Smosh Cast Responds to Assumptions About Them (ft. Shayne Topp, Keith Leak Jr, Angela Giarratana)

I try not to look at comments often

either because you see that one comment

and it will mess up your day up until

that point all of my characters were

just batshit crazy to make a character

that was the complete opposite and for

it to work was really fun we only want

Ian and Anthony just like well I'm sorry

I'm here that's a good drawing of

you what very accurate what

Melo psycho asks do y'all get tired of

long running jokes or bits about

yourselves I don't mind I like it I

would rather it be around a joke or a

meme than something else that people are

like clinging to yeah for sure I feel

like I feel like I've manufactured it a

lot of times like Munch Munch was an

that's one people don't know about

anymore really yeah that's that's that

one died that one died out dang I'm

still on Munch but like the the it is

Monday banana stuff like even you're my

favorite pizza place was like something

that I kind of kept doing until people

like got into it I'd say the one I'm not

tired of it but it's funny because I

think people think I bring it up the

most is I made a a pain joke forever ago

or no I wrote I wrote we wrote it into

video games in real life uh and it was

about a Resident Evil character uh this

giant vampire lady okay and I I was

playing a character where I was like oh

no I hope she doesn't come in here and

me like that would suck and I we wrote

this we wrote this scene out and then

people just started to be like yeah

Shane really wants to get oh and then

and then it kept building and then

Garrett did a joke in my funeral where

he sang a whole song about it and I was

laughing about I was like this is

hilarious but it kept getting brought up

and I think people think that I bring it

up all the time when in reality it's

just been a running gag and so uh when

when I posted my Instagram post for this

there was a lot of things of like well

you make so many jokes about getting you

must you must and I'm like I haven't

actually said that many like I said

reference it was a reference to a video

game this was scripted too right it was

on a scripted set which I was surprised

that those rarely get the same momentum

as our like laugh where's my camera

where's my where do where do I talk I

need a camera to talk to hey we're

actors we are actors what you see

especially in a something scripted even

if we have our names attached to it it's

a joke it's probably us a joke I don't

mind though like I I think it's funny he

does mind to get he doesn't want to

get boom girl bucko says I assume Keith

has wanted to leave smos for a

while boom girl bucko came in BO girl

was like all right enough jokes boom

boom girl damn

um okay um okay so there have been times

for sure um even in recent times where

where it is things change and I have

gotten there's times where I've been

complacent um there's times where I did

not want to be there let me be truthful

um but there are other times where I do

want to be there and as of recent I'm

happy to be here you know what I mean

it's been a it's been like a big roller

coaster for me from a lot of things like

behind the scenes um just to sometimes

feeling overlooked you know and not

feeling seen and I've also questioned

myself there and it's like where do I

belong you know what I mean like for the

longest being like the only like U like

like black guy in the cast black person

in the cast um person of color it just

really like it was difficult to find my

footing here you know certain points I

didn't know like who what was what who

was my friend you know what I mean just

like the the things that I have to go

through personally um so to find some

sense of Peace as of recent all over

again it feels good good you know I

don't know if you guys can tell but I

look I I don't know like they feel like

they can um but yeah I I'm I'm happy

right now Piper manerz says Angela was

the girl at sleepovers who would always

cuddle you and whose hands were always

slightly

sticky Wella that's that's just me yeah

um Angela you were a little piece of

okay so uh Keith doesn't want to be

here and I'm

sticky you were sticky I was saying you

were when you were a little kid the

first part's crazy that I wanted to

cuddle and touch I feel like I feel like

they're saying something there lot to

break down here um everyone always

comments on how excited and like little

sibling energy I am when I'm around

everybody and I think it's just because

I like my brother and I were very just

like separate in our house like and our

parents were constantly working so it

was I was alone a lot so I feel like

when I am on smos specifically on camera

there is like a younger kid who's

hanging out with their siblings that

comes out and I'm like oh my God I have

all these brothers and all these sisters

and I think it's because of like the

games and the things we're doing it's

not really like super like highbrow

stuff so I get so excited I was that kid

at the sleepover that was like oh my God

I'm we're having so much fun right now

right and you're were sticky as well um

yeah I I I I don't think I was sticky uh

maybe if I had I always had hot Cheeto

hands that's sticky that count is sticky

Kylie Dunn says I assume that Shane

knows he's considered the backbone of

smos and he feels a lot of pressure to

be funny because of it oh wow oh Jesus

um can I can I say something before you

go okay Shane has definitely been the

back bonus smj like straight up dude

like straight up from when you came in

and just like you take more of a

leadership role than what you think you

do and you do it like right you do it

with class you do it with like kindness

you don't have to try to be funny you're

just that you know what I mean so like

yeah you are just that and you are the

backbone I believe so I truly believe

I'm giving everybody Day flowers today

yeah damn Keith uh I I don't know I

don't know how to respond to that

personally um because I feel like my

strength is that I'm very good at

playing off of other people so I never

felt like I was like oh people like want

to see me I'm just like I'm good at

seeing other people's strengths and

building that Dynamic and that's exactly

what it is I mean I think it's like like

I think you hear backbone of smos and

you hear like just you but I it's it's

actually that you just invite and like

from the first video I was in with you

like it's a connection thing and that's

why I think it's not you alone being the

backbone and us being behind you I think

it could be easy for you to think that

exactly but I think it's just an energy

you bring that that invites everybody in

yeah I yeah um it's hard you can't say

that that's the thing like we can say it

for yes yeah I don't know I just I I

guess from my perspective I just see so

much strength in just all of us working

together and that's obviously what yeah

what the whole brand is I think also I

from a job perspective and working

full-time I see the work that goes in

behind the scen and I can't but be like

no the backbone's actually Kiana it's

just kind of like that's I think when I

think of that I'm like when we get on

camera like you know it I feel like it

shifts all the time yeah um and I feel

like it's all of us together and it's

our Dynamic that is the backbone but I

constantly think about who's the one

like organizing this all generating

everyone is a bone we're all a bone uh

that that's funny to me we not like over

we're we're all a

bone you're just the

boner go dude boners Logan Teem asks do

you think some people hate you just

because you're not Anthony and Ian well

some people did hate us because we

Anthony and you but it wasn't okay so we

thought they I feel like behind the

scenes everyone thought the roll out was

going to be kind of rough for us it

wasn't that bad of course they want Ian

and Anthony all the time but we got a

lot of love from like the fans but then

of course you get those a few comments

where it's like man we only want Ian and

Anthony's just like well I'm sorry I'm

here you

know but beyond that I don't think for

me it I tried not to look at comments

often either because you see that one

comment and it will mess up your day

yeah I would say it always was a smaller

group of people like if they those were

like one out of 10 was

and especially pitz that that channel

wasn't really like there wasn't a lot of

views there when we started so we built

that audience kind

of a new and our I really do think our

audience nowadays is super accepting and

and super open yeah uh I don't see I

rarely see hate comments nowadays how do

you how did you feel coming in because I

think it's kind of a blur to us too

since it's been so long so like in the

past year and a half how did did you

look at comments did you feel that you

weren't accepted by like the community

or anything like that yeah I came in

when Anthony was gone so I didn't really

understand the power they had together

until he came back and we went to that

VidCon and I was like oh like suddenly

it did feel like for a quick second it

did feel like us and then them but then

so quickly it was just like oh no we're

all in this and it feels I don't think I

ever feel like less than um everyone

does a good job at making it feel very

supported I assume that they get tired

of how fans kind of fit each of them

into a genre of Comedy like yes they

each have their own unique approach but

I bet it could be stressful to try and

fulfill something that you've been

pigeon hold into by an audience I

understand this because we do that with

stories and we do that with sitcoms like

on sitcoms there are like the archetypes

there's like the loser the like the girl

like there's it's just a thing I think

you do with media but then it breaks

when it's like the parasocial thing

where it's like oh these are real people

versus these are written these are

written types of characters versus like

it is a way for audiences to be like I

know you you're that kind of guy yeah

and that's a way for them to connect to

you and I get the harmful parts of it

but I understand it's just like a part

of watching people on TV I think or on

YouTube is like so like I think that's

always going to be a thing like you're

always going to have a type people put

you into because they don't know you

yeah yeah I I don't think it's as much

the fans doing it that I worry about I

think sometimes behind the scenes uh me

as an individual I will start to fall

into certain like things and I'm like

well this works I do this thing it works

and you do have to kind of be like oh I

have to change it up I need to change it

up for myself and also just also just

for when we're writing sketches or even

just in the videos that we're making

it's a matter of also not like at SM

pigeon hoing people and going well

Angela does this thing she does this

type of energy so we'll put her there

it's like well have we given her the

chance to do something different I

remember when I was like first coming on

and they would like have like an open

pitch for characters and stuff I was

pitching a lot of like musical stuff or

like something with a musical element or

a character that played an instrument

for me to play and then I remember just

being like Oh I I should not like pinch

it hole myself as just like a theater

musical theater person but at the same

time that's like what you like exactly

so it's like a line I walk where it's

like that is a part of me and that's

like yeah but but then at some point

you're like I just want to make sure

that just as a like a writer for

yourself you're like you just want to

pitch all types of roles for you to play

yeah I think that what was really fun

for me when I created the character of

The Chosen cuz up until that point all

of my characters were just batshit crazy

like yelling nuts and so to make a

character that was the complete opposite

and for it to work was really fun wa I

never looked at it that way he very

grounded literally super quiet

sunglasses on no the whole point is to

have no expression and be quiet that's

so fun it's awesome it's much easier to

do uh but you know Courtney freaking

Miller I was doing for years and I was

like I my head hurts after doing that's

so interesting cuz I even noticed that

with BFF Legacy where it was like a

betrayal Legacy I was like I the first

half I was doing like what I thought was

just my bread and butter which was crazy

chaotic characters and then towards the

end I was like oh I want to play like

some weird like off-the-wall different

types of like another volume level of a

character and I was like I can do that

like it's and those often hit yeah cuz

you're like you're going against your

Norm taking your time yeah like wow yeah

dang that was good so I wouldn't say

it's an annoying thing I would say it's

I understand it Don Park assumes that

Shane just gets home and screams for a

few minutes after a long day of filming

before he cooks or something that

couldn't be more the uh opposite uh no I

I feel like I feel like even at work in

between things I'm like very downplayed

like I I'm not aoud person um typically

but definitely at home super quiet like

I go home I do cook that that part is

correct yeah but bu it on that uh but I

I no I I love not talking wait we should

talk about why we think we're loud like

because I'm not you're not necessarily a

loud person but on camera camera yeah

camera that's all they see it's because

I I think I think you and I are similar

in that regard of we commit really hard

CU I I've always been of the belief our

one of our former bosses Joe Beretta

always said this of just like anything's

funny if you commit 100% And so I'm I'm

a believer of that of like I don't think

a lot of things that I do are funny but

I'm just like but if I just go as hard

as I can it will be something and that

comes out in volume and it often if a

lot of times when I'm extra loud it's

cuz I don't I don't have any ideas so I

just get loud like truly and it's also

an improv thing of like picking a strong

emotion yeah I I was just watching

something recently or like talking to

somebody and I said it's more

embarrassing when you don't commit oh

100% you don't commit not committing is

the worst thing you can do it's one like

and I think and I thought back on the

times just being at Smash in the times

where I did not commit I felt back I

went back home just and felt so bad

about the moment because I didn't go

deliver all the way I didn't push all

the way through and I'm like whoo but

it's vulnerable it's so vulnerable to

try and try your hardest at something

and be like this is me trying sir spark

says I assume Keith's struggle with

cancer has changed the way he thinks of

himself and his job oh absolutely

absolutely um going through it I knew

once I got sick I was like I have to do

c certain things differently I knew that

I needed to go out and experience life a

little bit more but it was certain

things at the end I started to realize

like I had some like what of a negative

and nasty vile thing about me and I

think it might have been because I was

going through what I've gone through and

it just things growing up as a kid too I

feel like we hold on to so much of what

we've gone through and don't realize

that we're still holding on to it until

it's like whoo like why am I angry so

it's definitely changed me um I'm trying

to be

more cuz I do have I had to realize I

have somewhat of a a mean side

um sorry sorry he was looking at me like

yeah but like I do and it's like I

feel like sometimes I'm may be triggered

by stuff or whatever and me being

triggered does not justify me being a

but in that I'll say like in that

space you're feeling like it's a fight

or flight that comes back probably where

you're like I have to I have to like cuz

what a trigger is is taking you out of

the current moment and don't even know

what's going on don't know what's going

on but I think the more that it happened

and the more that I like allowed that

because I was going through stuff and

the more I allowed it to um just poke

out its head you get comfortable within

that so then you really like my mom

would always say what's in you is going

to come out and over time that kept

happening and it was just like okay

what's going on with me yeah what am I

with what aren't I like what am I not

dealing with let me try to deal and as

of recently like even just these past

few months I've been trying to be more

intentional with how I react to things I

still can go there and it's like it's a

process but also just being very um just

mindful you know like I do pray and I'm

just like yo and I instead of like

asking God for things I thank God for

them I'm said thank you God that I'm

kind to people thank thank you God that

I am nice thank you God that I make

people feel good cancer definitely

changed me um it didn't changeed me

overnight because now I'm finally

looking at my my issues you know I was

able to look at them and I know I got a

lot more and a lot more to dig down and

find um that I haven't necessarily

gotten to yet but the ones that I have

I'm like oh okay all right yeah yeah I

assume that the video where Keith was

enabling Angela's cheating made them

grow closer and more powerful a lot of

powerful references and they will now

strategically work together to take over

smos games awesome well honestly that's

not true you're assuming wrong because I

don't want that

job we will take it over won't do

anything I love smash games but I don't

want that job let's leave that to

Spencer and Alex I do feel like when you

and I are together um it it is fun to

just like um everybody a little bit and

I think you and I um love to cheat on

board games I don't know what it is

Arash is that way too this is the thing

I feel like cheaters sometimes win so if

we don't go for it we probably won't win

it's so true so let's just like make it

happen Captain yeah but like people like

Amanda chance oh they will not cheat

they and I don't because it's it's like

a moral thing and sometimes I'm like

it's just so funny yeah like honestly it

makes the videos more fun and of course

I wouldn't cheat like on a higher scale

of anything when it's a board game and

the stakes are high for no reason and

they're actually low it's fun exactly

yeah I mean I think let's be clear the

when we're playing a board game our goal

is to be funny like our goal our goal is

to make this board game funny because if

we played it all just genuinely very

seriously we'd be very quiet and we

would just be focused on the game um

I've seen debates on this cuz some

people of course get upset when they see

cheating they're like that's not fair

like that's but then other

people are like there it's just

entertainment I I think think all I can

say to those people is know that once we

cut we're all laughing about it like all

of us are laughing about it like we care

more about what we want is to make those

moments in a board game what sucks is

when we get through a board game and we

we cut and we're just like did we was

that good like that's what sucks and so

if someone cheats and makes it a big

moment it's like thank God thank God you

made that entertaining also like I'll

say that like it's so easy to forget

that we're playing the these games to

like a bunch of people who are doing

their jobs in the quiet like we can't we

don't have like an audience like to like

like tell me that this is funny or not

so truly I think that first video where

like we playing who MD it and you saw me

cheating and you started laughing at me

I'm like I'm going to do it again and

make him laugh again because we are each

other's audience like that's what we're

going for and if I made you laugh I'm

just going to do it again we'll get back

to assumptions but let's do uh this

little segment where we're going to have

yall create a tier list of these memes

that are y'all oh wow let's look at some

memes let's get it first one um Keith

that's none of my business Keith 2

seconds later going

for um that's like me in real life I'm

just it's not my business

okay it's accurate as you said um but I

don't think it's like standing out to me

yeah I'm not slapping my knee we're not

look this is the first one so this is

kind of I don't want to say it's it's

not M it's it's not but it's around B

orc see ooh depression uh me and my mind

uh so that's your mind slapping some

depression on you oh got it got you

that's heavy that's pretty good

relatable cuz that is the face you make

when you're like yeah I'm getting a wave

of anxiety and

depression um I think it's I think it's

it's good it's really good it's just I

think it's better than the first one

that we've got It's just sad okay we put

this a yeah all right Angela the

halftime

show oh at the Anthony's funeral funeral

halftime show you and chance brought it

killed and you brought it too yeah you

did just popped my back man it it was

great this is good I mean it's it's it's

just is it a roast I can't tell it's not

really a roast it's just kind of like

you you were you were sicko mode

yeah say sick

mode you there uh I think it's just kind

of me yeah it's like stating who what

we're doing

me watching Marvel somehow make a worse

show than She-Hulk okay uh so it's a

Marvel meme roast it uh they didn't

include the second part this to me is a

fail because it it's not the full meme

exactly you need the the last picture

just the Old Testament we need the New

Testament right right we need to finish

out yeah let's just put it over here put

it over there D maybe yeah but that is

an iconic meme of myself we don't have

it in the stock but I guess uh can

you'all rate that format of keth with

those those two images just as a whole

that that Meme in general I think is

very funny it's a popular for reason it

flies cuz it sets up ew well that's

that's great someone literally sent it

to me this morning like sucks in the

middle of filming this that's why how

often do you come across it um every few

months you know assumtion do you hate it

do I hate it okay no I don't like I

appreciate it because it makes people

feel good it makes people laugh the the

one part about is just like future like

in the future it's going to be there and

I don't know how mature I'm going to be

right now I'm a little immature so it's

like that's dope but later on it's like

Grandpa what are you doing here exactly

exactly or like say I decide to run for

office you know what I mean I don't

think I am but I just never know that

comes out that's great actually is

anyone ever going to want you to

officiate their wedding because in the

pictures they're always going to be like

is that the guy in the yeah oh that's no

it's actually kind of cool kind of AES

kind of cool yeah my mom's childish and

I think I'll be childish for the rest of

my life uh me minding my business

walking down the street random white

people yeah that that vine yeah it was a

Vine that that we made forever ago and

people are still people are now doing

this like I've seen this done in

different ways and I'm like this this uh

this meme has resurfaced a bunch of

times it usually includes Courtney as

well also doing the face what sucks is

it cuts off the end of the vine which is

my favorite part it's Olivia walking

into like a room she looks over and she

sees me and I'm just like and then she

looks over and she sees Courtney like

look at her with that face and then she

goes to turn around and then Joe is

right behind her like that's so funny

just white people everywhere doing that

face God this is the thing because I

love this but also because I've seen

people do it after you guys like they

totally took it oh for sure um I'm going

to say this is like A+ oh this is A+ but

also us white people were doing it all

the time yeah truly I catch myself doing

it all the time and I'm like damn m i Am

the meme and I'm doing it I forgot

that's a big meme too did y'all create

that we created it we we did that vine

forever ago so people don't realize like

we did that joke with the intention of

I'm doing the white guy face that's

crazy cuz that was before jokes became

Trends where you could now you could

take someone's joke in the name of a

trend and be like I'm doing this trend

exactly okay uh yeah when she stops you