YouTube Star Smosh

Smosh is an American web-based sketch comedy duo consisting of Ian Andrew Hecox and Anthony Padilla.

Padilla began posting flash animations on Newgrounds in 2003, under the name Smosh. He was later joined by his friend Ian Hecox. Soon afterward, they began to post videos on YouTube in the autumn of 2005 and became one of the most popular channels on that site.

As of January 2016, the Smosh channel has more than 21 million subscribers and 5.1 billion video views. The Smosh team has expanded to include others to handle animated, different language, and video gaming content videos and the sketches have included more actors.