Impact Wrestling: ‘The Smokeshow’ Proves That Sexy And Funny Work Well Together

Scarlett Bordeaux has been given her first storyline with Impact Wrestling as the host of her own sketch show, The Smokeshow. It sounds a little ridiculous, but Scarlett and The Smokeshow prove that there’s still a place for a little honest fun in professional wrestling.

Transparency is important to me, so I’ll admit to you all that it was my intention tonight to write a bit of a tongue-in-cheek, benevolently satirical review of the debut “episode” of Scarlett Bordeaux’s The Smokeshow, much like something my colleague Bryan Heaton did with his review of Elias’ debut album.

What ended up happening was that I spent about five minutes at the foot of my bed bellowing at the rapport between Scarlett and fan favorites and frenemies, KM and Fallah Bah, affirming to no one in particular, “wow, that was actually really funny.”

Luckily, Impact has already posted the entire sketch on their official Youtube page.

With KM and Fallah as her first guests, both assuming they’ve been asked over for a private rendezvous Scarlett, you can sense the calamity before the star of this show has even arrived on camera, smoke affect and all.

The adorable bumbling and brotherly bickering of KM and Fallah turned out to be the perfect complement for Scarlett’s sensuality, and what really amplified the sketch is the fact that everyone involved in playing into how ridiculous you think it’s going to be.From Bah’s tie over his bare chest, to KM’s pronunciation of champagne, the humor was not over the top, nor was the nature of their interactions with Scarlett.

We also got to see Scarlett using her sexiness to actually influences other storylines; notably here, we see her influencing KM to stop being so aggressive in pushing his ideas onto Fallah and let Fallah take the reigns a little. It’s good to see that Impact is finally implementing Scarlett’s sexy character angle to propel storylines instead of simply having it be a talking point.

The one real takeaway I got from The Smokeshow is that it serves as reinforcement to the notion that wrestling doesn’t have to be 100% serious 100% of the time. It shows that when a concentrated effort into implementing different styles or tones is made, the payoff can be something that fans really enjoy watching, and seemingly performers enjoy enacting.

I’m curious to see if Impact chooses to order a full season for The Smokeshow (I had to get a TV pun in there somewhere), and it will be interesting to see who else Scarlett can influence with her, as Impact put it themselves, “unconventional” ways, and how else sexy can propel storylines.