A webseries.
Kind of like if Bert and Ernie were live action.
Jenny Donheiser and Meagan Kensil met their freshman year at NYU where they went to study drama with the Atlantic Theater Company, but preferred to study giggling. They quickly found that they shared the same undying love for Jimmy Fallon, the same penchant for staring at strangers on the subway, and the same fascination with puppies that wear shoes.
Since then they've lived together for five years.
They've lived in dorms, in cold apartments with mice that ate their panties, in a house with a pet canary named after their Greek landlord, and worked all the same dayjobs. They've laughed, they've cried, they've slept head to foot.
Jenny Donheiser is from Dallas, TX. She is an actor, writer, comedian, and Olympic gymnast.
Meagan Kensil is from Valencia, CA. She is an actor, writer, dancer, and part-time bounty hunter.
Crewsies
S2 Director - Dan Siegel
DP/S1 Director - Sam Sparks
Editor - Andrew Mallonee
Art Directors - Justen Van Dyke, Natalie Garcia-Mayor
Assistant Director - Lauren Bennett
S1 Camera Op - Owen LeVelle
Gaffers - Nick Massey, Blake Jones, Brian Keenan
Sound Mixers - Daniel Munro (S1), Jeff Gaumer (S2)
Sound Editor - Arjun G. Sheth
ACs - Kate Mahler, Kenny Wu, Jack Collins, Kevin Etherson
Production Assistants - Arielle Siegel, Susan Casey, Kelsey Mills
Guest Stars (in order of appearance) - Will Payne, Andrew Farmer, Arielle Siegel, Mike Steinmetz, Benj Mirman
Extras - Ellen Goodson, Christopher Hermelin, Sara Hochrad, Elizabeth Hooker, Carina Renner, Nicole Spiezio
Prop Artist - Sam Chapin
Choreography - Arielle Siegel & Meagan Kensil
Composer - Zackary Grady
Graphic Design - Mary Dauterman
Photographer - Ahron R. Foster
Also, we feel it’s important to note that our crying faces are pictured between photos of George Clooney and Duchess Kate.
We truly feel glamour-ous.
Gena Kaufman, Glamour.com’s relationship blogger, knows what it means to need a good Dance Cry:
Who amongst us hasn’t frantically declared, “Let’s go dancing!” in a desperate attempt to wash a man right out of your hair, only to eventually lose all your resolve and end up in one big pile of mascara-covered despair? Let she who is without tequila-fueled mistakes cast the first stone, ladies
Before our official time as the Webseries 2 Watch of the week ends, we just wanna thank Sydney and everyone over at Blayze.com for the really sweet feature and interview they did about us.
Not gonna lie, for two geeks like us, this was a week where we felt pretty cool.
Check out the feature and the interview if you haven’t already! We tell embarrassing stories and share our inspirations, and Sydney says things like “If you don’t love [Roomsies, you should] please go hide under a rock”.
We did not pay her to say that. She’s just nice.
It’s Meagan’s 25th Birthday!
This picture is from her 10th birthday; a time when she collected old-fashioned Barbies (see cake decoration) and all she asked for her birthday was a globe.
This year she asked for some new heart-shaped sunglasses and for help funding a trip to Haiti where she’s planning to volunteer at an orphanage called Timoun Kiskeya for a week in September.
So she hasn’t changed all that much, I guess. (Except for how tan she used to be.)
Check out her fundraising campaign, and donate an “Ice Cream Cone“‘s worth if you can!
And since it’s Throw Back Thursday, here’s the oldest pic of Meagan and Jenny on Facebook.
Our editor, Andrew Mallonee, discovered that Meagan has the same earrings as Lisa Turtle on Saved by the Bell.
Just one example of his keen attention to detail.
(Meagan definitely went through an 80’s phase in high school and these earrings still survive in its memory.)
Have you ever gone out dancing to get over an ex and found that all your favorite pop music actually just made you feel worse?
Sounds like you need a good dance cry.
SEASON 2 FINALE
DANCE CRYING
Sneak Peek at Season Finale tomorrow!
HOW DID WE MAKE SUCH A MESS?!?!
Tune in tomorrow to find out!
Nona Raybern, our new internet friend over at Daily of the Day, posted The Bachelorettes and it sparked an entire conversation about Jenny’s boobs.
Here’s what Nona had to say this time:
We highly recommend you check out the comment thread on the link.
Thanks, Blazye!
Hope you liked the ‘Girls’ reference in yesterday’s sketch!
Jenny’s a Hannah-Jessa hybrid and Meagan’s a Shosh-Hannah-EarlySeason1NotAsCrazyMarnie
Meagan joined Jenny and our friend Janna over at Lady Products for the Cinco de Mayo LLGoT this week. They drank really gross margaritas, and clearly Meagan could not keep up…
Senoritas Love Game of Thrones!
Hey also!
Did you guys know we’re being featured on the front page of CMDY.com right now?!
Check it out. Some of our other favorite sketch groups have stuff featured there right now, too.
It’s a great site for getting you a through a terrible day job… not that we do that or anything.
We’re ready to find love, you guys.
THE BACHELORETTES
Featuring Benj Mirman and Mike Steinmetz (of Verizon fame)
No new Roomsies until next week, so if you haven’t already, check out the other funny thing Jenny’s been up to:
LadiesLoveGameOfThrones
She and our friend Janna Emig have been nerding out with wine over at Lady Products and it’s pretty entertaining.
Watch out for spoilers, though, GoT fans!
Also - while making this post, Jenny explained to Meagan that LL Cool J’s name stands for ladies love cool jams and Meagan truly couldn’t believe it.
We made a complete stranger laugh and we are so happy about it!
Check out this great website, Daily of the Day. We will definitely be adding it to our daily rotation of funny interweb spots.
Here’s what contributor Nona Raybern had to say about us:
So, I was doing my usual surfing around YouTube when I stumbled across this great web series from The Roomsies that chronicles the life of two female roommates and the usual (or unusual?) roommate struggles. The series is entirely done by Jenny Donheiser and Meagan Kensil and now I wish that I could be friends with them.
Follow her for more goodies: @NonaReneeDotD
SEASON 2 EPISODE 2:
THIRD ROOMSIE
Featuring special guest (and our real life other roomsie), ARIELLE SIEGEL
Get your headphones on if you’re at work! This one is a bit #loud and pretty #NSFW.
To prepare for today’s episode of Roomsies, Meagan watched this video.
Seeya at 1pm sistazzz.
New Roomsies tomorrow, guys!
It’s gonna get NSFW up in here again.
#SEXYTIME
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_m1oPybUdk