendary Leisure.
The pair will “get out from behind their iconic Good Legendary Morning desk and head into the actual world for wonderous explorations each foolish and profound, grandiose and dumb, and uniquely Rhett & Hyperlink,” per the logline.
Legendary independently financed Wonderhole, which is able to launch new episodes on YouTube every week.
You’ll be able to see the primary trailer for Rhett & Hyperlink’s Wonderhole, under.
Rhett & Hyperlink aren’t any strangers to scripted comedy. They’d a collection on YouTube Pink (again when YouTube was investing in its unique unique content material) known as Rhett & Hyperlink’s Buddy System, which had two seasons in 2016-2017; and in 2021 they created and starred in a scripted podcast collection known as Ronstadt. They’ve additionally one one-off movies and sketches on their Rhett & Hyperlink channel.
Nonetheless, Wonderhole is one thing of an audacious guess on unique content material on YouTube, the place lots of its high creators (Rhett & Hyperlink included) play within the unscripted area.
In a video asserting their plans to create a scripted present earlier this yr, Rhett McLaughlin mentioned that the duo shall be utilizing all they discovered from their channels in creating the present.
“We’re investing our personal cash into making it. We’re doing it utterly independently, with no exterior enter, no community notes, that sort of factor,” Hyperlink Neal added. “The one viewers that we bear in mind in making this present is you.”
“It doesn’t make plenty of monetary sense, if we’re being sincere, as a result of we’re positively going to spend extra money on this than we’re gonna make,” McLaughlin added. “However we see it as an funding, an funding in ourselves, in our inventive concepts and our staff. And we additionally see it as an funding on this platform, in YouTube, as a result of … we imagine that YouTube is a spot the place we are able to make the factor that we wish to make for the viewers that wishes to see it. And we additionally wish to imagine that YouTube generally is a place the place you don’t have to only attempt to anticipate the algorithm, you don’t have to only make one thing that you simply attempt to anticipate what individuals are going to love, however you may make the factor that you simply like. After which the individuals who additionally prefer it, will come alongside and they’re going to watch it.”
Rhett & Hyperlink have additionally been on the middle of a push for creators to be thought-about for Emmy Awards, noting that the standard of the work they produce on YouTube rivals plenty of what is accessible on subscription streaming providers or cable TV.
“These award exhibits actually are one of many ways in which we collectively, as a tradition, comply with have fun the issues which are actually connecting. And we’re like, hey, this content material is connecting,” McLaughlin instructed THR on the time. “When you actually take a look at the quantity of engagement and the quantity of cultural affect that what is going on on YouTube and the way it’s influencing tradition, properly, that is the place it’s at. That is the place it’s shifting and that is the place it’s been for some time. And we really feel like that must be celebrated.”