Cold reads and lasagna refusals fill NowThis' comedy week

Gwynneth's acting challenge draws the biggest new audience, alongside senior storytelling, dating texts and street fashion.

Channel: NowThis Story of October 18, 2026Trari Newsroom

Why this story? The channel's weekly summary: what went up this week, what is drawing views now, and where the channel stands among similar channels.

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The cold read got attention. Across nine new uploads on NowThis, "gwynneth reads for nikki in obsession" drew the largest audience, reaching roughly 22,000 views. The clip sits in the channel's acting-challenge collection, where script readings and audition-style comedy supply the premise.

Viewers are picking out a mermaid reference, while one says they initially understood a reference as Donkey from Shrek. It's a more specific conversation than the title gives away, and a reminder that a line reading can send people in quite different directions.

The clips channel's other uploads spread the comedy around. "yes to the man, no to lasagna" belongs to its dating-and-text-message strand; "spotted: Amaya & JaNa" brings street-style interviews into the mix. Meanwhile, "julia roberts would be proud" and "best kind of accident" come from its senior storytelling collection, not a Julia Roberts appearance.

Subscribers held steady over the week, while daily viewing is running above its usual level. NowThis had a smaller weekly view gain than its nearby broadcaster peers, with 7NEWS Australia and GBNews both having much busier weeks.

Within NowThis's own catalog, the freshest momentum belongs to "julia roberts would be proud." Another acting entry, "jer reads for jughead," is close behind in daily views, keeping cold-read comedy prominent beyond Gwynneth's weekly standout.

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The videos drawing views on NowThis right now

julia roberts would be proud7,555 views · 2026-10-16 best kind of accident5,046 views · 2026-10-16 broken hemorrhoids is crazy4,861 views · 2026-10-15 yes to the man, no to lasagna3,463 views · 2026-10-15 spotted: Amaya & JaNa2,599 views · 2026-10-16 jer reads for jughead2,482 views

The numbers

Here is how NowThis's uploads and audience activity shaped up over the week.

views gained this week: this channel and similar channels

7NEWS Australia

13,566,595

GBNews

13,194,246

AccuWeather

11,359,568

ITV News

9,100,983

CBC News: The National

8,569,168

MIRROR NOW

7,422,514

BBC World Service

3,946,487

Localish

392,474

NowThis

150,941

subscribers

2,230,000

no significant change in the last 7 days

total views

160,227,468

views per day

29,327

typical day: 22,462

first-day views of each video posted this week

gwynneth reads for nikki in obsession

9,058

julia roberts would be proud

5,364

best kind of accident

4,244

broken hemorrhoids is crazy

2,943

yes to the man, no to lasagna

2,543

spotted: Amaya & JaNa

2,337

subscribers: this channel and similar channels

MIRROR NOW

2,350,000

7NEWS Australia

2,260,000

ITV News

2,260,000

BBC World Service

2,240,000

NowThis

2,230,000

CBC News: The National

2,200,000

GBNews

2,190,000

Localish

2,180,000

AccuWeather

2,170,000

As of October 18, 2026 · Data source: Trari Social News, Trari Traffic Trends and Ranking Platform, Google YouTube

Subscriber, view, like and comment counts are YouTube's. Rates, usual days, rankings, comparisons and categories are Trari's own calculations.