16 Facts About Sam Hyde

Samuel Whitcomb Hyde was born on April 16,1985 and is an American comedian.

Sam Hyde is a co-founder of sketch comedy group Million Dollar Extreme, alongside Nick Rochefort and Charls Carroll.

Sam Hyde has been involved in several public pranks and internet hoaxes.

Sam Hyde alleged that the show was cancelled due to his vocal support for Donald Trump.

In 2017, Sam Hyde pledged $5,000 towards the legal defense fund of Andrew Anglin, the founder and editor of neo-Nazi website The Daily Stormer.

In 2013, at a comedy club in Brooklyn, Sam Hyde took the stage "to read aloud several pages of homophobic 'research'", prompting walkouts among the audience.

Also in 2013, Sam Hyde, while dressed in a maroon-colored sweatsuit and clad in hoplite-esque breastplate and greaves, delivered a prank TEDx talk titled "2070 Paradigm Shift" at Drexel University.

In 2014, Sam Hyde started a fake Kickstarter campaign to crowdfund the creation of a "pony dating simulator" for bronies, the adult male fans of the children's television show My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic.

Since 2015, Sam Hyde has been frequently misreported as the perpetrator of numerous mass shootings and terrorist attacks by internet trolls on websites such as 4chan and Twitter.

Sam Hyde was labelled as the perpetrator in high profile shootings such as the Orlando Night Club shooting, Sutherland Springs church shooting and the Las Vegas shooting in 2017.

Sam Hyde has been erroneously blamed for many other small scale and large shootings.

Sam Hyde's image was shared across social media as being the driver of the car in Waukesha, Wisconsin, that drove into a Christmas parade in November 2021.

In February of 2022, an edited image of Sam Hyde was misidentified as the "Ghost of Kyiv" in popular social media posts including that of Representative Adam Kinzinger.

In July 2024, Sam Hyde was falsely identified as the perpetrator of the attempted assassination of Donald Trump.

The training session with Sam Hyde was documented in a four part vlog documentary uploaded to the Epic Meal Time channel in the lead-up to his fight against Arin Hanson of Game Grumps.

Sam Hyde later went on to train comedy rapper Tyler Cassidy for his match against Chris Ray Gun for the second Creator Clash, scheduled for April 15,2023.