A jacket, a nasal spray and Paul Smith's 'Sudafed Dealer'

The Liverpool comedian's newest crowd-work Short has a comment section circling two props, on a club channel where Shorts rarely draw talk at all.

Channel: Hot Water Comedy Club Story of October 9, 2026Trari Newsroom

Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 143,963 views a day, 42 times a normal first day on this channel (3,448).

Sudafed Dealer | Paul Smith LIVE at Hot Water Comedy Club

Hot Water Comedy Club's run of Paul Smith clips keeps going. "Sudafed Dealer" went up as a Short and passed 90,000 views in its first eleven hours. For this channel, that is far beyond a usual first day for a short clip.

The title does the teasing. Underneath, viewers keep coming back to two things. The first is a jacket, which comment after comment says suits Paul perfectly, with a few adding that it looks good on both of them. The second is a nasal spray, the moment that produces the most laughing emojis in the thread. The Sudafed of the title is the familiar cold medicine, and that is the gag the clip is built around.

Comments usually trickle in here. A new Short on this channel typically ends its first day with one or two. This one gathered dozens before it was half a day old, and one viewer simply wants to know whether Paul ever performs in the US.

It is the latest in a busy stretch for Smith on the channel. "You've Had A Stroke?!", posted a day earlier, has gone past half a million views. Two other new clips have not caught on the same way, among them his own "Weight Loss" and Phil Chapman's "Office Romance". Smith made his name on exactly this kind of unscripted exchange with whoever is in the front rows, and the club treats his sets as a running series.

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The numbers

A short clip from a channel that posts every day, running far ahead of its usual first-day pace.

the video's first day

usual first day here

3,448

this video

143,963

subscribers

505,000

▲ 2,000 in the last 7 days

total views

510,788,582

views per day

667,069

typical day: 726,117

the video

views

93,049

likes

1,905

comments

35

days online

1

subscribers: this channel and similar channels

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604,000

Universal Comedy

600,000

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580,000

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527,000

Hot Water Comedy Club

505,000

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443,000

As of October 9, 2026 · Data source: Trari Social News, Trari Traffic Trends and Ranking Platform, Google YouTube

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