Paul Smith's front-row Mario gets the Super Mario treatment

A name, an emphatic denial and a Bowser joke send Hot Water Comedy Club's crowd-work Short well beyond its usual start.

Channel: Hot Water Comedy Club Story of November 13, 2026Trari Newsroom

Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 71,850 views a day, 10 times a normal first day on this channel (6,844).

ITS-A ME, MARIO | Paul Smith LIVE at Hot Water Comedy Club

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The name is enough. An audience member introduces himself as Mario, and Paul Smith immediately has a supply of Nintendo references to work with.

In "ITS-A ME, MARIO | Paul Smith LIVE at Hot Water Comedy Club", Smith checks whether his front-row guest is older than the video-game character, then turns to the woman beside him. Is she "Mrs. Mario"? Her emphatic no becomes the next piece of material before she explains that they work together.

The Short drew about 44,000 views in ten hours, already comfortably beyond the channel's usual full first day for this format. Smith's conversations with the front row also feature throughout Hot Water Comedy Club's most-watched Shorts, including encounters about a comeback and a meeting in Portugal.

Here, Mario explains that he had originally intended to bring his wife. Smith reaches for Bowser as a possible explanation for her absence, before learning about their separation and eventually offering his guest an impromptu matchmaking service. Even Smith cracks himself up at the Mario-themed innuendo he finds for that.

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The numbers

The Mario clip has already passed Hot Water Comedy Club's usual first-day views for a Short, with its first day still unfinished.

the video's first day

usual first day here

6,844

this video

71,850

subscribers

534,000

▲ 9,000 in the last 7 days

total views

570,519,499

views per day

1,038,920

typical day: 2,256,078

the video

views

43,922

likes

1,690

comments

22

days online

1

subscribers: this channel and similar channels

Don't Tell Comedy

2,480,000

Hot Water Comedy Club

534,000

Soho Theatre

161,000

As of November 13, 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.