YouTube Popularity
Improv Everywhere's videos have been viewed over 256 million times on YouTube and their channel was the 23rd most subscribed (mid-2010) on the site. IE's most popular YouTube video is "Frozen Grand Central", which has received over 31 million views. The two minute video depicts 200 IE Agents freezing in place simultaneously for five minutes in New York's Grand Central Terminal. The video was listed as number 49 in Urlesque's 100 Most Iconic Internet Videos. Martin Bashir declared on Nightline that the video was "one of the funniest moments ever captured on tape." The prank has been recreated by fans in over 100 cities around the world.
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