So here's something I was pretty excited about! GraceHelbig from youtube now has a talk show on E! I love Grace, I haven't watched her videos in such a long time... but when I heard she had a movie out recently and a book and a talk show now, I got excited. She's a genuinely talented person and she's really funny and seems nice and down to earth. Plus She's a Jersey Girl, which always makes me really happy.
So the show is kind of like a normal show, and also kind of not that normal. She describes it as an Introvert's talk show. There is no studio audience its filmed in a little house... idk if its a real house or a set that looks like a house, but I think thats cool. I'm pretty much an introvert myself, so I like that about it. It also seems like she has some sketches and characters too. It reminds me a little of Comedy Bang Bang. If you like CBB and you like Jimmy Fallon and you like sort of an awkward shy sense of humor than I think you'll really like it.
The first episode was really cool because she had Aisha Tyler on, and it didn't seem like she was really promoting anything, they were just kind of talking and Grace was a really great host. She asked interesting questions and seemed genuinely happy to be hosting the show and talking to Aisha and she just seemed like a natural host that also felt unnatural in her element. It was all very real you could kind of see "ohhh wow she's so good she's a natural at this" but also "anyone can do this" which is a good mixture.
Then she had her friend and the writer of Camp Takota, and I believe another youtube star on. Mamrie Hart. They played a game where they watched viral videos and whoever laughed first had to do a shot. I think thats a cool way of incorporating her internet fame in with the theme of the show and the games. It just really worked for the show and they just looked so cozy in the house setting and like they were just fun. Girls having fun on the internet doing fun stuff.
And then at the end there was sort of a sketch. It was a character from Grace's podcast... totally didn't know she had a podcast... anyway he was trying to come up with a theme song for her because she didn't have a theme song yet and that was cute and fun and different.
Overall, the show gets a big thumbs up for me. As someone familiar with some of Grace's work, but not all of it, I think its really cool. I kind of want to start my own introverted talk show type of thing and I actually do plan on doing that in the near future... so yeah. Look out for that ;)
Byeeee!
-Shannon
So the show is kind of like a normal show, and also kind of not that normal. She describes it as an Introvert's talk show. There is no studio audience its filmed in a little house... idk if its a real house or a set that looks like a house, but I think thats cool. I'm pretty much an introvert myself, so I like that about it. It also seems like she has some sketches and characters too. It reminds me a little of Comedy Bang Bang. If you like CBB and you like Jimmy Fallon and you like sort of an awkward shy sense of humor than I think you'll really like it.
The first episode was really cool because she had Aisha Tyler on, and it didn't seem like she was really promoting anything, they were just kind of talking and Grace was a really great host. She asked interesting questions and seemed genuinely happy to be hosting the show and talking to Aisha and she just seemed like a natural host that also felt unnatural in her element. It was all very real you could kind of see "ohhh wow she's so good she's a natural at this" but also "anyone can do this" which is a good mixture.
Then she had her friend and the writer of Camp Takota, and I believe another youtube star on. Mamrie Hart. They played a game where they watched viral videos and whoever laughed first had to do a shot. I think thats a cool way of incorporating her internet fame in with the theme of the show and the games. It just really worked for the show and they just looked so cozy in the house setting and like they were just fun. Girls having fun on the internet doing fun stuff.
And then at the end there was sort of a sketch. It was a character from Grace's podcast... totally didn't know she had a podcast... anyway he was trying to come up with a theme song for her because she didn't have a theme song yet and that was cute and fun and different.
Overall, the show gets a big thumbs up for me. As someone familiar with some of Grace's work, but not all of it, I think its really cool. I kind of want to start my own introverted talk show type of thing and I actually do plan on doing that in the near future... so yeah. Look out for that ;)
Byeeee!
-Shannon
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