Smarty

John "Smarty" Aprigliano was born on August 17, 1991 and is currently living in Ronkonkoma, NY. He currently has a partnership with machinima.com making an online web series known asThe Bob and Phil Show. Episode 4 of the show happened to have made the June 19th, 2009 editon of the best of blogs. He also works on a gaming blog known as The Game Breaker along with Cferra, Braeden Orr, and Christopher Barnard

Biography
Originally making his debut on youtube in 2006 making very poor machinimas, John soon decided to take a long hiatus and think of ways to get himself known on the internet. But alas he gave up...Until HALO 3 was released. John decided to make one last attempt at making a machinima and wrote a small video called Don't Die on Me for a comedy contest. suprisingly people started to like it, and he decided to get back into the machinima game. A couple of years later, he was contacted by machinima.com with a partnership offer. He accepted and has been making episodes ever since.

How he found TGWTG
John was one day searching through cinemassacre.com when he had discovered the angry video game nerd's review of Ricky 1 as a retaliation to the Nostalgia Critic's challenge to review a horrible nostalgic movie. He then found the Nostalgia Critic's review of "pokemon: the first movie" He then watched as much as he could of the 5 second movies and some of thatdudeinthesuede's work. He was hooked ever since.