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496 - Story Smash the Storytelling Gameshow LIVE at The Los Angeles Times Festival of Books on April 22, 2018

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Comedian, Hannesphinney, Shotgunstoryworthy, Storyworthy, Stories, Moth, Sideshownetwork, Comedy Interviews, Comedy, Comedians, Storytellingpodcast, Drama, Hollywood, Christineblackburn

4.1529 Ratings

🗓️ 14 May 2018

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Join host Christine Blackburn and expert judges Kelly Carlin, Matt Oswalt and Peter Mehlman for a fast and funny game of Story Smash The Storytelling Gameshow! Contestants spin the Wheel of Stories and tell a true, 1, 2 or 3 minute story on whatever topic they land on. Contestants include master storytellers- Paul Shirley, Melanie Maras, Margot Leitman, Christopher Rivas and Christina Anthony! Recorded on April 22nd 2018. Watch Story Smash the Storytelling Game Show on YouTube anytime! https://bit.ly/39OoTdw With your host Christine Blackburn and comedian Blaine Capatch, writer Danny Zuker and many more talented people like Wayne Federman, MaryLynn Rajskub, Melissa Peterman, Ed Crasnick, Wendi McLendon-Covey, and Greg Proops! Four comedians spin the Story Worthy Wheel of Truth and tell a true 1 or 2 minute story on the topic they land. The "expert judges" comment and everyone laughs their ass off. Story Smash sold-out consistently at the Hollywood Improv for 3 years. It's a blast! Check out the Story Smash website here- https://www.storysmashshow.com The Story Worthy Hour & 1/2 Of Power is now once a month on the third Sunday at 5:00pm PST, at Flappers Comedy Club in Burbank California! Watch 7 true hilarious stories in 1 hour! More info on the website- https://www.storyworthypodcast.com Please follow for free, rate, and review Story Worthy on Apple Podcasts here- http://apple.co/1MceZ2Q It really helps. Follow Christine and Story Worthy on Social Media- Instagram- https://www.instagram.com/storyworthy/ Twitter-https://twitter.com/StoryWorthy Facebook- https://facebook.com/StoryWorthy/ and at ChristineBlackburn.com. Thanks guys! Christine

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0:00.0

Hey, you guys, welcome.

0:05.0

Woo!

0:06.0

All right, you guys, welcome to Story Smash, the Storytelling Game Show, live at the Festival of Books.

0:14.0

And we are so excited to be here this year, you guys.

0:17.0

You have an amazing show lined up for you with some incredible talent,

0:26.0

but we're going to start the show off right away, and we're going to reveal the Wheel of Stories.

0:35.0

And there it is.

0:37.7

Beautiful.

0:41.3

All right, you guys, there are 13 permanent topics on the wheel.

0:43.3

There's two spaces that say audience.

0:46.8

If the contestant comes up and they land on audience, well, guess what?

0:52.3

It's your choice as to which story they tell, and our expert judges will choose the topic.

0:55.4

And there's also one space that says free.

0:58.8

If they land on that space, they can tell any topic on the wheel.

1:00.8

And we're going to get started right away, you guys,

1:02.7

and we're going to bring up our expert judges.

1:05.9

All right, you guys, coming out right now to the stage is Peter Melman.

1:11.6

He's a comedy writer and an author who worked on some little show for nine years called Seinfeld.

1:18.3

On Seinfeld, Peter coined such phrases as yada, yada, yada, shrinkage and double dipping.

1:18.8

Yes.

1:26.1

Peter was also the creator of the TV show, It's Like You Know, the Digital Series, The Narrow world of sports, and he's authored two successful books.

1:29.6

And that's ironic because we're at the festival of books.

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