Meet SMUT Dawgs: the failing intramural flag football team. Last year, they went 6-0 or was it 0-6? They don’t even know as they aren’t particularly sports-savvy. What is interesting about SMUT Dawgs is not their record or their lack of football skills, they’re still worth watching… because well, they’re a mini-series on youtube and they’re pretty freaking funny.
This semester they’re changing things up, as they have taken on several new students and have taken more time to see that the show had a planned direction before they launched into filming. What started on somewhat of a whim has now turned into an extremely (well maybe not extremely) organized venture.
We had several stars and the executive producer of this season and last season sit down and answer some questions for The Daily Campus, to talk about season two, being atheletically challenged and their latest endeavor: softball.
Meet John Paul Green, the Napoleon-esque coach; Donny Repsher the questionably well-liked juvenile deliquent; Chris McCreary executive producer, creator and boy genius; and Brigham Mosley the break-out star this season. Their answers to our deep questions are revealing, honest and rarely heartwarming.
What’s the story behind SMUT Dawgs?
Brigham Mosley: Ask Chris, he’s always holding that “executive producer” title over our heads.
Chris McCreary: S-M-U-Theatre “SMUT” Dawgs has been a long-standing tradition in the theatre department as the Intramural Sports team for theatre majors. I was driving through the New Mexican desert on a beautiful summer day in June of ‘09, and it dawned on me: What if we were to make a mini series about theater majors playing intramural flag football?
John Paul Green: Then Chris approached me one day and said, “Hey you’re the funniest guy I know. Write a web series for me?”
Donny Repsher: We realize (or, most of us realize) that on the whole, we are not the most athletically inclined individuals. So how do we compensate? We make a mini-series.
Have the SMUT Dawgs always been this bad at sports?
Chris McCreary: When I got here, we were actually pretty good. We won games. Since then…it’s all been a spiral spinning horribly out of control. So we decided to film the spiral.
John Paul Green: Well, I’ve never been good at sports. My father wouldn’t let me play, told me they were girl sports, so I didn’t play. Please note, my father is not a sexist.
Is there any jealousy amongst the cast?
John Paul Green: Yeah, I think it’s a given. Being the most talented person around, obviously people are gonna get jealous of Papa Bear. But I take care of my cubs.
Brigham Mosley: Pretty sure people get upset that I get the best costumes and funniest lines….but hey, that’s the way the cookie crumbles.
Which cast member is the most well-liked?
John Paul Green: Me, me, me, me. Everyone loves me. Ask anyone here.
Brigham Mosely: I think we all dislike each other pretty evenly.
Chris McCreary: We tell Donny it’s him. But that’s because he’s horribly, debilitatingly insecure. I’d say it’s Muneeb Rehman as our big-talk, no walk, ladies man.
Donny refused to comment.
Where do you see your softball skills taking you?
John Paul Green: To the top. I’ve been in talks to play Chip McDermick in the biopic of his life. You’re well aware that Chip McDermick overcame great obstacles to become the first male coach of a softball team. Fitting that I’m playing the coach.
Chris McCreary: Well if this whole theatre thing doesn’t work out, I’m going to pursue a career in professional Co-Ed Intramural Softball.
Brigham Mosley: Straight to the bank! You’re paying us, right Chris?
What will this season look like?
John Paul Green: Combine Friday Night Lights, Forrest Gump, and Hairspray and you’ve got this season. I’m kidding. It’s gonna be amazing, with twists and turns around every corner.
Chris McCreary: This season is different because we’re playing a new sport, and for the first time: a Co-Ed intramural sport. However we are NOT playing official Intramural softball, production of the series proved too difficult to try and capture live games and rely on our athletic ability to guide the direction of the show, and still keep the show interesting
Brigham Mosley: Sexy.
Donny Repsher: This season, we have a little more creative license to sculpt the show as we see fit, since we are not actually involved in the school-sponsored intramural softball league.
Season Two’s premiere goes online today, make sure you catch what promises to be a hilarious show. And hey, if it’s not funny- now you know who to file your complaints with.
www.youtube.com/SMUTdawgs
