Internet Personalities Who Made Successful Live Performers

The songs he posted on YouTube were the beginning of an act that could use the whole stage. His 2010 Edinburgh show Words, Words, Words earned a comedy award nomination. It’s a good place to see his quick rhymes and sudden changes of tone stretched into a theater set.

A Trip to Unicorn Island took the energy of Singh’s YouTube sketches into a live mix of dance, songs, and comedy. The tour documentary gives you a view of what changed once she was playing to the fans who had first met her as Superwoman.

Howell took his anxieties from YouTube to a solo comedy show with We’re All Doomed! The recorded stage production gives a sense of what an in-person audience adds to a routine about trying to find a reason for hope. It came after he and Phil Lester had already toured together.

Seán McLoughlin’s How Did We Get Here? tour gave him a way to tell the story behind his gaming channel to a room full of its viewers. The documentary follows that first world tour, so you can see how the relationship with an audience changed when they were in the same room.

The You’re Welcome Tour made the people in the theater part of the show. Mark Fischbach and his YouTube collaborators used improv games and challenges to let the audience steer the story. Choose this example if you want to see how a group known for videos could build a stage show around decisions they couldn’t predict.

Conner was already combining live comedy and online work when he opened for Drew Gooden and Danny Gonzalez. The Goodfellow World Tour gave him a headlining set of his own. It’s a useful example of a creator building a stand-up career alongside a commentary channel.

Green’s Pissing Out Cancer puts the creator known for explaining science in front of a live comedy audience. He makes room for the strange things he learned as a patient and for what they felt like at the time. Dropout’s recording preserves the room’s response.

Ballinger brought Miranda Sings, her deliberately overconfident YouTube character, into live theater. The Netflix recording Miranda Sings Live… Your Welcome includes both Miranda and Ballinger as herself. Listen for the way the audience reacts differently when she drops the character.

Years of posting songs on YouTube preceded dodie’s Build a Problem tour, which brought her to Chicago’s Riviera Theatre in 2022. The voice that feels so close on a recording has a much larger space to fill. Listen for what happens when an audience can take in the little pauses and shifts in her delivery together.

Sivan made videos for YouTube before becoming an international touring pop artist. The Something to Give Each Other tour shows how far he took the shift into live pop, using dancers and staging to give the songs a physical shape in an arena.

Gooden and Danny Gonzalez took their YouTube comedy on the road with the We Are Two Different People Tour, with Kurtis Conner opening. The collaboration gave Gooden a live format for comic ideas that usually arrive in carefully edited videos.

At a Regency Ballroom show in San Francisco, mxmtoon paused her rising set to take out a ukulele and play songs from her first EP, plum blossom. It’s a concrete example of how Maia carried the scale of her early online songs into a larger concert. Compare the acoustic stretch with the newer material around it.