Smosh Mouth - S2: #71 - The Top 5 Comedic Influences That Shaped Us

Episode Date: July 15, 2020

Ian, Courtney, and Shayne are sharing the top five comedic influences that shaped them, from South Park to The Lonely Island. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Rambles. South Park, I think the one thing that kind of like broke my love for it a little bit was when somebody pointed out South Park's point of view is just that everything new sucks. I'm going to go old school internet. Up until then, there was like kind of framework for comedy. And then the internet kind of just destroyed that and was like, anything can be funny. I ask those stupid questions all the times. It's okay. Sometimes we just don't know stuff. And sometimes people just love to laugh at people because they feel smarter.

They had castaways, which is funny because it's very similar to that one Smosh sketch. Remember when you were stranded on the beach? Yeah. Did we rip it off? I don't know. Probably. Dude, I put butter in my coffee this morning. Oh, you're doing a bulletproof coffee? Is that what you're doing? Yeah, I'm doing a bulletproof coffee situation. Is that what it is?

Yeah. You got that MCT oil in there, Joe Rogan? I'm making sure to stir it up so that the oil doesn't build up at the top. Did you just do that randomly or did you know that that was a thing? I was like, I figure it's a thing. I'll try it. A little salted butter in my coffee. Dang. Well, guess what?

Am I just naturally a legend? Behind the curve? Yeah. Oh, God. Hello. Welcome to another Smoshcast. Today, I am joined by the people that are known none other than by Shane Topp and Courtney Miller. Hi. Hello.

I hate my background today. I feel so like, I feel like it's ugly behind me. I'm mad. Courtney, have you never seen what I film in? At least it's like empty and light. It's an empty room. It is my murder room. Yeah, but like at least it's like empty and light it's an empty room it is my murder room yeah but like at least it's like a cute murder room you know mine's like a cluttered weird dark ian finds an abandoned office building to record the pod in every day every day there's

a lot of abandoned offices in the in california we're basically the last of us actually set walls so right now i'm recording at the grand canyon the wi-fi reception here is great that's awesome man great work yeah an eagle just flew by the camera you can't see it's on the other side yeah fun well and for those listening or watching or pretty much watching uh the reason i'm in this weird setup is because my microphones hate me and they are possessed i don't know if my apartment is haunted but these microphones are because the microphone on my camera for sketch and my microphone for podcast are just deciding to go like this like that's what they sound like maybe that's something to do with your voice they just heard your voice and then they killed themselves.

Maybe you're techno-cursed. That's a cool name. Techno-cursed. That's definitely the next Blumhouse movie. What's a Blumhouse movie? It's the next Happy Death Day. Happy Death Day, techno-cursed. Paranormal Activity, techno-cursed.

It's a purge sequel. I'm ready for this. Who wants to go first with their top five comedic inspirations? Top five comedic inspirations. Number five. You were really good at that. Thank you. Maybe I'm the voice of that guy.

Twist. Your epic how-to. My number, I'll start. Okay, number five. Are we starting with like number five and counting down? I didn't really order mine. So don't, don't take this by any sort of. Mine's kind of a loose order too anyway.

Yeah. We'll just kind of instinctually pick. For number five, The Lonely Island. What? Andy Samberg, Yorma Taccone, Akiva. Akiva, I don't know his last name right off the top of my head but he just shriver yeah i think it's one of those yeah he dude because he's by he's in my list yeah so yeah the lonely island uh i mean they're in my list they got started on the internet they had a

couple failed tv pilots yeah awesome town yeah you can actually track it down and watch them they're pretty funny uh just if you want a sandwich come roll with me yeah but you can it's funny because like you you see like little pieces that they took from like awesome town and put it into like later things because it didn't get picked up yeah dude dude i watched hot rod the other day and do you remember good do you remember chester there's a guy named chester he's like a like a tall asian dude the guy the guy who dances around he's in so much of their stuff like he's he's closely like associated with them yeah i feel like he was in like all the old lonely island stuff

and i was he yeah pop star did he have a part in Popstar? I haven't seen Popstar from start to finish. Oh. I know. Dude, Popstar is actually like legit good. Okay. Because I, for some reason, the marketing didn't do it for me.

So I was like, I don't want a bad taste in my mouth. Yeah, it was, the marketing was bad and also just like the whole, because it was like, it looked like a big Justin Bieber parody. It seemed like it was three years too late,

but it is like legit a funny movie. Okay, cool. But yeah, Lonely Island, like when they were doing their shorts on YouTube, I guess. Two guys in the pool. Just two guys. Do you know what their name Lonely Island comes from? No.

Those three guys lived in an apartment and that's what they called their apartment. Aw. Aw. Lonely Island comes from? No. Those three guys lived in an apartment and that's what they called their apartment. Aw. Aw. Well, I'm obsessed with them, dude. They're great, man. They are really funny. And they do seem to like stick together

when they do these other projects like Hot Rod. Yeah, they all have like their own individual talents. It's impressive that they've stayed like making stuff together so long. I feel like that never happens. And when I got to see their practice tour, dude, they did all the things. All the iconic things. Like

even Lazy Sunday. That's awesome. From the SNL Digital Shorts and stuff. I can't even tell you how much they've changed my life. Are they in your list somewhere? Oh, yeah. They have to be. Okay. Well, then don't talk about it too much. All right. until we get to your lonely island i want to hear from you shane number five so okay i'm switching my number

four number five because i've just decided my number five is the internet particularly i'm gonna go old school internet um with a lot of the stuff that would just show up on E-bombs world. Early internet stuff like Bo Burnham and Barats and Beretta. The problem was it would be a different video all the time that would make me laugh. And I loved how chaotic internet comedy was compared to everything I had seen before. So I want to say it was around 2005, 2006, where I just became obsessed with it. The thing is, back then, it was so different because I think it's similar to like walking down the beach looking for driftwood. You're just kind of like, all right, I'm going to check the internet today and see if there's

anything funny. And you'd look for like an hour and some days you'd just be like, there's nothing on the internet today. There's nothing new. There's nothing funny. I'm going to check tomorrow. And sometimes it just be like, there's nothing on the internet today. There's nothing new. There's nothing funny. I'm going to check tomorrow. And sometimes it would be like- There was websites on the internet.

Right. But they would only like, E-Bomb's world would just have like upwards of 10 new things a day. Yeah, there'd be like no new videos for, yeah. And so you just kind of be like, all right, nothing today. You know, maybe I'll rewatch something. Like maybe I'll rewatch one of those G.I. Joe dubs or something. That early stuff, I just loved.

It made me laugh so hard. It was so weird. And like I said, chaotic is the best word I can describe it as. Absurdist. Absurd. Oh, man, I was obsessed with it. Barretts and Beretta, I watched all of their stuff back then. Bo Burnham, whenever he came out with something new, I was like, hell yeah. But a lot of the times for me, I was not a subscriber of anything.

It would just be whatever turned up. All of that back then was such a huge inspiration. And I think it really got me comedically thinking outside the box. Up until then, there was kind of framework for comedy comedy and then the internet kind of just destroyed that and was like anything can be funny and so that was that was kind of uh inspiring because it also destroyed the gatekeeping for comedy like anybody could create something online like on tv like you you had to go through a huge process you had to go through sensors you had to go through everybody and now all of a sudden you had just like insane people, like teenagers, like, you know,

Egoraptor, Aaron Hansen. Right. Creating flash cartoons by himself. But I think that's a big thing is like, for the most part back then, you never saw people your age doing funny stuff. It was all adults doing comedy. The internet and like youtube

i feel like influenced uh editing style in like feature films for sure like comedic cuts there was like a whole new world of that on youtube right like it was cool when you finally started seeing those like incorporated it changed it changed everything number five okay so it's it's kind of a tie for me a number five between youtube channels which i if i mentioned these channels already on our top youtubers list i'm sorry but i will go into like the comedy aspect this time so it's a tie between the channel balloon shop and liam kyle sullivan balloon shop it was like sketches that don't make sense like it's crazy because they were making videos around the same time as smosh was but they were so different like the sketches were an entirely different like

world in terms of like arc and like meaning and any kind of sense and like a lot it's crazy because oh uh what's his name owen is it owen owen rogers owen that's what i knew was i was like olin rogers is literally the only one who's like seriously still in the digital space. But those other guys that were a part of that, they were like some seriously funny people, dude. And like they were kind of they seemed like a lonely island minus like the music aspect. And then Liam Cole Sullivan, his character work I loved so much.

And I think it definitely influenced when I was like doing YouTube videos and did like no vacancy and stuff. I did the similar thing where it's like, oh, this part of the room is this character. And just like it for sure influenced how I edited my videos. And it's crazy because Liam Kyle Sullivan, because if people don't know who I'm talking about, he's the guy who made shoes. But what's cool is that guy, that incredible sketch comedian, he edited Smosh pit videos for like a year or two, right? At Defy.

Yeah, a couple years ago. I remember we were like walking through the editing bay that was like this super dark room in the building. And just walking past and like seeing our video being edited. And then looking down and Liam Kyle Sullivan turns out and is like, hey guys. I was like, huh? You're my dad. Like, so shocked. He's such a chill guy, such a chill, laid back, quiet dude.

His videos were next level. I mean, they ruled the world for periods of time back then. Yeah, he kind of like owned like the MySpace era. Yes, yes. Yes. Yes. Of like comedy. And then Balloon Shop, I feel like it was super underrated. Like they didn't blow up as much, it seemed. I never heard about them until you showed me them.

But I would have loved their stuff if I had seen it back in the day. But there was a lot of people like them. Like Derek, the roommate, Whips. Just like the weirdest stuff. Sketch comedy back then. Britannic was, I think Brit, just like the weirdest stuff. Sketch comedy back then was so, Britannic was, I think Britannic is the best one. Like some of them are so smart.

David Blaine's Street Magic. Yes, God. And that, and one of those guys is in SNL right now. Britannic went to SNL. That's back in the day. Well, the David Blaine sketch came out of Groundlings. That was at Groundlings. They were all Groundlings people. So they're all pretty well connected in that world.

But yeah, one of those guys, like just, I mean, like as of maybe like what, like four years ago? Yeah. Five years ago? What's his name? What's his name? I forget. I've seen. Mickey?

Is it Mickey something? I don't know. I don't watch this. I had seen him. I had seen him live it Mickey something I don't know I don't watch SNL I had seen him I had seen him live at Groundlings though it's so crazy how like you can go from

religiously watching SNL to not even being aware that's how it's always worked it's the life cycle SNL has five years on five years off it's always been that way Ian

Ian number four South Park yeah I feel like yeah South Park for me which I wasn't when it first came out i wasn't allowed

to watch south park yeah it came out i mean dude yeah how old were you when it started you were probably like i was six i was in i think sixth grade when it when it first came out maybe fifth grade same like same time as pokemon yeah i want to say that's because it was the 90s yeah i remember i remember like one of my friends like had like like he had cool parents which meant he had bad parents he we watched south park over it at his house once or twice and i was like oh my god this is so this is so bad like we can't be watching this especially those first seasons bro they're so those first seasons are so crude like ridiculously crude yeah the issue i mean like i i guess nowadays like it's i have i have certain issues with uh with south park but there was a time when

like they really hit their stride yeah like they hit their stride so well and just like they like a multi-part series where it was like uh cartman wanted the we uh any fro he goes to the future well there was the one where he wanted the ds for uh grand theft auto chinatown wars and he goes to the future and it's like there's no more religion but there's like the atheists league and the atheists federation and they hate each other or something like that they always have like stuff like there's several the make love not warcraft episode oh my god i watched that episode while playing warcraft oh that was back when i was into playing world of warcraft and i remember i was watching it i had like the head set up and everything with the entire guild I was playing with.

And we were all watching it while playing World of Warcraft. And we were all laughing our asses off. It was so good. Like, and I feel like I, yeah, I mean, South Park is great. The issue isn't so much with the content as it is, some of the people that watch it that don't understand the point, with like Cartman always like yelling like, "'Oh, you fat fucking Jew." He's a bad character not to be emulated,

but some people took, you know, like the really like racist stuff. Well, that's the issue probably when a bunch of little kids little kids watch it and they yeah they don't understand so they just start repeating what cartman says yeah yeah because that's the tough thing with creating a character that's supposed to be unlikable is that it's tough that it does put that stuff out in the world yeah it's the same kind of thing with always sunny like and you and the weird thing is dude like there is a section of people that watch Always Sunny

and they are not good people. Oh my God. Dude, I went into, because I watched, and this is getting off track, but I watched, I was catching up on Always Sunny and I watched the Mac Finds His Pride episode

where they do that beautiful dance number. And I went to the reviews on imdb and was like reading some like the one star reviews and i was like holy crap there are just a lot of really bad people dude there were people there were people who thought the colbert rapport was actually a conservative show yeah because usually a lot of shows when they have like that shitty person show up they usually come and go pretty fast or they are very clearly losing in every way character yeah it's a fine line to walk and yeah like but i mean like south park they just had so many good so many good things about it i think the one thing that kind of like broke my my love for

it a little bit was when somebody pointed out they're like oh south park's point of view is just that everything everything new sucks. Oh. And I'm like, yeah, they're kind of right. Like, it's just like, that is kind of the point of view of like, oh, this thing, it sucks. Yeah. It sucks.

I feel like also a lot of, and I'm going to use the term faux intellectual. If you just take the stance of I hate everything everything and I'm gonna make fun of everything, that's not a free pass necessarily to just say whatever you want and be smart because you hate everything. But that is what a lot of shows take on. It's what a lot of people take on too. They try to have that commentary.

Oh, I hate everything, so it's fine. I'm smart because I hate everything and everything's bad. It's kind of like, all right, man, like, okay. Shane, number four. All right, number four. I'm going to go back to my childhood and I'm going to go to the things that made me laugh the hardest when I was a little kid and what I think got the ball rolling.

And it's a tie because I would switch between two different channels when I was a little kid. I would switch between Nickelodeon and Cartoon Network. And there were two shows that I essentially was always waiting for and wanted to watch. And if they were on, I'm watching it no matter what. And those shows are Johnny Bravo and All That. Johnny Bravo. Oh yeah, All That.

Johnny Bravo was my poop, dude. Johnny Bravo was so good. My poop, dude. That came from your slogan. It was probably my first impression. I wanted to like, I was always trying to do the voice. I loved that it was just like, here's, I think the character of someone who thinks they're awesome, even though they're a complete loser, is still my favorite character type.

And I do it all the time. I love that trope. And Johnny Bravo sums it up so perfectly. And he's such a – the way they made him such a dumbass is so great. I still quote it sometimes. Some of my favorite quotes are – there was like, oh, it's like, yeah, we got to go in 45 minutes. He's like, 45 minutes. That's almost 46 minutes. And I was just like, that's so dumb. And it's so dumb. And I just love stuff like that. And then all that was just ridiculous.

Yeah, dude, I forgot about them. It was so good, especially that first iteration was incredible. And I mean, the cast was nuts. I mean, Amanda Bynes and Kenan Thompson and so many others that were so good. Obviously, I'm sure if I rewatched it now, it's designed for little kids. I would think it's dumb. That's why I got so mad when all that came back recently. And people were like, this is nowhere near as good as the original. I'm like, you're 30 years old now. Of course, it's not as funny to you. Yeah. Are you going to find a, you know, Kenan Thompson sitting in a bathtub with a French accent funny? Yeah, exactly. I'm like, stop watching kids shows as an adult and judging it as an adult. I thought it was so great. I think it's, I mean, I say this, I'm a little

biased because I'm so random, but I do wish there was more sketch comedy. And I mean, with TikTok and everything, it is available was more sketch comedy and i mean with tiktok and everything it is available but sketch comedy was just so fun and yeah i think it can be such a good way of like pointing out absurdities in life absolutely i should have had amanda bines on this list man oh man i you know what's crazy is um i guess the last run of it was Sam and Cat. But so there's Sam and Cat was with Jeanette McCurdy and Ariana Grande. Sam and Cat is technically a spinoff of all that

because Sam and Cat is a spinoff of iCarly because Jeanette McCurdy, I don't know if it's the same character, but like they essentially took- It's Victoria's iCarly put together. Right, but okay, so let's let's then let's just go back one and say i carly is a spinoff of all that because i carly had um miranda cosgrove who was in drake and josh drake and josh was a spinoff of amanda of the amanda

show because drake and josh were on the amanda show and the amanda show is a spinoff of all that because they took literally Dan Schneider from all that would just take an actor from that show and make a new show about them and that's what he did for over 20 years and it worked so all that was like the UCB of Nickelodeon I guess so

that's crazy dude Courtney number four my number four and it's kind of similar to Shane's of back to my younger years of what I always watched. Smosh. Fucking Smosh, baby, dude. I sketch comedy.

Like I have a sketch on my old YouTube channel called Panda that is definitely because I was watching a lot of Smosh and just really wanted to make a sketch with my friends. It was not a sketch at all. It was literally like the weirdest thing where I was just like, oh my God, we have Panda Express and we're so excited. I watched Smosh so much. I remember my friend Marissa and I would come home from school. I would make us a special snack of ritz crackers ham cheddar cheese uh and a flavor blasted goldfish and we would do our homework but we would watch we would alternate between watching smosh sketches and also recording ourselves on the laptop webcam just being dumb

yeah and i guess i got to the point where i've said this so many times, I feel like, but where I would, I would, I found the smosh.com and would watch all the BTS because I love the BTS just as much, if not more than the sketches themselves, because I was also just so interested in the world of like making this stuff. So it just blew my mind to like see you guys clearly successful and making these silly sketches and like i still have it etched in my memory like i think it's if video games were real one of ian going and i can't tell you the first time i heard you do that in real life i went because it was so crazy to me and it's like yeah, yeah, I mean, it was years and years of that. I didn't watch you guys for a long time. And I started watching you a little bit again,

when Olivia joined, because I like we, I would hang out with her in LA at that one studio where Viners would hang out and she was like, guys, I'm auditioning for Smosh and these bits I'm going to do. And we all thought it was super funny, even though she was just like, it was, she was the same person that she is today during try not to laugh but when she joined I was like cool and I started watching him again but yeah it was I was I'd very much like grown from it but it felt so cool to like that now be a part of it and I feel like we've kind of aged it up in a way and now we're like it's stuff that we find funny not just what defy claimed is 14 year olds just figuring life out and that's that was their interpretation of it we never i mean we never

we never made anything specifically no it was it was raunchy humor but for young people like it's it was kind of almost on that plane of south park where it's like this is very young looking but it's fucking raunchy. I mean, South Park was a big, was a big influence for me. So yeah, there was a lot of violence,

a lot of blood, a lot of, I mean, it was just all absurd. It was like cartoonish absurdity. Yeah. A lot of blood, a lot of boobs.

Yep. Yeah. South Park had a big, had a big part in, in shaping. Makes sense. So in a way, South Park inspired me as well.

No, I can't have this list and act like smosh didn't influence me before i started working here so good good now my job is i'm even more secure yeah shane so it better be on your list too bitch i need to go back in time yeah alright Ian number three I literally just put this on here as we were talking

SNL I mean yeah I think SNL inspired all that right I mean SNL was the first televised

well no it wasn't the first televised sketch comedy but like it was just the first time it became nationally huge yeah it was the first like

cultural hit it also was like counterculture-y like sketch comedy never had like really gone for the throat like it did very quickly yeah i mean those 70s ones like i think the first one had george carlin as the host like the first episode so yeah yeah and it was just him doing stand-up like going hard like they went for it yeah the first the first season of saturday night live is nothing like the saturday night live that we grew up on like it was insane and it was it was just counterculture it was like a way of saying like oh fuck you like we're because you know it was in time of like you know you had your you had the suits and then you had the hippies yeah and it was it was very much like their way of standing up to holding up a mirror to society that's what's funny when people are like i hate

snl it's so political now i'm like it's always been political it It literally always has been. You've been more involved in it, I guess, when you say that. Yeah, I mean, for me, I mean, like I said, I didn't have cable growing up. So when I was old enough, like that was one of the things that I looked forward to on Saturday night was I was able to like stay up late

and watch Saturday Night Live. And I would go to the Blockbuster and I would go to the Blockbuster and I would and I would rent and I would rent uh the best of oh yeah nice we have the best of Will Ferrell one in my house they're so good the best of like Tim Robbins Chris Kattan was one of my favorites Chris Kattan Will Ferrell I and I grew up in the the Will Ferrell Daryl Hammond Chris Kattan Tina Fey Amy Poehler kind of like era it's a good era so that's a good era that I know and that I thought was funny but obviously at that even at that time of course there's people that were like, eh. No, this doesn't compare to the 80s.

And people in the 80s, like, people hated the 80s one. Like, everyone loved the very first Saturday Night Live. And then when the second season of Saturday Night Live came out, well, it was done without, what's his face? The guy that runs it. The guy who owns SNL? Yeah. Oh, this is is gonna bug me

wow I reference him all the time and I just can't think of it right now who's the creator of SNL I know he's not necessarily the creator but Lorne Michaels Lorne so he left after the first one

I think and then a different person came in and people destroyed her. Like they said that she's responsible for like all of it being bad. And like, it was all terrible. Like the second season of Saturday Night Live. What was her name? Sorry. Sorry.

I don't remember her name, but she didn't last. Like he came back and then they like reorganized it and whatever. Jeez. Yeah. Anyway, Saturday Night Live, whether you like it or hate it, it changed so many generations with comedy.

Oh, dude. It's had so many like insanely good casts. It's also partially what got Lonely Island to be so fricking huge because they were like the SNL digital shorts all the time. Yeah. I mean, I think for a short amount of time, you know, when we started making YouTube videos,

like that was an aspiration. That sounded like a dream to- I mean, that's how I've explained Smosh as kind of like a stepping stone for like, because back when Defy was all about young teens and teens figuring themselves out, I was like, well, this is kind of a way of introducing those young viewers

to sketch comedy in this format of like, so then we eventually lead those people to then watch shows like SNL, you know, like we are stepping stone. Yeah. I, I, that's,

yeah, I've always kind of felt like Smosh was never, was never on the same, same level as Saturday. No, not quite. Not, not the same.

Like Smosh live was dope viewer audience. Smosh live was dope, but it was obviously above like Nickelodeon. Well, dope. Number three. So my number three, this is actually very specific. All right. So in the late 90s, Family Guy

started and it got canceled after a few seasons. And there was this long period of time, or not that long, but this period of time where Family Guy was not on the air, but the DVD box sets for it were available for the first, I think it was the first five seasons. And my brother got them and he was like,

"'Hey, you would think this is really funny. "'You should watch this.'" I was like 11 at the time. Oh, perfect. 10 or 11. I watched the shit out of those box sets. I watched the first four seasons of Family Guy, I watched over and over and over again. And I, until that point, had never laughed so hard.

And I didn't even understand a lot of the jokes. What I think Family Guy really taught me was timing. The timing on that show was so unique, especially for then. Like, you never had the like stuttering or pausing that was in Family Guy. You never saw that in other type of sketch comedy or in comedic shows. It's strange to say that it's revolutionary, but Stewie doing his whole like, so you're going to write that novel? You going to put in those nice characters? You going to have that climax step?'re gonna do that like yeah there you can't find a

joke told like that yeah in a show before that or in or especially not in animated i mean and and i understand like simpsons obviously started it all but the way they would sometimes tell jokes, I just thought was so good. And also it was the rapid fire nature, similar to like internet comedy and Adult Swim stuff. A joke cannot be funny, like the actual context of the joke and the subject matter. But if you give the right type of pausing or spacing. Yeah, the art of a pregnant pause.

Yeah. I mean, so many characters and so many jokes I've done on Try Not to Laugh are not funny jokes at all. I just, I'm just like, how will I tell this is all that matters. Timing helps. Number three. Number three. I like thought of another one.

So I guess he'll have to be an honorable mention, but whatever. My number three is Bo Burnham a nice excellent human being i think that like he's obviously a comedian his shows were stand-up comedy but they've kind of evolved to being like honestly like a one-man show but something that he taught me was like obviously he's funny but then he would like hit you with like a message that would just punch you in the gut. Like he would all of a sudden just have this, this like deeper meaning to his songs or, or,

or just like, if you've ever been to a Bo Burnham show, you know what I mean? But like his specials definitely touch on it. Um, then he had that Zach stone is going to be famous tv show that lasted for a season yeah how was that it was it was okay like if it were to come out this year i think it would it might do better than it did back then because like it was way ahead of its time because like now we're

in this age where like internet influencers and people trying to be famous on the internet is literally everyone but yeah like he his songs and, obviously a lot of the people I've been influenced, Liam Cullifolvin, Lonely Island, they have this article of like using music and I love music. It's been a huge part of my life growing up. Helped me like find who I was as a teenager. So when you have someone who's funny and you love comedy and then uses that of your favorite thing to also just like really make you feel. And like it's crazy in comedy when all of a sudden when they hit you with something that makes you feel something, it like hits you that much harder. And because you aren't expecting it.

You aren't expecting to be like, oh, my heart. What the fuck? Like and he does that, dude. I love it. I love it so much. When I first saw his special words words words my brain was never the same again blew my mind and i didn't even know he was on youtube i didn't know he existed yeah but then i that's after that i did yeah i mean he's he's one of i mean he was probably the

first like aside from lonely island he was probably the first like youtube success story he had plenty of success on youtube he could have he could have stayed on youtube and just continued doing funny songs but he was like no like i want to be a you know a real comedian and do shows and and work on material that i then do for a special. And then he went out and fucking did it. And he was really fucking cool. He was on Vine too. He just shows up every now and then

and just crushes the industry. I'm convinced that when he left Vine, that's when Vine went to shit. Cause he left, he just had to be peaced out like a few years in. I'm convinced that's why. I have no doubt that he's probably a very sad person. Cause being that smart.

He carries a lot on his shoulders. Being that smart has got to be a bummer. If you've ever listened to a podcast with him, like, yeah, I mean, he, I think he kind of has like the curse of knowledge. Yeah. You know? Yeah. But yeah, I feel like I've heard someone talk about like on a podcast somewhere or an interview

that like he mentions channels like Smosh, but he didn't like mention our name specifically. Right. But like how he kind of like really disliked everything that they're about. He really appreciates somebody that works on material, that like works on it for a good amount of time and then put in there yeah and then puts it out into the world where i mean his style doesn't come out every five years yeah yeah so that doesn't exactly work on youtube like you have to be

consistent with your content you can't you can't work on something for two years and put it out well there's also a difference between like people who are an individual and they only have to worry about paying their own bills. And when you work with like a big team and everyone, you have to put out content in order for everyone to keep, you know, staying afloat. Well, and also he's just a really funny person. So, yeah, there's probably stuff that he just doesn't like. Yeah. And that probably makes him angry. I'm sure.

Yeah, I don't hold anything against Beau if he doesn't. But didn't he invite you to the premiere of 8th grade? Remember we couldn't go because of VidCon? Yeah. Oh. Yeah. My dream. I have a feeling Beau Burnham doesn't like hate much.

I think he's just, I think it's more like he has a way of going about things. Yeah. All right. Shall we move on? Yeah. Yeah. Ian, number two.

Number two. Good. So this is kind of close. I mean, I'm ballparking what Shane already did, but I made it kind of a little bit more specific, but not quite. It's the same general like internet, old internet. I wrote, on here I wrote Newgrounds cartoons,

like flash cartoons. Yeah, Newgrounds, man. But it goes beyond Newgrounds. It's like, you know, albino black sheep and E-bombs. You know, obviously this is before YouTube. And what people were creating was flash animations, just like little cartoons. They were so funny.

So good. Like obviously Homestar Runner was a thing. Homestar Runner! Which only resonates to like a very specific like group of people that existed on the internet during that time those first ego raptor flash animations are still my favorite thing he's ever done the ninja gaiden one oh my god there's this creator uh ed atlin and he made like several like little little cartoon series but he made this one series that was ongoing called um space tree the space tree in space which was incredible and that was like that was

like heavily inspirational for uh both anthony and myself when we were starting to create sketches so big ups big ups to ed there there was a lot of those series that you just find an animated series online and you would just watch all of it. And there was one that we can cut this if we want, but there was one that I thought was so funny back then and it was called House of Cosby's and it was about a guy

who cloned Bill Cosby and had a million and every clone would be a different Cosby. So it'd be like, this one's dancing Cosby and this one's science Cosby. Dude, that one was crazy. And it was ridiculous. And I didn't know until like recently

that that was Justin Roiland. I had no clue. I was obsessed with it. And I look back and I'm like, oh, it was totally Rick and Morty style comedy. But this is back in like 2005. I mean, this was forever ago. Dude, the fricking, style comedy but this is back in like 2005 yeah i mean this was forever ago dude the freaking uh that well i guess it wasn't really on the internet first but that's where i saw it with uh the

rejected cartoon oh yeah so good i feel like it's way familiar you know rick and morty probably is big yes don hertzfeld don hertzfeld man, Courtney, you need to watch it. I think I have. It's just not quite coming to mind. It's an Oscar level short. It's so perfect. You've definitely seen it. It sounds like those things are ringing a bell

when you sing. They're like, I am a banana. Oh, yeah, I've definitely seen them. I just can't remember it in my head right now. Those sounds sound familiar. So good, so good. All right, my number two. Number two.

So my number two, I put my family. I was gonna have my family. Literally my number five was my family until I switched it to balloon shop. Damn, I didn't even think of that. I, wow, damn. Okay, go, go, go. My family, like laughing is such a big component

in my family. Telling jokes is just such a, it's such our instinct. My grandma and papa, my mom's parents, I think they're probably the like what started it off. My grandpa wasn't funny. He wasn't a funny guy. He wouldn't tell jokes. He would tell jokes,

but they would be the dumbest jokes you've ever heard. But what made him so great is he was like the best audience you could ever get. He was constantly laughing. He just thought everything was funny. If you told a joke, he would just be laughing. Best thing about my grandfather is I would legitimately, when I was staying with them over the summers, I would come down to the basement and there's some times where he would watch Tom and Jerry himself, by himself, he could watch it for hours and he'd be dying laughing at Tom and Jerry. Like dying laughing. That's so cute. My grandma though was really funny.

She just would have that really sharp wit, like would say really sarcastic things. I think even when she got – when her cancer came back and they were like, yeah, you've got a couple months to live. I think she was even like – as my mom and her were walking out to the parking lot, I forget what she said. She made some like some dark joke. And it was so funny that my mom and her just burst out to the parking lot. I forget what she said. She made some like some dark joke. And it was so funny that my mom and her just burst out laughing. Like that was her, that was just her way of handling everything. And so my brothers are that way. I'm that way. And who are probably like, just as a kid that I saw and was inspired by the most is my uncles are really funny. My uncle Kelly does a ton of accents and impressions.

And my uncle Danny is really can make really funny facial expressions. And so when we're all together, they would end up like entertaining. And they would essentially be doing like a family version of stand up. Try not to laugh. Everyone was just watching. Give them some props and film it. Yeah, they'd probably be really great. They're really funny guys.

Like there's a different world where I think they could have had us. If they'd have been a sketch duo, they would have gone far. We should definitely send you with a couple cameras and do a top family reunion. Try not to laugh. Oh God.

Bro. But yeah, my family in general, just a lot of really funny people i totally get that i can relate like my family especially when my dad got remarried uh we had these two new step siblings they were actually named courtney and conrad so at the time we had two courtneys and two conrads but they were off the walls, crazy funny. And my sister, Carrie, was already friends with Courtney at the time. And like our family, like just unhinged,

especially with the divorce, obviously unhinged just in a way, but we all love the same funny stuff. We all watched Napoleon Dynamite 3 million times. Like, so I totally relate to just being silly, like specifically my sister Carrie too. All right, Courtney, number two. Number two.

My number two is Lonely Island. So we can kind of breeze through this, but like, yeah, I mean, when I was super obsessed with SNL, they blew my mind and I absorbed everything that they had on their YouTube channel. I listened to all their albums all the time, even the weird stuff that nobody knows. Wait, do you know about the Party Andersons? Party Andersons. Not a real fan. It's possible I've watched them, but I...

You are not a real fan. Hello, don't be rude. I literally forget things. So please don't be mean. It's possible I've watched them and just haven't and can't recall them. But Awesome Town was like so great to me they had they had castaways which is funny because it's very similar to that one smosh sketch that you guys had remember when you're stranded on the beach yeah did we rip it off i don't know probably um but yeah you know, using music and just like making comedy cool.

It's so awesome. Yorma, I used to like be obsessed with Yorma because I thought he was the cutest. But honestly, I think Adam's, Andy Sandberg, I almost said Adam Sandler. Andy Sandberg has influenced like every like part of my being. I feel like he was like just the coolest person in the world to me his acting and movies like hot rod is one of the it's a top five movie for me for sure so good um i just re-watched it finally it's so good it holds up it's funny they're the best they're just the best and i hope to see them still keep doing dope shit because they've been

kind of quiet for a while but But I'm hoping a new album. I want a new album so bad. They keep me going. Yeah, the Lonely Island guys did a, they had this fake music group called the Party Andersons. I don't- It rings a bell.

I think they only made like a couple songs, but they did one song that's just about doing cocaine. Nice. Which they lifted a bunch of lyrics from that and put it into the Bash Bros experience. Oh, great. What was that thing called? Was it called the Bash Bros experience?

Something like that? Something like that. That Netflix anthology thing. That Netflix special. That was crazy. Mike Diva did all of that. Yeah, that was dope. All right.

Finally, on to number one. Number one. Do we want to- Oh, actually, let's do our honorable mentions. Yeah, you can just quickly go by the honorable mentions. Amanda Bynes, for sure. Michael Cera. Hmm, interesting.

That's an interesting one. Him just as an actor and like everything he's done, like his comedic timing and his delivery is so unique. For me, like Always Sunny, when I was talking about it, I was like, Oh yeah, shit. Like always sunny is incredible.

I think they're on the same vein of like the, the, it's just the dialogue is just so snappy, which is why I really enjoy letter Kenny as well. Uh, Simpsons. I mean, I,

I grew up watching the Simpsons. It was again, one of the only sort of kind of raunchy things I was allowed to watch. I have here Adult Swim, Mad TV, and Jim Carrey. Yeah. Jim Carrey was just a huge one. Absolutely.

Dude, Jim Carrey was so good physically that I remember Mari was telling me that her mom loved watching Jim Carrey and she didn't even know what he was saying. Yeah. But he was just so physically funny that it just crossed language barriers. He's probably the most unique actor

to be able to say lines as wacky as he does and it still comes across genuine. All right, you wanna go to number one? Finally, number one? Finally. Number one. I gotta give it to Space Balls, man. Wow. Space Balls. Space Balls. Okay.

Whoa. That came out of left field. Space Balls. Did it? Yeah, I wasn't expecting Space Balls. I wasn't expecting Space Balls. It's so good. And the funny thing is like as a kid, it's the only Mel Brooks movie that I had seen. I think later on I saw Robin Hoodman in tights,

but Spaceballs was like the one that I saw. I don't even know if I saw Star Wars at that point, but I understood all the references because it was so like just in the culture. Just like making fun of Star Wars and all like the fourth wall breaks and everything i had never seen that before like like the the part where they're like where they're like uh they're trying to find out where they where they crashed and they're like oh i know how we could do this bring me a copy of space balls the movie and then they pull the movie out

and they fast forward to the part oh yeah the movie but then they pull the movie out and they fast forward to the part where they're in the movie, but then they stop the movie at the exact time that they're in right now. I just love that. Dude, there's so many good bits in that movie. Obviously, some of the stuff hasn't aged great. Most movies like that don't.

But holy crap, dude. Well, with Mel Brooks, they say a million jokes a minute so some are gonna age well and some are not but every single one of those mel brooks movies has jokes that are still laugh out loud funny and obviously like some of the things when i was a kid i didn't understand and then and then when i got older i was like oh okay that's funny yeah man that's probably me with like airplane and blazing saddles and everything great stuff i love i like okay another another honorable mention is charlie's angels the old the the 90s era movie because because it's comedy because those those those first two it's like

comedy bad action and i love it because it's so horny but there's something and it's a common theme and all my inspirations is comedy but make it cool that's what it is man is that why greece too is good no is that why xanadu is good they're not funny at all but um okay sorry i just want to point out real quick um how good this new smosh shirt matches with the Smosh sweatpants. Really? Whoa. I never made that connection. It's pretty good.

That's pretty cute. That's a good combo. Teal matches right there. Yeah. For those that can't see, Ian is showing off the sweatpants and the shirt. The new groovy line. The new groovy line. Yeah, the new groovy line. The new groovy line. Yeah, the new groovy line.

The retro groovy line. Matches excellently with the floral Smosh pants. Yeah, and you can get it at Smosh.com. You got it. All right. Shane. Shane. My number one was the only one that I knew for sure

where it was going to be. So my number one is SNL, but it is very specifically two cast members on SNL. Oh God, here we go. It's Phil Hartman and Chris Farley. Okay. They are hands down my favorite.

I laugh just seeing them on camera. And it's interesting because they're both very opposite styles. Phil Hartman, his whole thing was always being contained. It was always about keeping calm. You know, it's always, now I'm not here to come down on you or anything. And they're just like his caveman lawyer thing. There's so many bits that I do that are essentially caveman lawyer, but just a different costume where it's just like, he's dressed as a caveman, he looks ridiculous,

but he comes out and he's just like, ladies and gentlemen of the jury, I'm just a caveman. Your technology frightens and scares me. Like, I just love the way he delivers everything. Oh yeah, he's in Jingle All the Way. And then Chris Farr, that's, yes. Oh, that famous actor from that great Oscar- From Jingle All the Way. Sorry, from that great Oscar-nominated movie.

And dude, his fiber, what's the fiber cereal commercial? Fibernol or what is it? Colon Blow. Oh, God. It's just a commercial for him advertising a cereal called Colon Blow, and it's so good. And Troy McClure was like one of the best characters in the simpsons and see i never watched the simpsons so i don't that phil hartman's all over the place like he was just so so good um and then chris farley i mean it's the opposite chris farley

would always always go 150 in a sketch and i know sometimes it might have been drugs, but most of the time, but it was so fun to watch him because it was always just there was so much energy there. I would say the you know, the motivational speaker sketch on SNL is probably like just one of the most well known ones. And on paper, it's a really funny sketch. But it would have it's not like on paper, it's not funnier than a lot of other sketches. Chris Farley brought so much energy to that sketch that it took it to another level. And you saw that with everything that he did. He would show up in movies throughout the 90s.

Just about every Adam Sandler has Chris Farley in it for like five minutes. And it's always the best five minutes of the movie. Just because he shows up and he's the bus driver in Billy Madison. And it's just immediately so funny. So you're telling me your favorite part of Adam Sandler movies isn't Rob Schneider showing up as different races in every movie? No, it's not Rob Schneider showing up as different races. It's Chris Farley always showing up as a pissed off guy.

He's just Chris Farley plays a pissed off man in every single one of those movies. And it's always great. I love him. I love those two actors so much. And I love like SNL in general. There's a million like Dana Carvey, Mike Myers, Sherry Oteri, like there's a million people

that I love from that era. But specifically those two, I think anytime you watch one of my jokes in Try Not To Laugh, you can find an element of Phil Hartman or Chris Farley in it. There's always something in how I tell a joke that is literally their

voices in my head helping say the joke. Hell to the yeah. Courtney, finally number one. Thank you the yeah. Courtney, finally, number one. Thank you. I actually was, I knew this person was the first one I thought of, and I was so certain that they were my number one. They've always been there.

It's in my core. I still admire them today. Kristen Wiig. Oh. Obviously watched a lot of SNL. Her commitment and like just she's not afraid to just be ugly and just go all the way weird. Like that one sketch like, and I'm Denise. So she's like that fourth sister. Just that type of person. God, I don't know. It's like that type of like weird humor that

makes you uncomfortable. Like for a long time when I first got to know someone and I knew I liked them, I wanted to be weird and funny and just like make them have to be uncomfortable with me to the point where it will get them comfortable with me. I don't know. How'd that work out for you? I've had my heart broken a lot of times. You know what I think it is with Kristen Wiig? Is there such an element of silliness?

Like it's silly I mean it's funny because on my little resume or whatever when I auditioned for Smosh in my description was something I took pride in was unafraid to be ugly which is interesting because I feel like along over the years I got super insecure about my skin and kind of in a way was afraid in a certain way so dude sexual son what the fuck was that? Just like being those weird characters, Joey Bananas, is that what you guys called him? That first time that you guys ever put me

in that curly brown wig and a pencil stash just like brought me to life in a way I'd never like really realized before. And she is incredible. She's a powerhouse of a human, has done so many different kinds of content like in the last decade alone. The fact that she's in the new wonder woman movie coming out like i'm really excited yeah she's in mcgruber isn't she yes she's she's also like a huge part of like a

lot of my favorite movies of all time adventureland whip it all right bridesmaids one of the best female comedies of all time she's so well versed and god when she has that one character the like the the jazz girl who's turned off the lights on snl she was a queen she's a she's a literal comedy queen the the one upper character that she does where she's just like actually i know oprah and she's my best friend and actually i'm actually actually she was so good at original characters she's probably like, actually, I know Oprah and she's my best friend. Actually, I really like her. She was so good at original characters. She's probably, I would say of all of SNL,

she is the best that they've had at original characters because she had like a few. There's a lot of famous SNL people who it's like, oh, they did that one character that's so good. Kristen Wiig had like five. She had Target Lady. She had the one upper character. She had the weird hands like

she would always bring to life more things she had tons man I could impersonate all of those she had tons it was great and like hers were really different like Will Ferrell had a lot but Will Ferrell's were always a version of Will Ferrell cause Will Ferrell just as himself

was so funny but Kristen Wiig like changed I definitely held her close to my heart like for as just as himself was so funny, but Kristen Wiig like changed. I definitely held her close to my heart like for as long as I was just dying and dreaming to like be a part of something, that was the level of like, man, if I could just at least feel like her, that'd be awesome, you know? Well, this was a very wonderful list. Yeah. It's crazy how like we all came from very different lives, didn't meet each other till mid-20s or early like i was 18 when i met you guys we all have very similar things that brought us up like even monty python all those things i mean they're very popular things granted but it's cool

that ultimately we have very similar tastes and yeah for those listening or watching if you haven't seen or checked out a lot of these people, I seriously recommend it. It's going to help your life. Yes. Yee. Oh, and just when you thought this whole train had come to a stop, toot, toot, guess what? No, we got one more stop. And that stop is the Shoot Dude station. Shoot Dude.

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This one is from Taylor. She starts with all caps. All right. When I was about 12 to 13, my family and I went to this museum and they have a section based on Chinese architecture. And we stopped to look at this big piece resembling a Chinese imperial palace building. We're all looking at it. It's big and red with yellow roof tiles. And it's beautiful. And I'm looking at it and I'm wondering

what exactly it is. So I turned to my family, dead ass serious expression on my face. And I ask, is this the Great Wall of China? Keep in mind, I'm like 12 to 13. So I'm still a big dumbass. My entire family starts laughing at me. And I'm sitting there like, huh? I asked a genuine question. And then my sister goes, no, you idiot. The Great Wall of china is in china oh my goodness

needless to say i was incredibly embarrassed and still to this day they bring it up constantly oh when the whole family gets together that's sad that's a sad shoot dude i'm. That's a sad shoot, dude. I'm sorry, bud. That's a bummer shoot, dude. That's a bummer shoot. Can I just say, I relate to this so hard. Growing up, and still sometimes, I'm the queen of dumb questions. I remember in middle school, in middle school, I was like, do we have to arrest the descendants of John Wilkes Booth because he killed Abraham Lincoln? So is his great-great great grandkids under arrest? And they're like, no,

no. I ask these stupid questions all the time. All the time. So I really, and it's okay. It's okay. Sometimes we just don't know stuff. And sometimes people just love to laugh at people

because they feel smarter. We shouldn't ever punish people for asking a question. I mean, if you ask a dumb ass question, I might make a joke about it. We can laugh lovingly. But I don't think anyone should feel ashamed of asking a question. That's something that I've had to get better at

is accepting that I don't know everything. Well, yeah, fear of asking dumb questions leads to not asking questions, which is not good. That's worse. Yeah. I told myself when I was young, because I felt like I was asking stupid questions and people would laugh at me and not in a loving way.

I told myself that I would say that there's no such thing as dumb questions. Because yeah, it sucks. You just want to know. Sometimes you got to push through that. Yeah. Ask the dumb question. Yeah, man. Just ask it.

Have that safe space of people. That person now knows that the Great Wall of China is in China. Otherwise, they would have told somebody else that they went and saw the Great Wall of China. They would have lived their whole life thinking the Great Wall of China could be anywhere. Yeah. So it's a good thing they asked. And also though, let's be fair. There's some things out there in the world that are confusing as shit like that.

Like there's a Kansas City, the Kansas City Chiefs, the football team, that's Kansas City, Missouri. That's confusing as shit. The London Bridge, not in London anymore. Yeah. Yeah. That's in Arizona, right? I think so.

There's tons of rivers that are like, they're named a specific state river, but most of it is in a different state. Yeah. The Colorado River is in Arizona as well. Yeah. The Grand Canyon is the Colorado. It's confusing. So I get it.

Yeah. I get it. Yeah. It's okay. People be, people, it's okay. Sex in the city. It wasn't sex in people, it's okay. Sex in the city. It wasn't sex in the city. It was for women in the city.

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