Vic Michaelis has places to be. Not least of all, right next door at the aquarium — the host of the internet talk show Very Important People has a two-year-old in tow, and hasn't been back in Toronto to show off the city in over three years. That long absence makes a certain sense: the improv comedian and actor is on track to nab an Emmy later this year, while also becoming one of the more famous Canadians (to be fair, Canadian-American) that virtually no Canadians have ever heard of.
But they've done it by heading south of the border to craft their sudden web-based fame as the host an internet talk show series that now boasts millions of views across YouTube and TikTok. Coincidentally, as filming for the second season of Very Important People begins next month, it's also the next place they have to get to. Vic Michaelis, host of Dropout's Very Important People, sat down with CBC News to talk about the internet, Twisters and comedy.
(Jackson Weaver/CBC) Controlling the conversation A sort of elevated reboot of an older CollegeHumor sketch, Very Important People tasks improv comedians with giving spur of the moment interviews after sitting through some truly incredible makeovers: ones that throw costumes and even prosthetics at blindfolded guests, leaving them transformed into aliens, misshapen body builders and, occasionally, screaming cavemen. That leaves Michaelis as the host: a character also named Vic Michaelis, though here they're playing a journalist who is in no way,.
