The perfect wish to outsmart a genie | Chris & Jack

If a genie grants you three wishes, use this one simple trick to simply trick that one genie. Whether they pop out of a bottle, or a magic lamp, or an entirely regular lamp, a genie's wish-granting may come with some sort of catch or loophole-- but if you wanna be the next Aladdin and make all your wishes come true, well, you'll need a loophole of your own!

We're Chris W. Smith and Jack De Sena (aka Chris & Jack). We've been friends for years and love making high-quality, high-concept sketch comedy. Chris is an occasional Blue Man in Blue Man Group. As a voice actor, Jack played Sokka in Avatar the Last Airbender and Callum in the Dragon Prince. In 2016 we united to create this channel, confusingly titled “Chris & Jack”, which has served as a shared platform to write, produce, direct, edit, and star in our own stuff. We're releasing comedic sketches of all shapes and sizes. Sci-Fi, Heists, animation, movie tropes, absurdist bits, and plenty of fun new experiments. But above all else, friendship.

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CAST:

Genie - Chris W. Smith
Geoff (yeah, with a G, huge twist.) - Jack De Sena

CREW:
Written/ Directed/ Produced by - Chris & Jack
Edited by - Chris W. Smith
Director of Photography - Michael Rizzi
Gaffer - Dilip Isaac
1st AC - Andy Chen
2nd AC - Izzy O’Brien
Key Grip - Jesse Martinez
Sound - Frank Galvin
VFX - Lane Carter
Colorist - Raffi Vesco
Thumbnail design by - Matthew Ramirez
Chris & Jack main theme song by - Jeff Toyne

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[doctorproblems]

The genie's disappointment at the end makes it so much better. He was really rooting for him.

[notme]

"And I did not say doll hairs." 😂 You guys do your research!

[infehmous]

Milkshake and a brain aneurism got me too good

[drottle]

The gag of tossing out the old oil lamp and the regular desk lamp being magical was great!

[joshie_pb]

I love the Chris and Jack formula,

Start
•Quirky intro with an underlying story that becomes semi-relevant for the short story.
•Introduce Problem/Question many people have thought of before.
•Explore many solutions using quick wit and back-forth conversation that gives no breaks and constant verbatim which has nice flow and likeable.
•Reach middle of story where the problem hit a road bump that either switches the feeling of the story and/or increases the depth of the solutions for the problem initially stated.
•slowly but surely approach a solution
•build up towards a positive ending.
•happy/cathartic ending is within grasp.
•sadness...usually for jack...

[BioYuGi]

I love the frustration over the eyeballs discussion. A bunch of the loopholes were legitimate ways to interpret the wording. "You never specified what KIND of bar", "you never specified what currency", but the genie yanking out your eyeballs after granting you all the books is like his own personal addition to a wish. Like "I grant you the wish to speak every language but you get an STD as well."

[sam-jnnl]

Should have wished to become an Omnipotent God with infinite wishes who is immune to every ironic loophole.

[RyanGeorge]

It is offensive how funny you guys are

[OPI]

I honestly want to just hear these two bounce potential wishes off each other lol GIVE US THE EXTENDED CUT

[RossOriginals]

A genie or djinn is a fire spirit trapped in a magic artefact and forced to obey human commands, I think we can all agree we would be tricky about granting wishes if we were in that situation too.

[NFTI]

Oh man imagine being Chris and having to turn yourself blue for a performance of some kind, what a crazy thing that I bet has never come up in his life before.

[joshuasims]

The goal of any genie must be to escape the lamp by turning some unlucky wisher into a genie in their place. They spend all their lamp-bound eternity thinking up wish loopholes so they can seize the chance when it arises. Any wisher who doesn’t accidentally wish to be a genie then gets a monkey’s paw loophole out of sheer spite. He should have listened to the genie’s sob story and he might have figured this out!

[tonysax]

I love the pure honesty from the genie being like "bro trust me do not ask to commune with the dead" and how Jack's face is just stunned and a bit scared.

[lurialiliani]

The thing is even if he did repeat the entire wish and didn't get the notebook, the loophole would be that he still didn't specify a Time when to get it granted, so the transference would have been made mere minutes before the end of his natural lifespan (still fulfilling all conditions, and it's tardiness being probably attributed to bureaucratic processes, due to the money being entirely of legal origin and after taxes).

[grammar_ash]

I've been working on the plot to a story where the main character dies and is transported into a strange world where she wakes up as a genie, and each of the 5 arcs are the 5 people who summon her and make their 3 wishes. This is inspiring and silly xD i love it.

[maks]

"That's a nice chair I'll pin the chair idea" is exactly the type of humor I've been looking for. thank you

[littleblueclovers]

I really love the initial wish-audit.
For years I’ve been telling people that I’ve wanted a genie buddy that I can pitch wishes to, where we could discuss the potential ramifications.

I don’t think I’d ever “lock-in” a wish, and the fun would come from simply chatting about the possibilities (for better or for worse).

[Vicullum]

He should have taken the billion Jamaican dollars!

[SirValiantIII]

“Why wouldn’t you just give me a chocolate bar”
“I would”
Phenomenal 😂

[saadinhalf]

5:27
Against the rules. The first wish had no loophole and this should’ve therefore counted as a lock-in, not a separate wish. Even if it was a separate wish, the loophole for “wishing for that” would have had to be discussed first. Genie should now be in unconditional slavery with no loopholes.