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515 - Story Smash The Storytelling Gameshow LIVE at the Hollywood Improv August 25th!

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4.1529 Ratings

🗓️ 17 September 2018

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

Join host Christine Blackburn and expert judges Melissa Peterman, Frank DeCaro and Danny Zuker 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 comedy writer Lauren Reeves, actress Rebekka Johnson, writer Chase Mitchell, filmmaker Andre Hyland and audience member Isaac Taylor! Recorded August 25th 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

Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the Hollywood Improv Lab.

0:02.0

Make some noise.

0:04.0

Welcome to Story Smash, the storytelling game show.

0:07.4

Give it up for that.

0:08.5

Without further ado, let's bring up the creator and host of Story Smash.

0:13.8

Please put your hands together for Christine Blackburn.

0:26.6

Hi, thank you. Welcome to Story Smash, the Storytelling Game Show. My name is Christine Blackburn, and I'm so glad you guys are here tonight.

0:31.6

You're a darn good-looking audience, I'll say that.

0:34.6

And are you ready for some true stories?

0:36.6

Oh, yeah. Yes? Okay, we've got an amazing

0:39.4

lineup for you guys and we'll get started right away and reveal the wheel of stories.

0:48.1

There are 12 permanent topics on the wheel and there's one additional space that says free. If the contestant lands on free, then they can tell any story topic on the wheel and there's one additional space that says free if the contestant lands on free

0:55.6

then they can tell any story topic on the wheel there's also three spaces that say audience and if

1:02.2

the contestant lands on audience well then that's when you guys get involved and you shout out some of

1:07.4

your favorite story topics and from that our expert judges will choose one of those

1:12.2

topics, and then that's what the contestant will talk about. So you think you can do that?

1:15.9

All right. Let's get started right away, you guys. Our first judge coming to the stage is an expert judge,

1:21.9

and he's written for the New York Times, Entertainment Weekly, Newsweek, and Vogue. He also co-wrote and hosted five Oscar preview specials for Comedy Central,

1:30.8

and you've seen him on The Daily Show, Dateline, and CNN's Showbiz Tonight.

1:35.4

Please welcome to the stage, Frank DeCaro.

1:43.5

All right, next judge coming to the stage is an actress and a comedian,

1:47.4

and she's best known for her role as Barbara Jean on the TV series Reba.

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