Not that Defy doesn't have big hopes for "Smosh the Movie," which stars Ian Hecox and Anthony Padilla, creators of the 10-year-old Smosh YouTube channel. It's just that Defy has already started ...

YouTube comedy network and studio Smosh hired casting director and actor Lesley Wolff, who is joining the company as director of on-air talent. Wolff will report directly to Ian Hecox, Smosh’s ...

Comedy group Smosh is scrubbed in for its next live digital special: “Smosh Hospital,” a spoof of TV medical dramas like “The Pitt,” “Grey’s Anatomy” and “E.R.” “Smosh Hospital” is billed as a ...

In Smosh vs. Christmas, Smosh cast members Shayne Topp, Amanda Lehan-Canto, and Angela Giarratana play a Dread one-shot with ...

Smosh, the sketch comedy YouTube channel previously owned by Defy Media, has been acquired by Mythical Entertainment, the company founded by YouTuber’s Rhett McLaughlin and Charles Lincoln “Link” Neal ...

I once did a research proposal on audience attachment to the character of Agent Cooper from Twin Peaks. While a large part of it had to do with symbols and extensive theory, a big piece of it came ...

YouTube comedy team Smosh is stealing a page from “Saturday Night Live” with their first-ever live Internet broadcast later this summer. Childhood buddies Padilla and Hecox, who started posting videos ...

The Smosh comedy team is launching 11 new shows this fall, as part of what digital studio Defy Media says is its most aggressive programming expansion to date with 17 original series. Led by original ...