Paul Smith apologises to Margaret before the rude jokes

Hot Water Comedy Club's fast-starting Short finds Smith meeting someone unfamiliar with both his online clips and his taste for swearing.

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Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 378,475 views a day, 58 times a normal first day on this channel (6,563).

Moody Margret | Paul Smith LIVE at Hot Water Comedy Club

TikTok draws a no. So does Instagram. When Paul Smith asks Margaret whether she knows who he is at all, the audience conversation becomes a warning about what she's booked herself into.

The exchange, posted by Hot Water Comedy Club as "Moody Margret | Paul Smith LIVE at Hot Water Comedy Club", passed 230,000 views in ten hours, far beyond the channel's usual start for a Short.

Margaret tells Smith she doesn't swear. He explains that swearing is rather central to his act, and that the rest of the room has arrived expecting precisely the material she might prefer to avoid. His solution is an apology in advance, rather than a promise to clean things up.

"You're not going to enjoy this, Margaret, I'm not going to lie," he tells her.

It's a different starting point from the club's recent clip with Norman the milkman: here, Smith has to introduce not just himself but the kind of comedy he does. The conversation itself supplies the material, with Margaret's brief answers leaving him to explain the awkward mismatch.

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The numbers

The Margaret clip is well above Hot Water Comedy Club's usual Short opening. Its first full day is not yet complete.

the video's first day

usual first day here

6,563

this video

378,475

subscribers

530,000

▲ 10,000 in the last 7 days

total views

563,341,827

views per day

993,869

typical day: 2,158,846

the video

views

231,025

likes

4,281

comments

121

days online

1

subscribers: this channel and similar channels

Don't Tell Comedy

2,470,000

Hot Water Comedy Club

530,000

Soho Theatre

161,000

As of November 10, 2026 · Data source: Trari Social News, Trari Traffic Trends and Ranking Platform, Google YouTube

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