Million Dollar Extreme Presents: World Peace

Comedy is meant to push the envelope and to talk truth to power. Comedy that supports mainstream establishment positions is forgettable as it is useless.

People will say "this show is an excuse for hate." Yeah you're m******ing right it is. What comedy isn't an excuse for hate? You think Richard Pryor was sitting around thinking about how great everything was? Comedy comes from rage and fury. Rage and fury at a status quo that coerces you constantly. Realizing these coercions is the point of comedy. Comedy is discomfort. It's what the laughter arrives to remedy. That's particular true in absurdist comedy.

The humor herein is absurdist and on the far edge of comedy. Slowly but surely it will give way to its ideas being more mainstream (you can already see watered down, apologetic versions in the comedy of Joe Rogan and Bill Burr. The fact that it has been banned will only, ultimately, increase the power of comedy as Hyde et al become martyrs.

Ultimately, both the horrible and awesome thing is that it is being banned and shunned. Horrible because I can barely stand to see the hypocrisy of the people who call themselves comics trying to get the show canceled (they're not actually comics). Awesome because it means that we're finally getting a real counterculture back, one that can't be immediately bought and sold back to us like skateboarding. This show was a hit. The fact that it was still taken off the air says a lot. Remember the 90s when they tried to get rap music banned everywhere? Say hello to the new rebellion.

A twisted, offensive, and brilliant look into the minds of a group of millennial comedians who spend most of their time parodying the ridiculous overly-PC world they're stuck in. Upon learning about the guys, I've checked out their internet-based content and even when it's not funny the sketches are sincere, thought-provoking and well-written despite being (purposely?) unpolished.

I don't know how well this show will do, considering how off-base, offensive, and downright strange it can be, but it is certainly worthy of its small time slot on Adult Swim. If you're a fan of Tim and Eric, Eric Andre, etc., give it a shot.

In the year of our Lord 2021, stuff and people and things get banned, delisted, shadowbanned, cancelled left and right (mostly right). This will in no way come to bite the banners, delisters etc in the behind anytime soon.

Oh yeah, the show. When somebody wants you to not see or be able to access something, that means you need to go ahead and check it out. ASAP.

If anything this show can be seen as being unique and unfiltered. There is no denying that. I would say however from my own point of view it comes off complex and perhaps at least a little smart if not at least sharing insight into how certain men, misogynistic or not, think. I think it might also be considered thought provoking ---though for women I could see how it could be infuriating as well as demoralizing for ethnic minorities. I feel that uncomfortable feelings one could feel exists even if you are a heterosexual white male because of how mysterious and indirect the messages are in the show. In an interview with Sam Hyde (the leader of the comedy troupe which is responsible for World Peace), Sam says he doesn't want to come off as someone who has some sort of message to get across despite the fact that you can never tell when any member of the comedy troupe of Million Dollar extreme are constantly lying to get reactions out of people whether it's Charls, Nick, or Sam himself.

That is kind of the fun of it though. Part of the "joke" is to never really understand if they are serious or not. I usually lean toward the latter due to how over the top and ---extreme--- Million Dollar extreme always is. They at least think they're joking, but from personal experience with questioning the deeper meaning of my own sense of humor I have found myself to be completely harmless, whether or not I am a lazy entitled human being.

The show is art regardless of whatever if may seem like. I could see how you could argue that Sam Hyde's low budget trolling on the MillionDollarExtreme Youtube channel which allowed him to experiment with making other people feel uncomfortable and angry without getting beaten or incarcerated may have not exactly been art but simply the style of all the weird animation in the opening theme and intermissions sets the odd tone and makes the racism, sexism and general intolerance become quirky whether or not they are just trying to offend as many people on television that they can.

But that's the whole point, the show is an experiment like the Youtube videos but it achieves artistic standards whether or not the comedy troupe had anything to do with the subtleties that allowed it to be green-lit in the first place. There's plenty to be appreciated stylistically other than the weird art style seem randomly almost like tongue in cheek patterns pretending to be propaganda with a eerie hypnotic effect. For instance, the way the camera is positioned in scenes as if a camera operator was sitting on a ladder aiming downward and diagonally from a character in a tiny office for no apparent reason whatsoever other than to poke your brain even though the sets have enough effort put into them without feasibly being done without professionals on a budget ---while obviously looking disproportionately terrible at the same time. The music is tasteful and unique and has no real purpose other than to purposefully make the characters in the skits seem as stupid as possible. Like the troupe's Youtube antics often what they say makes no sense but they talk with such confidence that often it doesn't matter how blatantly insane due to their peculiar delivery along with the rest of their non verbal communication that makes them seem unsettling at times, but never dangerous, malicious, or serious about anything.

Check it out on Cartoon Network's late night "Adult Swim" programming or whatever.

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The show will most likely not make another season so if you're at least mildly intrigued, check it out before it's too late.

When the first episode of this show aired I was offended beyond belief. I started multiple change.org petitions so that perhaps Obama would send some death squads to quell this hate speech. At the time my view was that me must not tolerate intolerance, and more so, combat it with the utmost prejudice. The first problem I saw was that the cast did not represent the true diversity of the united states. It was not 50% white, 50% black, 60% Jewish, 50% Hispanic, 50% Asian, 50% gay, 50% lesbian, 50% non-binary genders. So I planned to watch the second episode and live-tweet all the racism, sexism, homophobia, trans-phobia, afrophobia, and Islamophobia. However something happened, I was somehow drawn in and at one point I didn't even feel offended, and then I felt dirty because I actually cracked a smile. I didn't like the feeling and shut of the TV. The next week I lied to my multiple sexual partners / band-mates / communal livers / revolutionaries that I was going to bed, but I was actually going to watch the next episode. This became a guilty pleasure, the show drew me in, awakened something inside me. When I began watching this show, I was a test-tube-gub-gub-snail-man. But now I am knee deep in gash, all thanks to Sam Hyde.