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Laura Clery is taking her face up-morphing routine to Snapchat with a new short-form sketch serial for Comedy Central.

The internet comedian — who has more than three.2 million Facebook followers and 1.3 million on Instagram — wrote, directed and stars in "The Laura Clery Project." The three-episode show is slated to go alive on Comedy Central's Snapchat Detect channel Tuesday, and the cable network has an pick to order more episodes.

In each of the 60- to 90-2nd sketches, Clery plays herself talking to three different characters, created using Snapchat-like facial filters: an insane, murderous baby; a bearded dude who aggressively hits on her during a study session; and a perverted, chain-smoking seventy-year-erstwhile woman based on Clery'south real-life aunt.

"I use a lot of Snapchat filters in my comedy," Clery said. "I thought it would be cool to do a show without any makeup or prosthetics."

The twist: Clery wasn't allowed to use Snapchat's facial filters for the show for legal reasons, because Comedy Central has the pick to distribute "The Laura Clery Project" on its own properties. Instead, the characters were created using CGI effects by post-production visitor Bubba's Chop Shop, based in Van Nuys, Calif.

"Nosotros brought in a post-product squad to create filters from scratch," Clery said. "I basically had to send this post-production team pictures of what I wanted it to look like. I shot the stuff all as me, and they added this all in post."

"The Laura Clery Project" Snapchat bear witness volition not include one of her most popular characters: Helen, a fatty-faced, aggressively flirtatious woman who is constantly trying to get in the pants of Steven (played by Clery's real-life married man).

Helen has her ain prove in Facebook's recently launched Sentry episodic video section, called "Aid Helen Smash," which currently has most 280,000 followers. Clery said she'due south working to get investors to fund an animated series on Facebook based on the Helen character — which she hopes could plough into a half-60 minutes bear witness. "I want to exit a season of ninety-second blithe 'Helen' shows on Facebook, then I want to go to Netflix and say, 'Let's do a 22-minute show,'" she said.

Clery, 31, as well is developing a Facebook prove for another character, Pamela Pupkin, a good for you-living/cooking "proficient" who will bring in existent-earth chefs and authors as guests — segments that apace devolve into a railroad train wreck. She and her team are in talks with Canvass Media Studios about producing the series. The comedian-extra-writer-managing director has garnered a 2017 Streamy Awards nomination for all-time comedy channel.

"I want to go on putting out shows on digital," said Clery. "I'thou not that interested in TV that much."

Clery's deal with One-act Cardinal for the Snapchat show was brokered by her manager, Larry Shapiro of Ensemble Digital Studios, and JR Satery of the Gersh Agency. Clery's lawyer is Matt Wallerstein.