#23 - Is Anthony Nervous For His Funeral Roast?

Summary

Podcast Summary: Smosh Mouth Episode #23 - "Is Anthony Nervous For His Funeral Roast?"

Introduction

In Episode #23 of "Smosh Mouth," released on December 4, 2023, hosts Shayne Topp (Shane) and Amanda Lehan-Canto (Amanda) welcome special guests Anthony and Courtney to discuss the upcoming live event: Anthony's Funeral Roast. This highly anticipated tentpole event marks a significant milestone for Smosh, celebrating their 18th birthday with an elaborate and spooky-themed roast that promises to be the biggest event of the year.

Planning the Event

Courtney takes the lead as the director of the Funeral Roast, showcasing her growth and creative control within the Smosh team. She shares her experience and the evolution of the event’s concept:

Courtney (00:48): "I knew I wanted a spooky vibe, and I talked to a room of our team, and eventually got to one lane because I was like, oh, but it's like Exorcist or a Slasher or Scream. And it was like, okay, we need to simplify."

Shane and Amanda express their trust and admiration for Courtney’s directorial skills, highlighting the seamless execution of the promo:

Shane (02:36): "Trust me, doing this thing that I'm really good at."

Amanda (03:30): "The promo is truly, like, the coolest, I think, we've ever looked."

Characters and Creative Development

Courtney discusses the creation of unique characters for the roast, emphasizing the blend of spooky Gothic and Victorian aesthetics. She elaborates on how each character was meticulously crafted to fit their roles, enhancing the overall theme:

Courtney (33:13): "We're bringing back the vessel, which originally in Lisa's funeral... She's going to be possessed by chat and reading these roasts about Anthony and about Smosh."

Shane and Amanda delve into the specifics of character development, particularly Courtney’s portrayal of "Bikini Girl," a nod to Smosh’s earlier, more playful content:

Amanda (06:58): "That is the lore. And bikini girl will have a lot to say about that."

Roasting Experience and Dynamics

The hosts reflect on their experiences with past roasts, comparing them to the upcoming event. Courtney shares insights into how the roasts have evolved to maintain a balance between humor and heartfelt appreciation:

Courtney (14:43): "You've done such a good job in keeping the roast something that even though it is roasting, it feels like it comes from a place of like, I see you or I recognize you."

Shane emphasizes the importance of specific, respectful humor over superficial jabs:

Shane (14:35): "I don't think roasts, like, you know, roasts often, like, there's the lowest common denominator ones... I think the best roast is one that is still rooted in respect."

Personal Insights and Growth

Anthony shares his journey with Smosh, highlighting the transformative impact of Courtney’s directorial leadership and the collective growth of the team:

Anthony (08:13): "But now it feels so different because we have the confidence that you will be able to take this and run with it and crush it."

Courtney opens up about overcoming imposter syndrome and embracing her creative vision, thanks to the supportive environment fostered by the Smosh team:

Courtney (40:03): "I felt unstoppable. ... I feel so supported by everybody."

Amanda and Courtney discuss the empowering atmosphere and the infusion of new energy through recent team additions, reinforcing the collaborative spirit of the group:

Amanda (42:52): "There’s a newer connection between you and I. ... It was like, yeah, here we go."

Challenges and Overcoming Fear

The conversation delves into the nervousness surrounding the upcoming Funeral Roast. Anthony candidly discusses his apprehensions about being roasted on potentially sensitive topics but ultimately embraces the experience as a way to address insecurities:

Anthony (54:13): "Anytime that I'm roasted about something, even if it's a little uncomfortable for a moment, I feel actually better about it."

Shane expresses his anxiety about being roasted, particularly by longtime friend Ian, highlighting the deep personal connections within the Smosh team:

Shane (60:46): "What's going through your mind? I'm curious because it's days away."

Community and Support

Throughout the episode, the Smosh team highlights the importance of community support and collaboration. They express gratitude towards their crew and fans, acknowledging the collective effort that makes such large-scale events possible:

Shane (65:02): "I want to send that off to Jeremy and Patrick and also Jeremy."

Amanda (66:25): "Sending kisses. I feel like Selena keeps me on track."

Conclusion and Hype for the Event

As the episode wraps up, the hosts build anticipation for the Funeral Roast, encouraging listeners to purchase tickets and participate in this landmark event:

Shane (69:37): "I really cannot tell you enough. Like, this show is gonna be huge. Get your tickets. You do not want to miss this."

The episode concludes with light-hearted banter and final reminders about the event details:

Shane (63:33): "It's Friday at 6 P.M. and where do you get tickets? Smosh, rip, smosh, rip."

Shane (65:07): "Sending kisses. ... Sending kisses."

Notable Quotes

• Courtney (00:48): "I knew I wanted a spooky vibe..."
• Shane (02:36): "Doing this thing that I'm really good at."
• Amanda (03:30): "The promo is truly, like, the coolest..."
• Shane (14:35): "I think the best roast is one that is still rooted in respect."
• Anthony (08:13): "Now it feels so different because we have the confidence..."
• Courtney (40:03): "I felt unstoppable. ... I feel so supported by everybody."
• Shane (60:46): "What’s going through your mind? I'm curious..."
• Shane (69:37): "This show is gonna be huge. Get your tickets."

Final Thoughts

Episode #23 of "Smosh Mouth" offers an engaging and heartfelt glimpse into the planning and anticipation surrounding Anthony's Funeral Roast. Through candid conversations and shared experiences, the Smosh team highlights their growth, creative evolution, and the strong bonds that drive their collaborative success. This episode not only builds excitement for the upcoming event but also celebrates the enduring friendship and comedic spirit that have defined Smosh for 18 years.

Transcript

[Shane]

Hello, and welcome to Smoshmouth. I'm Shane.

[Amanda]

And I'm Amanda. And we have some very special guests with us, Anthony and Courtney.

[Courtney]

Yay.

[Shane]

That's right. And there is a reason they're here, and that is because this Friday is Anthony's funeral, our big live show. It's the biggest event of the year, and we've had some big events this year, so.

[Anthony]

And that is directed by Courtney.

[Courtney]

Yay.

[Anthony]

Yeah. Is this your first, like, big tentpole project that you've completely been in charge of?

[Courtney]

Like, this? I think, 100%.

[Anthony]

Yeah.

[Courtney]

I want to call, like, that promo that we put out, like, my real directorial debut, but, like, my real, real one was every TikTok ever.

[Shane]

Yes.

[Courtney]

But, yeah, it's been really cool. The day we're recording, this is, first of all, the day we're celebrating Smosh's 18th birthday.

[Amanda]

Yay. That's insane legal.

[Courtney]

So we just finished editing the promo, and you watched it, and I was like, what is he thinking?

[Shane]

It's so good.

[Anthony]

It's so good. And that concept was pretty much entirely crafted by you, right?

[Courtney]

Pretty much. I knew I wanted a spooky vibe, and I talked to a room of our team, and, like, eventually got to one lane, because I was like, oh, but it's like, Exorcist or, like, a Slasher or, like, Scream. And it was like, okay, we need to simplify.

[Amanda]

Wait, so what made you think. What made you think you wanted it very spooky? Like, what was your first idea of it?

[Anthony]

Because the other funeral roasts have been just kind of like the same theme each time, right? Yeah.

[Courtney]

Yeah. We were always careful not to lean into the, like, spooky funeral cemetery vibes too much. But originally. Originally, the show was going to happen a little bit earlier in the year.

[Anthony]

A little closer to another holiday.

[Courtney]

Yeah. Until a couple of boys decided they wanted to do food battle 2023.

[Amanda]

Oopsies.

[Anthony]

Yeah. We were gonna have so many things to promote at once if we were trying to put it out around the same time.

[Courtney]

No. This has been the craziest two months, I'd say, ever.

[Anthony]

Yeah.

[Courtney]

I feel bad. Cause, like, I remember you talking about how back at Defy, you and Ian were so miserable because you're so busy doing so much stuff, so many projects, and here. Here you are.

[Anthony]

Yeah. But it's so different because we have the confidence that you will be able to take this and run with it and crush it and back in the defined. Oh, come on.

[Amanda]

Why don't you trust me?

[Anthony]

You're very trustworthy And, I mean, if you've seen any of the stuff that you've done, you would know why we trust you.

[Shane]

Yeah. Cause, Courtney, you've directed all of the funerals. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Amanda]

You've directed all of the funerals, and you did the promo like you're a boss.

[Shane]

Why?

[Anthony]

Trust me, doing this thing that I'm really good at.

[Courtney]

It's really cool. This one is like, truly a whole new level. It's, like, completely leveled up like this. Costumes, the sets, the roast.

[Anthony]

Well, it's a ticketed event this time, so, I mean, I know you did a ticket event for Ian's, but. But this is. We're. We're leveling it up in every way.

[Shane]

This one's going to be huge. I think this is the first time we just didn't. We didn't have the. I mean, I don't know. We're in a place now where we can really go full force with this, since we're, you know. You know, Smosh is its own entity.

[Anthony]

We're independent. We're like. We're putting as much money as it needs to have.

[Shane]

We don't have to get the approval from anyone. And so we can commit as much as we want to this. And this is going to be the biggest event we've ever done.

[Anthony]

Yes.

[Shane]

I mean, it's looking like nothing else we've ever done.

[Amanda]

I mean, the promo.

[Shane]

The promo is truly, like, the coolest, I think, we've ever looked.

[Amanda]

And also, we had full wardrobe, full makeup. Yeah, it looked amazing. We had so much time to shoot the promo.

[Anthony]

Multiple days dedicated to shooting that promo.

[Amanda]

It felt very thought out. It was stunning. We all got very specific characters, but I feel like all the characters meshed really well, which I feel like is. Is different than the other funerals. It was more like, what character do you want to play? Whereas this one. Like, did you guys know what characters you wanted to do when you were creating it?

[Shane]

Like, to start, first off.

[Amanda]

Yeah.

[Shane]

First off, going back. How early on this year did you guys realize you wanted to do this? Because we've been planning this for months.

[Courtney]

Yeah. Yeah. I pitched it to Ali, I think, our CEO. Our CEO, I think late July or early August.

[Shane]

Crazy.

[Courtney]

Yeah.

[Anthony]

I mean, right after Ian and I announced that we were buying Smosh back, aside from Food Battle. Honestly, it was like, Food Battle. Food Battle. Food Battle. But then also Funeral Roast. Funeral Roast. Which is really cool, because the Food Battle, the people that were fighting for Food Battle to happen were kind of the classic Smosh fans. While the People that were commenting how much they want the funeral roast to happen are the newer Smosh fans. So this was such a cool way for us to link both of these fan bases together and kind of have a moment of harmony between them, especially because at the end of Food Battle, we are promoting the food.

[Amanda]

Yes.

[Shane]

It's so cool to have a tentpole event lead into another tentpole event.

[Courtney]

Viewers are fed.

[Anthony]

Oh, they.

[Amanda]

Oh, yeah.

[Anthony]

And we ate with that, bro. But yeah. So back in. You said July.

[Courtney]

Yeah, late July. Because Ali wanted. She was like. Like, we have a live show. Like, what. Do you have any ideas? And, like, I had had the funeral in my pocket for a while because I knew it was like, we were going to do it eventually.

[Amanda]

Yeah.

[Courtney]

What better way to bring it back than in this, like, huge way? And, yeah. And I. And I. As I thought about it, I was like, okay, well, we got to bring the banger characters of the funeral series, so they got to have the will. Got to bring the coroner in, and, like, am always kills it with characters on the show. And then we never had chosen on the funeral, so it kind of, like, slowly built out. And then people were saying, I wasn't planning on being in it originally. I was just gonna, like. Cause it can be really tough to direct and then be in stuff.

[Amanda]

Yeah, yeah.

[Courtney]

And then people are like, no, you should be in it. And I was like, okay, well, the only idea I have is bikini green.

[Shane]

It makes so much sense.

[Amanda]

Iconic.

[Anthony]

No, Especially feeding off of the end of Food Battle, where that was kind of where that character was born.

[Shane]

Yeah.

[Courtney]

Really? That was the first bikini girl?

[Anthony]

I think so. At least that was the first recurring bikini girl character. I think so. And I think that we literally. Because in. In the most recent Food Battle, we joked. We had a Pokedex readout the stats of bikini girl, and it was, like, typically used by juvenile incels for clickbait thumbnails.

[Courtney]

Yeah.

[Anthony]

And that really was the.

[Shane]

The logic behind it was like, we got it.

[Anthony]

We were getting on the front page. We got to get something super clickable in there. Wow.

[Amanda]

Oh, my God.

[Anthony]

And back in the day, that was scantily clad women.

[Courtney]

Yes, it was.

[Anthony]

So you're bringing back scantily clad women in a big way.

[Courtney]

Oh, damn right. Two big ways.

[Amanda]

Yeah, baby. Get ready for that now. Everyone's gonna come.

[Courtney]

That is the lore. And bikini girl will have a lot to say about that.

[Anthony]

Yeah.

[Courtney]

Ooh.

[Shane]

Yeah. We have been hard at work on our roasts for a while now, because.

[Anthony]

I am not supposed to know a lot of the stuff that's going on.

[Shane]

Behind the scenes, you do know the characters.

[Courtney]

But you saying hardly working is a.

[Shane]

Joke, that's so funny.

[Amanda]

You're working all the time.

[Shane]

Yeah. You're doing pretty much nothing. Yeah.

[Anthony]

Well, it does feel really good, though. Like you were saying back in the Defy days, we were spread so thin, that's what drove me almost to insanity. But that is really what took it out of me. But now I feel like I get to do so many more things but not have the worry about it needing to be perfect in my head. Because, I mean, you've taken it, you've crushed it. You've impressed me with every single, every single element of this from the conception. You know, I remember in the earliest discussions, you were having conversations with us and you're pitching ideas, and I was like, take it like you. You've got it. You've got it under control. I don't have to worry about this. And that's the best feeling is, you know, especially because for the longest time, I saw Smosh as like, my little baby that I needed to watch over every single moment. But now it feels so nice to know that you. Because you both. You've both been part of Smosh for eight years.

[Amanda]

Eight years.

[Anthony]

You fully understand.

[Shane]

It is a long time. Yeah. It flew by. And I mean, it's. We've talked about it before, but it flew by because it's been like different jobs over the years. You know, there was Defy era Smosh. There's mythical era Smosh. There's now. And it felt like working at different places.

[Anthony]

You've almost been here for half of Smosh, at least the YouTube channel. Almost half of the YouTube channel existence.

[Shane]

It's crazy.

[Amanda]

That's wild.

[Shane]

It's really wild.

[Amanda]

It's like your kids are all grown up and they're taking over and they're taking, you know, taking ownership of the little Ownership.

[Shane]

But it's so cool.

[Amanda]

The little baby.

[Anthony]

Yeah, the little baby.

[Shane]

I am just a little baby. It's so cool, though, to have been here for so long and be doing something bigger than we've ever done before, though it really does feel bigger because back at Defy, we had moments where we had more of a budget because Defy was just throwing tons of money at us. But this feels bigger because it really feels like it's ours. Like, truly, it's like, wow. Everything we're doing right now is completely Smosh. And that's so cool. And. And, yeah, we've been working up to this one. For months now. And yeah, we. I know we talked early on of like. I was like, okay, chosen because I haven't done chosen in a, in a roast yet. I've thought about it before, but I'm like, it doesn't really make. It didn't make sense for who we were roasting.

[Amanda]

Right.

[Shane]

But this one, it clicked right away and I think I threw out the whole idea and concept of it for this. Yeah.

[Courtney]

Because chosen has a makeover.

[Shane]

Yeah. No, chosen is. Chosen is also scantily still lives at home. But no. Yeah. And I know, kidding. I've been talking about it. I'm like, oh, I need to start training for this. Like I've been working out extra hard for this because I'm like, I want to make chosen look because like the, the buffer. I get the funnier chosen looks to me because I think it's really funny that chosen like his personality and everything is. Is so dumb. But I'm like, if I the more.

[Amanda]

Like he's just so ripped and his mom's like. His mom's like, are you gonna leave the house?

[Shane]

It's like, it's like he's surviving off hot pockets.

[Anthony]

The amount of time he spends working out, he could be looking for a job. Yeah, exactly.

[Shane]

Exactly.

[Courtney]

Here I'm at the gym, just going up to somebody like, excuse me. Mind if I get a couple sets in?

[Shane]

How long are you going to be on the lat raise?

[Anthony]

Is there going to be a big difference between the. The way your body looks in the promo versus the final?

[Shane]

I hope so.

[Amanda]

Just rip.

[Shane]

I would hope so, but we'll see. It's. It's tough, man. You know, Bravo to people who friggin like those people who friggin get buffed for movies.

[Amanda]

It's what they do. They only do that though. That's the other thing is like they have.

[Anthony]

I'm doing it.

[Shane]

I'm doing it a normal amount. I'm not going insane.

[Anthony]

The difference, Shane, is that they're not appearing in 40 smosh videos a month.

[Amanda]

Oh my God.

[Shane]

Yeah, that is tough. No, we have our shoot weeks where we have like 8am call times and I'm like, I am waking up at 5:30 and I'm going to straight up doing that. He is, yeah.

[Amanda]

I've been attempting to try to do that too. I did that today at 6am and I was like, Shane's gonna be proud of me.

[Anthony]

You say he used to do that.

[Courtney]

You used to wake up at 5am I remember you'd talk about it like back at back at defy you like, or you would wake up and work out at the smosh house. I feel like at 5am or something, I would.

[Shane]

No, Anthony, one time you walked in on, you walked into. Remember remembered in on you. You walked into the garage at the smosh house.

[Anthony]

Yeah.

[Shane]

And I was working out in the garage. And I remember you la.

[Anthony]

What were you working? Were you just working out body weight?

[Shane]

I, I, yeah, I was probably like.

[Amanda]

I love that you were laughing.

[Anthony]

Was I laughing?

[Shane]

You were just like, you're like, oh my God. Like, oh, Shane's working out in there. Like, whatever. I was a loser getting fixed. I was just doing body weight stuff. Probably like push ups or jump, like jumping rope or something like that. But I remember, I distinctly remember that.

[Anthony]

That's impressive as well. And the worst part is I don't remember it at all.

[Amanda]

It's okay, man.

[Shane]

It's okay. You were overworked. You were overworked.

[Courtney]

Yeah. I feel like you remember like you have a very good memory.

[Shane]

You have a great memory.

[Anthony]

I'll blame it on that time in my life where dissociating for 90% of the time.

[Shane]

It's pretty insane. You'll be like, yeah, a food battle. 12 time code.

[Amanda]

Oh, my God.

[Shane]

2 minutes and 30 seconds in this happening.

[Anthony]

Because I was editing all those and they were really like ingrained into here. Plus I have to rewatch all the food battles before we do the next food battle.

[Amanda]

Well, now you get to just die and you just, you just die. And as someone who's been dead before during a funeral, you just chill. But let me tell you, it's an overwhelming experience. Experience to be in the casket. Yeah. It's like you feel like a love burst, like a love bomb. I know you're getting roasted and you're gonna get roasted. It's so much attention. I was freaking out.

[Anthony]

Yeah.

[Amanda]

Yeah. I felt love bombed hard.

[Shane]

I was like, everyone who's done it, it's intense, has talked about feeling like feeling really good afterwards. They're like feeling good, but usually it's intense. It somehow feels great.

[Anthony]

It's so interesting because roasting inherently, especially the ones that you see on tv, it seem it is kind of rooted in negativity or kind of jabbing in a way where it's like, you kind of suck, dude.

[Amanda]

Yeah, those are, I don't like watching those. They're cringy. Whereas, like, I don't know, Courtney directs it in a way where it's like, it's love bombing with some like a little bit of cutting roast. But it's. It's mainly love bombing.

[Anthony]

And that's really a testament to Courtney's directing because that. That goes back to the root of. And Ian and I have been talking a lot with different people about what smosh is and what it's not. And the biggest thing that we go back to is that it is comedy rooted in friendship. And it's so easy to kind of get pushed in the direction of comedy rooted in, I don't know, something else, just, like, jabbing, like, you kind of suck, kind of taking out your aggression or frustration. But, yeah, you've done such a good job in keeping the roast something that even though it is roasting, it feels like it comes from a place of, like, I see you or, like, I recognize you. I notice the little things that you do.

[Amanda]

Yes, exactly.

[Shane]

Yeah. Because I think people have different views on. On roasting. And to me, like, the best roast is one that is still rooted in respect. Yeah, right. And it's. And the. The A roast is perfect, I think, when it's as specific as it can be.

[Amanda]

Yes.

[Shane]

I don't think roasts, like, you know, roasts often, like, there's. There's like, the lowest common denominator ones, like, you know, making fun of someone's appearance or.

[Anthony]

Yeah.

[Shane]

Or body or something like that. I'm like, that's. That's surface level. You want to really roast someone on, like, something that is so unique to them.

[Amanda]

Like when you call Drew Shrek. Okay. When you called Drew a follow Shrek.

[Anthony]

And we were all like, a follow.

[Shane]

Oh, yeah, yeah.

[Anthony]

That was a low hanging fruit. That was pretty deep, honestly.

[Shane]

No, I meant personality.

[Amanda]

Exactly.

[Shane]

No, I fell.

[Amanda]

She rose so hard.

[Shane]

Oh, my God. She annihilated anyone.

[Amanda]

Rose. She rose so hard that you're like, she was dead.

[Shane]

Yeah, yeah, No, I remember. So, going back to the beginning of it, Courtney, where did you come up with this idea to start it in the first place?

[Courtney]

It is a little bit of a funny story because there are, like, I think four people who all claim that the funeral show was their idea. I think we all kind of had similar ideas maybe around the same time. But I remember seeing RuPaul's Drag Race all Stars where they did a lady bunny funeral roast. And it was this where literally someone's in a propped up casket, lady bunny is. And they roast and perform eulogies. And I was like, oh, my God, this is amazing. They only did this once. They've never done it again. I kept telling Ryan Finnerty over and over, like, there's something here. Like, we should do something similar to this. And then pitch meetings would happen, and, like, a writer would pitch like, oh, we need, like, a roast show, or, oh, we need a funeral show. And then every time someone brought it up, you'd be like, oh, how about this? Cause, like, the vision was, like, already in there. And then we eventually did it, and I was like, I'm not gonna, like, like. Because that's, like, the biggest. The biggest deal, I feel like. But technically, you thought of it first. Anthony technically thought of the funeral roast first before RuPaul's Drag Race.

[Amanda]

Wait, what? Yeah, do tell.

[Anthony]

So back in 2018 or so, this is before my. I spent a day with series picked up. I was at a very low point, and my channel was very much in the depths of. Kind of as low as the views in my head could go. So I wanted to a have clickbait that would get people to watch it, but also I wanted to kind of be self aware, I think, because I was so insecure about how badly it was looking.

[Amanda]

Yeah, yeah, of course.

[Anthony]

I was like, I'm just gonna say I'm gonna hold a funeral for my channel. I'm gonna say that my channel is dead, and I'm gonna declare that it's dead. That's awesome. So I think I. That was the point of it was, like, about my channel, but then it kind of evolved to be this thing where I invited people out to roast me while I lay dead in the funerals.

[Courtney]

He's literally in a wake, and it's like him in a casket just laying there, and different YouTubers just walk in, and it's like quick cuts of different YouTubers being like, sorry, bro.

[Anthony]

Yeah.

[Amanda]

Whoa, that is legit. Like, you birthed the idea of the funeral rose.

[Anthony]

It wasn't intentional, and I didn't even realize the link when Smosh started doing it. But, yeah, so I have been in a casket before, but a long time ago, and for a very different reason. Yeah.

[Courtney]

That's so crazy.

[Amanda]

Oh, my God.

[Courtney]

It's so cool that you persisted and you were at such a low point that you literally held a funeral for yourself. But then your channel has obviously exploded.

[Anthony]

It was strange because actually, that video got a lot of new people watching it because I made the thumbnail like my birth year to the present day and made it look like I was actually dead a little bit. And clickbait was kind of. Of working around the time. I think that people or YouTube has kind of crushed clickbait with the way the algorithm is built now. But at the time, clickbait was kind of working, and it got new people watching and actually was. They kind of reinvigorated my channel.

[Amanda]

You had a rebirth moment.

[Anthony]

I had a rebirth.

[Amanda]

Now you're having a rebirth moment.

[Anthony]

Yeah.

[Amanda]

And you're dying again.

[Shane]

And I will say, you know, the. The. The Smosh channel was. We were struggling to find content that was working. And this funeral, like, you had the idea for it, and. Yeah, you picked for me to be in the first one. So I didn't know what to expect. So I think that was kind of nice because I didn't have this anxiety because I. There was nothing to see.

[Courtney]

Yeah, we didn't have a counter roast yet at that point, so you didn't.

[Amanda]

Even have to take it.

[Anthony]

Oh, you just had to take it.

[Shane]

But I also didn't know that it was gonna, like, I didn't know what level of roast or anything. I was like, okay, I'm gonna sit in this casket and people are gonna say things. All right? And it was. I will say, like, I think I definitely got away kind of scot free compared to everyone else, because it was much nicer.

[Amanda]

They got more.

[Shane]

And every row. Every funeral we have done since gets more and more brutal. Mine was. Mine was like, you know, Kimmy just dumped a LaCroix on me. Damien did some screams. Garrett sang a song. There were definitely roasts.

[Amanda]

Was I even in that one?

[Shane]

I don't think you were small one. It was really.

[Amanda]

But I remember Kimmy spilling shit on you.

[Anthony]

Yeah.

[Shane]

Spilled the Kramer. And at the end, I just go, I love you guys. And that was my counter roast. But I will say I have not gotten out unscathed because I've been in so many funerals, and I. I get roasted in every single.

[Amanda]

Every time.

[Shane]

No one is. No one is safe. Even Anthony. Even in when you're going to get.

[Amanda]

I guarantee you everyone else will get.

[Shane]

Everyone's going to get roasted. Nobody can walk away without having some joke thrown their way. And I have had some unbelievable roasts said to me too. But, yeah, mine was. But it was really fun. And then it did really well. And every single one has performed so well.

[Amanda]

I loved the funerals because I love, obviously, doing characters, and I actually do not like roasting people. It makes me so deeply uncomfortable. Courtney knows this because every writing meeting, I'm like, no, I don't want to say that. I don't even want to know that detail, because I don't want to carry that to say it. I don't Want to roast it. So I love being so deep in a character that I'm essentially roasting myself because I'm roasting this character. But I will say, when I did Damien's, that was so fun, because I was like, I'm going to fucking roast the shit out of him. Because I really chose a character that was such a roast for him. And you and Patrick and Jeremy helped me cultivate roasts that I knew Damien would be like, I see you. Right. It was because I just. I get so cringy roasting people in, like, such a negative sense.

[Shane]

Well, and you want to make a roast that they're going to laugh at.

[Amanda]

That they're going to laugh at you.

[Anthony]

It's such a hard thing because the goal is kind of to make the person laugh, not to, like, get a digging on them.

[Shane]

Exactly.

[Amanda]

And so if you're a character, you. You kind of slip away from you giving it to them. You're, like, doing it from a character's point of view.

[Shane]

Right, Right. Yeah, yeah, yeah. No, we've. It's been crazy. It's been such a journey.

[Courtney]

And we have learned a lot, like, since the first episode. Figured out so many things, like, obviously, okay, the person in the casket should totally give a counter roast. And because originally on yours, Kim originally wasn't going to do anything, but we wanted her in the audience because we just, like, wanted a filled audience for this funeral. And then Finerdy was like, it looks weird that she's there not doing anything. Like, let's have her do something. And she was like, okay. Like, should I pour one out? All right.

[Shane]

Sick. It was pretty awesome. We're being like, okay, this is coming great. Here we go.

[Amanda]

Yeah.

[Courtney]

And just the. More like. Cause from the beginning, I never wanted to roast. I was just gonna, like, kick it off. Cause Finnerty was like, well, you need to be in it or something. And I was like, I was scared to roast. Didn't know how to write roasts. And it's eventually gotten to the point where, like, I feel like I get it now. And especially working with Patrick and Jeremy and also watching our guests come in and roasting, like, it's. You learn so much about, like, framing certain jokes up. And, like, we've had so much fun with, like, creating a character that has a true and true, like, Lane, like, Tommy's reading the will and Arasha's coroner character, like, where it's just, like, it's such a fun playground. And we were talking about this earlier today, like, when you have a theme and a box that you kind of put yourself in for those kind of makes it easier to write.

[Amanda]

It's more jokes. You can write the jokes from the character's pov and it's just so much fun.

[Courtney]

It's less scary, too.

[Anthony]

How does the. How did the roasts compare? Because you've been in on most of the writing meetings. How do you think this time compares? Because, Shane, you were saying that every time it seems like it's kind of.

[Shane]

Amped up a little, I will say this one's the. Because what I will also say is, you know, every time we were doing a funeral, this is, I think, what we always wanted for these funerals. We always felt like, man, I wish we could make these bigger. It was so tough because we're squeezing them in with our regular schedule, but I think they were always meant to be a big event like this. So now that we're finally. It's on the big, big platform we want it to be. I think as I'm writing this, it's. It. It's going to be brutal. But I think it's also a matter of. I think it's also a matter of, like, performance wise. I'm like, I got a friggin.

[Courtney]

You gotta bring it.

[Shane]

I got. I am. I'm on. I'm at the Ahmanson Theater this time. You know, like.

[Amanda]

Like, we used to bring up scripts and.

[Shane]

And I think my performances also got crazier every time, too, with every funeral.

[Courtney]

And I would say, like, one thing that we've learned over the episodes is, like, sometimes we forget to, like, say nice things too. Like, and then it looks like some of the roast people are like, damn, you guys were mean. But it's like we. We all in the room know that it's coming from, like, a place of immense love, but it's like we're being mean for, like, 30 minutes straight.

[Shane]

And it's also the pressure of every episode of, like, okay, I gotta. I gotta make these awesome roasts. Like, it's. It's not. I'm not roasting this person always out of. I want to say this to them. It's more like. Well, I. I have to think of funny things to say about them.

[Amanda]

See, that's why I just, like, I'm getting cringed right now. Like, I just. I can't handle. Yeah, I just made up that word getting crazy. I just can't handle. Yeah, I feel like all. I feel like that's why I tried to escape all of that. I was like, what if my character is a Super fan, but the character is wild. Like, the character is roastable, but they're a super fan of the person who's dead.

[Shane]

You've done a great job.

[Amanda]

I'm not actually being super mean.

[Shane]

I think you've done a great job of navigating it. Anthony, have you avoided watching the funerals or have you watched the funerals?

[Amanda]

Have you watched any of the funerals?

[Anthony]

I've watched some clips. I watched through Ian's because I was most curious about what you would say. I watched through some of Rhett and Lynx and the Try guys and a little bit of yours and also Damien's. Damien's is great. And I mean, I'm glad I haven't. I didn't dive too deep into them. I mostly just saw, like, the highlights and clips.

[Shane]

I think that's good.

[Amanda]

Yeah, that's better.

[Shane]

That's good for the rest of us. Do you guys have a favorite performance that you've done or a favorite character? And, Courtney, you haven't been in a lot of them because you were directing them. Do you have any favorite characters or roasts.

[Anthony]

Oh.

[Shane]

That you've seen?

[Courtney]

Oh, boy.

[Shane]

I will say for myself, I can start. I'm pretty proud of a lot of them, but I will say two that stand out. Damien's was something that I had thought about for months, and I was like, character was. I got to do. I did. I did this Jojo's bizarre adventure character, and I was like, I need to go all out. I had it fully memorized. Yeah. And I was nervous because, you know, I was just like, all right, like, I'm gonna roast my. One of my really good friends, and I'm gonna go for it, and I was really proud of that. But honestly, another one that I'm really proud of is. Is the one I did for Amanda's. I did my Benoit Blanc.

[Courtney]

Oh, that was incredible.

[Shane]

I did it as a full murder mystery.

[Anthony]

Little tiny clip of that one full.

[Shane]

Murder mystery thing, and I. I went nuts with it, and it was a blast. It's. It was a lot of fun.

[Courtney]

That one was the best, I think. Delivery of a roast that I had.

[Amanda]

I loved that delivery. I loved my funeral. I had so much fun at my funeral. Like, I said, I was.

[Anthony]

Not many people can say that I was.

[Amanda]

So, yeah, I had a great time. I liked my counter act on.

[Shane]

You did impressions of everyone.

[Amanda]

I did impressions of everyone. That was my favorite. But, like, your knives out guy, I was like, damn. Also because I love murder mystery, and.

[Shane]

Mm.

[Anthony]

So it was almost a gift to you, it was.

[Amanda]

It was a fucking gift. That's how I felt. I was like, I feel so overwhelmed. It felt like, you know, like a wedding day. You got out of the casket and you were like, hey, guys. It was so fucking awesome.

[Courtney]

And it's also a really fun way for any audience member who doesn't fully know this person get to learn a lot about everybody.

[Anthony]

It's true.

[Courtney]

Yeah. It's really fun. And, like, I'm glad you had so much fun. Cause, like, I know some people, it's like. It is, like, just, like, really scary. I remember Garrett, when we did his. He, like, needed a minute after. Cause he wasn't used to being pursuing. Received so hard. It was overwhelming on camera for so long because we do eat it or eat it, but it's, like, about the food. And, like, we're like, Gary for an hour.

[Shane]

It is overwhelming.

[Courtney]

It is overwhelming. And, like, that's one of those ones where it's, like, damn good to know. Yeah. And I will say, like, one of the things I always tell the person who's in the casket or coffin or whatever you want to call it, don't hold back, because you're going to hear everyone's roast and then wish, like, dang, I wish I went harder. So it's always good to, like, go, like, go all out.

[Shane]

Oh, yeah.

[Amanda]

Go hard on your counter roast. Because. Yeah, it's just hard.

[Shane]

And especially, I'm so curious what Ian's going to say, because I will say.

[Anthony]

Yeah, so some other.

[Shane]

Some other. Some other standouts for me of characters I've witnessed was Sarah. Christ. Was her first appearance.

[Courtney]

Mine. That was my.

[Amanda]

That was what was birthed for Courtney's funeral. And I remember I had that fucking memorized. And then Patrick wet my bangs, and I came out and I was dripping wet. And I was so deep in that fucking character. I was like. When it was over, I was like, I don't know who the fuck I was so deep in that character.

[Shane]

And I looked.

[Amanda]

I was like, okay, I guess I'm a method actor. Hobb is alive.

[Shane]

Smoshmouth fans know just how into that character you get.

[Amanda]

Yeah, exactly. Exactly.

[Shane]

And another, frankly, my favorite Ian performance ever, and my favorite Ian character is his redactor.

[Amanda]

I was going to say redactor.

[Shane]

Dude. That is. It was unbelievable. And he. My favorite roast I've ever received is from him as that character, which was Shane.

[Courtney]

Yeah. No, they. The. The moon landing was fake because they filmed it on Shane's forehead.

[Shane]

Yeah. And I was like, damn, okay. Because you Know, by that point, I'd gotten a lot of short film jokes. And I was like. I was like, okay. And I'm expecting that every single roast, I was like, they're going to say I'm short. Okay. And then a forehead joke comes out of me. I was like, whoa, whoa.

[Anthony]

Like, new insecurity just dropped.

[Shane]

No, I respected it. Whenever. Whenever people roast me for anything, that's just not me being short. I'm like, okay, that was great. That's impressive. You found something. Okay. Bravo.

[Amanda]

It's like when people roast Angela, not about her loud voice. She's like, thank you, God. Yeah, he's just done. Hey, Shane, have you gotten your mom a Christmas gift yet?

[Shane]

I. I haven't bought it yet, but I am planning on it. And I know what I'm getting her, and I'm not kidding. Not just because of this segment. I am getting her an aura frame. My mom loves photos. She loves family photos. But being completely honest, my mom is not great at technology. She would admit that herself. So I wanted to get her something that was also simple and easy to use, which an aura frame is. And I got one right here. And. Oh, look what we got right on there.

[Amanda]

There I am.

[Shane]

Got a photo of you from forever ago. You can have so many photos on this thing. It's easy. You just swipe right on through. Boom. Oh, there's Selena's right there. Let's go back and let's see what's.

[Amanda]

Oh, that's amazing.

[Shane]

Look at all these people. Oh, it's so great. So many silly photos. It's really, really awesome. So easy to use, and it is so lovely. They've got different colors of frames and everything.

[Amanda]

And it also has unlimited storage that anyone from anywhere can send photos right to that aura frame. And all they need is the aura app.

[Shane]

Yeah. Which is free and great.

[Amanda]

It's free. Also, Oprah added this to her favorite things list three times.

[Shane]

Three times. This is how you know it's good.

[Amanda]

Yeah, it's good.

[Shane]

It's freaking insane.

[Amanda]

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[Shane]

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[Amanda]

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[Shane]

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[Amanda]

It's so good. They sent me a box and they had, like, cold pressed juices, smoothies that were so good and like, ready to go meals that I just put in the microwave. It was perfect. Saved me so much time.

[Shane]

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[Amanda]

Back to the show. I'm so excited about these characters. I will say, did you have a plan for these characters? Did you kind of choose these characters? I know chosen is specific to Shane, but Fortune Teller you pitched to me.

[Courtney]

She's new. Yeah. I was leaning into this aesthetic because Anthony's super into the spooky gothic, classic gothic, almost Victorian vibes kind of. That's at least the energy I get. And originally, when we were planning it closer to Halloween time, it was like, okay, what can we do? And you have this really cool Amanda lore of tarot card reading and stuff. And it was just like, ooh, that would be so fun to do something with that and roast with that. Cause, like, I knew I wanted you to do a character. And so, yeah, that was kind of how that filled out. And then we wanted to bring back. So Angela's doing the vessel, which originally in I think it was Lisa's funeral, where the chat gets to submit roasts via QR code in the stream. And she's going to be possessed by chat and reading these roasts about Anthony and about Smosh.

[Amanda]

Oh, my God.

[Shane]

I'm Jealous of that one. Cause you get to say all these roasts, but you don't have to.

[Anthony]

You don't have to. You're like, okay, great.

[Shane]

What other people are saying she has.

[Courtney]

One of the easiest jobs, quote, unquote. But, like, she's gonna put so much into that performance as, like, possessed, like, Exorcist Girl. And then Chance was like, we wanted to do a musical halftime show, and so he's not actually roasting you. He doesn't have a roast, but he's part of the halftime show. And so we were like, well, we have to give him, like, a thing for the promo. And so I was like, the altar boy. And Chance was like, yes. I love.

[Shane]

Yes. Where did the altar boy, Chance impression?

[Amanda]

He's. He's birthed in his mind, I guess.

[Courtney]

Conversations with Ali and, like, some of the team of just like, oh, what are some fun other, like, Vibey, like, Catholic church, like, church vibes, funeral vibes. And altar boy was one.

[Anthony]

When you first came to me to. Or you spoke with Ian and I about some of the ideas that you had. And I remember you describing the characters, and you're like, the chosen. And then you're, like, describing the other characters. I was like, what if each person was a. The blank, the, like, something very hyper specific about them, so that way you could build out their entire character based off one line.

[Amanda]

I love that. Love that.

[Anthony]

And I think, you know, just seeing all the characters together, you were able to hone in on each of their traits and qualities and what they were good at, the types of roasts that they would give so perfectly because of that.

[Courtney]

Oh, thank you.

[Amanda]

It's very specific. The bikini girl, the priest. And also it feels very, like almost old school horror movie, like, Victorian vibes, you know, where, you know, like, you could see the whole promo. Like, it's just like the priest.

[Anthony]

I feel like it's so easy to understand because of it. And going in, you kind of have an expectation, but you're like, I have no idea where it can go, but I have some ideas. And I think that's what makes it so fun is you're like, there's all these fill in the blanks, but you have just such a. Just a little taste of what might happen.

[Courtney]

Totally. And you are going to be surprised. And, like, this is our first time going into a funeral where the audience is in on who's all in it. Not everyone. There are several surprises coming in the actual show, but, like, this is the first time where it's like, here's your lineup, like, to build up the hype. And yeah, we just have such an.

[Amanda]

Awesome cast that we've never done a trailer for funeral. No, this is our first time we've ever done, like, a promo. This is, like, a big event.

[Anthony]

Right. And what's so fun about creating a trailer and hyping something up so much is when you can live up to the hype. And I was really nervous with, like, the Food Battle release. There was, like a. There's multiple weeks and merchandise and a trailer and all this. And then people unanimously felt like it lived up to the hype. And that excites me. And I know based off what you're creating and what I do know about what's been put into this live show, it will 100% live up to the hype. I think it's gonna exceed the high enough.

[Courtney]

Thank you.

[Amanda]

I think so, too.

[Anthony]

I think so too easily too. Like, even what you've done so far, and you still have a couple more weeks of planning to get ready for it.

[Courtney]

Yeah, we're locking those roasts down. Yeah. And congratulations with Food Battle. That's, like, a huge deal. So cool that it lived up to the hype. That it did. Yeah. I'm really excited. And I really, like, I was inspired to do this promo. Cause, like, I always wanted to do one of those. Especially when we did our first couple, like, live show trailers of, like, under the Influence. And then was it the sleepover one? And then the under the mistletoe one was, like, an interesting one. I have always been so just amazed. And like, our Smosh Summer Games Wild west, which Shane was there for that too, where it's just like, wow. It's just something that is cool and it's different from our actual content, but it's us. And I also, like, ever since I started Smosh, and even before when I was a fan, you guys made such incredible, visually amazing things. And I was like, I wanna do that. Like, I always wanted to do something like this. And so it was scary planning this promo and getting into this funeral because it's like, oh, I've always wanted to do this. And I always felt like this was within me. But it's like, okay, all these people are suddenly trusting me with all of this. So it's time to see if I have been delusional this whole time or I'm actually capable of this. And, like, it's just so awesome to have our team, our crew, because we just. I had this vision. I freaking used Canva, and I still am Constantly for this project. But, like, building out the vision. And our crew was just so into it. And everybody literally put their blood, sweat, tears, heart and soul and pussy into this.

[Anthony]

Actually, their pussy.

[Courtney]

It's so. I feel very. It's the coolest thing I've ever done.

[Amanda]

So shooting the promo was, like, really something you're so proud of.

[Courtney]

Yeah. And it was just the beginning of all of this. It's still going for me. Cause this live show is gonna be. It's a different flavor of what I did, but it's like, it's all still happening. And it's so crazy to hear you being like, yeah, we trust you and stuff. Cause it is new for me to be able to have this much creative control and just you guys really letting me just go. And I'm learning a lot about myself and believing in myself. And I'm just really excited and grateful.

[Anthony]

Yeah. I will say I've seen in the first discussions, you were like, can we do this? Can we do this? Should we do this? And you were a little not. But Ian and I have been pushing to be like, hey, just take it. You got it. This is great. Trust yourself. How. If you don't mind me taking over.

[Amanda]

No, yeah, please, man. Please.

[Anthony]

How has that been, like, coming into trusting yourself more with this? And from everything that I've seen, you should 100% trust yourself. Because you've proven yourself a million times over with what you're capable of. How has that been kind of finding that confidence?

[Courtney]

Thank you. It's really scary. Cause like I said, I was like, okay. At first, when we were getting the early stages, I was very much alone in a lot of the planning. And it actually was a really interesting experience. Cause the more I was like, okay, I'm actually allowed to have this vision. Cause I think in the past, I would have an idea and it would kind of get steered a different direction or kind of taken for something else. Not taken from me, but, okay, we're gonna do something different with that. And it was like, o. So this is my vision. And I do feel like I've grown a lot since I first started directing, where I used to look at our previous directors and be like, I don't know how you do that. I don't know how you see that in your head. And this funeral and the promo specifically. And with a lot of this, I would just literally have a. That's so raven. Like, have visions of a shot and colors and exactly how I want something to go and just be like, oh, shit. And need to write it down and. And feeling like I didn't. I felt unstoppable. I will say, it just. I felt.

[Anthony]

It seemed like that too, when you were directing there, even for the promo. It almost seems like you always had that part of you, but you shut it down because you were not confident in showing it.

[Courtney]

It's so weird. Like, I remember the first time I directed on every TikTok ever.

[Anthony]

Do you hate that episode?

[Amanda]

She's doing the TikTok directly.

[Shane]

It did really well. I mean. No.

[Courtney]

It did really well. No. Cause it's so silly. It's like, so silly. And we used to do those little voiceovers in between. I was like, every TikTok ever. But, like, I don't know what it was where it's like, okay, my name is on the slate. I'm the director, so if you don't do what I say, like, I'm telling mom, like, you're in trouble. So, like. But it was just like, I know what I'm doing. And I guess I've kind of always had, like, a little bit, like. Of, like, a confidence. And especially when I see what I want. And it's obviously, like, great when you go into a project and you're like, I know what I want. Cause then. And it makes it so much easier to achieve it. But yeah. And it's just. I don't know, I feel like I've become more connected than ever with our team and with our crew. That, like, it's just. It feels so cool. I feel so supported, like, by everybody. And maybe it's like. Maybe my imposter syndrome was, like, really bad for a while. And, like, I genuinely thought people wanted the minimum amount of time in conversations with me. Like, I think there's a.

[Amanda]

It's not true. And I also feel like there's a new wave of. Of trust in this crew. Like, I feel like there's a newer connection between you and I. I feel like there's a lot of female energy that's coming in and coming in and kind of like massaging what was ever needed to be healed in making decisions and being a director and also being a female director. And I feel like in the YouTube world, that's really hard, and we naturally question ourselves because it's.

[Shane]

It's.

[Amanda]

I don't know why. It's more of a production when we take. We take over, and it's like, oh, they're taking over. But it's like, I think that that's just, like, an image that's not real. And it's definitely not real here. And I think when you took over, it was like, okay, it was just another day. Like, it was like, yeah, here we go. And I felt like, vidcon. We got really close. You coming back? We all got really close. And I felt like when you started direct, we were like, yep. I mean, we are a hard group to wrangle. I'm really sorry about that.

[Shane]

We definitely are.

[Amanda]

We do bits constantly, and we're a nightmare. But you're really good at being like, I love you. Stop. Cause we need to go.

[Shane]

No. And I remember the promo was so funny. Cause you were directing, but you were also bikini girl. So you were directing it as bikini girl.

[Courtney]

I had a sweatsuit. I did have, like, a sweatsuit that.

[Shane]

I would put on.

[Amanda]

Yeah, you did.

[Courtney]

But when it was, like, getting closer, like, I had, like, they put on, like, body shimmer that was, like, liquid.

[Anthony]

Oh, yeah.

[Courtney]

So there are points where I'm just, like, checking the footage, and I'm, like, listening.

[Amanda]

I feel like I was, like, listened more. It was like. It was like, I love you, but stuff. I was like, I love you too. I'm done. And Chance was a little, like, priest little.

[Shane]

We all look insane.

[Amanda]

We look insane.

[Shane]

I'm chosen, but I have, like, scars and blood all over me. It was fantastic. Yeah, I, I. I think we also, before Anthony, before you came back, before Smosh kind of owned itself. I think we operated from a place of fear a lot. And I think whenever, Whenever I know when I would direct things, I was trying to make it right. I was like, oh, I want to make it however they want it to be made. I wasn't thinking about my vision. I wasn't thinking about, oh, what could this be? I was just like, oh, I just need to make it correctly. And that's the wrong place to come from, because you're never gonna make anything original. You're never gonna make anything that, you know, sets the bar higher, and you're really not gonna end up making anything that's satisfying to you yourself. And I think that's something I can relate to with this show. You know, when we started this, we started formulating this before we knew you were coming back and before you and Ian bought it, Bought Smosh. And I think where I was operating from was very much like, okay, well, we used to have the Smosh cast. I need to just make it like that. And we'll just try to make it good. Yeah. And no. And every step of the way, you guys have been like, yeah, like, take Risks, do crazy stuff, experiment. And we've been doing that more and.

[Amanda]

More, and it's like, newer energy. It just felt like newer energy just came in and, like, waved in and whooshed over and was like, yeah, you can do it. Yeah, here we go.

[Anthony]

I think one of the biggest things I learned in the six years that I was away from Smosh is that the only thing that allowed me to have something that I excelled at and that I was really good at, which was my interview series, is because I took so many risks. And at first, when I first left Smosh, I was like, okay. I was like, rigidly put myself in this box. Like, I have to do sketch comedy, and I have to. This is what I'm known for. And I was like, but then I have to do it better, but then just a little bit different. Just enough to show that I'm unique. And that's what you said. Operating out of a place of fear. But once I gave all that up, I was like, oh, wait. Actually, it's about taking a bunch of risks, seeing what works, honing in on the one that excites me most, and that the audience is latching onto most. And it's kind of finding that harmony between what the audience likes, what you, like, take a bunch of risks, only risk doing something that you enjoy. Because if you're taking a risk doing something you don't enjoy, what's the point of it?

[Amanda]

Yeah, what is the point?

[Courtney]

And I feel like viewers can feel that.

[Amanda]

Yeah, they definitely can. And also, I feel like the people that you're working with, your cast can feel that. And I feel like if you are taking risks, if you're kind of being like, I believe in this, and I'm going to go for it. Your cast is like, oh, yeah. And I feel like the funeral is such a good representation of that because it's like I'm playing a fortune teller. He's playing Chosen, and Angela's playing this, like, demon child. We're all kind of taking little pieces of ourselves and exploding it, and then it's all deeply love bombing.

[Anthony]

You keep saying it's just that you.

[Amanda]

Get anxious before I get it.

[Anthony]

Yeah, yeah.

[Amanda]

It's just like. It feels very like we're an ensemble, and it's really cool to do this huge, you know, promo and funeral and have you direct it, and it's just, like, fucking awesome to be a part of.

[Courtney]

Yeah. I also say. I want to say, like, other things that have really helped me here, and I feel like just the overall energy here. Is like, over the past year or so, we've had new cast members come in that totally breathed new life into this job as a whole for me, like, entirely. They make me feel more confident myself, Chance and Angela and Arasha speaking specifically. And, like, I love that. And I remember when Shane and I started, Joe Beretta would say that about us, about just, like, breathing new life into stuff. And, like. And then when you came back, it was like, oh, they bought Smosh. Like, it felt like, oh, everybody's believing in this. Like, we're all confident in this. And, like, when I tell you I spent so much time thinking while you were away, I spent so much time thinking about how I was just. It just sucked so much that when you left, it was like, will he ever come back? Like, this is just always gonna be an unresolved thing.

[Shane]

I don't know.

[Courtney]

I don't know why I thought about it so much. It's like he. It's not just like that. You and Anthony, that you and Ian started this thing together. It was like you literally built that little website that started this whole thing. It was your baby, as we mentioned earlier, and you just had to leave it. And it never felt right, and the job never felt fully right for me for a long time. And so when I rightfully so, broke down into embarrassing tears when you came back, it was real for. And this job has. There was times at this job where it was no longer what I wanted to do. And it's all back. It's all back. I fully am so in it and enjoying every minute of it. And we're making content that I'm excited about every day, and I feel seen and heard by everybody, and it's like, I do attribute a lot of that to you, Anthony, so thank you.

[Anthony]

Well, geez. I don't know how to take compliments.

[Amanda]

But I just say, love bombs. Hey, this is just the end.

[Courtney]

I will say. This funeral, it's a roast. Like, we're gonna frickin roast you good.

[Anthony]

You need to.

[Courtney]

After that, we're frickin roast you. And it is. It is a celebration of you, as all roasts are. They are a roast, but it is a celebration of the person in that casket, and that's the mission. It's like, we love this person. Let's freaking go.

[Anthony]

Thank you. Thank you. I feel like it is. It's not just me, though. It's a testament to both Ed and I coming together and reflecting on the beginnings of Smosh and what made it so special and a huge Part of that was Ian and I being able to just have fun together as friends, try to make each other laugh, be passionate about creating little fun projects, getting people excited about little dumb jokes and fun moments. And that's, you know, going into working with everyone here. That's what I really wanted to push, is for everyone to have the same kind of freedom, to be passionate about creating funny, little dumb things together, or just to be able to push themselves in any way that they see fit without the fear that a risk is a bad thing. I feel like a risk is always a good thing because you always learn something from it. You either learn maybe not the right choice, or let's double down on that and try refining that and seeing all of you take something, make it your own, kind of have ownership of it. Therefore, you know, be able to be fully passionate about it, knowing that you're. The stuff that you're putting into it, the time and energy that you're putting into it is compounding. It's not like, oh, I'm putting all this effort in this thing and then it gets taken away from me. Then I'm putting all this effort and think it's taken away from me, you know, and that's kind of demoralizing where you feel like I'm putting all this energy into something that just at any moment can go away. I've seen you kind of, I think, keep up that, the momentum of your passion because you know that you're just building and building and building on something with this show, with, you know, Reddit stories for you, with the funeral as well. Like, you know that the things that you learn from this will benefit you in all the risks that you're taking here. You'll be able to learn from this and apply it to something going into next year, because we're going to be doing bigger and even crazier events going into next year, too. And it's going to be so fun to see how the things that you learned, all of us, have learned from this year and having that freedom to take risks can be applied to everything next year.

[Amanda]

Totally. I love that.

[Shane]

And you know, Anthony, the last time you were on this show was shortly after the announcement and, you know, things we knew, like, oh, we're going to get a ton of views and the content we're going to put out is going to do really well because this big event, but we were like, okay, let's see how it keeps going, you know, And I think what's truly a testament to the energy that you and Ian have brought since you guys bought Smosh is that I feel like so much of what we're doing is it's succeeding in Views, but I think it's succeeding in the creative and the fun we're having. And that's, that goes for videos that, Videos that you and Ian aren't even in. You know, like, I look at some of the successes we've had, like on this show, we've had some things that have gone viral just cuz we're, we're trying things, you know, Five Nights with.

[Anthony]

Freddy is, is real a real story.

[Shane]

That is real.

[Amanda]

I literally was like, I don't know about this true crime story. I, I, I'm a fake. That's what I was thinking of. But we're having a blast with me.

[Anthony]

I'm a fraud.

[Amanda]

Literally.

[Shane]

We're doing crazy on Smosh Games. We, we're like, hey, let's try sniper chess. And we do it and, and it, it's doing great. Like, we are having so much success and it's, it's now past just this spike of like, whoa, Smosh. Izzy and Anthony again. Now we're seeing. Oh, it's actually, we're doing well. Not just because of this big announcement.

[Amanda]

You just want to hang out with each other, but because we're having a class.

[Anthony]

We're letting loose risks together.

[Amanda]

We just want to hang out with each other, take risks, bring each other up, kind of be like, oh, you're really good at that. Oh, you should do that. You should. Like, even you pitching our characters for funeral was like, oh, you're really good at that. And I was, I was like. And it felt so fucking seen. I was like, to have someone pitch a character that you're like, oh, my God, yes.

[Anthony]

That is so good.

[Amanda]

A, I didn't think about it. And B, I was like, I didn't think. Yes, that's me.

[Courtney]

Aww.

[Amanda]

It's like, it's. To me, that is the biggest compliment. And I feel like that's what we've been doing. And we've just been loving hanging out with each other. I mean, we're with each other all the time and it's just like. And getting to do this with Shane, I get to know Shane so much better, and I get to know Courtney so much better, and I get to know you so much better, and I can't wait to roast you.

[Courtney]

Yeah, dude.

[Amanda]

And I just, I just want you to be prepared that it's gonna be. What's like the most, what's the most nervous thing?

[Shane]

Yeah. What's going through your mind? I'm curious because it's days away.

[Anthony]

I mean, part of me is like, oh, they're gonna bring up something that I'm insecure about that I don't know anyone else notices, but I'm. I'm totally fine with it. Honestly, anytime that. That I'm roasted about something, even if it's a little uncomfortable for a moment, I feel actually better about it because it's not something that's not spoken about. Kind of like when Ian and I first came together on camera and we're like, I'm reading my angry letter to him and stuff like that, it was uncomfortable for me to see the things that I wrote six years earlier. I'm sure it was uncomfortable for him to hear some of that stuff, but because it was out in the open, it made it feel like it wasn't a taboo subject that couldn't be spoken about anymore. And what's interesting is that Ian and my started deteriorating because there was so much pressure from every angle to work. So much that we didn't have any line of communication anymore. And I feel like if back then we had ways to even incorporate it into our work like it is now, then we would have had a closer friendship outside of work, too.

[Amanda]

Yeah.

[Anthony]

And it's interesting that there are now these outlets for everyone here to kind of get stuff just out there and said. And it doesn't feel like anything's really too taboo to talk about within our group, because we are.

[Amanda]

You can give us a list of things we don't touch.

[Anthony]

Oh, yeah. And then you'll make sure you touch them.

[Amanda]

Absolutely. Although, except with Damien's, I did touch, like, one.

[Shane]

Well, I will say with. With every roast we do, we are mindful of things and we always ask and we're like, hey, is there anything that's off? And a lot of times people are like, no, no.

[Courtney]

I mean, yeah. But then sometimes later they'll be like, actually. Cause, like, me, Patrick and Jeremy, whenever we, like, we'll do that initial kickoff meeting that we did with you where it's like, okay, first things first. What are your boundaries? And just making sure we had all those. And then, like, sometimes, like. Cause we, Patrick and Jeremy, like, really go in, like, all three of us really help with the jokes. And like, some of them, like, are hard hitting and, like, crazy, but some of them is just like, this is just a joke that, like, fits for this person. Like, sometimes. Sometimes, like, when someone who's performing doesn't have something, we'll Be like, oh, just a throwaway. I have never parked in a handicap spot. But we gave that joke the Lisa. Cause she didn't have anything else.

[Amanda]

So it's like, I feel like mine were very specific. My rows were pretty specific.

[Courtney]

They get specific. Yeah. No, you have material for days. That's different. I also. Yeah. Anyway, but so like, I wouldn't let anybody go into this without being set up for success.

[Amanda]

Correct. Like it's been filtered through.

[Shane]

True.

[Anthony]

And that's a testament to your directing style. Is that.

[Amanda]

Yeah.

[Anthony]

It. It. You find that perfect balance. You walk that line perfectly of like, not too mean, but not too nice. Like it's right. Right there, you know?

[Amanda]

Exactly. Because if it's too nice, it just.

[Shane]

That's more disrespectful to me.

[Anthony]

I agree. It frankly is rude of you.

[Amanda]

I agree.

[Shane]

But it's like, oh, you can't handle it.

[Anthony]

That's true. That's almost it. Yeah, that is true.

[Amanda]

Totally. I totally agree with you. I mean, I mean. Yeah.

[Courtney]

That is the meanest roast is when you go, Amanda and Shane. Da da da da. Not even giving that name.

[Amanda]

Horrific.

[Shane]

It's devastating.

[Amanda]

It's devastating.

[Courtney]

That's the worst.

[Amanda]

I'm like, make fun of my crusader 18th century crusader bangs, please.

[Shane]

That I was very.

[Amanda]

You know, many people go, why weren't you Cat in the Hat for Halloween? Why weren't you Adam Sandler for Halloween? Why weren't you Berries and Cream for Halloween?

[Shane]

I will say, people have pointed out on this show, they're like, like, damn. They have been going hard on Amanda so often and I love it. Well, to be fair, with like Mexican salsa. Yes. You brought those videos and you were like, hey, we should talk about.

[Anthony]

I'm going to bring some new ones. I just want to hint at. I'm bringing some new ones for you.

[Amanda]

Really?

[Anthony]

That's all I'm going to say.

[Shane]

Yeah, you cuz you've been working on your roast.

[Anthony]

I've been working on my counter roast.

[Shane]

Counter roast.

[Amanda]

I actually just forgot that you were doing a counter roast. Now I remember.

[Courtney]

So have you twice as much time.

[Shane]

Have you been observing everyone?

[Amanda]

Like, kind of.

[Shane]

Because. Because you're roasting with people that you have only been working with these past few months.

[Anthony]

I've been paying very, very special attention because I knew that a roast was coming up. I mean, there are lots of things incorporated into just the programming where you kind of have to pay attention to everyone from who memed it from, like guessing. You know, there's a lot of games that we Play where we're guessing who submitted something. You really have to understand people working.

[Amanda]

I saw that meme of me holding a weird like pig and a tantala.

[Shane]

That one was nice for you. That meme.

[Amanda]

I was, oh my God, that's Angela.

[Anthony]

Yeah. But yeah, no, I've been paying very close attention to things that everyone does. I'm like, is there a recurring thing this person does or is there a thing that's per. Like go to thing that this person likes to have around them? You know, whatever it is. That kind of thing.

[Shane]

Right.

[Anthony]

It's fun. It's a fun exercise in paying very close attention to everyone around you.

[Shane]

Yeah. Oh my God. I'm nervous and I. I will say I think I've gotten away. Like my. My initial funeral wasn't so bad. And I also think the roasts I've gotten, I'm like, I'm always like, people could go harder.

[Anthony]

There's gonna. I'm sure there will be a follow up one that will do.

[Courtney]

Yeah. I was gonna say would you want to do another one?

[Amanda]

Round two. So hard edition.

[Shane]

Brutal edition. Brutally dead. Yeah, sure, sure, sure. If we ever want to do it.

[Amanda]

Are you sure?

[Shane]

I think so. I feel like I get roasted constantly.

[Amanda]

You do.

[Shane]

I feel like the fans roast me the most so.

[Courtney]

They love it. They love taking. They love being part of it.

[Anthony]

They roast the people that can take it.

[Amanda]

They roast the people that can take. Exactly. They roast. Like when you guys take pictures of me when I'm asleep and it looks like I'm dead with my head in the ground. I love it. I love it.

[Shane]

It really looked like I didn't take the photo. Photo. But you look like a family guy character. Spencer, she was in the green. She was in like our couch, like out in the open, face down. We could maybe put it up if we.

[Amanda]

But just like a dead person.

[Anthony]

But it feels sleeping face down.

[Amanda]

It feels so good. No, I was face. I was like this. But it looks like my head's like this because my hair's like.

[Shane]

Your hair was covering your face so you looked like you were. It looked like. How is she breathing?

[Anthony]

Her face is like clanking in the cat couch turn.

[Amanda]

But you know what? I just let him think another.

[Shane]

Don't ruin this. Who are you most nervous about as far as roast? Is there a person you're most afraid of?

[Anthony]

Yeah. Ian. I think he's. I think he's going to go hardest cuz he's known me for so long.

[Amanda]

He does go hard.

[Shane]

I will say I think you're worried about Ian, but the person. Every time, it's. It's Tommy.

[Courtney]

Tommy and Arasha do go hard.

[Amanda]

She comes out of. Of nowhere and you're like, oh, my God, I wrote a letter. How did you know about that information?

[Shane]

She is cutthroat.

[Anthony]

I do know that Tommy is not afraid to go hard, though.

[Amanda]

But Tommy's is.

[Shane]

But his are so.

[Amanda]

He's so theatrical.

[Courtney]

Like, very well thought out.

[Shane]

Tommy's will catch you off guard, though. Tommy's won't be as necessarily mean as much as it'll be like, oh, my God. What? Like, that was so well crafted.

[Amanda]

Yes.

[Shane]

And it. It.

[Amanda]

He.

[Shane]

He's the one who's gonna roast you on something you weren't expecting to get roasted on.

[Amanda]

Also, he triple checks his jokes all the time. He'll be like, is this. This insane? And you'll be like, yes or no. And usually it's like, huh.

[Courtney]

Yeah. Usually our writers, we usually help him the least cuz he's. He's got it.

[Amanda]

Yeah, he's good.

[Shane]

But he will go hard.

[Anthony]

Yeah. I do think I am afraid of Ian's most. Only because we have 20 plus years of history.

[Shane]

That's true.

[Anthony]

You know, so it's like, are you worried about anywhere?

[Shane]

Are you worried about him bringing back something up from, like, middle school or something?

[Anthony]

I have preemptively decided to bring up some stuff from our earliest years because I think he will do the same for me. So I have this excited. That is where I'm gonna go with some of these.

[Amanda]

Oh, I'm. I'm anxious.

[Shane]

Yeah. That. I don't know why. That just got me, like, amped.

[Anthony]

I dug some stuff up.

[Shane]

So we are. We're all going to learn new things.

[Anthony]

Oh, yeah. Yeah.

[Shane]

Okay.

[Courtney]

So exciting.

[Shane]

Oh, my God.

[Amanda]

Okay, so Ian is the one that you're most nervous about.

[Anthony]

Yeah.

[Amanda]

And I guess Ian should be most nervous about you because.

[Anthony]

Honestly. Yeah. Ian, if you're watching this, watch out. I hope your roasts are better than mine. I hope they go deeper. I hope you found something that I can't remember. Likely not.

[Courtney]

Likely not.

[Anthony]

I got everything.

[Amanda]

Likely not.

[Anthony]

Except for the times that I dissociated the last three years that I was at Defy. Except for that.

[Shane]

I think. I think I am most nervous for you because I've been roasted. I've been roasted by everyone else. I don't know what it's like to get roasted by. By you.

[Amanda]

Oh, I'm excited.

[Shane]

I'm excited, but I'm nervous.

[Amanda]

I'm nervous. Nervous. But I'm excited because I'm excited to see what you say.

[Anthony]

I think I'm good for you. I'm gonna go a little bit harder on you. Now that. Now that.

[Amanda]

Now that go hard on me too.

[Anthony]

Oh, I'm already going harder.

[Amanda]

Okay, great.

[Anthony]

So I'm gonna go a little bit harder on you. Yours was one of the first ones that I wrote.

[Shane]

Really?

[Anthony]

So I decided just now I'm gonna go a little bit harder.

[Amanda]

You're dead.

[Shane]

Was it because I said everywhere's Anthony joke?

[Anthony]

Yes. And because you said that the worst thing that could happen is someone is too nice to you.

[Courtney]

Ooh.

[Amanda]

So you're fucking dead.

[Courtney]

No regrets, no holding back.

[Amanda]

Okay, so the show is Friday.

[Shane]

It's Friday at 6.

[Courtney]

6Pm p.m. and where do you get tickets?

[Shane]

Smosh, rip, smosh, rip. And. And as you, as we described earlier, Angela's whole thing is going to be reading Chat's best roasts. So if you, if you buy a ticket and you get in there, you have a possibility of roasting Anthony because.

[Anthony]

Those are ticketed, ticketed guests only.

[Courtney]

Our stability on the actual show. And you get to roast Anthony and Smosh if you like. It's a little. It's a little form that you get to fill out. It's gonna be crazy.

[Amanda]

So just buy up all the tickets.

[Anthony]

I think I will be buying 7,000 tickets and I'll be submitting the roast from the audience and they might accidentally be all compliments.

[Courtney]

I also, I wouldn't be surprised if some of our crew did, did like if they entered in the QR code. That would be amazing if they did.

[Amanda]

There's going to be some crew in the chat.

[Anthony]

I'm seeing nodding heads behind cameras.

[Amanda]

There's going to be some crew in the chat.

[Anthony]

I see some evil glares.

[Amanda]

Oh, my God.

[Shane]

I really can't stress enough. This is the. This is the biggest thing we've ever.

[Anthony]

It really is. Honestly. We've. We've hyped up Food Battle so much, but this is the biggest event.

[Courtney]

I don't know. Are you sure? Food Battle was pretty big.

[Anthony]

This is going to be bigger.

[Amanda]

Don't you dare.

[Anthony]

This is going to be bigger.

[Amanda]

It's going to be great.

[Shane]

Right?

[Courtney]

The wedding.

[Shane]

We have a little end segment. We're trying. We're trying new end segments all the time. The one I want to pitching today is called Sending Kisses.

[Amanda]

Sending kisses.

[Shane]

I just thought it'd be a fun opportunity to give shout outs to people or. Or things or whatever you want to give shout outs to.

[Amanda]

Yeah. It could be related to funeral.

[Shane]

You could blow a little kiss, make little note and send it off.

[Amanda]

Send it.

[Shane]

I can begin?

[Amanda]

Yes, please.

[Shane]

And feel free if I send one to someone and you want to send it to them too. Go ahead. I. I feel like Patrick and Jeremy, our writers and all of our writers over the years, they are truly incredible. And I'd love to just. And just send a little note to. To Jeremy and Patrick and also Jeremy. And we're going to talk about this in. In an upcoming episode. But Jeremy and I, you know, we built the Lacroix wall and the La Croix wall did fall this in 2023.

[Anthony]

The great Lacroix wall fall.

[Shane]

We had. It had to come down.

[Courtney]

But Lacroix was just one tower hour.

[Shane]

But it's been. It's been so fun to work with them. I love. And I also love writing chosen jokes with them. It's so fun because. Just a little insight. Whenever we're. We're writing jokes and we're all sitting there talking, whenever someone's like pitching a joke, they. They do it in the chosen voice.

[Courtney]

Yeah.

[Shane]

Nobody ever goes, oh, the chosen could say this. They'll be like, like, well, Amanda, you always do this. It's like. It's like they. We. We're all there in a writer's video talking like the chosen. And it's great. So I want to send that off to them.

[Courtney]

I'm gonna put a kiss on that too.

[Shane]

Yeah, I will too.

[Anthony]

Wow. They've been. They've been great to work with.

[Shane]

They really have been fantastic.

[Amanda]

I love it. Amanda, I am going to send my kiss to Selena.

[Shane]

Oh.

[Amanda]

I feel like my. Our schedules have been so insane and my schedules have been so insane. And I've had like maybe a doctor's appointment or maybe something here and I'm like, selena, I need an hour. Can you help me organize Smoshmouth or whatever? And Selena is on it. She's kind, she's loving. She literally keeps me on track. Cause otherwise I would fail.

[Courtney]

Dude, I wanna hop on that too. Me too. Because she truly. She's producing on Funeral and she has been killing it. We simply would not be able to get these writers meetings with you guys, especially you and Ian.

[Amanda]

No, I know. And she did all the writers meetings and those are hard. And we needed did more than one and she killed it. And she's just on it and she changes your Google Calendar invite and she's just.

[Anthony]

She's.

[Amanda]

And she's right there. She's incredible.

[Shane]

I gotta add to it as well, because you know, actively. While we're recording this, she is helping give notes on another episode of Smosh Mouth. She's been doing a lot for us and it's been a huge help, so.

[Amanda]

Sending kisses.

[Shane]

If you want.

[Amanda]

If you want.

[Shane]

You did already co sign a lot.

[Anthony]

Of these letters, I feel, I mean, it's kind of generic, but I want to send my little kiss to everyone here who's been amazing to work with and, you know, welcomed me in with open arms and taken trust in some of the guidance that I provided. And it's been really cool to witness you all grow with, I guess, my encouragement for you to kind of explore, take risks, be yourselves, and to fully commit to doing what you do best. And also, I want to give a little kiss to my mom. Aw, lovely. My mom's been calling me and checking in on me and, you know, she's known I've been stressed out about some things in my life, so, yeah, it's been nice. My mom and I have been getting closer recently, too, which is really cool.

[Amanda]

That's the best.

[Courtney]

Oh, too bad you're gonna die.

[Anthony]

Yeah, I'm gonna be dead. Mom.

[Amanda]

Mom, I'm gonna die. She's like, well, here's all the things I wanted to say.

[Shane]

She broke.

[Anthony]

We got close right before I died.

[Amanda]

Yeah, exactly.

[Courtney]

Aw, shit, Court.

[Shane]

Oh, it's okay. You co signed a bunch.

[Amanda]

Yeah. You sent out a lot of kisses.

[Shane]

You've been busy.

[Courtney]

Okay, okay, okay. All right. This is what it is. And I'm gonna just send a kiss out to all the girls and the theys in this office, all the thedies in this office, because we've been fricking killing it. And it's just like, like so many of these decisions and so many of these things that I've been doing with this project, specifically, like, I wouldn't have felt as good about without, like, their support and their, like, push. And literally, like, I never realized how important it was that I needed to hear some of that support sometimes and getting that push. And, like, you know, like, when I was like, I don't know if I should do Bikini Girl and Aaron, Dougal's like, it's necessary. And, like, I don't know if I should do this. And Selena and Emily are like, oh, my God. Yeah, that's amazing. Do that. It's like, like, I, I, like, it's just really cool to have such a supportive team. And we're killing it. I'm just proud of the other.

[Amanda]

We love you.

[Shane]

So I, I, I really cannot tell you enough. Like, this show is gonna be huge. Get your tickets. You do not want to miss this. We've been working on it for months. It's gonna be huge, and it is gonna be brutal.

[Amanda]

It's gonna be brutal. Thank you, guys, for joining us.

[Anthony]

Thank you.

[Amanda]

That was amazing.

[Courtney]

That was so much fun having us.

[Anthony]

Yeah.

[Shane]

Anthony, good luck and good night. Good night, too.

[Amanda]

What a sign.

[Anthony]

Wouldn't that suck if I died right now?

[Shane]

That would suck. Well, we'd have to load you up in the castle.

[Anthony]

Wait till after the funeral.

[Amanda]

Okay.

[Shane]

Yeah, for you.

[Anthony]

I know you put a lot of work into this.

[Courtney]

Yeah, please. For me?

[Shane]

All right, guys, get your ticket. Smosh. Rip.

[Amanda]

Bye.

[Shane]

See you later.

[Amanda]

Bye.