The Whole Freaking Pie: Our Interview With Stevie Ryan

PHOTO CREDIT: Adam Sheridan Taylor
MAKEUP CREDIT: Cambria Serrano

Stevie Ryan is a talented woman. When I showed some of her videos to another Brat, she said of Ryan, "It almost seems unfair to have that lethal a combination of looks, youth, and funny." Stevie is taking those looks, youth, and funny to VH1 where she'll be starring in the very funny Stevie TV, a half-hour sketch comedy show that debuts March 4th at 11:00 PM. But first, she was nice enough to drop by and tell us a little about the show, how she made the jump from YouTube to VH1, singing, how everyone loves Justin Bieber, and what it was like being in a Billy Idol video.

Tell us all about Stevie TV.
Stevie TV is a female-driven, obviously, sketch comedy show. We're covering everything. It's all pop culture, everything from Facebook to reality shows to dramas. Everything on the map. If it's on your television set or your computer, we are hopefully going to cover everything. We have so many awesome sketches and it's all to do with things that everyone's familiar with. Even commercials!

How did you make the leap from YouTube to VH1?
Well, I was producing my own content on YouTube for the past few years and I had parodied a reality show that I was obsessed with at the time, which was Pretty Wild. The girls from that show saw that video and they sent it to their producers and one of the producers contacted me and was like, "Hey, I love the video. I produced the show. I would love to bring you in and we want to sit down and develop something with you. We've watched your other stuff and we think there's something there." So I got together with them and we had a very obvious idea of having a female-driven sketch comedy show that is centered around pop culture because that's what I am obsessed with.

Every show that we make fun of, it's not like someone wrote this and gave it to me. I'm writing this show and executive producing and I actually watch these shows. I am obsessed with television, movies, everything. Everything that we are parodying, I am actually a part of and watching and know these shows like the back of my hand.

And we went out and pitched it. VH1 really made us feel like we'd have the most creative freedom. It's really something new for them, it's something new for us. They made us feel like they wouldn't censor us. We have a lot more creative freedom with them and I couldn't be happier. I feel like we chose the best network.