The Daily Dot is celebrating Woman Crush Wednesday, better known as #WCW on Twitter and Instagram, by highlighting female creators on YouTube whose work we admire.

An aspiring filmmaker, actress, singer, and vlogger, Hazel Hayes is the perfect combination of three things: substance, creativity, and comedy.

From then on, Hazel Hayes has always held a very special place in my heart.

Irish-born and London-based, Hayes first started making videos in 2011 after scoring a job with YouTube—her job to this day. Her mission? To understand all that went into making videos on YouTube so she could better serve the community she was representing. In four years, Hayes’ channel Chewing Sand has racked up 5.1 million views—more than the population of the entire state of Alabama.

Her channel boasts a grab bag of content, with her sass, sarcasm, and wit cementing everything together. Her webseries include Unnecessary Otter, a comedy series starring herself and a stuffed ferret; Time of the Month, a beautifully edited monthly vlog showcasing her monthly adventures; and my personal favorite, Tipsy Talk, in which she drinks with famous YouTube friends and talks about anything that propels the pair through the waters of their booze cruise.

Hayes recently partnered with ChildLine’s campaign Fight Against Porn Zombies to educate young fans about about the effects porn can have on themselves and their relationships. Her video, “A Guide to Porn,” is so important because it normalizes the conversation around porn and encourages fans to ask questions and always communicate what they’re comfortable with. On ChildLine’s own channel, Hayes is a part of a cartoon series—alongside other YouTubers such as Tomska and Hannah Witton—in which she plays a badass professor fighting against the “porn zombies” epidemic.

Needless to say, Hazel Hayes is a breath of fresh air among my subscription list, and while only time will tell how her channel will continue to evolve, one thing is for certain: There is no one who does a YouTube zombie movie quite like her.

Screengrab via ChewingSand/YouTube

If we could be any hip-hop star on the rise today, it would have to be Action Bronson. He's got old-school style, he's larger than life, and he's capable of throwing a grown-ass man for distance.

At a Tuesday night show in New York to celebrate the release of Bronson’s major-label debut LP Mr. Wonderful, some meathead fan hopped onstage during “Amadou Diablo,” a freestyle collab with Party Supplies. Bronson preemptively dropped the mic, bodily ejected the trespasser, and casually picked his verse back up. Best thing to ever happen at Terminal 5.

H/T Stereogum | Photo via The Come Up Show/Flickr (CC BY 2.0)

The nostalgia trip that will be Netflix’s Inspector Gadget reboot finally has a trailer, and it’s revisiting old friends and foes.

Pulled out of retirement by Chief Quimby after Dr. Claw reactivates M.A.D., it’s up to Inspector Gadget, Penny, and Brain to stop him—with plenty of bumbling hijinks along the way. The callbacks to Inspector Gadget’s obliviousness, Penny’s resourcefulness, and the possible ways that Quimby will have his exploding message backfire on him should satisfy older fans.

But as far as that updated theme song goes? The jury’s still out on that one.

All 26 episodes of Inspector Gadget will be springing their way onto your Netflix queues starting this Friday.

The band’s Facebook page has been updated with a heartfelt announcement and messages to fans from Malik and the remaining four members of the band.

Harry Styles, Liam Payne, Louis Tomlinson, and Niall Horan “will continue as a four-piece.” This includes finishing their current world tour and recording their fifth album later this year.

Malik stated his reason for the departure was his wish “to be a normal 22-year-old who is able to relax and have some private time out of the spotlight.”

He stated the four remaining members would be his “friends for life,” a sentiment echoed in the joint group statement from the rest of the band:

“We're really sad to see Zayn go, but we totally respect his decision and send him all our love for the future. The past five years have been beyond amazing, we’ve gone through so much together, so we will always be friends. The four of us will now continue. We're looking forward to recording the new album and seeing all the fans on the next stage of the world tour.”

In terms of sheer popularity, Zayn leaving 1D is a bit like John leaving the Beatles. The announcement was tweeted by the Associated Press as breaking news, and the impact was instantaneous: At press time both “Zayn” and “So Zayn” were already trending in the U.S., with the news rapidly flying around the Web.

Alongside the announcement came a number of disheartening Islamophobic jokes connecting Malik, who is Muslim, with the terrorist group Isis.

It’s been a rough week for the 1D fandom. Over the weekend fans learned that Tomlinson and his longtime girlfriend Eleanor Calder had broken up. Their relationship was the ongoing source of many rumors, and Calder was the oft-abused target of the Larry Stylinson conspiracy.

But on Tumblr, where One Direction has racked up more posts in its honor than any other single entity in existence, fans were supportive. As tends to happen whenever sad news breaks out among one Tumblr community, members of other fandoms began posting to show their support as well.

“They’ll always be One Direction,” wrote one fan. “And we’ll always be a family.”

It’s hard to believe it’s been five years since the world first heard his voice.

Photo via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 3.0)

The guys of Broken Lizard have launched an Indiegogo campaign to make our Super Troopers sequel dreams come true.

It’s been 14 years since Jay Chandrasekhar, Kevin Heffernan, Steve Lemme, Paul Soter, and Erik Stolhanske have graced our screens as the lovable asshole Vermont state troopers more likely to prank one another than protect and serve. Fans have asked the comedy troupe for years when they would be making a sequel to the comedy, but they haven’t had a concrete answer until now.

Broken Lizard announced the Indiegogo campaign in a Reddit AMA Tuesday and broke it down for fans: They already have a script, and Fox Searchlight has even agreed to distribute the film in the U.S. and Canada. But in order to do that, Broken Lizard has to provide the money to make the film, which is currently set at a minimum of $2 million.

“Okay, here’s the deal,” Chandrasekhar said in the Indiegogo promotional video. “We’re finally getting a chance to make Super Troopers 2. The script is written and the mustaches are thick and furry. But what happens next is up to you. You see, we know people really want to see this movie, and by joining us you can help prove it.”

In just one day, fans already raised more than $1.8 million as of press time, and it’s incredibly likely they’ll drive through that goal with their state trooper cars. But, as they remind fans, the $2 million is the bare minimum it would cost to make the film, and the more money they raise, the better the film can be.

And if the promotional video is any indication, the guys have still got it.

H/T Variety | Screengrab via Broken Lizard Industries/YouTube

“Oh, cock.”

Jeremy Clarkson, the oft controversial yet entertaining presenter of  “the most widely watched factual TV show in the world,” will not be getting his contract renewed as host of Top Gear, according to BBC director general Tony Hall after a “fracas” with producer Oisin Tymon got physical.

Hall issued a statement on the decision, saying, “There cannot be one rule for one and one rule for another dictated by either rank, or public relations and commercial considerations.”

As of publication, Clarkson’s Twitterbio reads that he “used to be a presenter on the BBC2 motoring show, Top Gear,” and the last update he has given fans was quite a few hours ago. 

Sky News was also able to ambush Top Gear copresenter James May and get his thoughts on the whole ordeal.

May has also updated his Twitter profile to read “Former TV presenter only remembered for saying 'Oh cock'. Or was that the other bloke?” In the interview above, he suggested that Top Gear would still continue to exist—“it existed before us”—but that the “three of us as a package” (that’s including cohost Richard Hammond) “works for very complicated reasons, that a lot of people don’t fully understand.”

According to May, “as much as I think he’s a knob, I quite like working with Jeremy.”

Hammond has been much quieter during Clarkson’s controversy, but so far has only tweeted the following:

Now that it’s official, fans on Twitter are pretty upset, to say the least.

“I respect Lord Hall’s detailed findings and I am grateful to the BBC for their thorough and swift investigation into this very regrettable incident, against a background of intense media interest and speculation.

“I’ve worked on Top Gear for almost a decade, a programme I love.

“Over that time Jeremy and I had a positive and successful working relationship, making some landmark projects together. He is a unique talent and I am well aware that many will be sorry his involvement in the show should end in this way.”

This still leaves many wondering what the future will be for Top Gear, and what the shows presenters will move on to next.

It really is quite sad to see Clarkson go out like this. Here’s hoping Clarkson can find some redemption, take some anger management, and begin a new avenue to talk about cars.

Screengrab via Top Gear/YouTube

Rejoice, bearfuckers! It took just 24 short hours for the comedy quintet Broken Lizard to amass the cash they need for a “barebones” sequel to their 2001 cult film Super Troopers.

Why a studio wouldn’t just sign a fat check to produce and distribute a surefire hit like Super Troopers 2is something of a mystery. But in any case, the dudes needed to prove that another slapstick romp with highway patrolmen Thorny, Mac, Foster, Farva, and Rabbit was of interest to more than “just a dozen stoners.” Well, their Indiegogo campaign stats don’t lie.

The best news of all? You can still contribute! Any additional proceeds beyond the minimal budget outline simply go toward a superior film: slicker effects, bigger explosions, and more outrageous cameos. Hey, maybe they’ll even split the movie into two mega-blockbusters.

Screengrab via Broken Lizard Industries/YouTube

A good self-pep-talk before a big TV appearance can work wonders, especially when someone’s actually on the other side of the mirror.

Mitt Romney might not have any political pressure riding on him before he goes out to talk to Jimmy Fallon, but he's still feeling nervous. And who better to talk him through it than Fallon dressed as Romney?

Romney can’t talk himself out of boxing Evander Holyfield for charity, but he can still make himself chuckle in his signature strange way as he takes shots at President Obama, Hillary Clinton, and how many sons he has. And Romney’s just as upset about Zayn Malik leaving One Direction as the rest of us. Thanks, Obama.

For as long as I've loved television (and I've loved it since before I could tie my shoes), I've been in love with genre shows. In the ’90s, before real people owned Macs and nerds inherited the earth, cult series were still cult. Today, by contrast, networks’ biggest properties are sci-fi, comic book, and horror shows, and so it’s no surprise that, much to Tumblr's delight, Fox is reviving The X-Files, a series that proved genre TV could be popular and kickstarted a cult boom that continues today. There's just one thing I'm afraid to confess: Try as I might, I can't get into it.

My favorite shows as a preteen—Farscape, Buffy, Star Trek—aired at quarter to 7 on weeknights, after The Simpsons and Top of the Pops. X-Files, being unsuitable for 12-year-olds (thus more appealing still), went out late on Fridays, meaning I only ever caught a handful of episodes—enough to make me want to watch the rest, if not to grasp the dense mythology. I saw the episodes with Eugene Tooms, the bounty hunters, and the circus freaks, deciding I'd fill in the gaps one day and learn about Mulder’s sister, as well as whether Scully’s hair was actually magic. And so a year ago, at 22, I finally set out to binge-watch the whole thing.

I didn't make it past the first season.

Time has been friend and enemy alike to X-Files.

Much as I loved what I saw way back when, watching through laced fingers as Mulder and Scully flashlit their way through creepy submarines and suburban closets, X-Files has aged horribly since its run started. Sure, there are exceptional one-off stories, but on trying to marathon the show, I realized, much to my dismay, that not only were the monsters of the week often not all that good, but they also caused the whole series to plod. Only the fact that I'm a completist made me finish season 1 rather than give up halfway through. While the effects are creepy, the look bleak, and the Anderson–Duchovny dynamic a high point, a plurality of its episodes are, to be blunt, boring. At least three or four times, I fell asleep.

Time has been friend and enemy alike to X-Files. Like Steven Moffat’s Doctor Who stories, we've tended to recall the best moments better than the whole; rewatch an entire season 22 years on, and the series turns out not to have weathered at all well. Viewers today stream hours of their chosen series at a time, no longer made to wait another week if one episode disappoints. If anything, X-Files should benefit from the Netflix age, weaker points overlooked more easily, but instead, binge watching only throws into sharp relief how much padding there is.

Chris Carter’s show is noted for its intricate mythos—extraterrestrial activity, official corruption, personal loss—because in the ’90s, it spearheaded the use of ambitious season- or series-long mysteries. In that respect, it’s now a victim of its own success: Next to the lineage of cult shows it made possible, X-Files feels anthological, one part arc-plot to 10 parts monster-of-the-week, storytelling bogged down by an excess of standalone stories. Over the last decade—particularly, I'd argue, since Lost—viewers have become used to serialized plots, such that on most high-profile series now, episodes tie into season arcs more often than not. On reflection, X-Files now seems more like Tales From the Crypt or Twilight Zone, without the consistency on which shows like those relied. Perhaps Fox’s shortened upcoming season is intended to spare the lead actors' schedules… or perhaps network executives have realized a miniseries style will help pacing.

Perhaps network executives have realized a miniseries style will help pacing.

Plenty of series, to be fair, are slow and of-the-week-y in their first seasons, but I've heard quite consistently that X-Files doesn't improve. Equally, others from the same era have aged better. Even in early seasons of Buffy, villains and long-term schemes are never far away; the show's storytelling holds up well next to Joss Whedon's current series, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Whereas Star Trek: TNG did better week-by-week narratives than X-Files did, Voyager did better at balancing them with an ongoing storyline.

I might be speaking much too soon: There's every chance that before the revived series hits screens, I'll go back to X-Files and fall in love with it. If I do, though, it'll be an effort, and meanwhile there are ’90s series I'm drawing more pleasure from discovering. (Having managed to miss Babylon 5 the first time round, it's currently my distraction of choice.) For Mulder and Scully's new outings to attract fresh fans, the show will need to change—a daunting prospect given decades of loose ends. If it fails to adapt, perhaps X-Files will be best remembered nostalgically, a slice of ’90s iconography whose memory beats reality.

Photo via Alistair McMillan/Flickr (CC BY 2.0)

BY ANDREA REIHER

In a recent interview with Esquire magazine, comedian and talk show host Chelsea Handler reveals that 10 years ago, she was invited up to Bill Cosby's hotel room in Atlantic City. The invite gave her a bad feeling, so she says she took some male friends with her, and now in hindsight—after the two dozen sexual assault allegations made against Cosby—she's glad she did. 

"He tried to Cosby me," says Handler. 

"I was in Atlantic City playing, doing stand-up, and he was doing stand-up in Atlantic City in the same hotel," recounts Handler, "and at like three o'clock in the afternoon, someone from the hotel came down and said, 'Oh, you know, Mr. Cosby would really like to meet you up in his hotel suite.' And I thought, That's really weird. This was like ten years ago. 

"And I said, That's really weird. I don't want to go alone. I go, I don't know him. So the three guys I was with—thank God these guys were with me. One was filming and one was like a producer; we were filming something—I brought them up with me to his room and thank God I did, because now I know what would've happened if I went up there alone." 

Handler goes on to say that she had completely forgotten about the entire incident until all the women have been coming forward lately. She says she was reminded about her encounter by a friend who was there, who texted her asking if she remembers that afternoon they went to Cosby's room and how "freaked out" Handler was that she made them come with her. 

The friend adds, "Hello! You could've been one of his victims if we weren't there." Handler finishes the story by saying "He's guilty. … I think it's pretty obvious now." 

The entire interview is posted on Esquire's website. 

Photo via Fortune Live Media/Flickr (CC BY ND 2.0)

March Madness has already had its share of upsets and insane moments, but it’s nothing compared to the big stories that people make up when they're talking to Jimmy Kimmel’s team.

At this point, you'd think enough people had seen Kimmel's "Lie Witness News" segments that the late-night host would have a hard time finding people willing to risk a televised lie. In this video, the show's producers grill random people on the street about the highlights of the NCAA basketball tournament, and true to form, they don’t know a thing.

We’re glad that the bitter rivalry between the University of Phoenix and DeVry University is finally getting the prime time attention it deserves. The incredible story of Gonzaga’s 8-year-old prodigy similar deserves the spotlight that one passerby gives it. And would it really surprise anyone if Kanye West performed with those giraffes (in a possible upstaging of Katy Perry’s Super Bowl performance)? 

Screengrab via Jimmy Kimmel Live/YouTube

The show's ratings are still strong, especially in the U.S., where it's the highest-rated PBS drama of all time. Unfortunately, ratings don't matter much if the stars don't want to renew their contracts. The most likely explanation for Downton's demise is that after six seasons of wry British quips and increasingly ridiculous plot twists, the actors simply want to move on. 

The sixth season will air this year, culminating in a Christmas special set in 1925. That's 13 years and a World War after the show began in 1912, although Lady Mary still does not appear to have aged a day.

Fans are understandably distraught at the show's untimely end, but there is light at the end of the tunnel: Showrunner Julian Fellowes is working on an American historical drama called The Gilded Age, set in the 1870s, and he has already hinted that he's open to one or two Downton actors getting cameo roles.

Photo via ITV

The future of Top Gear may be in trouble, but motorheads may find salvation in this Japanese motoring show.

A Kickstarter is under way to help fund an international version of Japanese motoring series Hot Version. The show is a staple for Japanese auto enthusiasts, having been running for more than 20 years.

It’s kind of like the Top Gear of Japan, except it’s with tuner cars, or cars that are meant for modification. The series has been known for pitting fan favorite cars against each other.

The team will release each volume online early for Kickstarter backers, and viewers can either rent via video on demand for $3.99 or buy the video for $19.99.

Photo via Hot Version/Kickstarter

Created by former Beats Music CEO David Hyman, Chosen is a new app that takes the world of reality singing competition to the masses. For performers, the app has tools that allow users to upload original songs or karaoke numbers, all with video and audio editing tools built in. On the flip side, opinionated fans can take a seat in the judge's chair, ranking and rating the performers. Both types of users can move up leaderboards and gain status through the app.

"We wanted to free the genre from the constraints of linear-based TV," Hyman told Billboard. "Watching performers compete didn’t start with [American] Idol. People have been doing this since the dawn of mankind, so how can we do something native for the mobile environment that’s much more meaningful?"

For now the app is only in a limited release and requires users to sign up on Chosen's website. 

H/T AP | Photo via kennymatic/Flickr (CC BY 2.0) | Remix by Fernando Alfonso III 

It is very easy to look down on product placement and "branded" shows and series. "It's just a big commercial," you might say. "Where's the individual voice, the integrity of the storyteller, the authenticity?"

And most of the time, you'd be right to be dismissive, as horrifying examples can attest: Chipotle's inflammatory satire on industrial food processes, which had more exploding cows than laughs, or Subway's clumsy attempt to establish sandwiches as an inherent component of good-natured teenage rebellion and hijinks.

But while those are clearly awful, what then of Fritz Lang's M—where Peter Lorre shares the screen with a giant chewing gum sign—or even E.T's Reese's Pieces? Decent flicks both, but crucially, two occurrences when the men with the corporate checkbooks have found the door to the film's creative meetings firmly locked.

Which brings us to MsLabelled, Schick's (they of the Slim Twin, Xtreme 3, Quattro, and Hydro 5 Power Select) foray into the webseries world.

Centered around Ella, a wannabe blogger and personal assistant at a fashion magazine, MsLabelled may be blighted by annoying Perez-esque onscreen doodling and an aping of Devil Wears Prada rhythms—her love interest says it best, she's "a smart girl that works a garbage job for self-obsessed people who make things that nobody needs"—but it's pleasant and breezy stuff. Ultimately, there's a lot of sharp musing around clothes and Internet culture wrapped around a central whodunit that admittedly kept me interested. 

But what most intrigues is the almost total lack of Schick; no sponsorship messages, no links or flashing logos. It's not entirely free of any mention of shaving, mind you. In episode 7, Ella oddly gets praised for her shapely legs: "What do you, like, Quattro those things?!" as if a razor can carve your body into a desired shape. But it's far from the blatant "we're paying for this, so we'll do it our way" levels of the Mac and Me ilk. The restraint is refreshing, and the program is much better for it.

Of course this won't last. To Schick MsLabelled is no doubt in an early, invasive stage; growing a viewership before eventually being harvested for profit. As guidance for its developmental arc, we need only look to shift2's other branded outing, Kimberley-Clark's Sheridan Le Fanu–inspired supernatural series Carmilla. That one took its own sweet time before becoming an advertisement for tampons, when, in a series add-on they finally answered that most ancient of questions: "Do Vampires Get Their Periods" (and yes, apparently they do).

Screengrab via Vervegirl TV/YouTube

Trailer Park Boys is a show that should have never existed.

It was the chance result of writer/directer/cinematographer Mike Clattenburg submitting an ultra-low-budget feature to a film festival in 1999 and producer Barrie Dunn happening to catch the film and see the potential for a series in its premise. The original feature, while including lead characters Ricky and Julian (Robb Wells and John Paul Tremblay), was darker and far less inhabited than the expansive world that Trailer Park Boys would later become famous for. But by taking its basic focus on crime and antiheroes and mixing in the heart of a 1995 short film made by Clattenburg, Wells, and Tremblay—The Cart Boy—and the character that would later become Bubbles, portrayed by Mike Smith (the ’99 film's sound guy), Trailer Park Boys struck a wholly unique chord with audiences that filmmakers worldwide would quickly scramble to replicate. 

After the first season was a surprise hit, later seasons saw the show getting itself a permanent set (rather than filming with a low-impact style in an actual trailer park) that allowed the world of TPB to become the wild and oftentimes destructive beast that we know it as today.

It was a subtle evolution, from its start with the ’99 feature to the latest material seen in the show’s eighth season (which marked the first season without Clattenberg’s involvement), but jumping straight from one to the other reveals just how much the show’s grown over 15 years. It’s always stayed true to one constant, though: its heart. As the characters have learned and grown, we've grown with them, and it’s exciting to think about what they’ll be learning and experiencing in the show’s imminent ninth season, which will be binge-watched on Netflix by millions with no regard to hygiene or personal obligations to the outside world.  

To celebrate this very special occasion of binge-watching, we’re taking a look back at the show’s past and compiling the most profound life lessons it has bestowed upon us over the course of its 15-year run.

Without further adieu, the great teachings of TPB:

1) Cats are great for guarding weed plants—but they were never meant for it.

2) Always let the groom in on the fact that you’ve gone to steal the groceries for the wedding.

3) Producing porno films in your mom’s trailer almost always goes poorly.

4) Sneaking shrooms into somebody’s hot dog is a great way to ruin their speech.

5) There are two types of intelligence.

6) If it looks like you’re robbing a store, you may as well take a bit of shit.

7) Always defend yourself in court.

8) You can tell gasoline’s octane grade by its taste.

9) Whatever two consenting adults do in the privacy of their own home is fine.

10) It’s hard to get arrested when you’re trying to get arrested.

11) Christmas is about getting drunk and stoned with your friends and family.

12) A man’s gotta eat.

13) Everybody gets stoned to do shitty work.

15) No matter how much you’ve had to drink, you've had “a couple drinks.”

16) Nothing good ever comes from guns being involved.

17) Eating nine cans of ravioli is perfectly normal and OK.

18) When convincing a judge that you’re a capable parent, honesty is the best policy.

19) You’re never too old to play Space.

20) Don’t use liquor for clarity.

21) Either you go to school to learn, or you go to school to sell drugs.

22) Every threat carries more weight with shit-isms.

23) Life has no doors that can’t be opened with a handful of hash.

24) Cats can be dangerous.

25) The best way to survive a heart attack: Avoid books.

26) How to handle police checkpoints

27) If it’s by the curb, it isn’t stealing.

28) Bread can be used as an emergency warming agent.

29) Don’t get too high before performing a promotional stunt.

30) Hashcoins > Bitcoins

Thanks for all you've taught us, Trailer Park Boys. Now bring on season 9.

Screengrab via Trailer Park Boys/YouTube

Hunter, who married Benedict Cumberbatch in a small ceremony last month, showed off a dress shrouded in lace. The couple are expecting their first child this summer.

Though let’s face it, we wouldn't mind watching this happy couple get married all over again—especially not if Cumberbatch’s tux looks this good.

Photo via maisonvalentino/Instagram

In the pantheon of social media-driven television events, the March 30 Comedy Central roast of Justin Bieber has the possibility of blowing up the Twitterverse with a slew of powerful punches from the growing world of Biebs haters.

To add a new content dimension to the 140 character limit, Comedy Central is teaming up with Whipclip to allow viewers to grab snippets of the live ambush, add their personal zingers, and tweet to #BieberRoast. Whipclip is a mobile app that works with broadcast partners, enabling fans to go to a near-realtime library of TV content, annotate those segments, and share via social media.

The advance word on the celebrity roast of Bieber indicates that host Jeffrey Ross and participants including Snoop Dogg, Shaquille O’Neal, Kevin Hart, and Ludacris tear the young pop sensation a new one, poking fun at his young fans, former girlfriend Selena Gomez, and his well-celebrated abuse of celebrity.

A number of the jokes have leaked via social media, including one about the late Paul Walker that was scrubbed, showing that even Comedy Central knows where to draw the line. Apparently, one of the co-roasters, Martha Stewart, is willing to test those limits with some jokes about her marijuana brownies.

Screengrab via Comedy Central/YouTube

As they look to stock their YouTube channels, Benny and Rafi Fine are once again turning to third-party creators. The brothers, who have amassed more than 11.8 million subscribers on their primary YouTube hub, plan to fund between six and 12 new webseries for their various channels.

According to a release, the Fine Bros. plan to source programming from both internal development and third-party pitches. They will begin by offering three-to-five episode orders for each program they greenlight; from there, they will fund additional episodes for the shows that see the most success.

“Our channel is home to some of the most popular series online for both scripted and unscripted content,” said Benny Fine in the release, “and we’re looking to find and develop the next hit series on on the web, and excited to fund emerging talent and creators and get their work seen by our dedicated subscriber base.”

The Fine Bros. have experimented with third-party content in the past. Last year, at Vidcon, they announced their plans to fund videos from “up and coming creators.” Later in 2014, they released the first of those videos: An underwater, shot-for-shot remake of The Hunger Games created by The Kloons.

As they assist their fellow online video creators, Benny and Rafi will also continue to make content of their own across multiple platforms. The fraternal duo recently announced a second TV project: Six Degrees of Everything, which will arrive on TruTV sometime this summer.

Illustration by Max Fleishman

Daily Show correspondent Jason Jones said goodbye to the fake news desk Thursday night after announcing last month that he would be leaving the show to star in a TBS comedy.

Jones was initially ready for one last live shot behind the green screen until Stewart finally called him home. Instead of business as usual, Stewart honored Jones with a best-of video showcasing his tenure as the Daily Show’s resident beefcake. It was a touching reminder of all the raunchy things he did on the show.

Jones made headway as a correspondent who went out for the story, not just with the help of a green screen. He managed to make a lot of people uncomfortable, but he also taught us a lot about other parts of the world, and Stewart recognized that.

Screengrab via The Daily Show