Ep. 45 TomSka- Ear Biscuits

Ear Biscuits with Rhett & Link

Mythical

Comedy

4.9 • 25.1K Ratings

🗓️ 15 August 2014

⏱️ 70 minutes

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In one of the most poignant episodes of the series to date, Thomas Ridgewell, known as TomSka, joins Rhett & Link to discuss how he finds comedy in the subversion of expectations, why his religious upbringing led to his current agnostic beliefs, why he decided to make and release a legitimate sex education video on his otherwise comedic channel, and how losing his best friend and business partner, Ed Gould, to Leukemia changed his life forever.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Airbuskets, I'm Link.
0:04.4	And I'm Rhett, it's time for another conversation
0:06.4	with someone interesting from the internet.
0:08.3	And this week that person is Thomas Ridgewell,
0:10.6	AKA Tom Skah.
0:12.2	Yep.
0:13.1	Tom first became known for his co-authorship
0:15.5	and voiceover work on the popular animated series
0:17.5	online Ed's World.
0:19.5	And also way back in 2006, he started his own YouTube channel,
0:22.3	Tom Skah, basically sketch comedy animations
0:26.8	and action videos.
0:27.9	We've been huge fans of Tom.
0:29.6	We were elated to find out that he knew of our work
0:32.2	from way back in the day.
0:34.6	So it was really cool to catch up with him at VidCon
0:37.2	to have this conversation.
0:39.0	His channel is approaching three million subscribers.
0:42.3	He's got over 525 million views.
0:46.0	And he's updating his content regularly,
0:49.3	showcasing his distinct sense of humor.
0:52.2	Here's a little sample of his work in this sketch,
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