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HappySlip - Christine Gambito
Posted On 04/25/2008 17:58:42 by Dave
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Christine Gambito, better known by her screen name HappySlip, is an Internet celebrity and popular YouTube content provider. She maintains one of YouTube's most subscribed channels. On January 25, 2008, Gambito was appointed ambassador for Philippine tourism by the Department of Tourism.

In March 2007, Gambito's video Mixed Nuts was nominated for the 2006 YouTube Video Awards for Best Comedy, resulting in the second place to Smosh. In May of the same year, she became one of the first YouTube users accepted into YouTube's revenue sharing program

Gambito's performances typically include comedy sketches in which she impersonates members of her family. She also sings and plays the piano or guitar. As Gambito has stated repeatedly in her videos, she is notably one of the very few top users acting, filming, editing and producing her shorts completely on her own.

 

Before YouTube: 

Born and raised in Virginia and of Filipino ancestry, Gambito moonlighted as an actress while earning a degree in nursing. She landed several cameo appearances and small parts in television commercials and movies, industrial and training films.

 

The nickname:

Gambito attributes her nickname "HappySlip" to her Filipino mother's mispronunciation of "half slip":

“ As a child, my Filipino mom would always remind me to wear a half-slip with skirts. However, the way she would pronounce the phrase was misleading: "Your hap e-slip! Be sure to wear your hap e-slip!" So I naturally went around calling the thing a 'happy slip,' until friends at school corrected me by asking if I had a 'sad slip' as well. ”

At her personal site, she explains that the phrase is not only a funny phrase from the past, but it also reflects what she would like people to feel when they watch her videos, hoping they will "slip into happiness" while watching. She also claims that she originally signed up to YouTube with the name of "BreadClock."

 

Videos

Her first sketch, "Instant Vlogging!", was originally broadcasted on September 06, 2006 and featured Gambito impersonating four different characters, each representing a different video blogging style. Due to the positive response she received from the YouTube community, two of those characters (the teenager and the girl in the "soap opera" style) were explored further in the following videos, the latter becoming the first episode of a soap opera spoof featuring two twin sisters both interpreted by Gambito.

Her second video introduced many of the recurring themes in her following sketches, such as her parents' attitude towards her growing popularity over the Internet and her family's Filipino habits seen through the mind of an American. Other notable sketches include "Mixed Nuts" — a video depicting what she would call "a typical family discussion" which was later awarded with the second place in the 2006 YouTube Video Awards for Best Comedy — and "Mac Beautiful", her first musical video, an ironic cover of the song "You're Beautiful" by James Blunt praising the beauty and efficiency of her 12" Apple PowerBook computer. Gambito later broadcast two videos containing original songs.

Recently, Gambito has been collaborating with fellow YouTube comedian Kevin Wu, a.k.a. kevjumba, and has made five videos with him.

 

Special Appearances:

Christine got a big shot going big with some stars like David Choi, a Famous musician on Youtube (davidchoimusic). Christine tried to make David Smile but Failed. Christine also help another man from studio 8 to make better jokes so more people can get it. Some of the appearances are interesting. Especially when Kevin Nalty a.k.a Nalts broke in to Christine's apartment.

 

Get to know HappySlip: 

YouTube: http://youtube.com/happyslip

MySpace: http://www.myspace.com/happyslip
Friendster: http://www.friendster.com/happyslip
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=6548949230

Here are some of her videos: 



 



 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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