The Good Mythical Morning co-hosts are expanding into the comedy space with a new series on their YouTube channel called Wonderhole . The series “combines docu-comedy, sketch comedy, original music, visual FX, celebrity cameos and outright bonkers attitude,” according to Mythical Entertainment, the company the duo own together. The company independently financed the project.
Thursday’s premiere began with cocktails and mingling, with guests, including actor Jason Segel, snapping photos on the red carpet. Attendees were then ushered into a screening room to view the first two episodes, which are set to debut on YouTube later this month, and hear from the stars themselves. The episodes, which were introduced by YouTube’s chief business officer Mary Ellen Coe, garnered laughs and cheers from the crowd.
“We took a big creative risk in saying we wanted to bet on ourselves,” Link Neal told the crowd after the screening, adding that they were able to “pour everything into something instead of asking for permission.”
Neal said that he had “a million things” he wanted to debrief on after watching the episodes, jokingly suggesting, “Let’s have a postmortem, team.”
Rhett McLaughlin explained to the crowd what the pair saw as some of the positives of knowing the series was going to be released on YouTube. “Studios would’ve had notes about that, right?” he said. “We were able to make the thing that we wanted to make for the audience that we want to attract to it.”
The duo also took time during the conversation to shout out their Mythical Entertainment team, who worked on the series. “They’re all working on the other shows that they work on at Mythical,” McLaughlin said. “They didn’t necessarily have the time to have a new project on their schedules, but they all rose to the occasion.”
The night’s festivities ended with an afterparty at the museum’s restaurant, Fanny’s. Wonderhole will be released on Rhett & Link’s YouTube channel on Aug. 23, with new episodes dropping each week.
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