

"Adult Swim Upfront Slate Includes 12 Pilots, Two From 'Robot Chicken's' Seth Green". "Reddit Banned A Page That Trafficked In White Supremacist Content, But The Problem Is Much Bigger". ^ Stephen, Bijan (September 12, 2018).^ "Comedian Gives Ridiculous Prank TED Talk".^ "Take in the work of the comedy provocateurs in Million Dollar Extreme"."The story behind the sudden cancellation of Adult Swim's Trump-loving comedy show". ^ a b "The Underground Neo-Nazi Promo Campaign Behind Adult Swim's Alt-Right Comedy Show".^ a b "Adult Swim Talent Want The Network To Cancel Its Alt-Right Comedy Show".^ a b "Sam Hyde Speaks: Meet the Man Behind Adult Swim's Canceled "Alt-Right" Comedy Show (Exclusive)"."Take in the work of the comedy provocateurs in Million Dollar Extreme". ^ a b Williams, Christian (April 23, 2013).
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Some make use of the Tim And Eric Awesome Show, Great Job! aesthetic, and some are surprisingly slick, with excellent, eardrum-shredding music courtesy of talented mystery-men like Orangy and Vaervaf." In the view of Philly Mag's Andrew Thompson: "The mission of Million Dollar Extreme has always seemed a spin on afflicting the comfortable, except its targets usually aren’t the comfortably powerful. Club describes them: "Some videos borrow Wonder Showzen 's toolkit, wielding subliminal blips and eye-straining text in service of subversive ends. Critical reception Ĭhristian Williams of The A.V. Three weeks later, after World Peace was subject to internal controversy at Adult Swim due to Sam Hyde's connections to the alt-right, it was announced that the show would not be renewed for a second season. Titled Million Dollar Extreme Presents: World Peace, the series premiered on August 5, 2016.

It was to be set in a post-apocalyptic nightmare world that satirizes the current political climate. On May 7, 2015, it was announced that MDE were slated to have their own live action 15-minute sketch show on the cable network Adult Swim. Main article: Million Dollar Extreme Presents: World Peace On September 10, 2018, the group's subreddit on Reddit was permanently removed for violations of their policy regarding violent content. On May 4, 2018, the MDE channel was permanently removed from YouTube for a violation of the site's community guidelines. The troupe has run into various issues with online terms of service violations due to their content and fanbase. Most notably in 2013, Hyde delivered a fake TEDx talk titled "2070 Paradigm Shift" at Drexel University. Hyde also performed numerous public pranks that he uploaded to the MDE YouTube channel. Sam Hyde's monologues, recorded on his iPhone, were also a staple for video content on the channel. Million Dollar Extreme started out making sketch comedy videos on their YouTube channel, which David Weigel described as "absurdist" and "transgressive", often centering around themes mocking political correctness.
