Smosh
Smosh is a comedy collective founded by Ian Hecox and Anthony Padilla, making sketches, improv, games and podcasts with an ensemble cast.
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Known for
- Try Not To LaughImprov challenge · 2025 anniversary crew gauntlet
Smosh Pit - Smosh Reads Reddit StoriesStory reactions · 2024 marathon, released 2025
Smosh Pit - Bit CitySketch variety · 2026 guest director episode
Smosh - Smosh Summer Games: Class of 20052025 · Ensemble competition
YouTube - Spud Hut2025 · Improvised sitcom
Smosh
Overview
- Founded
- 2005
- Founders
- Ian Hecox and Anthony Padilla
- Roots
- Sacramento, California
- Breakout
- The 2005 Pokémon theme-song lip-sync
- Independent again
- Founders bought back control in June 2023
Mini bio
Two friends and a webcam.
Ian Hecox and Anthony Padilla became friends in sixth grade in Sacramento. Their early videos grew out of smosh.com before they found YouTube. In 2005, a lip-sync to the Pokémon theme song became their breakout, helping turn their homemade comedy into one of the platform’s early success stories.
An ensemble takes shape.
Smosh grew beyond its founding duo into a cast-driven comedy company. Its channels include Smosh, Smosh Pit and Smosh Games, with scripted sketches, improv challenges, gaming and podcasts. The founders also starred in Smosh: The Movie in 2015 and Ghostmates in 2016.
Back in their hands.
After a 2011 sale and Anthony’s departure in 2017, Smosh passed to Rhett & Link’s Mythical Entertainment in 2019. Ian and Anthony reunited to buy back a majority stake in June 2023. The independent collective now makes room for the ensemble alongside its founders, including projects such as Bit City, Spud Hut and live comedy events.
Creditschronological, newest first
Comedy and live shows
- 2026Smosh HospitalProducer and ensemble performers
- 2025Spud HutImprovised sitcom production
- 2024–presentBit CitySketch-variety production
Film
- 2016GhostmatesIan Hecox and Anthony Padilla, stars
- 2015Smosh: The MovieIan Hecox and Anthony Padilla, stars
Awards
Quotes
I think it's just providing a place for the funniest people to come togetherIan Hecox, interviewed by Jon Youshaei for Forbes
On Smosh’s future after the founders bought it back in 2023.
Trivia
- Ian’s mom is played by his actual mother. In their WIRED interview, Ian says she dislikes acting.
- Ian and Anthony say Smosh was YouTube’s most-subscribed channel on three separate occasions.
- Smosh became the first digital creators to receive Madame Tussauds wax figures.
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Follow the cast across sketches, games and everyday chaos.
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