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*Limor aka "Jewish Looking Girl" - A student in Mary-Kate's class at [[New York University|NYU]] who looks very Jewish, and Mary-Kate loves to point this out. She dresses in all black and plays guitar in a band. She seems to have a lot of disdain for Mary-Kate, but might be her friend somehow. She is friends with Mary-Kate on Facebook
*Limor aka "Jewish Looking Girl" - A student in Mary-Kate's class at [[New York University|NYU]] who looks very Jewish, and Mary-Kate loves to point this out. She dresses in all black and plays guitar in a band. She seems to have a lot of disdain for Mary-Kate, but might be her friend somehow. She is friends with Mary-Kate on Facebook
*[[Woody Allen]] – director, actor, screenwriter, author, playwright; the twins’ godfather and butt of "old" jokes
*[[Woody Allen]] – director, actor, screenwriter, author, playwright; the twins’ godfather and butt of "old" jokes
*[[Olivier Sarkozy]] - the half-brother of the former president of France [[Nicolas Sarkozy]]. He starts dating Mary-Kate later in the series, mirroring their real-life counterparts' relationship.


==Cast==
==Cast==

Revision as of 09:54, 13 April 2013

Very Mary-Kate
Created byElaine Carroll
Directed bySam Reich
StarringElaine Carroll
Country of origin United States
No. of episodes71
Production
Running time1-4 minutes
Original release
NetworkCollegeHumor
YouTube
Vimeo
ReleaseJanuary 10, 2010

Very Mary-Kate is a web series written by Elaine Carroll and directed by Sam Reich. The series consists of 71 episodes, as of January 17, 2013. Each episode runs for approximately 1–4 minutes, featuring writer and comedienne Elaine Carroll as Mary-Kate Olsen. The series was originally produced out-of-pocket, but was picked up for its second season by CollegeHumor allowing Carroll to “pay for lunch for people.”[1]

The series premiered January 10, 2010 on Vimeo. The current (fourth) season debuted January 17, 2013 on CollegeHumor and VeryMaryKate.com.

According to an interview with The @rcade, Carroll originally used an impression of the Olsen twins during an audition for Saturday Night Live. Carroll indicates that, "It went over really well," but "obviously I didn't get on the show." She continued to do the impression, and decided to expand it into a series to put on the internet.[2] In other interviews, Carroll states that she had been doing the Olsen twin impression for about two years before making a short video called “The Olsen Twin Minute” that “featured Mary-Kate and Ashley in a talk show.” The experience led Carroll to realize she wanted to do more with the twin impression and “started trying to visualize what life is like for them. They’re rich and famous, but also kind of mysterious and private, which leaves a ton of room for the imagination.” Taking facts she already knew, such as Olsen’s use of a bodyguard and taking classes at NYU, Carroll crafted a web series that “started filling in the blanks.” [1]

Utilizing various social media tools, “Very Mary-Kate” has maintained a steady internet presence since its inception. The web series has a Facebook page, with information and videos, as well as a Facebook application that users can allow to post videos and information about the show on their personal profiles. VMK characters can also be found tweeting regularly on Twitter. The @VeryMaryKate Twitter account has been running since April 2009 and “provides no shortage of great one-liners and increases the show’s social networking component.” [3] The show also maintains a YouTube profile, but all videos and information premiere first on CollegeHumor, along with site exclusives and videos that cannot be shown on YouTube.

Plot

“Very Mary-Kate” is the “unofficial biography of everyone’s favorite Olsen twin,” Mary-Kate Olsen.[4] Carroll’s portrayal of Olsen takes several well-known facts of Mary-Kate Olsen’s life (such as attending NYU and picking up occasional acting jobs) and “expands on them, creating a character who’s a weak-yet-demanding kitten obsessed with calories, abusing her bodyguard and getting her hands on the good drugs.”[3] The series follows the adventures of Carroll’s Mary-Kate Olsen including daily routines, classes at NYU, religious experiences, major life decisions (moving out from an apartment shared with twin sister Ashley Olsen, deciding to have a baby, and more) and general troublesome situations in which Mary-Kate seems to find herself (for instance, Trip to Las Vegas: Parts 1-4). Mary-Kate often indulges in smoothies and power drinks that are infused with some variety of a psycho-pharmaceutical adulterant such as Mango Klonopin smoothies, Celexa Mimosas and Paxil-Paxil Protein Shakes. She even keeps the same facial expression from the first video to the last one. Most of the time she doesn't even move her head while she whines.

Main characters

  • Mary-Kate Olsen – one-half of the famous Olsen twin duo who has a Bodyguard-turned-personal-assistant-and-caretaker, occasionally takes classes at NYU; is obsessed with calories and loves prescription medication cocktails (heavy on the prescription). Currently Mary-Kate splits her time between New York City and Los Angeles, but may not be exactly sure where she is most of the time. She also loves to be on Twitter and Facebook, and is constantly saying things with the words "dash", "dot com" and "dot H T M L".
  • Ashley Olsen – Mary-Kate’s twin sister; similar in body to Mary-Kate, but is reasonable and mature, which causes her to be (in addition to bodyguard and Prof. Lansford) the straight foil and the source of an off-and-on sibling rivalry (especially when it comes to Bodyguard)
  • Bodyguard – Mary-Kate’s unnamed bodyguard who becomes more like a personal assistant/caretaker/nanny/legal guardian, who is supposed to be available at any and all times; he works for Ashley when MK fires him before re-hiring him. He is (in addition to Prof. Lansford and Ashley) the straight man to Mary-Kate.
  • Phil Lansford aka "Fat Professor" – Professor of History at NYU; hobbies include mapmaking and bicycling. He has an average BMI, has participated in a half-marathon in 2009, and has tenure. He is (in addition to bodyguard and Ashley) the straight man to Mary-Kate.
  • Philip Seymour Hoffman – actor; begins as Mary-Kate’s acting coach, but begins appearing at her apartment unannounced and making perverse phone calls to Mary-Kate
  • Limor aka "Jewish Looking Girl" - A student in Mary-Kate's class at NYU who looks very Jewish, and Mary-Kate loves to point this out. She dresses in all black and plays guitar in a band. She seems to have a lot of disdain for Mary-Kate, but might be her friend somehow. She is friends with Mary-Kate on Facebook
  • Woody Allen – director, actor, screenwriter, author, playwright; the twins’ godfather and butt of "old" jokes
  • Olivier Sarkozy - the half-brother of the former president of France Nicolas Sarkozy. He starts dating Mary-Kate later in the series, mirroring their real-life counterparts' relationship.

Cast

Reception & Reviews

Very Mary-Kate currently has over 10,504,164 upload views on YouTube as of March 2013, along with over 77,523 channel subscribers.[5] The series has also amassed a following on Facebook, with over 32,700 "likes." [6] The @VeryMaryKate Twitter account has just over 49,100 followers as of March 2013.[7] Very Mary-Kate has inspired a variety of fan tributes, including Halloween costumes [8] and a variety of images portraying fans posing in the limp-wristed, hunched posture of Carroll's Mary-Kate Olsen, making the signature facial expression, posted to the Very Mary-Kate Facebook page.[9]

The @rcade states that, "Elaine has brought one of the funniest and best web-series to the internet. Her performance as the rich teen princess and her rich teen princess twin sister is flawless, (flawless in the sense that we've never met the Olsen twins but we've always assumed that they acted just as Elaine portrays them). Less than two minutes in length, each episode is guaranteed to have you laughing within the first 12 seconds (how exact!) and you will no doubt be hooked as we were and will certainly need to check out more of her stuff."[10]

Liz Shannon Miller of GigaOM writes, "Suffice it to say that the Valley-girl-transplanted- to-SoHo portrayal is thus incredibly harsh, but unless you’re actually Mary-Kate Olsen, I defy you not to laugh. Production values are low and the sound quality is less than impressive, but the informal nature of the videos work, and the tightly-paced episodes fit a whole lot of painfully funny jokes into just one minute. The exchanges between her and her bodyguard are especially funny thanks to his defeated nature — the pair make for a truly engaging odd couple."[11]

References

  1. ^ a b "How Very Mary-Kate of You, Elaine Carroll!". Women in Comedy Festival. 2011-02-11. Cite error: The named reference "How Very Mary-Kate of You, Elaine Carroll!" was defined multiple times with different content (see the help page).
  2. ^ {{cite web|url=http://www.the-arcade.ie/viewarticle.php?id=56%7Ctitle=Interview with Elaine Carroll, of comedy web series "Very Mary Kate"|publisher=The @rcade|accessdate=April 11, 2011}}
  3. ^ a b "GigaOM". GigaOM. 2010-01-19.
  4. ^ "Very Mary-Kate on Facebook".
  5. ^ {{cite web|url=http://www.youtube.com/user/verymarykate%7Ctitle=verymarykate's Channel| publisher=YouTube|accessdate=March 23, 2013}}
  6. ^ [http://www.facebook.com/ verymarykate "Very Mary Kate on Facebook"]. Facebook. Retrieved March 23, 2013. {{cite web}}: Check |url= value (help); Check date values in: |accessdate= (help); line feed character in |accessdate= at position 10 (help); line feed character in |url= at position 25 (help)
  7. ^ "Very Mary Kate on Twitter". Twitter. Retrieved March 23, 2013.
  8. ^ [http:/ /womenincomedyfestival.blogspot.com/2011/02/how-very-mary-kate-of-you-elaine.html "Women in Comedy: How Very Mary-Kate of You, Elaine Carroll!"]. Women in Comedy. Retrieved April 15, 2011. {{cite web}}: Check |url= value (help); line feed character in |publisher= at position 9 (help); line feed character in |url= at position 7 (help)
  9. ^ [http:/ /www.facebook.com/verymarykate "Very Mary Kate on Facebook"]. Facebook. Retrieved April 15, 2011. {{cite web}}: Check |url= value (help); line feed character in |url= at position 7 (help)
  10. ^ "Interview with Elaine Carroll, of comedy web series "Very Mary Kate"". The @rcade. Retrieved April 11, 2011. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |accessdate= (help); line feed character in |accessdate= at position 6 (help)
  11. ^ [http://gigaom.com/video/very-mary-kate-provides-a-scathingly- funny-satire/ "Very Mary Kate Provides A Scathingly Funny Satire"]. GigaOM. Retrieved April 14, 2011. {{cite web}}: Check |url= value (help); line feed character in |url= at position 62 (help)

12. http://thedailywh.at/2011/11/22/exclusive-news-of-the-day Article on upcoming third season. 11/24/2011

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