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556 - Story Smash The Storytelling Gameshow LIVE at the Hollywood Improv!

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4.1529 Ratings

🗓️ 16 May 2019

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

Join host Christine Blackburn and expert judges, writer Peter Mehlman (Seinfeld), Gina Grad (Adam Carolla Podcast), and photographer Matt Oswalt 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 Comic Mindy Rickles, Broadway singer Rena Strober, Comic Johnny Cardinale, and comic Matt Knudsen! Recorded April 27th at The Hollywood Improv. 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 lab of the world famous Hollywood Improd.

0:03.0

Everyone makes some noise.

0:05.0

We're excited to have you here tonight.

0:08.0

We're Storytelling Story Smash.

0:12.0

And now, ladies and gentlemen, please welcome to the stage, the creator and host of Story Smash, Christine Blackburn.

0:20.0

Welcome to Story Smash, Christine Blackburn.

0:25.2

Welcome to Story Smash, the storytelling game show.

0:31.2

I am your host, Christine Blackburn, and we have such an amazing lineup for you guys tonight.

0:34.4

By round of applause, who has never been to Story Smash?

0:37.3

What is happening? Where have you been? Okay, listen, you guys, we have

0:40.3

an amazing show lined up for you guys, and we'll get started right away, and we will reveal

0:45.2

the wheel of stories. There are 12 permanent topics on the wheel, and there's one additional

0:53.8

space that says free.

0:55.2

If the contestant lands on free, then they can choose any topic on the wheel.

0:59.9

And if they land on audience, well, then that's when you guys come into play,

1:04.0

and you'll throw out some of the storytelling topics that you'd like to hear about.

1:07.9

So start thinking about it because somebody always lands on audience.

1:11.8

And then our expert judges will choose one of those topics for the contestant to use as their

1:16.4

topic. Yeah?

1:17.6

Yeah.

1:18.6

Okay, so start thinking of your story topics. And let's get right to the judges. Right away,

1:23.2

we'll get started. Our first judge coming to the stage right now is one of the funniest people on

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