EXCLUSIVE: Channel 4 returns to its A Comedy Factor YouTube channel for a second yr with new codecs, together with Battle of puns.
Channel 4 mentioned A Comedy Factor, which releases weekly long-form packages for YouTube that includes rising comics, had 6.5 million views on YouTube, racking up 165,000 hours of viewing with a majority viewers aged below 35.
The YouTube channel’s second yr will function new faces like Channel 4’s 2023 Sean Lock Award winner Eric Rushton, Edinburgh Comedy Award Greatest Newcomer nominee Jin Hao, and viral star Kyla Cobbler. The unique seven forged members from the primary yr are again.
Codecs returned embrace The mendacity sport, by which the comics should every inform an anecdote on the identical randomly chosen topic, some mendacity and others telling the reality, in addition to new codecs like Battle of puns, by which comedians compete to attempt to make one another chortle with the driest puns.
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Charlie Hyland, digital commissioning editor for comedy at Channel 4, mentioned: “We wished to construct an actual dwelling for brand spanking new comedy – a spot the place shiny younger stand-ups can strive issues, sharpen their voices and discover an viewers. What’s been thrilling is seeing this grow to be an actual group round them. The UK and Eire have at all times been on the coronary heart of this sort of comedy, and it is about creating the area to proceed to do this.”
A Comedy Factor is commissioned by Hyland with Laura Marks, head of digital commissioning. The channel is produced and managed by Sturdy Watch Studios, with Thom Gulseven and Ben Powell-Jones as government producers.