Paul Smith turns a military application into Call of Duty comedy

A front-row conversation takes a gaming detour in Hot Water Comedy Club's unusually fast-starting "Juggernaught" Short.

Channel: Hot Water Comedy Club Story of November 12, 2026Trari Newsroom

Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 375,668 views a day, 56 times a normal first day on this channel (6,706).

Juggernaught | Paul Smith LIVE at Hot Water Comedy Club

Phil offers an explanation. Paul Smith hears a new line of attack.

The comedian is already teasing the front-row audience member about his tight white top when Phil mentions that he gets drug tested. Asked why, he replies: "Military application." Smith promptly imagines him as a Call of Duty Juggernaut carrying a Gatling gun, turning an answer about recruitment into a video-game comparison.

The exchange appears in "Juggernaught | Paul Smith LIVE at Hot Water Comedy Club", which has drawn about 428,000 views in 34 hours. That is far beyond the Liverpool club's usual start for a Short. Another Smith upload, "GUDJORN | Paul Smith LIVE at Hot Water Comedy Club", is also attracting views much faster than usual.

"Juggernaught" begins with Smith asking Lucy her name, before Phil returns to the seat beside her and redirects the conversation simply by arriving. Smith moves from clothing jokes into an acted-out impression of someone playing down their gym routine, then follows Phil's answers into the military material.

Among the comments, viewers pick out the laughter after the Call of Duty line and Smith laughing at his own jokes. The clip's main turn comes from a brief answer, not a long audience story: Phil supplies the application, and Smith supplies the heavy weaponry.

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The numbers

"Juggernaught" is well ahead of Hot Water Comedy Club's usual Shorts start, with "GUDJORN" also drawing an unusually large early audience.

the video's first day

usual first day here

6,706

this video

375,668

subscribers

533,000

▲ 10,000 in the last 7 days

total views

569,480,558

views per day

4,934,698

typical day: 1,958,454

the video

views

427,711

likes

10,077

comments

182

days online

2

subscribers: this channel and similar channels

Don't Tell Comedy

2,480,000

Hot Water Comedy Club

533,000

Soho Theatre

161,000

As of November 12, 2026 · Data source: Trari Social News, Trari Traffic Trends and Ranking Platform, Google YouTube

Subscriber, view, like and comment counts are YouTube's. Rates, usual days, rankings, comparisons and categories are Trari's own calculations.