About us!
We're the original ten cast members of Studio C, who left BYUtv in 2018 to start our own studio. JK! Studios launched in January 2019 — and we've been making sketches, web series, feature films, a podcast, and a touring live show together ever since.
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How this whole thing started.
On September 12, 2018, all ten original cast members of BYUtv's Studio C announced we were leaving to start something of our own. We'd spent nine seasons making clean sketch comedy that millions of people watched and quoted and sent to their cousins. We figured we'd try that — but on our own terms, with the same family, and with room to make more than just sketches.
JK! Studios officially launched in January 2019. Our first show was Loving Lyfe — a lifestyle-vlog parody starring Natalie, Mallory, and Whitney as three deeply unserious influencers. We followed it with Freelancers, a series about five friends building a video production company with nothing but a dream. Then we made it to the semifinals of NBC's Bring the Funny.
2019 was an interesting year to start a business. Mostly because you hope your second year builds on the first — before COVID comes for ya. But we took coronavirus and made coron-ade. (Don't… don't ever make that.) Whitney and Stephen filmed Evening Plans at home. Mallory and Whitney wrote and starred in Stop and Go, a road-trip feature that premiered at SXSW 2021 and was picked up by BuzzFeed Studios. We kept going.
Seven years in, we've made three feature films (Stop and Go, Go West, Villains Inc.), multiple ongoing series (Loving Lyfe, Freelancers, Bible Cop, Hecklers), a podcast about creative failure (Do Your Worst), and a live touring show currently rolling through Kansas City, Nashville, Logan, Denver, and beyond. We are tired. We are also fine.
Three things, then we'll stop talking.
We don't have a mission statement. We have an inside joke about mission statements. But here's what we mean.
Commit to the bit
The best comedy isn't louder, it's more committed. The whole cast has perfected the art of going so far in on a premise that the camera operator loses it first. That's the goal every time.
For the whole family
Comedy that works for your kid, your roommate, and your grandma — at the same time, on the same screen — without ever talking down to any of them. It's harder than it sounds. We mostly enjoy it.
Stay weird
We try to fail fast and often. We've made a whole podcast about it (Do Your Worst). If a sketch idea makes the table read laugh nervously, it might be the one.
Nine of us. One studio.
Original Studio C cast, all co-founders. Nine of the ten, still here.
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