Sam Hyde

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He's friends with Joe so although I'd love to agree with the Redbar analysis that it was a brutal takedown of Joe for his comedy crimes, its more likely that 2025 Rogan is just so bad that Harland's silly bits almost came off as antagonistic. Joe is just that awful of a broadcaster and host. I don't think Harland was fucking with Joe so much as Joe is just that fucking bad.

Which is why I tried to contrast things with the Bobby Lee episode I skimmed. Harland brings out a can of soup and tells Bobby to make a joke. It's a bit similar to bringing twigs out and saying make a nest. Bobby and Harland have a meta-discussion about comedy and essentially how its hard to be funny. Which I just ultimately find funny seeing as we have all the robust discussion of whether Harland is funny or not.

Sam Hyde has produced some stuff that had my on the ground laughing (WP, vertical videos bugging his mom, TedX etc) but I would never imagine he could thrive in a traditional improv-environment (think UCB Improv/Comedy Bang Bang Improv). Sam would be the first in line to mock something like UCB.

I wonder who approached who. Guessing Sam's crew reached out to Harland's. In that case why pick the show when we know Sam is such a mismatch for this style of comedy. Really bad choice I guess. Honestly it probably would not have been funny at all but if Sam left the entourage backstage he could've bonded with Harland over film-school and animation-school and had a meta-discussion on comedy. For instance 5+ years ago Sam did open-mic stuff but it was basically a performance where he'd intentionally bomb an open-mic appearance with offensive comedy. I believe he's mentioned he gets a rush out of bombing and would prefer that over a laugh. They could've discussed things like that and I'm sure Harland would've added his usual brand of levity and could've contributed some stories whether real or false about times he has bombed in his career.

Anyways I truly need to wrap my obsession with this up soon and I'm running out of thoughts after my walls of text here.
 
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Bit or not, Harland should send Sam a gorillas nest with some muffins in it lol
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crystal_pepsi said:
Yeah I'd say shit like that too if my stand up sucked as bad as his.
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Understandable. Especially if we're talking about his current day stuff. But I'm giving him benefit of the doubt. I'm talking about the Jeff Foxworthy parody "You Might Be George Floyd" style open mic stuff he did like 5 or 6 years ago or whatever.

Going to a liberal artsy-fartsy coffee shop's open mic night and being offensive and having the whole place boo.

Edit: actually was it "You Might Be Mike Brown"?
 
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It was just two "funny guys" doing goofy shit in a comedy podcast, people in this thread are treating it like it's a political debate or something. Sam doesn't give a shit if he makes an ass of himself on a podcast, making an ass out of himself is on brand with MDE. This isn't the first or last time Sam, Nick, or Charls have made an ass out of themselves.
 
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BullfrogBill said:
It was just two "funny guys" doing goofy shit in a comedy podcast, people in this thread are treating it like it's a political debate or something. Sam doesn't give a shit if he makes an ass of himself on a podcast, making an ass out of himself is on brand with MDE. This isn't the first or last time Sam, Nick, or Charls have made an ass out of themselves.
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The difference is usually when they make an ass out of themselves it's funny. This entire podcast was just cringe and awkward. There were a million different ways they could've made it actually funny and they did none of them.
 
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Goblin Troll said:
Understandable. Especially if we're talking about his current day stuff.
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To clarify I'm not calling Sam unfunny, no way, he most certainly is but stand up is often mistaken as this end all be all to comedy as a craft, artform, whatever. Sam's old stuff sucks just as much as it does now, but what made is early stand up still funny was because he was intentionally doing it to faggots he hated, it's also a big part of why WP was so special, Ruse's talents aside, a lot of the humor came from the absurd fact that this show somehow actually made it on national TV. When you're just performing for fanboys and sychophants it inevitably comes off as cringe and self masturbatory. From what little I've heard of Sam's newer stand up (not that I haven't tried my ass off looking for it, they really don't want people outside of their circle watching their live show in full, wonder why) I hear a lot of clapping and cheering instead of laughing. Sam's stand up sucks but not because he isn't funny, it's just not his game and the audience that played a HUGE part in making his old stand up somewhat funny isn't there anymore.

Sidenote: Alex Stein is probably the worst stand up comedian I have ever witnessed, it's like a deadly mix of Rogan during his prime stool raping days and Carrot Top.
 
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R9K Insurgent said:
With the amount of spergy and grasping at straws level theories in here about the interview I'm basically ready to settle on a consneedsus in my brain that Sam is/was a "funny" clown performance troll tard and he did his job perfectly in making a large amount of people in here (and other places) cope, seethe and in some cases even mald. The end result is Sam's endeavors are exactly the same as they were before the interview, but now he has some minor controversial buzz which is giving him some exposure.

Is this not just the Matan interview all over again except not as funny?
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If in a year's time if Harlan and Sam are cool then I was just a work by the mega troll mastermind, if not then logical conclusion is that Sam lost his cool and took a potentially costly L.
 
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Queesechake said:
Did you mean Alex Schultz?
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Side note. Saw Sam's stand up live. Alex was the opener and the entire extended bit was was role-playing a reddit mod and pissed himself on stage. Unironically Charls coming up afterwards swinging his arms all over the place while yelling "Hey everyone! I'm a gay Jim Carrey!" was funnier than that.

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Wild this is the exact set.
 
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Alex feels like he's trying to do that Intentionally Bombing bit I was just mentioning, but crystal_pepsi made a great point that audience matters a ton. Schulz is trying to do the "so bad its good" anti-comedy thing but AFAIK its usually done in front of Sam fanboys so there's a disconnect between the performance and intended audience.
 
Queesechake said:
The difference is usually when they make an ass out of themselves it's funny. This entire podcast was just cringe and awkward. There were a million different ways they could've made it actually funny and they did none of them.
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I disagree, Sam making a gorilla nest out of Harland's set and trying to grab him while making gorilla noises was pretty funny I thought. Especially with Charls' commentary "is there a gorilla in here or what?". It was an extreme reaction from Sam for sure but it seemed like Harland wanted some crazy goofiness out of this podcast so Sam delivered in an unexpected way in true MDE fashion to make the show entertaining, and people are still talking about it so it must have been entertaining lol. It wasn't his funniest bit by any means but it's not some super serious devastating thing people are making it out to be. It's just a comedy show.
 
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