Sam Hyde

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Samuel Witcomb Hyde (born April 16, 1985 in Fall River , Massachusetts ) is an American comedian , satirist , author , performance artist and actor . He is co-founder of the sketch comedy group Million Dollar Extreme (MDE) together with Charls Caroll and Nick Rochefort. Hyde has also written How to Bomb the US Gov't with the rest of the MDE members and has written and acted on their joint television series Million Dollar Extreme Presents: World Peace . Hyde is also active as a stand-up comedian .

Sam Hyde has mainly attracted attention through Internet performances such as the TEDx innovation conference, as well as false reports that have been circulated about him on the Internet and which have been reported several times in the public news. Hyde's appearance is described as culturally critical , anti-joke and occasionally as shocking. He sometimes makes use of post-irony . His criticism affects both political and social issues and areas as well as pop culture .

Life

After graduating from Wilton High School to Hyde wrote to the Carnegie Mellon University one, after a year at the Rhode Iceland School of Design and graduated in 2007 with Bachelor -degree in film art , animation and video art from. As early as 2006, he staged sketch comedy and started a YouTube career with comedy clips and socially critical colored videos.

In August 2016, the television series Million Dollar Extreme Presents: World Peace , in which Hyde worked as a writer and actor, took place on Adult Swim , but this was not followed by a second season. Hyde's public appearances and his support for then-presidential candidate Donald Trump as well as negative reports and rumors from media such as Buzzfeed contributed to the cancellation of the television series.

False reports and parodies

Sam Hyde, 2013 at TEDx

In 2013, Hyde attended the TEDx innovation conference held at Drexel University and gave a talk called "2070 Paradigm Shift," poking fun at the nature of the usual TED talk. During his lecture, Hyde wore a red jersey as well as a gold-colored plastic breastplate and plastic knee pads from Roman armor. Forbes described Hyde's appearance on TEDx as a satire on the "Brooklyn Tech Hipsters ". Sam Hyde himself said he had an aversion to what he thought was the smug TED lectures.

In a similar manner, he mocked an American anime convention in Vermont in 2012 by giving a presentation entitled "Samurai Swordplay in a Digital Age" under the false name "Master Kenchiro Ichiimada". During the presentation, which lasted over an hour, a friend of Hyde's blocked the exit so no one could leave the room.

In 2012 Hyde posed as a reporter for various fashion brands, visited well-known trendy neighborhoods in New York and Los Angeles and interviewed passers-by to make fun of their demeanor.

In 2013, Hyde posed as a reporter for a car magazine with MDE member Nick Rochefort and attended a vehicle tuning event with a camera team with the intention of making fun of the participants in the interviews.

In 2014, Hyde launched a fake Kickstarter campaign to raise money for a so-called "pony dating simulator" for bronies . The adult male fans of the children's series My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic took the project seriously. The campaign raised $ 4,161 before Hyde canceled the appeal.

In 2016, Hyde attended a demonstration against the presidency of Donald Trump, held a sign that read "Despair" and mocked the participants in the protest. In the same year visited Hyde with a group of fans of the "He-will-not-divide-us" -Protest, that of Shia LaBoeouf had been launched and is primarily directed against the presidency of Donald Trump: Hyde organized a so-called flash mob and sabotaged the protest for some time.

Sam Hyde, 2016 This and similar photos of Hyde were shown in the hoax

Since 2015, Hyde has repeatedly been the victim of false reports on the Internet, naming him as the perpetrator in various terrorist attacks and rampages, which were spread several times on news portals on the Internet and in television news programs. The first hoax related to the rampage at Umpqua Community College when CNN and BBC News published a photo of Sam Hyde as the alleged perpetrator. Hyde was also falsely named as the culprit in the 2015 attacks in San Bernadino and Paris, and the 2016 UCLA rampage and attacks in Munich and Michigan and the Orlando nightclub. Hyde was also assigned the culprit in the attacks in London and Las Vegas, as well as the attack in Sutherland Springs Church in 2017. In an interview with Forbes employee Fruzsina Eordogh, Hyde said about one of the cases: “My wife's boyfriend (open relationship) heard it from the news first and so he and my wife's son were both scared silly for a few days before everything was explained . I also got a call from my rabbi frantically trying to talk me out of doing anything more violent until finally I managed to explain to him that it was a hoax. ”(German:“ My wife's friend (open relationship) has it in heard the news, so he and my wife's son were both terrified for a few days until everything was explained, and my rabbi called me, desperately trying to stop me from doing any more violent things until I did I finally managed to explain to him that it was a hoax ") Eordogh edited the article later, claiming that it was in Hyde's statements about the friend of his wife and his Rabbi to" a number of. 4Chan - Memes that about make fun of progressivism ”, acts.

In 2017, Hyde reportedly donated $ 5,000 to the Legal Protection Fund of Andrew Anglin, the inventor and editor of the news portal The Daily Stormer . The Southern Poverty Law Center sued Anglin for allegedly organizing a "troll storm" against a Jewish woman in Montana . When Matt Pearce of the LA Times asked Hyde about the motivation behind the donation, Hyde first asked Pearce whether he was Jewish, and Hyde replied that the amount of $ 5,000 was "nothing" for him. In the interview, Hyde also said: “Don't worry so much about money. Worry about if people start deciding to kill reporters. That's a quote. For the reason why, you can say I want reporters to know I make more money than them, especially Matt Pearce. ”(German:“ Don't worry so much about money, worry if people decide to do it, reporters That's a quote. The reason I want reporters to know that I'm making more money than them, especially Matt Pearce. ")

Sam Hyde has appeared as a stand-up comedian several times. He liked to bring up politically incorrect topics to which unprepared viewers often reacted angrily.

Filmography

watch TV

  • 2016: Million Dollar Extreme Presents: World Peace

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Comedian Gives Ridiculous Prank TED Talk . In: Business Insider . ( businessinsider.com [accessed January 10, 2018]).
  2. ↑ a b c Fruzsina Eordogh: How 4chan Tricked The Internet Into Believing This Comedian Is A Mass Shooter . In: Forbes . ( forbes.com [accessed January 10, 2018]).
  3. ^ Adult Swim Announces New Shows, Specials, and Pilots from John Kraskinski, Brett Gelman, Dan Harmon, and More . In: Splitsider . May 12, 2016 ( splitsider.com [accessed January 10, 2018]).
  4. ↑ MDE Present's How to BOMB the US Gov't (2nd edition preorder). Retrieved January 10, 2018 .
  5. ↑ David Sims: The Battle Raging Over Adult Swim's Alt-Right TV Show . In: The Atlantic . ( theatlantic.com [accessed January 10, 2018]).
  6. ↑ Million Dollar Extreme's Show Is Collateral Damage Of Trump's Victory . In: The Federalist . December 12, 2016 ( thefederalist.com [accessed January 10, 2018]).
  7. ↑ 'Million Dollar Extreme' creators say Adult Swim canceled their show for supporting Donald Trump . In: Fox News . December 12, 2016 ( foxnews.com [accessed January 10, 2018]).
  8. ↑ drewwerds: Sam Hyde's 2070 Paradigm Shift. January 28, 2014, accessed March 2, 2019 .
  9. ↑ WATCH: TEDx Drexel Got Pranked This Weekend - Philadelphia Magazine . In: Philadelphia Magazine . October 6, 2013 ( phillymag.com [accessed January 10, 2018]).
  10. ↑ GamerGate's Archvillain Is Really A Trolling Sketch Comedian . In: BuzzFeed . ( buzzfeed.com [accessed January 10, 2018]).
  11. ↑ MDEneverdies: Williamsburg Street Fashion ☠ 1 of 3 ☠ _Emmm .. January 5, 2013, accessed January 10, 2018 .
  12. ↑ brownpaste: Million Dollar Extreme - Melody / LA Street Fashion / 1 of August 4th , 2014, accessed January 10th, 2018 .
  13. ↑ MillionDollarExtreme: MDE WHYPZ: New Bedford Street Heat. September 30, 2013, accessed January 10, 2018 .
  14. ↑ Dark Skyes - an EPIC brony dating sim (Canceled). Retrieved January 10, 2018 (American English).
  15. ↑ MillionDollarExtreme: You Have No Place In This Country, It's For Everyone (You Can Do This Too). November 23, 2016, accessed January 10, 2018 .
  16. ↑ Sam Hyde arrives at "He Will Not Divide Us" Shia LaBeouf Live Stream to Spread Love & Comedy on YouTube.com
  17. ↑ MillionDollarExtreme2: John Oliver shoutout! joke video political commentary. November 26, 2016, accessed March 2, 2019 .
  18. ↑ a b c Don't Believe Any Breaking News That Names This Comedian As A Mass Shooter . In: BuzzFeed . ( buzzfeed.com [accessed January 10, 2018]).
  19. ↑ a b Chris Bell: The fake photos shared after tragedies . In: BBC News . October 2, 2017 ( bbc.com [accessed January 10, 2018]).
  20. ↑ a b Gianluca Mezzofiore: Never believe any breaking report on Twitter naming this comedian as the attacker . In: Mashable . ( mashable.com [accessed January 10, 2018]).
  21. ↑ Sam Hyde: Gunman Possibly Identified In Mass Shooting At Pulse Nightclub In Orlando Being Ruled A Hoax . In: The Inquisitr . June 12, 2016 ( inquisitr.com [accessed January 10, 2018]).
  22. ↑ Jonah Engel Bromwich: Sam Hyde and Other Hoaxes: False Information Trails Texas Shooting . In: The New York Times . November 6, 2017, ISSN  0362-4331 ( nytimes.com [accessed January 10, 2018]).
  23. ^ Matt Pearce: Neo-Nazi website raises $ 150,000 to fight Southern Poverty Law Center lawsuit . In: Los Angeles Times . June 6, 2017, ISSN  0458-3035 ( latimes.com [accessed January 10, 2018]).
  24. ^ Matt Pearce: Neo-Nazi website raises $ 150,000 to fight Southern Poverty Law Center lawsuit (en-US) . In: Los Angeles Times , June 6, 2017. 
  25. ↑ Birdemic 2: The Resurrection (2013). Retrieved January 10, 2018 .
  26. ↑ I'm a Alien (Video 2013). Retrieved January 10, 2018 .
  27. ^ Moms (Video 2013). Retrieved January 10, 2018 .
  28. ↑ Doctor Manslave (2013). Retrieved January 10, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Hyde, Sam
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hyde, Samuel Witcomb (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American comedian, satirist, writer, performance artist, and actor
DATE OF BIRTH April 16, 1985
PLACE OF BIRTH Fall River , Massachusetts