YouTube stars SketchShe bank Google and Screen Australia grant for new webseries

THEIR Youtube video Bohemian Carsody got 26 million hits and now internet sensation SketchShe will use a $100,000 grant to develop something they say fans have been waiting for.

THEIR car karaoke has racked up millions of views on YouTube and now internet sensation SketchShe will bank a $100,000 grant to help develop their own web series.

The Potts Point-based trio of Shae-Lee Shackleford, Lana Kington and Madison Lloyd have been awarded the funding thanks to Google and Screen Australia’s Skip Ahead initiative, which provides recipients with the funding and production resources required to create content.

Shackleford said the grant would help to fund the group’s next project, a long-awaited scripted sketch comedy.

“We are putting together Traffic Jam — The Musical and for us it is about doing something a step up from what we are already doing now,” Shackleford said.

“We will have some original music as well as some covers and we will collaborate with other artists and Youtubers because Youtube loves collaboration.”

SketchShe racked up 26 million hits on YouTube. Picture: Carly Earl

The entertainers 'arrive at the YouTube FanFest 2015. Picture: Lisa Maree Williams/Getty Images

Shackleford said the money would allow the trio to return to their roots.

“What most people don’t know about us is that we started out doing more scripted sketch comedy originally before we did the car videos so this is going to allow us to work on our original passion,” she said.

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“The goal for us would be to eventually get our own TV show where we could do our own thing and just have fun with it so I hope this is going to be a stepping stone to that.”

She said her new-found career on the micro screen still seemed surreal.

“I think it is incredible that we get to live our passions and before this all happened for us we were making sketches at every possible moment we got,” Shackleford said

“But we always had to balance what we were doing with our fulltime job and now we are fortunate enough to have this as our fulltime job.”

SketchShe achieved worldwide fame when a video of the trio singing Queen’s Bohemian Rhapsody in the car achieved a whopping 26 million YouTube views.