40 Fun Facts About Jenna Marbles

Jenna Marbles took her stage name from her dog, who was named after a ventriloquist dummy in which sitcom?

Seinfeld gave Kramer a dummy called Mr. Marbles that Jerry fears will come alive and attack him in the night. Jenna gave the name to her dog, then borrowed it for herself.

Why did Jenna Marbles stop posting videos under her real surname, Mourey, soon after her first hit video?

Her mom's job hunt was the reason: a search for the family name brought up only Jenna's videos, which she feared would put off employers. Her mother later went to work for Jenna's company.

What is the Jenna Marbles wax figure unveiled at Madame Tussauds in 2015 posed doing?

Taking a selfie made the figure a first for the museum's Times Square branch. It was also given its own social media account, where pictures with visitors were posted.

Which biblical woman did Jenna Marbles play in a man-versus-woman episode of Epic Rap Battles of History?

Eve squared off against Adam, played by series co-creator EpicLLOYD, in an episode timed for Valentine's Day. The pair argued as a generic couple more than as figures from Genesis.

Which rapper cast Jenna Marbles, Bart Baker and Vine star Brittany Furlan in his 2014 music video for Fireball?

Pitbull had already been the target of a Jenna Marbles parody impression when he invited her to dance beside him in the video's nightclub scenes.

In one of her best-loved videos, Jenna Marbles used paint to camouflage herself as which piece of furniture?

A chair was the disguise. A fan looking back a year after she left YouTube wrote that wholesome videos like this one gave people an escape from daily life.

Jenna Marbles made a video serving corn on the cob with the cob swapped for which food?

A hot dog went where the cob should be, in a video whose own title calls the cob a corn bone. By then her channel had swapped edgy jokes for cheerfully ridiculous experiments.

Which fellow YouTuber, her podcast co-host for years, did Jenna Marbles marry in November 2022?

Julien Solomita shared the news weeks after the ceremony, saying the couple had wanted time to celebrate by themselves first. They had been together for about nine years.

Which way of eating did Jenna Marbles adopt in 2015 and feature in cooking videos with her partner?

Vegan cooking became a running theme: in 2019 the couple filmed themselves building what they called the breakfast sandwich of the future from plant-based egg, sausage and cheese.

Which breed was Mr. Marbles, the tiny dog who appeared in Jenna Marbles's first YouTube upload in 2010?

Chihuahua Mr. Marbles was so calm on camera that commenters joked about how little he moved. He stayed a fixture of the channel for its whole ten-year run.

Which Boston-area media company hired Jenna Marbles in 2010 to run its short-lived site for women?

Barstool Sports put her in charge of StoolLaLa, a spinoff aimed at female readers. She left in spring 2011, less than a year after her first video took off.

Jenna Marbles was born and raised in which upstate city on the southern shore of Lake Ontario?

Rochester was home until she left for college in Boston. She graduated in 2004 from Brighton High School, in a suburb of the city.

Which sport did Jenna Marbles play at Suffolk University in Boston while studying for her bachelor's degree?

Softball was her sport at Suffolk, whose teams, the Rams, compete in NCAA Division III. She stayed in the city for graduate school afterwards.

What did Jenna Marbles study for her master's degree at Boston University, before YouTube became her career?

Sport psychology and counseling was her master's subject. In 2010 the new degree was gathering dust while she covered her rent with a patchwork of part-time jobs.

On which radio service did Jenna Marbles host YouTube 15, a weekly countdown of breakout songs, from 2014?

SiriusXM ran the show on Friday evenings on its pop channel Hits 1, choosing the songs from the previous week's YouTube data.

Jenna Marbles was an executive producer of the 2016 film Maximum Ride, adapted from which author's novels?

James Patterson wrote the Maximum Ride books, and the film covers only the first half of the opening novel, The Angel Experiment.

In May 2013 Jenna Marbles became YouTube's second most-subscribed creator, behind only which comedy duo?

Smosh, the channel of Anthony Padilla and Ian Hecox, led her by about a million subscribers. Jenna later played a version of herself in the pair's 2015 feature film.

On which platform did Jenna Marbles's partner reveal their engagement during a live stream in April 2021?

Twitch viewers heard the news almost in passing and were shown the rings. He said he had first asked Jenna's oldest dog for permission to propose.

Which California beach city was Jenna Marbles's base in 2013, with most videos shot in her home there?

Santa Monica was where she filmed nearly everything herself, usually alone, with her pets wandering into shot. Stuffed replicas of the two animals were sold through her blog.

Jenna Marbles's second dog, the soap-loving Kermit, belongs to which slender breed?

Italian greyhound Kermit, nicknamed Kermie Worm, caused most of the household drama and had a habit of going after people's feet.

Jenna Marbles's dog Kermit was famous among fans for his deep love of which brand of soap?

Irish Spring was his favourite, and he would rub his head on a bar whenever he found one. Kermit was the second pet to join the channel.

Jenna Marbles once filmed a test of intelligence pitting Mr. Marbles against which other small pet?

A hamster was the rival, and Mr. Marbles did not shine. He also refused to sit on hard floors, and forgot a lesson on doing so by the next day.

Which dog joined Jenna Marbles's pack as an adult in 2019, becoming her first rescue?

Bunny towered over the others: she was a full-sized sighthound in a pack of small breeds, and settling her in took a lot of patient work.

How is Peach, the dog owned by Jenna Marbles's partner, related to her older pet Kermit?

Half-sister is the true relationship, though Jenna liked to call Peach Kermit's wife. The two dogs are the same breed.

Which newspaper profiled Jenna Marbles in April 2013 as the woman with a billion clicks?

The New York Times profile reported that her channel had earned nearly $350,000 the previous year, by one analytics firm's estimate.

What two-word title did Jenna Marbles give the June 2020 video announcing her break from YouTube?

A Message ran for about eleven minutes. In it she apologised for offensive material in her old videos and said she did not know if she was leaving for now or for good.

Which video-editing program did Jenna Marbles discover in college, pushing her to YouTube to share her clips?

iMovie gave her no easy way to export or share what she made, so she joined YouTube simply as a place to host videos for her friends.

One of Jenna Marbles's most popular early videos was a tutorial she filmed drunk on which subject?

Makeup was the subject of Drunk Makeup Tutorial, one of the hits from her first years online along with I Hate Being A Grown Up.

Besides bartending and working at a tanning salon, how else did Jenna Marbles earn money in 2010?

Go-go dancing at nightclubs helped pay her share of a three-bedroom apartment near Boston in the summer her first video took off.

Which ceremony for online video named Jenna Marbles's channel the best first-person series in 2014?

Streamy Awards organisers held that year's ceremony in Beverly Hills, with fellow creators Grace Helbig and Hannah Hart as hosts.

Jenna Marbles shares her September 15 birthday with which British royal, born two years before her?

Prince Harry was born on 15 September 1984 at St Mary's Hospital in London. Jenna arrived on the same date in 1986.

Which veteran comedian interviewed Jenna Marbles on a web chat show hosted from her bed?

Joan Rivers welcomed a string of online stars to In Bed with Joan. She died in 2014, and web creators paid tribute at an awards show held on the day of her funeral.

Jenna Marbles guest-starred in which web series created by Dane Boedigheimer?

Annoying Orange centres on a citrus fruit who lives in a house's kitchen. The web series grew popular enough to be adapted for Cartoon Network.

What kind of offer did Jenna Marbles tell Variety in 2013 that she kept turning down?

Her own TV show held no appeal, she said, because studios want to own a creator, while online nobody owned her and she could say whatever she liked.

What did Jenna Marbles's 2011 hit video tell women to do when a stranger starts grinding on them at a club?

Pull a frozen face, she advised: turn round, hold a strange expression and say nothing at all. News outlets picked the video up that August as schools began cracking down on the dance style.

Jenna Marbles once styled her own hair into a track for which brand of toy cars?

Hot Wheels track hair was typical of her later uploads, which one admirer described as ideas she plainly could not get out of her head.

Jenna Marbles appeared as a guest on which MTV clip show hosted by Rob Dyrdek?

Ridiculousness has Rob Dyrdek and his panel mock internet clips, mostly of stunts going wrong, which made a YouTube star a natural guest.

Jenna Marbles won which aptly named category at the 2014 Young Hollywood Awards?

Viral Superstar was her prize on a night when The Fault in Our Stars was named Favourite Flick and The Bachelor shared the Reality Royalty award.

How did Jenna Marbles get the wedding dress she wore to marry her longtime partner in 2022?

She thrifted it, and her groom's suit was second-hand too. The pair kept the wedding to themselves for weeks before sharing photos.

Which YouTuber answered a Jenna Marbles video by throwing his own dogs a rival pool party?

Jacksfilms billed his event as a better pool party than hers, which set off a playful feud between the two channels.