YouTube Seeks Internets Funniest Video Creators

YouTube wants to find 16 blossoming video creators and help them improve their comedy channels for long-term success.

To do this, the video-sharing website unveiled "YouTube Next Comic" on Friday. The program will give the comics training via Google+ Hangouts, $5,000 of video equipment and $10,000 of promotion on YouTube. Comedy engine College Humor will also mentor the creators.

"Whether your fort is sketch comedy, stand-up, parodies, pranking, awkward moments and epic fails, pet-inspired shenanigans, humorous vlogging and commentary, or any other indefinable laugh-generating genre, we want you," YouTube's Austin Lau wrote in an announcement.

The initiative, which comes on the…
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