We all need a good laugh sometimes, and these top 10 funniest YouTube channels in 2015 provide a lot of it. It is certain that the world would be a bit grumpier without these channels.
YouTube has changed the world since its first video titled “Me at the zoo” uploaded on April 23, 2005. It changed the ways we listen to music, stay in touch with the trends in the world and ultimately opened a huge window of opportunities for anyone who had internet and web camera. With YouTube, everyone can show their talent to the world.
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Besides serving as a platform for music videos and movie trailers, YouTube proved to be a great tool for making us laugh. Soon all the funny situations happening around the world were just one click of the mouse away. After all kinds of fails, homemade videos, comedy genre on the YouTube has begun to emerge. People saw a great potential in making some outstanding comedy and releasing it out in the world via YouTube. Some of them even managed to get into 15 YouTube channels with most subscribers in 2015.
There are lots of different approaches to comedy on YouTube. Some are still dedicated to posting videos of people falling down the stairs or getting hit by a basketball ball. Others decided to film video blogs and try to be funny by themselves, or they turned to parody. Also, there are funny approaches to movies, music, video games. With all that variety of comedy, how should we choose the top 10 funniest YouTube channels in 2015? You know what they say: “Power to the people”. And we did just that.
If something is funny enough, it will soon emerge on surface and people will appreciate it. The same applies to funny YouTube channels. Usually, when people think the channel is regularly funny, they subscribe to it. That was our guiding line in determining the funniest YouTube channels. We went through the most subscribed channels in the comedy genre and saw which ones have the most subscribers correspondingly compiling our ranking.
10. VitalyzdTv
The guy behind this channel describes himself as Russian dude with a camera and some wonderful ideas. Well, those wonderful ideas are mostly pranks that are hilarious. Channel is active since 2011 and videos on this channel have more than a billion views overall. Russian dude must be doing something good.
Number of subscribers: 8,902,583
9. Good Mythical Morning
This channel’s centerpiece are Rhett James McLaughlin and Charles Lincoln “Link” Neal III, self-described ” Internetainers “. Although these guys have numerous other YouTube channels, this one proved the most successful gaining them almost 2 billion views. The channel features talk show styled videos from the duo in which they exchange stories and funny comments on daily events.
Number of subscribers: 9,134,012
8. FailArmy
People behind this channel didn’t change the winning combination and they’ve become the most watched channel with fails on YouTube. From falls to awkward public stunts, they have it all and they update their channel regularly. With 2.3 billion views, who wouldn’t?
Number of subscribers: 9,464,188
7. PrankvsPrank
Who says nothing good can come out of pranking your boyfriend/girlfriend? Jesse M. Wellens and his girlfriend Jeana Smith started pranking each other and filming the pranks. Eventually, they’ve made a YouTube channel PrankvsPrank and started posting the videos. Their mutual pranks achieved a great success gaining them over 1.5 billion views. In 2015 came a reward for their hard (and funny) work when they received the Streamy Award for the Best Prank Show.
Number of subscribers: 9,547,345
6. CollegeHumor
Unlike many others YouTube channels, College Humor has a rich history. The crew around the channel started working together in 1999 when College Humor website began with work. Funny, original comedy sketches and user submitted videos are regularly posted on the site, and have their YouTube premier one month after. CollegeHumor channel has over 4 billion views.
Number of subscribers: 10,452,057
5. ERB
This channel known as Epic Rap Battles of History, created by Peter Shukoff (a.k.a. Nice Peter) and Lloyd Ahlquist (a.k.a. EpicLLOYD), is one of the most original among our top 10 funniest YouTube channels in 2015. If you like history but feel like a modern man/woman, then this is the channel for you. The channel is consisted of videos in which real and fictional historic figures are engaged in rap battles. Percipients in the rap battles are portrayed by the duo with frequent guest stars.
Number of subscribers: 12,968,638
4. Fine Brothers Entertainment
Masterminds behind the channel are brothers Fine, Benny, and Rafi.They started making online videos in 2004, posting them on various platforms and social networks before settling at YouTube in 2007. They are most known for their “React” videos in which kids and sometimes adults react to things they are not familiar with.
Number of subscribers: 14,058,183
3. JennaMarbles
If you ever wonder who the most successful woman on YouTube is, now you have your answer. This channel is operated by Jenna N. Mourey and it is one of the younger on the list, starting with the work in 2009. It has close to 2 billion views to date and features sketches, pranks and blog videos made by Jenna.
Number of subscribers: 15,802,429
2. nigahiga
What do you get when you put a camera into hands of a funny Asian? You get a channel with 16 million subscribers and 2.5 billion views. Not bad right? Channel was established by Ryan Higa and Sean Fujiyosh in 2006, when two of them started filming themselves lip-syncing to various popular songs. Later Higa took over the control of the channel and created a company that employs writers for channel sketches.
Number of subscribers: 16,116,355
1. Smosh
Chanel created in 2005 by Ian Andrew Hecox and Anthony Padilla was the channel with most subscribers on YouTube on three occasions, and it is without a doubt the funniest one on our top 10 funniest YouTube channels in 2015 and on YouTube. Everything started when Anthony Padilla created a website named Smosh in 2002. Shortly after, Hecox joined and they’ve began making funny videos and sketches. Their first YouTube videos were lip-sync themed, but they quickly began to record various other types of comedy, becoming one of the most successful YouTube channels ever with almost 22 million subscribers and 5.1 billion video views.
Number of subscribers: 21,784,665
