Letterkenny is a Canadian television sitcom created by Jared Keeso, developed and written primarily by Keeso and Jacob Tierney, directed by Tierney, and starring Keeso alongside Nathan Dales, Michelle Mylett, and K. Trevor Wilson. The series began as a YouTube web series titled Letterkenny Problems, and it was commissioned as a television series by Crave in March 2015 and it debuted in February 2016. The show follows the residents of Letterkenny, a fictional rural community in Ontario loosely based on Keeso's hometown of Listowel, Ontario. According to the prologue of the 2017 episode "St. Perfect's Day", the town was named after Letterkenny, Ireland, and was populated by Irish immigrants escaping the 1840s Great Famine.