So Disney hired a bunch of teenagers, made them guest stars even though they were basically the whole show, purposely left them out of the minimum number of episodes to qualify them as guest stars so they could be paid a lower rate. And then spent thousands and thousands on production design for that same show? Ik you guys joked about it but the level of mistreatment actors receive is really something else, especially KIDS!!
on the Wizards of Waverly Place podcast whenever stuff like this comes up (cos it comes up a lot) David Delouise is always like “grrr… Disney” 😠 they’re pretty notorious for these kinds of practices, such as rebranding shows like Zack & Cody into Suite Life on Deck to not have to meet a certain time to have to pay the actors residuals
They weren't really kids they were at least 19. I mean it's shitty but I don't know a single big company that doesn't hire half their employees as part time to cut down on benefit payments. I worked for the government at a hospital and even they did it. I was considered casual with no benefits and lower pay but working 45 hours a week. They would keep our name off the schedule and "call us in" every single day so we could be technically considered casual and not full time employees. We were actually below even a part time employee. It's shady but very common. Would be nice if they made such practices illegal although it would probably lead to many losing jobs altogether.
@@Idk_My_NameThis is a common misconception about Tilda Swinton. Tilda actually doesn't have feet. Tilda is a void of both reality and unreality at once. Tilda simply chooses a human form to make us comfortable, and it turns out we all have a foot fetish.
@@avamin.s i believe this is a 2 way joke referencing they booked so random but also Angela when she thought Arasha booked marvel and she yelled SHE BOOKED!!
i vaguely remember the shows they’re in so it’s like a weird fever dream that shayne and damien from smosh (that i watch as a 20 year old) were on so random and icarly (that i watched when i was 10)
@@s-s00 same lol i had to do a double take because i was confused why these two guys i watched on disney are in smosh videos. I thought I must have missed out on a lot since I stopped watching smosh hahahha
@@s-s00 I was aging out of teen shows by the end of iCarly but shaynes episode is definitely one I remember, mini-golf course in the apartment at all. That was def trippy to be like "OHH ITS THE GUY 👆"
"So, you must be Phillip Brownley from Briarwood Prep. Tip number one: Don't introduce yourself to Carly Shay. If you do, a 7-year-old named Trevor will ruin your freaking life. Tip number two..."
I vividly remember Shayne's Jack Sparrow impression and I used to be obsessed with that sketch as a kid, so finding out the guy from Smosh I'm STILL obsessed with played him was a trip for me 😭
When he first started on Smosh, I remembered him from So Random specifically because of the Jack Sparrow sketch, and was like "Hey, I know that guy, that's cool"
Shayne’s Harry Potter bit on So Random had me crying laughing as a child that was iconic. So Random was on when I was just phasing out of Disney age and it was one of my favorite shows
I feel like the friendship that Damian and Shane have had through out their time at smosh and before, was integral to smosh keeping the feeling of just two friends goofing off typa vibe.
Right? But from that alone i can kind of tell why it didn't last. They mentioned merchandising, but another thing I think they forgot is how much more censored kids television got starting around that time. I think _Girl Meets World_ is a great example of this because it's predecessor _Boy Meets World_ which did air on the Disney Channel was too "adult" to air on it by the time GMW happened and the show kind of flopped because of that. They could not follow through on the great Mr. Feeny talks 1) because you had only Cory and 2) the experience of life/the world needed a lot more edge than Disney allowed during that time.
What’s really interesting is that these are very different from the sketches that aired. Really shows how much they messed with the scripts during the week
Amanda's reactions of "holy shit that's weird but hilarious" actually totally validate the writers from this show. They are probably watching this like that one Leo meme thinking "That's EXACTLY what I was going for!"
i VIVIDLY remember that Olaf sketch. i loved so random as a kid and now, being 21, watching them on Smosh always feels like a full circle moment whenever they mention so random
@@Mack10011yeah, that hair colour looks really great on him. I never would have thought it would. Like, if someone were to tell me he was going to bleach it back when he had darker/black hair I would have thought it would look awful, but he really pulls it off well!
For some reason, at first I read this as "Damien's skin looks so good on him," which is technically a compliment, but sounds like a threat of some sort
hearing that Damien and Shayne are embarrassed of the olaf and jack sparrow scenes is insane. as someone who grew up around so random and is now 22 those scenes are part of my roman empire of this show
26:12 As someone who was more of a Nickelodeon kid than a Disney kid, I can confidently say that All That was filmed in front of a live studio audience. I wanted to be in the audience sooo bad
The fact that Damien and Shayne have met Miss Piggy is the best piece of info in this whole video and that is saying a lot because it was full of cool stuff.
So glad Damien got to be here (after being sick for the Halloween SmoshMouth ep). I watched Disney Channel in years prior to Sonny with a Chance/So Random, so its cool to hear the stories Shayne & Damien have from their time on the show.
I'm sure this will be buried, but I really enjoy hearing Shayne and Damian talk about their times on Disney. As a teenager watching disney channel with my younger siblings, I was beyond confused by what was happening with Sonny/So Random. It's so fun to hear them discuss it over the years, but this episode just brought to life a little nostalgia for watching this with my sisters and going "bro wheres that Demi girl?"
I looked up the Billy Mays sketch on youtube, and that pause Shayne mentions after his first line is there, but there's laughter over it, so it's unnoticeable. However, no one is going to remember that "mistake" because all of a sudden Tony Hawk pops up dressed as a lunch lady! So Random was a completely different animal
Ooh, and Angela, I want to see Angela react to it too, assuming she also hasn't seen it. Angela reacting to literally anything gives me life. She's so sweet and supportive while also capable of wearing multiple expressions on her face in 3 seconds. Angela, Amanda, Damien and Shayne watching the old clips together would be golden.
THE STARING CONTEST WAS CREATED BY THEM? ngl i did not recognise any other sketches that they talked about but as soon as Shayne started describing that one i had to pause and breathe for a second because that's a throw back man
Dude if they did a Try Not To Laugh episode but it was all So Random bits, I'd lose my actual mind laughing (edit: and imagine if it was a surprise for Shayne & Damien, or if they had more So Random cast on again... the possibilities are endless)
it’s actually so crazy how i remember watching all of these sketches on tv when i was younger but never made the connection that damien and shayne were the actors there until i started watching smosh, but like in my mind it’s just completely different people in my memories lol
haven’t finished the video yet but i just have to say, amanda looks SO dazzling in the rocketmoney ad. it’s giving luxury, it’s giving elegance, it’s giving EVERYTHING. amanda i’m so obsessed w you keep it up queen
Smosh is the only reason I know what so random is. The way they used to talk about it had me under the impression it lasted/ they did it for way longer than they actually did. I wish Goldbergs could have lasted longer! I loved the show before finding out Shane got on there & then seeing him was a truly awesome moment!
“So Random” only had one season, but it was functionally just a continuation of another show with a changed name, and everyone, including the audience, knew that. It was a long season, with 26 episodes. The show that it was a continuation of had 2 seasons with a total of 47 episodes. Taking those 2 together, that’s a normal episode run for Disney at the time. It’s a little low, but not abnormal. And the show (when I say ‘the show’ I mean both shows together) had a pretty large cultural impact on kids of that era.
I watched So Random growing up, like I used to DVR it if I was gonna miss it and loved a lot of the Zombie Man skits because Damien was so funny, to learn that he went onto Smosh still blew my mind. Not including my rekindling in Smosh now, I kinda stopped watching them around 2016--17 but I remember thinking I knew Shayne from somewhere LMAO. But literally, all I remember from the show not including Sonny with a Chance, was Zombie Man, the Socks and Sandals song, and the live performances XD. It was def surreal but a lot better than like Incredible Crew or Nick Team 10 or whatever that rebrand was lol.
20:10 SNL still uses cue cards, not teleprompters. They make a lot of changes the night of, during/after they record dress rehearsal. Jost and Che are especially infamous for this, as was John Mulaney because he would change Bill Hader’s lines for Stefan, which is why Bill would break and cover his face when he got to certain parts during the live airings. Dress is also where Lorne decides which sketches get cut. The cue card guys receive the changes they need to make and they rewrite the final sets of cards in time for the live show at 11:30.
I just love the way Damien holds himself. He is just so genuine in everything he says. Sometimes I disassociate and forget that other people are actual people and whenever Damien speaks it just reels me in and grounds me. Idk what it is but I really appreciate taht from him.
I'm surprised Disney never went for a sketch show seriously, given that Nick had All That for so long and spun out a couple shows out of that (Kenan and Kel, Amanda Show and then double spinoff Drake and Josh).
It was probably for the reason they mentioned here that they couldn't sell merchandise off this show cause there were no main characters and merchandise was what kept kid shows alive. Even Young Justice got cancelled cause not enough toy sells
As someone who was too old for the era of Disney shows that included "So Random", it was really cool to hear Shayne and Damien talk about it. I have heard them (and the other "SR" members) talk about the show and their time at Disney, in the past, but this time seemed much more informative about how Damien and Shayne were progressing and evolving, both together and alone, during this period of time in their lives. To see how far they have grown, and how much their lives have circled back around together, is so heartwarming and really displays the many depths of their friendship.
as someone currently in theatre school, I really look up to you guys. getting to hear about your acting journeys, audition experiences and your little offerings of advice make me feel like this is a possible career. thank you for sharing your craft with us and for being so transparent about the struggles that come with it!
I love hearing about everyone’s previous acting experiences. You should do more episodes interviewing the cast on their experiences/how they got to smosh. Would love to hear about Amanda’s time in improv/comedy clubs
Amanda's commentary when Damian is talking about the Anime brothers' costumes is amazing. Her face at 1:06:12 is the look of "help me, I don't know what they're talking about"
So Random was one of those fever dream shows that I remember happening, but no one really talked about it so I wasn't sure it actually existed until I found Smosh XD
it’s crazy how much i LOVED sonny with a chance and so random and had no idea who shayne and damien were back then and now i watch them consistently and smosh is one of my favorite youtube channels ever.
I got endlessly ridiculed by my "friends" for watching Disney channel. Turns out none of them were real friends, and looking back I wish I just did what I wanted without being afraid of getting made fun of.
What the fuck? But Disney is like...one of the most-watched things for kids??? That'd be like kids making fun of another kid for...having tennis shoes. Or drinking water at the water fountain. I mean, sure, that probably happens, but what the fuck, children?
@@yoyohayliIt definitely happens. People make fun of you no matter what you do. So I just be myself and I don’t listen to those people because they want you to feel bad.
the interesting thing to me is I felt like I was one of the few watching disney channel as a kid and I got made fun of for it too, however now with disney+ everyone is like “omg our childhood shows!” and I’m like ??? y’all acted like you were disgusted by disney and you were watching the whole time!
For anyone interested: I tried to find the meaning and origin of the name Zabo, and it looks like it may be a form of the Hungarian Szabó meaning “tailor”. Or that’s what google insists anyway. There was also some African results and even something from India. But I feel like the Hungarian route may make more sense in this case.
oh man, i used to love smosh and so random separately back when i was a kid. i had stopped watching smosh by the time the new cast came in, so i didn't know they were in it but i swear the only reason i got back into smosh after so many years was because i recognized shayne and damien and was like, "hey! i know those guys from so random!" what a full circle moment. their friendship is so sweet.
I would’ve been in middle school when this was out but don’t remember watching it at all even with a younger sibling. But when Shayne said “Simple Country Boy” that unlocked a deep memory of that phrase being buried deep in the vault of my brain somewhere. I looked to the camera like Raven having a vision.
Saved this episode for a bad day because I knew this was going to be such a mood booster. Never been so happy with a decision in my life, literally gave me the motivation and joy to go into an 12 hour nonstop shift tonight. Thank you three for just being you and brighting uo the day!
I really hope you guys do this again! Have Damien and maybe some other guests talk about and read through some past sketches and your experiences from So Random
This was such a fun and nostalgic episode for me, I remember a lot of these So Random sketches. And seeing Amanda’s point of view and how excited she is hearing about them is so wonderful
I love hearing you all talk about the industry and stuff. Its so interesting! I really love hearing about Damien and Shayne's friendship through the years or the wild scenarios you've all been through
I would love to see a table-read of “Teenie in a Bottle” with Matthew Scott on here. It never made it to air, but if Shayne has the script, I need this.
so happy to see damien on the podcast again!!! i love the dynamic of you three, would love to see you guys do another video similar to the two sentence horror one!
Amanda was strong in this having to listen to two friends talking abt the joys of their past. Which I absolutely loved hearing. I love listening to ppl I appreciate sharing their past, the thing that made them who they are. And ppl ush love sharing it. Like seen here ❤
Just refound Smosh again recently and have just started watching their videos again from when I was a kid. It’s so nice for this to be one of the first episodes I watch again since they’re reminiscing from that period ❤️🙌
I vividly remembered both Damien and Shayne from So Random when they mentioned it early on. I definitely knew they looked familiar when I started watching Smosh but couldn’t place them. Both of them are very talented people who also happen to be very good people as well. It’s rare to find men their age that are sensitive and compassionate the way they are and it’s refreshing to see it. Tons of people in the fandom have said it already but I’ll repeat it: Find someone like one of these two.
this is literally my holy grail smosh mouth ep like i fully believe i was the biggest so random fan as a kid 😭😭 i’ve also loved smosh for as long as i can remember so i’m so happy rn LOLLL i swear i remember all these sketches omg. there’s actually a video of me as a kid singing ketchup on everything that’s on youtube and it’s an inside joke in my whole family.. ALSO ERM DAMIENS LIL ZOMBIE SKETCH SCARED ME SM AS A KID SORRY DAMIEN BUT THE FACE HE WOULD MAKE AT THE CAMERA WHILE LIKE SHRUGGING SCARED ME SO BAD HAHAHHA
Funny enough I was at the taping of so random when justin bieber was a guest. Ironically was already watching smosh too. Funny how those worlds collided for me once again. Great pod episode!
The joy in my heart whenever y’all talk about So Random. I genuinely loved that show when I was younger like it was one of me and my sister’s favorites. It was so different from the other shows and we both loved SNL so it felt like that but just on Disney lol
31:07 omg Shayne would be amazing on that new dropout show “very important people” where they put comedians in surprise costumes (usually with lots of sfx makeup) and have them come up w a character and do an improv interview. The host is so funny and they’ve had some other RUclips ppl on ☺️
Oh this episode was so good! Was really good seeing damien and shayne getting all excited and pumped talking about the old days and amanda being so interested in it and genuinely curious about it. Well done guys! Also the anime bros totslly makes sense for those 2!
So Disney hired a bunch of teenagers, made them guest stars even though they were basically the whole show, purposely left them out of the minimum number of episodes to qualify them as guest stars so they could be paid a lower rate. And then spent thousands and thousands on production design for that same show? Ik you guys joked about it but the level of mistreatment actors receive is really something else, especially KIDS!!
on the Wizards of Waverly Place podcast whenever stuff like this comes up (cos it comes up a lot) David Delouise is always like “grrr… Disney” 😠 they’re pretty notorious for these kinds of practices, such as rebranding shows like Zack & Cody into Suite Life on Deck to not have to meet a certain time to have to pay the actors residuals
Came here to say exactly this, I felt outraged for them 😡
I know this is serious and I agree with you, guys, but angry emoji is so cute
They weren't really kids they were at least 19. I mean it's shitty but I don't know a single big company that doesn't hire half their employees as part time to cut down on benefit payments. I worked for the government at a hospital and even they did it. I was considered casual with no benefits and lower pay but working 45 hours a week. They would keep our name off the schedule and "call us in" every single day so we could be technically considered casual and not full time employees. We were actually below even a part time employee. It's shady but very common. Would be nice if they made such practices illegal although it would probably lead to many losing jobs altogether.
Disney doing shady business practices? I'm shocked... SHOCKED! Well, not that shocked.
This adds so much context to Shayne as Dio calling Damien "my anime brother" in the funeral roast
ohhhh wow you’re right and i finally understand why damien reacted the way he did
They really were Johnathan and Dio.
I loved Anime Brothers! No joke when I first saw Damien on Smosh back in the day, I showed my brother stating “LOOOK ITS THE OTHER ANIME BROTHER!!”
So glad they finally got Tilda Swinton on the Pod
Is she barefoot though
@@Idk_My_NameThis is a common misconception about Tilda Swinton. Tilda actually doesn't have feet. Tilda is a void of both reality and unreality at once. Tilda simply chooses a human form to make us comfortable, and it turns out we all have a foot fetish.
That’s a complete Damien roast. He’s never gonna recover from that.😂
@@yoyohayli you don't understand how hard I'm cackling at this 😭😭
@@sidp5381it's not a random roast, it's a reference to Damien playing Tilda on a Smosh video, think it was called "Shayne Topp's exes" or something
Damien gaming with the sprouse twins is NUTS lmao
and the fact that theyre minecraft roleplayers 😭😭😭 and damien thought they were weird 😭😭
58:50
not that weird, Cole in 2020 was visiting people's islands who had good turnip prices
THEY BOOKED!
THEY DIDDDD LMFAOO
Booked what?
@@avamin.sSo Random, 10 years ago.
@@XDZeven Oh, I thought they were talking about something new 😭
@@avamin.s i believe this is a 2 way joke referencing they booked so random but also Angela when she thought Arasha booked marvel and she yelled SHE BOOKED!!
I never thought I’d hear Shayne say again “GET BACK IN THE KITCHEN MA!” I swear this sketch lives rent free in my head😭
that sketch is genuinely so so good
I thought I was the only one!
As someone who watched So Random as a kid before getting hooked onto Smosh Pit as a teen - it is always crazy when the overlap is brought back up 😅
I watched smosh back in 2012-2016, but the reason I started watching them again is because I recognized Shayne and Damien from So Random lol
same!!! i was so excited when Damien was brought on
i vaguely remember the shows they’re in so it’s like a weird fever dream that shayne and damien from smosh (that i watch as a 20 year old) were on so random and icarly (that i watched when i was 10)
@@s-s00 same lol
i had to do a double take because i was confused why these two guys i watched on disney are in smosh videos. I thought I must have missed out on a lot since I stopped watching smosh hahahha
@@s-s00 I was aging out of teen shows by the end of iCarly but shaynes episode is definitely one I remember, mini-golf course in the apartment at all. That was def trippy to be like "OHH ITS THE GUY 👆"
When I was younger I used to genuinely have nightmares about zombieman played by damien. It actually helped to see him be a normal guy irl.
Just to clarify I was an older teen, not a kid. I just have ptsd so zombieman would set me off.
@@inazonitobe737 what😭
lmaoo
@@inazonitobe737From what, bath salts?
helped ... to make more realistic nightmares ???
If I ever see Shayne in real life I’m going to walk up to him and be like, “Shayne Topp? From Smosh right?”😂
Shayne Topp? From Dear Lemon Lima, right?
Shayne Topp? From SmoshMouth right?
Shayne Topp? From Internet Safety Video, right?
"So, you must be Phillip Brownley from Briarwood Prep. Tip number one: Don't introduce yourself to Carly Shay. If you do, a 7-year-old named Trevor will ruin your freaking life. Tip number two..."
Shayne Topp? From The Goldbergs, right?
I vividly remember Shayne's Jack Sparrow impression and I used to be obsessed with that sketch as a kid, so finding out the guy from Smosh I'm STILL obsessed with played him was a trip for me 😭
oh my god that is such a huge core memory for me i cannot believe that was shayne....
@@pochaccocino He was so good in it
Same tbh i thought it was a creepy costume 😅😂
That’s insane to find out just now omg. I really don’t remember that one though, I need to rewatch the show
When he first started on Smosh, I remembered him from So Random specifically because of the Jack Sparrow sketch, and was like "Hey, I know that guy, that's cool"
Shayne Zabo and Damien Johanssen are so funny man, love those guys
Great and hilarious actors. I hope we can see them again in the future, They've been super quiet since So Random stopped.
"Mom is so ancient, nobody knows how she was ever hot" Amanda is the best 😂 15:40
Shayne Zabo from So Random and Shayne Topp from Smosh Pit have finally become the same person in my head
30:52 lol Amanda finally realizing after nearly four years that Shayne and Damien are legit 😂
15:58 the way I confidently said “Shayne Bottomm”
my thought exactly
ME TOO LOL
@@artistbug7562also the two Ms is hilarious
Same lmao
Shayne’s Harry Potter bit on So Random had me crying laughing as a child that was iconic. So Random was on when I was just phasing out of Disney age and it was one of my favorite shows
I forgot that Shayne dyed his hair when he was younger bc I googled So Random and screamed when I saw brown- haired shayne. Caught me off guard lol 😂😂
No wonder i dont recall Shayne from So random lol!!!
Okay Amanda's hair looks GORGEOUS here.
She has like shampoo commercial hair every time I’ve seen her, it’s crazy.
She looked soooo good, i felt like she was glowing....
Her hair has been awesome lately!
"Child labor laws 😌"
"Ugh 🙄"
The detail of adding Shayne and Damiens scripts at the bottom during the Anime reading as substitutes for their subtitles is brilliant.
So sweet that Damien knew him and Shayne were going to be soulmates before they even talked
I feel like the friendship that Damian and Shane have had through out their time at smosh and before, was integral to smosh keeping the feeling of just two friends goofing off typa vibe.
So Random actually sounds funny. I always pictured a Disney Sketch Show for kids as cringy but the Garlic Garden sketch is legitimately genius
It was pretty good. Like All That, but I think Disney screwed it up by controlling it too much.
Right? But from that alone i can kind of tell why it didn't last. They mentioned merchandising, but another thing I think they forgot is how much more censored kids television got starting around that time. I think _Girl Meets World_ is a great example of this because it's predecessor _Boy Meets World_ which did air on the Disney Channel was too "adult" to air on it by the time GMW happened and the show kind of flopped because of that. They could not follow through on the great Mr. Feeny talks 1) because you had only Cory and 2) the experience of life/the world needed a lot more edge than Disney allowed during that time.
It’s kid SNL. Some of it’s funny.
Some.
@@469ka37girl meets world came out way after so random.
What’s really interesting is that these are very different from the sketches that aired. Really shows how much they messed with the scripts during the week
36:16 Hearing Damien read this in the same voice he did on So Random healed my inner child
Amanda's reactions of "holy shit that's weird but hilarious" actually totally validate the writers from this show. They are probably watching this like that one Leo meme thinking "That's EXACTLY what I was going for!"
Sometimes I miss people that I don't actually know. Damien is one of those people.
i VIVIDLY remember that Olaf sketch. i loved so random as a kid and now, being 21, watching them on Smosh always feels like a full circle moment whenever they mention so random
I also remembered the sketch having the teacher to do a pit fart cuz Olaf says hello by doing pit farts??
Damien: I’m embarrassed by this one
Also Damien: still gives it 200% 😂
@@notmyhairyarmpits they probably added that in after the first table read bc i remember that too
I legitimately don't know if these scripts will be legitimate or not due to Shayne's Shenanigans, Shaynanigans if you will. Will report back.
I mean we know they’re legitimate lol these are actual sketches you can go watch
I thought the same for a minute, until he showed that they were actually signed by the cast and stuff 😂
Report: they were real and not a bit for a Try not to Laugh podcast episode.
I just went and watched the garlic garden sketch so I can confirm
@@Lennus19 Yeah, the mystery was solved pretty quickly for my lol
Can't believe they got the dub VA for Laios from Delicious in Dungeon on the smoshcast
Damien Haas? From My Happy Marriage right?
Damien Haas? From GTA V?
damien’s skin looks so good in this vid- he’s literally radiant
Damien's been popping OFF recently. The hair, the clothes.. he's really not appreciated enough imo
@@Mack10011yeah, that hair colour looks really great on him. I never would have thought it would. Like, if someone were to tell me he was going to bleach it back when he had darker/black hair I would have thought it would look awful, but he really pulls it off well!
He’s freaking glowing. LOVE it
For some reason, at first I read this as "Damien's skin looks so good on him," which is technically a compliment, but sounds like a threat of some sort
It really does ✨
Amanda matched Shayne's wardrobe energy on this episode 😅
hearing that Damien and Shayne are embarrassed of the olaf and jack sparrow scenes is insane. as someone who grew up around so random and is now 22 those scenes are part of my roman empire of this show
I went to live tapings of both Sonny and so random- my goal is to bring my little lanyard pass thingies to a smosh thing for them to sign
26:12 As someone who was more of a Nickelodeon kid than a Disney kid, I can confidently say that All That was filmed in front of a live studio audience. I wanted to be in the audience sooo bad
So glad Damien is here for over a whole hour 😊 One of my fav guys 🤍
The fact that Damien and Shayne have met Miss Piggy is the best piece of info in this whole video and that is saying a lot because it was full of cool stuff.
I wonder if they realized the guy who did Miss Piggy's voice (Frank Oz) Also voiced Yoda
So glad Damien got to be here (after being sick for the Halloween SmoshMouth ep). I watched Disney Channel in years prior to Sonny with a Chance/So Random, so its cool to hear the stories Shayne & Damien have from their time on the show.
I'm sure this will be buried, but I really enjoy hearing Shayne and Damian talk about their times on Disney.
As a teenager watching disney channel with my younger siblings, I was beyond confused by what was happening with Sonny/So Random. It's so fun to hear them discuss it over the years, but this episode just brought to life a little nostalgia for watching this with my sisters and going "bro wheres that Demi girl?"
I missed Damien and Shayne together so much! This was such a treat 😭
I looked up the Billy Mays sketch on youtube, and that pause Shayne mentions after his first line is there, but there's laughter over it, so it's unnoticeable. However, no one is going to remember that "mistake" because all of a sudden Tony Hawk pops up dressed as a lunch lady! So Random was a completely different animal
Shayne trying to read the foreign exchange script without laughing:
“Interior classroom” 🐁🐥
36:27
😂😂
Please please please have a live rewatch with Amanda of So Random. It would be so incredibly funny.
Ooh, and Angela, I want to see Angela react to it too, assuming she also hasn't seen it. Angela reacting to literally anything gives me life. She's so sweet and supportive while also capable of wearing multiple expressions on her face in 3 seconds. Angela, Amanda, Damien and Shayne watching the old clips together would be golden.
THE STARING CONTEST WAS CREATED BY THEM? ngl i did not recognise any other sketches that they talked about but as soon as Shayne started describing that one i had to pause and breathe for a second because that's a throw back man
I was having Damien withdrawal but now I've seen him in like 3 videos so I'm much happier now.
Dude if they did a Try Not To Laugh episode but it was all So Random bits, I'd lose my actual mind laughing
(edit: and imagine if it was a surprise for Shayne & Damien, or if they had more So Random cast on again... the possibilities are endless)
it’s actually so crazy how i remember watching all of these sketches on tv when i was younger but never made the connection that damien and shayne were the actors there until i started watching smosh, but like in my mind it’s just completely different people in my memories lol
Amanda's face at 1:01:40 after the Shayne and Damien anime laughter is perfect
haven’t finished the video yet but i just have to say, amanda looks SO dazzling in the rocketmoney ad. it’s giving luxury, it’s giving elegance, it’s giving EVERYTHING. amanda i’m so obsessed w you keep it up queen
Amanda's coat during the ad break is so slay
Smosh is the only reason I know what so random is. The way they used to talk about it had me under the impression it lasted/ they did it for way longer than they actually did.
I wish Goldbergs could have lasted longer! I loved the show before finding out Shane got on there & then seeing him was a truly awesome moment!
“So Random” only had one season, but it was functionally just a continuation of another show with a changed name, and everyone, including the audience, knew that. It was a long season, with 26 episodes. The show that it was a continuation of had 2 seasons with a total of 47 episodes. Taking those 2 together, that’s a normal episode run for Disney at the time. It’s a little low, but not abnormal. And the show (when I say ‘the show’ I mean both shows together) had a pretty large cultural impact on kids of that era.
I watched So Random growing up, like I used to DVR it if I was gonna miss it and loved a lot of the Zombie Man skits because Damien was so funny, to learn that he went onto Smosh still blew my mind. Not including my rekindling in Smosh now, I kinda stopped watching them around 2016--17 but I remember thinking I knew Shayne from somewhere LMAO. But literally, all I remember from the show not including Sonny with a Chance, was Zombie Man, the Socks and Sandals song, and the live performances XD. It was def surreal but a lot better than like Incredible Crew or Nick Team 10 or whatever that rebrand was lol.
20:10 SNL still uses cue cards, not teleprompters.
They make a lot of changes the night of, during/after they record dress rehearsal. Jost and Che are especially infamous for this, as was John Mulaney because he would change Bill Hader’s lines for Stefan, which is why Bill would break and cover his face when he got to certain parts during the live airings.
Dress is also where Lorne decides which sketches get cut. The cue card guys receive the changes they need to make and they rewrite the final sets of cards in time for the live show at 11:30.
I MISSED DAMIEN ON THIS SHOW ❤️❤️❤️
Adam Savage (and others!) have said the same thing about the Muppets. The puppeteers are soo good that you forget the Muppet isn't living. So cool.
I just love the way Damien holds himself. He is just so genuine in everything he says. Sometimes I disassociate and forget that other people are actual people and whenever Damien speaks it just reels me in and grounds me. Idk what it is but I really appreciate taht from him.
I love Damian's voice modulation a lot, it's really unique. Hope you guys get booked ✨☺️
I'm surprised Disney never went for a sketch show seriously, given that Nick had All That for so long and spun out a couple shows out of that (Kenan and Kel, Amanda Show and then double spinoff Drake and Josh).
It was probably for the reason they mentioned here that they couldn't sell merchandise off this show cause there were no main characters and merchandise was what kept kid shows alive. Even Young Justice got cancelled cause not enough toy sells
Nick has real advertisers and Disney doesn’t so I’m assuming that it worked more for Nick bc of that
As someone who was too old for the era of Disney shows that included "So Random", it was really cool to hear Shayne and Damien talk about it. I have heard them (and the other "SR" members) talk about the show and their time at Disney, in the past, but this time seemed much more informative about how Damien and Shayne were progressing and evolving, both together and alone, during this period of time in their lives. To see how far they have grown, and how much their lives have circled back around together, is so heartwarming and really displays the many depths of their friendship.
I'm so glad that Shayne and Damien made it out of the meat grinder that is being a child actor (mostly) okay.
have they mentioned any bad moments with disney??
@@blammmed From Disney specifically? None that I can remember.
as someone currently in theatre school, I really look up to you guys. getting to hear about your acting journeys, audition experiences and your little offerings of advice make me feel like this is a possible career. thank you for sharing your craft with us and for being so transparent about the struggles that come with it!
This has legit been my absolute favorite episode I have been dying to hear Shayne and Damien talk about their disney experience 🙌
It’s a privilege still be watching the same people that I watched on one of my favorite tv shows growing up
i’m freaking out bro-so random content is everything
It's fun to see that Shayne and Damien have always been this way
I love hearing about everyone’s previous acting experiences. You should do more episodes interviewing the cast on their experiences/how they got to smosh. Would love to hear about Amanda’s time in improv/comedy clubs
Amanda's commentary when Damian is talking about the Anime brothers' costumes is amazing. Her face at 1:06:12 is the look of "help me, I don't know what they're talking about"
So Random was one of those fever dream shows that I remember happening, but no one really talked about it so I wasn't sure it actually existed until I found Smosh XD
damien looks extra lovely in this video😫
it’s crazy how much i LOVED sonny with a chance and so random and had no idea who shayne and damien were back then and now i watch them consistently and smosh is one of my favorite youtube channels ever.
I got endlessly ridiculed by my "friends" for watching Disney channel. Turns out none of them were real friends, and looking back I wish I just did what I wanted without being afraid of getting made fun of.
What the fuck? But Disney is like...one of the most-watched things for kids??? That'd be like kids making fun of another kid for...having tennis shoes. Or drinking water at the water fountain. I mean, sure, that probably happens, but what the fuck, children?
@@yoyohayliIt definitely happens. People make fun of you no matter what you do. So I just be myself and I don’t listen to those people because they want you to feel bad.
They all seemed to like me when I graduated to The Sopranos... so .. I guess it sort of worked out
the interesting thing to me is I felt like I was one of the few watching disney channel as a kid and I got made fun of for it too, however now with disney+ everyone is like “omg our childhood shows!” and I’m like ??? y’all acted like you were disgusted by disney and you were watching the whole time!
@@DaxRED-j6n I mean, let's be real. Sopranos is fucking peak.
For anyone interested: I tried to find the meaning and origin of the name Zabo, and it looks like it may be a form of the Hungarian Szabó meaning “tailor”. Or that’s what google insists anyway.
There was also some African results and even something from India. But I feel like the Hungarian route may make more sense in this case.
I was gonna say, Zabo sounds Hungarian
oh man, i used to love smosh and so random separately back when i was a kid. i had stopped watching smosh by the time the new cast came in, so i didn't know they were in it but i swear the only reason i got back into smosh after so many years was because i recognized shayne and damien and was like, "hey! i know those guys from so random!" what a full circle moment. their friendship is so sweet.
I would’ve been in middle school when this was out but don’t remember watching it at all even with a younger sibling. But when Shayne said “Simple Country Boy” that unlocked a deep memory of that phrase being buried deep in the vault of my brain somewhere. I looked to the camera like Raven having a vision.
I could listen to Shayne & Damien talk about So Random all day.
Saved this episode for a bad day because I knew this was going to be such a mood booster. Never been so happy with a decision in my life, literally gave me the motivation and joy to go into an 12 hour nonstop shift tonight. Thank you three for just being you and brighting uo the day!
As someone who legitimately watched this show growing up, SCREAMING
I really hope you guys do this again! Have Damien and maybe some other guests talk about and read through some past sketches and your experiences from So Random
I think there’s an old podcast that exists that already has this where they included other members from the show
I’m so happy for this podcast. I’ve been missing Damien. Love the boys dynamic. The anime stuff could really be a fabulous show.
IT'S A PARTY GET DOWN!
SO RANDOM!!!
This was such a fun and nostalgic episode for me, I remember a lot of these So Random sketches. And seeing Amanda’s point of view and how excited she is hearing about them is so wonderful
I love hearing you all talk about the industry and stuff. Its so interesting! I really love hearing about Damien and Shayne's friendship through the years or the wild scenarios you've all been through
omg thank you for immediate captions, they're so helpful
I can't believe Shayne would forget his 3rd wife Loretta! They were like family
I would love to see a table-read of “Teenie in a Bottle” with Matthew Scott on here. It never made it to air, but if Shayne has the script, I need this.
You two just unlocked memories of watching So Random for me! Its so cool to hear your stories and stuff from then!
Brandon Mychal Smith breaking Sterling Knight in Helmet Ninjas will forever take me down. That step-step-jump back had me in shambles. 😭
so happy to see damien on the podcast again!!! i love the dynamic of you three, would love to see you guys do another video similar to the two sentence horror one!
Amanda was strong in this having to listen to two friends talking abt the joys of their past. Which I absolutely loved hearing. I love listening to ppl I appreciate sharing their past, the thing that made them who they are. And ppl ush love sharing it. Like seen here ❤
Just refound Smosh again recently and have just started watching their videos again from when I was a kid. It’s so nice for this to be one of the first episodes I watch again since they’re reminiscing from that period ❤️🙌
i didn’t remember damien’s foreign skit until watching this and hearing *the voice* omg the memories are flooding back
literally rewatched the last episode with damien in it last night, you guys always get me
Amanda’s hair eats today, i love her sm
damn - to think that Shayne considered later (about 2014) to move away from acting due to lack of work.
He and Damien are quite the assets at Smosh.
I vividly remembered both Damien and Shayne from So Random when they mentioned it early on. I definitely knew they looked familiar when I started watching Smosh but couldn’t place them. Both of them are very talented people who also happen to be very good people as well. It’s rare to find men their age that are sensitive and compassionate the way they are and it’s refreshing to see it. Tons of people in the fandom have said it already but I’ll repeat it: Find someone like one of these two.
Honest about flaws and constantly keeping space for others it's really swoon worthy imo ❤
@@tawnyew It's very swoon-worthy. I haven't dated by choice for five years and I wish I had more certainty that Shaynes and Damiens aren't unicorns.
You can tell how much Damien really loves Shxun, and is so glad to be friends with him here
this is literally my holy grail smosh mouth ep like i fully believe i was the biggest so random fan as a kid 😭😭 i’ve also loved smosh for as long as i can remember so i’m so happy rn LOLLL i swear i remember all these sketches omg. there’s actually a video of me as a kid singing ketchup on everything that’s on youtube and it’s an inside joke in my whole family.. ALSO ERM DAMIENS LIL ZOMBIE SKETCH SCARED ME SM AS A KID SORRY DAMIEN BUT THE FACE HE WOULD MAKE AT THE CAMERA WHILE LIKE SHRUGGING SCARED ME SO BAD HAHAHHA
I thought this would be random smosh scripts but then realized what it actually was and got super excited.
Funny enough I was at the taping of so random when justin bieber was a guest. Ironically was already watching smosh too. Funny how those worlds collided for me once again. Great pod episode!
The joy in my heart whenever y’all talk about So Random. I genuinely loved that show when I was younger like it was one of me and my sister’s favorites. It was so different from the other shows and we both loved SNL so it felt like that but just on Disney lol
31:07 omg Shayne would be amazing on that new dropout show “very important people” where they put comedians in surprise costumes (usually with lots of sfx makeup) and have them come up w a character and do an improv interview. The host is so funny and they’ve had some other RUclips ppl on ☺️
Oh this episode was so good! Was really good seeing damien and shayne getting all excited and pumped talking about the old days and amanda being so interested in it and genuinely curious about it. Well done guys! Also the anime bros totslly makes sense for those 2!