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Not to be confused with The Smosh Pit, a former section on Smosh.com.

"Welcome to the Smosh Pit. It's like our other channel, but...different?"
Channel Description

Smosh Pit (formerly named IanH and Smosh 2nd Channel and formerly stylized as SMOSH P!T) is Smosh's official "second channel" on YouTube. It is used to present more improv-based shows such as Squad Vlogs and The Show That Has No Name!. The channel has over 8 million subscribers as of December 2023. It was renamed Smosh Pit on August 14, 2017, an event that coincided with the addition of new shows (see below).

Following November 7, 2018, activity on the channel had decreased significantly due to Smosh’s parent company Defy Media shutting down; however, videos continued to be uploaded weekly on Tuesdays starting November 13, 2018. Until Smosh's acquisition by Mythical Entertainment, Smosh continued to release videos on Smosh Pit, either videos that were saved from the days of Defy, or videos they'd shot and edited themselves.

After Mythical bought Smosh, they began uploading on the channel on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and much later, on Saturdays. At present, Tuesday uploads are designated for Try Not To Laugh Challenge alternating with regular videos and Culinary Crimes, and Saturday uploads are designated for Reading Reddit Stories. All other shows are reserved for Thursday uploads (see below).

History[]

Channel's Beginning and Smosh is Bored[]

Smosh Pit was created on November 24, 2005 as IanH, exactly 6 days after Smosh's main channel. The channel's primary use was for Ian to watch and comment on other YouTube videos.

From the beginning, Ian uploaded Smosh-related videos rather than personal videos. The channel was not frequently used, and mostly consisted of videos about the Smosh cast's normal life, contest winners, and commercials for Smosh merchandise.

The channel's first series, A Day in the Life of Smosh, debuted on March 17, 2006. The series had no schedule and would at times go for months without new episodes. A Day in the Life of Smosh ended in May 2008 with just ten episodes.

After going nearly two years without a new series, Ian decided to start his own series on the channel titled Ian is Bored, which began airing on February 5, 2010, with new episodes uploaded every Monday. The early episodes consisted of Ian doing various, mostly random things. The series later grew in popularity and started featuring a sub-series called Mailtime with Smosh with Anthony also becoming a regular guest on the series. In June 2014 the series was re-branded as Smosh is Bored. On August 26, 2010, Ian and Anthony began another series called Lunchtime with Smosh began.

The weekly schedule was originally set with Ian is Bored airing on Mondays and Lunchtime with Smosh on Thursdays, but on October 15, 2012, both series began to be aired bi-weekly on Mondays, giving Ian and Anthony extra time to work on their new channel, Smosh Games. In 2013, the channel was renamed to "Smosh 2nd Channel", with the channel focused around Smosh is Bored.

Addition of More Shows and Second Renaming[]

In the Ian is Bored episode "WORST AUDITION EVER!" Ian auditioned several girls for the position of host for a new show on the channel. After viewers voted for their favourite, Mari Takahashi was announced as the winner in the episode "MEME SCHOOLGIRL!". The series (titled Smosh Pit Weekly) debuted on April 23, 2011, becoming the first Smosh series to be hosted by someone besides Ian or Anthony.

After four years and 227 episodes, Smosh Pit Weekly was replaced in 2015 by Noah Grossman's show Put it in My Mouth and Courtney Miller and Olivia Sui's show Seriously Super Stupid Sleepover. During the month-long event Smoshtober in 2016, two other shows were added: Smosh Lab, hosted by Shayne Topp and Nick Uhas, and The Show w/ No Name!, starring all of the Smosh Family in varying group formats. Squad Vlogs, considered to be the Smosh Squad's equivalent to Smosh is Bored, began airing on November 12, 2015.

On April 22, 2017, Put it in My Mouth ended after 45 episodes, and Seriously Super Stupid Sleepover ended on May 27, 2017 after 44 episodes. After Anthony's departure from Smosh, Lunchtime with Smosh, Mailtime with Smosh and Smosh is Bored also came to an end.

The first video in the Try Not To Laugh Challenge series was released on March 23, 2017, as a part of Squad Vlogs, becoming so popular with Smosh viewers that it was turned into a semi-independent series on November 1, 2018.

On April 28, 2017, This Week in Smosh was added to the channel, airing on Fridays, to give viewers a behind the scenes look at everything happening in Smosh that week.

On July 28, 2017, in the video "What's going on with Smosh?!", Ian announced that Smosh 2nd Channel was going to be officially renamed "Smosh Pit", and that multiple new shows that were coming to the channel; these included One Hour Song Machine, hosted by Keith Leak Jr., and Whoa! Nature Show, hosted by Courtney and Olivia. The official return of Smosh Pit Weekly was also announced, with Mari returning as the host of a "revamped" version of the show.

One Hour Song Machine debuted on August 14, 2017, with Whoa! Nature Show debuting two days later on August 16, 2017.

The revamped Smosh Pit Weekly debuted on August 19, 2017, hosted by Mari with guest appearances from everyone in the Smosh Family. For unknown reasons Damien and Shayne took up hosting on January 8th, 2018.

Smosh Pit Weekly was put on hiatus March of 2018, just seven months after its debut. Smosh Lab was put on hiatus that October, and This Week in Smosh and One Hour Song Machine were put on hiatus in November, along with Whoa! Nature Show in December. Therefore, in 2017 alone five series were cancelled and four put on hiatus, with two of the series airing for less than ten episodes.

On July 3, 2018, 2 Truths 1 Lie began airing.

The final Smosh Pit video before Defy Media's shutdown was uploaded on November 6, 2018, with a new pre-recorded episode being released each Tuesday from November 13, 2018; these originally consisted of various videos from series that were still airing before the halting of all video production, and later began to be simpler videos filmed afterward, usually created in Ian's house, similar to the new videos released on Smosh's main channel.

Acquisition by Mythical Entertainment[]

On February 22, 2019, the video The rumors are true... WE FOUND A HOME! was released, announcing that Smosh had been bought by Rhett & Link and was now a part of Mythical Entertainment. As a part of this announcement, it was confirmed that Smosh Pit would be returning alongside the other main Smosh Channels.

The first video released after this announcement was TRY NOT TO LAUGH CHALLENGE 17 w/ THE VALLEYFOLK, which was released on February 26, 2019, confirming Try Not To Laugh Challenge as a series on the channel, which officially became its own series on November 1, 2018, having previously been a part of Squad Vlogs.

Since then, weekly highlights of the SmoshCast have been released before the YouTube release of the SmoshCast until April 10, 2019, when the highlight clips were moved to the SmoshCast.

On May 7, 2019, Eat It or Yeet It began airing whilst The Challenge Pit, Smosh Pit Theater, 2 Truths 1 Lie, Squad Vlogs and Why We're Bad At Dating began alternating on Thursdays, alongside other Smosh Pit videos. From 2020 to 2022, series such as Beopardy, What Would Blank Do?, Casting Ourselves, Agree to Disagree and Reading Reddit Stories began airing on the channel.

On November 1, 2022, as a result of the reformatting of Smosh Games, game shows such as Stan Vs Internet, What're Those!? and Who Memed It? were moved to the Smosh Pit channel. However, only Who Memed It? continued to air, as the former two shows have since been inactive after releasing only a single episode each.

On March 4, 2023, the channel began releasing videos on Saturdays, which was dedicated to casual shows such as Agree to Disagree, 2 Truths 1 Lie, Reading Reddit Stories, and Why We're Bad At.... However, due to the strong viewership of Reading Reddit Stories, the show began releasing episodes weekly since April 29, 2023, becoming the only show across the Smosh channels to do so currently (apart from the Smosh Mouth podcast), and the other shows reverted to releasing episodes on alternating Thursdays.

Independent era[]

On August 24, 2023, You Posted That?, Smosh's first game show that originally aired on the main channel, was moved to the Smosh Pit channel on alternating Thursdays due to the return of sketch comedy videos on the former channel.

On January 23, 2024, Eat It or Yeet It aired its final episode, and was partially replaced by Culinary Crimes which began airing on November 3, 2023. Other videos also began to be uploaded on alternating Tuesdays from this point.

On September 19, 2024, the channel's newest recurring series, Phone It In, began airing.

Series[]

Series Status Start Date End Date
A Day in the Life of Smosh Cancelled March 17, 2006 May 9, 2008
Agree to Disagree Cancelled March 24, 2022 May 25, 2023
Beopardy Current May 19, 2020 N/A
Casting Ourselves Cancelled August 26, 2021 December 30, 2021
Culinary Crimes Current November 9, 2023 N/A
Day Jobs Cancelled September 22, 2018 October 28, 2021
Eat It or Yeet It Ended May 7, 2019 January 23, 2024
First Time Story Time Cancelled May 9, 2018 June 13, 2018
Hacking Off Cancelled October 24, 2019 November 19, 2020
Lunchtime with Smosh Cancelled August 26, 2010 May 15, 2017
Mailtime with Smosh Cancelled December 20, 2010 January 2, 2017
One Hour Song Machine Cancelled August 14, 2017 November 1, 2017
Phone It In Current September 19, 2024 N/A
Put it in My Mouth Cancelled August 29, 2015 April 22, 2017
Reading Reddit Stories Current February 17, 2022 N/A
Sandwich Artist Cancelled April 15, 2021 May 6, 2021
SmoshCast Highlight Moved channels February 27, 2019 Moved to SmoshCast
Smosh is Bored Cancelled February 5, 2010 May 29, 2017
Smosh Lab Cancelled October 5, 2016 October 4, 2017
Smosh League Ended November 3, 2020 November 12, 2020
Smosh Pit Theater Current June 27, 2019 N/A
Smosh Pit Weekly Cancelled April 23, 2011 August 22, 2015
August 19, 2017 March 3, 2018
Smosh Reacts to Stuff Current August 17, 2023 N/A
Smosh's Seriously Super Stupid Sleepover Cancelled September 5, 2015 May 27, 2017
Squad Vlogs Current November 12, 2015 N/A
Spelling Bee-Kini Wax Cancelled January 28, 2020 November 19, 2020
Stan Vs Internet Cancelled January 31, 2020 (Moved from Smosh Games on November 1, 2022) November 17, 2022
Stan Vs Normies Cancelled March 19, 2021 (Moved from Smosh Games on November 1, 2022) January 12, 2023
The Challenge Pit (2019) Cancelled March 5, 2019 May 20, 2021
The Challenge Pit (2023) Current February 3, 2023 N/A
The Show w/ No Name! Cancelled October 4, 2016 December 25, 2018
This Week in Smosh Cancelled April 28, 2017 November 17, 2017
Try Not To Laugh Challenge Current November 1, 2018 N/A
What're Those!? Cancelled April 25, 2016 (Moved from Smosh Games Alliance on May 27, 2017 to Smosh Games, then from Smosh Games on November 1, 2022) November 17, 2022
What Would Blank Do? Current August 12, 2021 N/A
Who Memed It? Current August 31, 2021 (Moved from Smosh Games on November 1, 2022) N/A
Whoa! Nature Show Cancelled August 16, 2017 December 6, 2017
Why We're Bad At... Cancelled April 4, 2019 April 8, 2023
You Posted That? Current November 13, 2017 (Moved from Smosh on August 24, 2023) N/A
2 Truths 1 Lie Current May 22, 2018 N/A

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