Famous YouTubers Go On TV, Teach Jimmy Kimmel A Lesson

You don’t need Jimmy Kimmel’s approval to enjoy watching other people play games.

“I come in peace”, Kimmel-who was wearing a Power Glove, for some reason-said at the start of the bit. Amongst other things, Jimmy Kimmel asked why anybody would want to watch another person play a video game instead of playing it themselves. MissesMae says she was “insulted” by Kimmel’s comments in part because, “I do understand the work and the effort that people put into doing something like this”.

Kimmel responded to this by showing his audience a few of the comments he had received, kinda like his recurring “Celebs Read Mean Tweets” skit except with just one celeb, Kimmel, and he seemed more pissed off than humored. In case you do happen to be unaware, last week, the late-night talk show host poked fun at the idea of YouTube Gaming with a skit during his show. His video about gamers watching gamers play video games was a huge hit in the number of views but a poor misstep in the thumbs up to thumbs down ratio.

But now he’s produced another segment of his show in which he sits down with YouTubers Markiplier and MissesMae in order to record a Let’s Play, and it’s so excruciatingly cringeworthy that it’s nearly impossible to not watch it without biting down on your fist.

Kimmel visited two popular YouTube gamers, Jonna Mae (MissesMae) and Mark Fischbach (Markiplier), to educate himself on what he was missing. What’s next? People will watch videos of people who go to clubs to watch people tell jokes on a stage?

They then hugged it out, and the segment ended-but not before Kimmel made a cheap but well-meaning joke about how the YouTubers should maybe get out more.

Kimmel’s initial poking of the great subscribing bear was directed at YouTube’s new Gaming platform, the Google-owned company’s answer to Twitch.