Tavorite comedian of the right and the internet, Sam Hyde, is everywhere lately.
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Here you can watch Sam Hyde train the guy Harley Morenstein from Epic Meal Time:
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Whether fans of boxing like it or not, YouTube vloggers, Twitch streamers, and other content creators have begun drawing more eyeballs to their work by fighting each other in high-profile “creator clashes” — and people like brothers Jake and Logan Paul have raked in millions of dollars as a result. The format is making big stars out of people who aren’t household names. Now, it seems like it could restore the reputation of the extremely “cancelled” American comedian Sam Hyde, who trended on social media this weekend after he knocked out popular music influencer Jake “iamthmpsn” Thompson in a heavyweight boxing fight.
To put Hyde’s return in context, it helps to understand his precipitous fall a half-decade ago. After announcing himself as a force on the comedy scene in 2013 with a subversive TedX talk entitled “2070 Paradigm Shift”, Hyde rode this bit of minor fame to a cable television deal with Adult Swim. The resulting show, Million Dollar Extreme Presents: World Peace, represented an evolution in sketch comedy aesthetics beyond the tamer territory staked out by its obvious inspiration, Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!. But the show triggered critics and network executives alike with its edgy, uncomfortable humour and what some claimed were “coded racist messages” hidden in the intricate sets and animations. Comedian Brett Gelman quit working with Adult Swim because of the show, and Tim Heidecker — one of Hyde’s comedic influences — denounced the young comedian, starting a long-running feud.
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