What is RiffTrax?

We watch cheesy movies and then make up jokes about them!

It's movie night with your funniest friends! The stars of Mystery Science Theater 3000 take questionable B-movies, unusual educational short films, and even Hollywood Blockbusters, and create uproarious comedy with them.

Ways to watch

Blockbusters, B-Movies, and RiffTrax Live shows are all special to us, and there are plenty of ways to get at them: apps, discs, downloads, subscriptions, and even a few hundred local movie screens. No matter which path you take, they all arrive at the same destination, which is a great many jokes aimed squarely at a movie that had it coming.

B-Movies & Shorts

Jokes already baked in. Hundreds of cheerfully terrible monster movies, plus educational shorts about posture, dating, and the correct way to answer a telephone. Nothing to sync, nothing to install. Press play and we're already talking.

The Adventures of Captain Marvel (Chapter 1)

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RiffTrax Live

In theatersSince 2009 we riff on a stage, live in front of a real audience, beamed to hundreds of screens across the country with Fathom Entertainment. Come see one in person — it's the best version of this there is. Or stream thirty-odd past shows tonight without getting off the couch.

RiffTrax Live: The Return of Swamp Thing

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Friends & Best Friends

Best valueHundreds of riffs, streaming on demand, all for one monthly price. Best Friends piles on newer releases, the 24/7 channel, our Discord, and one-click blockbusters that skip the syncing entirely. It's movie night with your funniest friends, on tap.

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TV & Mobile Apps

Watch on your big screen at home! Our apps for Roku, Fire TV, iOS, and Android play everything you've bought and everything your subscription covers, right on the television where it belongs, or on your mobile device, wherever your are. No subscription required — if you own it, it's waiting for you there.

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DVD & Blu-ray

For the shelf. Live shows and feature riffs on actual physical discs, which still work during an internet outage and make an excellent gift for the person in your life who won't stop quoting us at dinner.

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Just the Jokes

You bring the movie, we bring the jokes. The RiffTrax Sync app listens to your copy of the blockbuster and lines our commentary right up with it — Bluetooth speakers and headphones included. It's also how we get away with riffing movies that no studio on earth would ever license to us.

Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens

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RiffTrax content can also be found on Twitch, YouTube, Amazon Video, FlixHouse, Freevee, Future Today, iNDEMAND, Nebula, Night Flight, Play Now Media, Plex, Pluto TV, Samsung TV Plus, StreamGoMedia, Tubi, and Xumo.

Yes, those are all real.

Even Xumo.

See us in action

Have a few minutes? Want to get a real taste of RiffTrax? See what the fun is all about with the beginning of our RiffTrax Live show Giant Spider Invasion, featuring the complete short Adventures in Telezonia right now, for free:

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We started on Mystery Science Theater 3000. Now MST3K is here!

Mike, Kevin, and Bill started out sitting in the dark aboard a satellite making fun of movies for a living, which remains the single best job anyone has ever had, deep hurting notwithstanding. They were even nominated for an Emmy and won a Peabody award. Then the show ended, and we did the only reasonable thing available to us: kept doing it anyway, on the Internet, without asking anybody. That was over twenty years ago, way back in 2006. And we brought our friends along!

Mike, Tom Servo, and Crow T. Robot aboard the Satellite of Love in MST3K: The RiffTrax Experiments

Which brings us to MST3K: The RiffTrax Experiments. The boys are back aboard the Satellite of Love for the first time in thirty years, ready to be tormented by Mary Jo Pehl's Pearl Forrester in four brand new episodes. Same theater seats, same bots, and four new cheesy movies. Tom and Crow have not aged a day, which is the chief advantage of being assembled from key parts of a spacecraft.

The classics live here too. Over a hundred episodes of Mystery Science Theater 3000 stream right on this site, Mads and all, which makes RiffTrax.com your premier destination for riffing!

Watch the Experiments Browse classic episodes

Meet the Riffers

Nobody riffs alone. The whole thing only works when somebody says the terrible thing out loud and somebody else immediately makes it worse, so we work in teams. Here they all are.

Mike Nelson, Kevin Murphy, and Bill Corbett performing on stage at a RiffTrax Live show

Mike, Kevin, and Bill

The main event. Mike Nelson, Kevin Murphy, and Bill Corbett have been doing this together since the Clinton epoch, and at this point they finish each other's sentences whether or not the other person was finished. They headline every RiffTrax Live show and most of what's in the catalog.

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Bridget Nelson and Mary Jo Pehl riffing together

Bridget and Mary Jo

RiffTrax PresentsYou just watched Mary Jo Pehl torment the boys as Pearl Forrester. Here she is again with Bridget Nelson, riffing as a pair. They both wrote for MST3K and played some of its most alarming residents, and they have their own devoted following — a good number of whom turned up for them and stayed for everything else.

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BritTrax

RiffTrax PresentsMatthew J Elliott and Ian Potter riff from the UK, which gets you an entirely different pool of references and a considerably better vocabulary for describing rain.

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The Guest Chair

RiffTrax PresentsJanet Varney and Cole Stratton riff together whenever we can get everybody in a room at the same time. The chair has also been filled by "Weird Al" Yankovic, Neil Patrick Harris, Fred Willard, Joel McHale and Paul F. Tompkins. We keep asking. They keep saying yes. We are not going to examine this too closely in case it stops.

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How the sausage is made

Riffing sounds improvised. It isn't. Every joke gets written down first, argued about, and cut if it isn't good enough, which is why a feature takes a room full of people rather than one person with a microphone and a lot of confidence. Mike, Kevin and Bill write. So do Bridget, Mary Jo, Matthew and Ian. And so do our Senior Writers, who you may not have heard of but absolutely should have.

Meet the Senior Writers

Conor Lastowka

Senior Writer/Producer

Conor Lastowka is a Senior Writer-Producer who has worked at RiffTrax since day one.

Sean Thomason

Senior Writer

Sean Thomason is a Senior Writer-Producer at RiffTrax, where he’s been writing full-time since 2009.

As for the phrase: yes, we have riffed an industrial film about actual sausage, and no, we have not fully recovered.

Watch This Is Hormel

Behind the riffs

It takes a lot of dedicated people to put everything we do at RiffTrax together. Explore more of the talent behind the microphones and behind the scenes below: