Hoody and the Bandit



Hoody and the Bandit is an improvisational internet sketch comedy and variety show created by improvisational standup comedian Chris Freeland for the YouTube channel Da Hooded Bandito and stars The Lost Damnation as they portray various characters. Although the name is a play on the movie "Smokey and the Bandit", the internet sketch show actually bears no relation to the latter.

History
Long prior to the pilot of the internet sketch show, Hoody and the Bandit was first mentioned in "Cimarron Blues Memorial" when Chris and Danny started making up some hilarious sketch ideas just for their own amusement. The sketches usually go overboard as they make fun of popular culture and real life shows such as "Barney the Dinosaur", "The People's Court" and "Sesame Street" by combining the three in the form of improvisational comedy with a court show parody sketch. They also make fun of actual news channels such as CNN and MSNBC (as well as daily news on local channels) with their "Channel 16 Eye Witness News" sketch by promoting a faux top story that usually consists of a particular children's character performing a different crime. More sketches were created for the show when Chris and Chol started a mission in "Vice City Dairy Distribution" when making up bogus reasons to buy drugs while playing Grand Theft Auto: Vice City and again in "555-We Tip" while doing a storyline mission in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas where the two would come up with a motto "Call 555-We Tip. You will never get your money back!", which became the key motto for the sketch. However as some of the sketches became canon, Chris makes yet another sketch known as "Terrorists in Disneyland" with a group of friends while going to Disneyland in "California Road Trip".

Beginning of Hoody and the Bandit
After the sketches became canon, Chris created a YouTube channel called Da Hooded Bandito Studios under his pseudonym Zoukon101 (pronounced ha-gen-one-zero-one). However, Hoody and the Bandit didn't air its pilot episode until in 2010 during Here Comes the Bandit when Chris gets a laptop from his father Kevin in hopes of communicating with the family. Jesse appears and they start making videos by using the voice over option while at the same time creating more sketches for their own amusement. They created the "Little Johnny the White Baby" sketches with the laptop and continue to take turns making sketches for fun. Their most hilarious sketch together was "The Hobo Street Fighting Federation", which is intended to be a parody of WWE.