✨ Fast approaching 3,500 subscribers! Please click subscribe if you're reading this - it makes a HUGE difference to how we're able to get this show out to more people ✨ It feels like perfect timing that Smosh would put out this video now. We get to dive deep into shortform improv games and look at the similarities and differences from longform improv and why both make us laugh. Plus it's just even more proof of how great the improv skills of the Smosh cast are. Join improv coach Cal Hoffman as they react to and give expert analysis on a selection of improvised games and scenes by Courtney Miller, Chanse McCrary, Angela Giarratana, Tommy Bowe, Trevor Evarts, and Arasha Lalani from Smosh. - Chapters: 0:00 Cold open 0:40 Intro 1:37 Game 1: Party quirks 2:18 What shortform improv means 6:27 Angela and Courtney: contrasting play styles 11:34 Managing your improv instincts 15:45 If this is true, what else is true? 18:47 Speak plainly 21:20 Game 2: Stunt doubles 26:31 Keeping momentum 39:40 My crush 32:25 Minigames 34:10 Outro - Watch Smosh Pit Theater without interruptions: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=75RsBRrFYz8 - Subscribe to Smosh Pit: @smoshpit - Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/comicalhoffman/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@comicalhoffman - Cal Hoffman is a standup, improv, and sketch comedian who first stepped into comedy as a pre-teen in the early 2000s. Today, they teach, coach, and perform improv in the London Harold team Biff It, alongside their standup and online sketch career. - Copyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for "fair use" for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. Non-profit, educational, or personal use tips the balance in favor of fair use.
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MORE SMOSH, I suggest the smosh pit video about their reenactment of angela's chats
Agreeing with the Teletubbies Reunion suggestion! But also, I would love to hear what you think about the Funeral Roasts they used to do. Damien’s roast in particular is pretty brutal but he’s made it clear that it made him feel very seen by the rest of the cast and crew. Tommy shines as the person who always reads the will of the person getting roasted!
seriously one of my new favorite channels. Love the added chapters too, you're a fantastic teacher <3
Absolutely love Smosh. Was wondering when you'll drop another video. Thanks for this one. I've been waiting 😊.
25:27 “Do you need a spotter?” And then your dog (I presume) pops in was so cute!
It would be interesting to see you look at Most Upsetting Guessing Game from Grouse House/Aunty Donna
The Most Upsetting Guessing Game In The World is a great example of the party quirks game taken to the extreme. the quirks are so esoteric and nonsensical and there's so many layered on each performer. each episode is like 40+ minutes so it'll be hard to react to, but it's definitely worth checking out for this series
RE audio: Thanks to those who commented about myself speaking at the same time as the video. To reassure people, that only happens in the first 30 seconds of the first game. My actual points are spoken over paused video segments, and the double-speaking is only during the setup where nothing particularly is being said by either of us. It's actually like this in all my past videos, but I got something wrong with the audio settings here. It shouldn't affect 99% of the video but I can see from the comments it's too jarring for some even in the few seconds that it's like that, so thanks for letting me know, and I'll do better next time.
Love love love this series ❤️ Thank you for your labor. The last two episodes you and the video you've watched has played simultaneously, and it's been really hard for me to pay attention to either. Would it be possible for you to got back to pausing the video and/or mute it if there's audio that isn't relevant? Your points are why I watch these videos. For me, it's nice to let them breath, rather than giving them as little space as the background video allows. When the video was paused in the first few videos, it gave space for both you and the video to have my full attention, rather than both of you battling for it. I personally prefer that. Keep up the good work! ❤️
i'm so glad they did party quirks in this video, because i love that game so much in general and could never put into words why. so i appreciate your explanations!! it makes so much sense to the point i wonder why i didn't think of it in the first place edit: i do hope you'll do a sfth one too eventually though!! because i love how they do insane verbal clues for each other
u should watch their teletubbies reunion video
just saying even if your videos were an hour plus I'd still watch every minute <3
You gotta do some Whose Line if you haven't already. They're the godfathers of improv as we know it today!
First, these are amazing. I've been in love with improv (as an observer) for so long, and it's actually fascinating to learn the "Why" behind so much of it! Truly brilliant, friend! And two, I would LOVE to see some classic Comedy Bang Bang stuff with Jason Mantzoukis and Andy Daly, or some of Middleditch and Schwartz. Obviously one of those is audio only and one is on Netflix, but I would subscribe to a patreon for that 🥰
holy moly...... i cant watch this unfortunately.... having the voices on the video playing at the same time as you talking was way too overstimulating.
seconding what another commenter said; PLEASE react to the smosh Teletubbies Reunion video! i think it qualifies as long form improv, so it'd be a bit of a change from the other smosh stuff you've done. it's my all time favorite video from them!!
To be fair to Trevor, he was/still is part of Mythical Kitchen. His passion is baking. He didn't get theater training or really any improv training. Smosh just adopted him
I don't know about anyone else but the stunt double game isn't funny at all to me. I find a lot of smosh stuff hilarious but 'you have to do a silly movement' isn't funny to me.
33:32 Doggy! 🐶😊❤
please do more shoot from the hip!! (I was typing this just when you said "You've been asking for it from shoot from the hip" lol)