How The Workaholics Crew United & Got Their Big Break On The Early Days of Youtube

TL;DR

The Workaholics crew met through improv classes and launched their careers by posting sketches on YouTube in 2006, just as the platform launched.

Key Points

• 1.Blake and Adam met on day one at Orange Coast Community College. They took an improv class together, recognized each other's talent, and were later inducted into the school's Hall of Fame despite Adam never graduating.
• 2.Improv was the bonding glue for the whole crew. Adam specifically requested to switch into Blake's Second City class, telling the instructor he was too poor to help weaker students and wanted to 'make magic' with funnier people.
• 3.The group started posting sketches on YouTube around 2006, the year the platform launched. Before that, they distributed videos by handing people burned CDs, asking whether they had a Mac or PC to give the right format.
• 4.Seeing the Lonely Island's videos online was their eureka moment. A mutual friend showed them Andy Samberg's work, and beyond finding it funny, they realized clicking a thumbnail to instantly play a video could open the door for their own content.