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Comedy is a fickle medium. What's funny to one is not funny to another. Moreover, what passes as comedy in some environments is considered rude or inappropriate in others. Latter-day Saints are no strangers to comedy, having pursued it with varying degrees of success. BYUtv is eager to capitalize on the need to bring appropriate, uplifting comedy to the masses, and it has done so with its new hit improv comedy show, Show Offs. Lest you be confused, Show Offs is not just improv in the vein of Whose Line Is It, Anyway? Rather, it is long-form improvisational comedy neatly packaged for families. It's great.

Two stars of the show, Hailey Smith and Lisa Valentine Clark, who joined us four years ago to promote One I Was a Beehive, are back in the studio to discuss comedy as it pertains to Latter-day Saints, the unique struggles and opportunities they face not just as women in comedy, but Mormon women in comedy, how they work with Hollywood A-listers (and keeping some of them clean is part of the fun), and what it's like to continue working in a Utah-based market for so many years.

Transcript

Geoff Openshaw:

[0:00] Hey hey hey it this week in Mormons,

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so we're thrilled to be joined today by none other

than esteemed comedienne-actor — I don't know exactly which gender pronouns are using nowadays — Hailey Smith of Show Offs.

Hailey Smith:

[0:46] Hey how's it going.

Geoff Openshaw:

[0:48] I'm doing great thanks so much for being here how are you doing.

Hailey Smith:

[0:51] Oh I am doing great so happy to be here thank you.

Geoff Openshaw:

[0:56] Just just a quiz you do you know where you are and that do you know what show you're on right now I want to see if you ask.

Hailey Smith:

[1:02] Oh I had something with something about this week or I'm familiar with the group.

Geoff Openshaw:

[1:12] Did you remember that you were actually on the show Once 4 years ago.

Hailey Smith:

[1:16] I do remember that yeah it was good times have I had to buy all with a few technical difficult.

Geoff Openshaw:

[1:25] We both have a lot of technical difficulties that was on here as well with Lisa Valentine Clark once I was a beehive so I think it's streaming scriptures or something like that,

I think so.

Hailey Smith:

[1:41] Yeah I know it.

Geoff Openshaw:

[1:43] It might even be on Amazon Amazon Prime Prime Cut a random sore LDS related films to but.

Hailey Smith:

[1:48] Yeah.

Geoff Openshaw:

[1:50] So that was a lot of fun in that you referenced as we have all kinds of fun technical difficulties I actually review the episode before we talk today and it cracked me up how much stuff we left in there,

oh my God hold on it said Lisa popped in here.

Hailey Smith:

[2:05] O Visa.