So many people are content creators, whether they do so professionally or they’re just making movies with their friends. The comedy Skit, now streaming on Tubi, is a love letter to the “creator economy” while also poking fun at the ups and downs that come with trying to make your own art.

TVBrittanyF.com spoke to Skit stars Jamie Shapiro (who plays Faye Taub and also co-produced the movie) and Jamie Linn Watson (who portrays Sarah McConnell) about how the comedy came together. There’s more than just laughs in this film. Learn how art imitated life and what they enjoyed about this trip through the creative process before streaming Skit on Tubi.

Brittany Frederick: Skit sends up content creators, but as comedians making a movie, you’re content creators yourselves. So did any part of your personal experiences find their way into the movie?

Jamie Linn Watson: I remember, and I know Jamie does too, making those first stupid YouTube videos when you’re a teen and hoping it goes well. Hoping it’s not embarrassing, but still trying to have fun with your friends. Obviously it has since snowballed into an entirely new world of internet content creation. But I definitely remember those days.

I would make videos with my friends and put them online, and they are so cringy to watch now, but they’re also sweet. They’re also cute to see. A lot of the themes of vulnerability and putting yourself out there in content still exist in 2025. [People] still have the same issues making little reels on Instagram and stuff, too. So it’s kind of an evergreen story.

Jamie Shapiro: A lot of those videos are what inspired Skit to even happen… And I feel like at least once a day, while we were shooting, some conversation would break out about so and so’s video from when they were younger. We were watching a lot of the cast and crew’s old cringey YouTube videos during filming as inspiration—and a lot of them made it into the movie. That’s what people don’t know, is a lot of those clips that come in, that are the YouTube videos from 2007, are actually the cast and crew from 2007, or our friends or our family. So it is very, very true to life.

Comedy changes so much depending on the chemistry that you have with your co-stars. How did the Skit cast come together?

Shapiro: There’s a whole slew of interpersonal connections behind the scenes. Aside from Jamie and I knowing each other from college, Jacob Kaplan—who plays Josh—and I went to a summer program when we were 15 together, so we’ve known each other for a long time. Lukas [Arnold] and I met when I was hosting a comedy show. It was the first time I’d ever hosted a comedy show, and he was on the lineup. So we’ve known each other for a bit.

And then beyond that, I am partners with Des [Lombardo], one of the writer-directors, who went to middle school and high school with the other writer director, Badr Mastronq and Paul Bukoskey, who AD’d and also produced. He works for ESHAP, the production company. The DP Truman [Waller] and his crew and I all met in L.A. a few years ago.

Watson: It just feels like a neighborhood.

Shapiro: Yeah, exactly.

Watson: You’re like, okay, so and so’s down the block. He has a camera. Me and my best friend will do this. That’s how I would make videos growing up, was like who’s in the neighborhood? Who’s available today?

Shapiro: It was like ringing on doorbells. That’s how the movie got made. Honestly, it was just asking all of our friends who are super-talented, and all part of this world, to join in and relive our youth.

With that level of familiarity amongst the cast and crew, how would you describe the filming experience?

Watson: On set, because we all come from these sort of [comedy] backgrounds, it was very easy to improvise. Very easy to just fall into the community vibes of it. We just got along very easily, as I feel like some content creators do. We do this crazy thing where we make our own stuff, and so we all have that same brand of weirdness that meshes together.

Did that lend itself to a lot of improv while making Skit?

Watson: A lot of improv. It’s one of those things where you do it as written a couple times, and then after a while, I’m going to start putting my own stuff into it. And then I’d say a decent amount of that made it into the movie.

Shapiro: Des and Badr really wrote the thing with the idea that we were going to cast a bunch of comedians who loved improv, so that the script was there as the backbone and a grounding source. But we really wanted to pull from all these creators who have such amazing senses of humor and voices—to have them on set, to have their voices in the room. It was really important to us that we included a lot of the the improv that happened, because that’s what made it so fun.

Is there anything else you particularly love about Skit and want viewers to keep an eye out for?

Shapiro: We had the immense honor of including some of our friends’ bands, and there’s a sequence in the movie that utilizes Boys Go to Jupiter’s “Tilt a Whirl.” I’m really happy with that sequence of, it’s where everything kind of starts to go awry. There might be some drinking involved. There might be some shotgunning involved. And that whole sequence turned out really well. I love the way that the score works in that moment.

Skit is now streaming on Tubi. Photo Credit: Courtesy of Filmhub and ESHAP.

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