Growing up, I was a YouTube junkie. It was a time before streaming services and yearlong waits for new shows — I’d go home after a day in middle school and turn on a Shane Dawson, Liza Koshy or a Colleen Ballinger video.
Whether my favorite YouTubers went on to bigger things, or basically ended their career on a ukulele, I stopped watching so much. Save for the occasional music video, or just to watch ASMR, I don’t even think about the app that once held my childhood.
That is, until now — thanks to Kevin Langue.
Langue started his channel with skit-like videos over eight years ago, barely reaching 7,000 views. Looking back, his old videos almost foreshadow the ones he now makes. His old content was videos with his friends, similar to the content now. Truthfully, while it’s Langue’s channel, he and his friends make the videos worth watching, and it wouldn’t be the same without the others.
His views started picking up as soon as he started incorporating his friends. It’s not to say he isn’t funny by himself, but there is a feeling that the friend group gives when you watch it — it’s as if you’re a part of their inside jokes.
You know an actor is good when you forget that they are acting and you are fully immersed. Langue’s friend group carries the same feeling with the viewers. The jokes and friendships feel so natural and authentic that you forget that you aren’t there.
Langue began collaborating with other YouTubers and content creators a few years after starting his channel. He made multiple videos with Tara Yummy, before either of them grew as creators.
Even as his career developed and he continued to collaborate with trending creators, he still wasn’t reaching major milestones when it came to views. That changed two years ago when he first posted the type of video he is now best known for.
One table, a few friends and a guessing game. In 2023, Langue posted “Match T h e Girlfriend To The Boyfriend.” This type of video would make him famous. Since then, he’s created countless “guess who” videos.
Now, in 2025, the production quality has gotten better and the list of friends has grown. Denny Love, Herman “Herm” Wrice and Aaron Branch help make up the show. The combination of these three plus Langue makes it one of the funniest and most entertaining channels I’ve seen in a long time.
Since discovering him the same way I discovered many things — on TikTok — The Kevin Langue show has become a favorite of mine. One of the first videos I watched was a game where they had to guess which person behind the curtain was a child, just by listening to their voice.
That one video was funny, but it was the guys that got me hooked on the whole channel. If it were anyone else, I wouldn’t have found it funny, but there was something about them that had me cracking up.
I swear I’m not boring or hard to humor, but it’s rare that I actually laugh at anything online, if I’m by myself. However, I’ve found many instances while watching Langue where I’ve laughed at the videos.
Langue is a director by trade, and it shows. The editing, ideas and production are all so well put together. There are constant surprises. For example, an older woman named Joy was one of the participants, trying to make the guys believe she was a child. She herself was hilarious and had fans, myself included, laughing at how ridiculous it was. Months later, they brought Joy back as a guest judge for a similar video.
I watch The Kevin Langue show like it’s an actual show. It’s exactly how I used to watch YouTube when I was younger. It’s a strange, but familiar feeling that I hadn’t revisited in nearly 10 years.
I never thought that I’d be able to say “I have a favorite YouTuber” again, but here I am. I’m back on YouTube, watching videos for entertainment, rather than just falling asleep.
