Sam Reich

Samuel Dalton Reich (/raɪʃ/ RYSHE; born July 22, 1984) is an American businessman, producer, comedian, actor and game show host. He is best known for his work with Dropout (formerly CollegeHumor), of which he is now the CEO, and Adam Ruins Everything,[1] as well as for hosting the web series Game Changer.

Sam Reich
Born (1984-07-22) July 22, 1984
Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.
Occupation(s)Producer, director, writer, actor, performer, CEO of CHMedia (2020–present)
SpouseElaine Carroll
Parent(s)Robert Reich
Clare Dalton

Career

In 2000, Reich dropped out of Buckingham Browne & Nichols High School as a result of clinical depression and in order to pursue acting.[2] Shortly thereafter, he moved to New York and founded the comedy group Dutch West, which focused on making comedy videos for the Internet.[3] After being discovered by CollegeHumor in 2006, he was hired as Director of Original Content.[4] He was then promoted to President of Original Content along with the premiere of The CollegeHumor Show on MTV in 2009.[5]

In 2014, Reich founded Big Breakfast, CollegeHumor's offshoot production company, and moved CollegeHumor's video team to Los Angeles.[6] The company has since produced Adam Ruins Everything on TruTV;[7] Middle of the Night Show on MTV;[8] Time Traveling Bong on Comedy Central;[9] The Britishes on DirecTV;[10] I Want My Phone Back on Comcast's Watchable;[11] and Bad Internet[12] and Rhett and Link's Buddy System on YouTube Red.[13]

With CollegeHumor, he has collaborated on music videos with "Weird Al" Yankovic[14] and former United States First Lady Michelle Obama.[15]

On January 8, 2020, it was announced that Reich was acquiring CollegeHumor from IAC which was transformed to the entity of CHMedia. This included the streaming service Dropout.[16][17] At the time that IAC sold CollegeHumor, Reich asked fans to support the company by purchasing subscriptions to the streaming service.[18] In 2020, Kate Knibbs of Wired commented that "Reich is beloved within the CollegeHumor community—WIRED spoke with more than a dozen former employees, and the praise was unanimously effusive, rare for someone who just laid a bunch of people off".[19] Reich oversees the content created in Dropout and hosts some of the shows including Game Changer and Make Some Noise.

In 2023, Reich announced that the CollegeHumor brand name would be retired and rebranded to Dropout.[20]

Personal life

Sam Reich is the son of Robert Reich, the former Secretary of Labor under Bill Clinton, and Clare Dalton, a retired law professor at Northeastern University.[21] His brother, Adam Reich, is a sociology professor at Columbia University.[22] He is of Jewish descent on his father's side.[23]

Reich is married to actress and writer Elaine Carroll,[24] whom he met during summer camp in 2000.[25] Together, they have collaborated on the web series Very Mary-Kate[26] and Precious Plum.[27]

Filmography
YearTitleRoleNetworkNotes
2006–PresentCollegeHumor OriginalsExecutive Producer, Director, Writer, ActorCollegeHumorDigital Series
2006-2008Street Fighter: The Later YearsExecutive Producer, Director, WriterCollegeHumorDigital series, 9 episodes
2007-2015Jake and AmirExecutive Producer, Director, ActorCollegeHumorDigital Series
2006-2009Prank WarExecutive ProducerCollegeHumorDigital series, 8 episodes
2009The CollegeHumor ShowExecutive Producer, Director, Writer, ActorMTVTelevision series, 6 episodes
2011-2012TroopersExecutive Producer, Director, ActorCollegeHumorDigital series, 13 episodes
2010-2013Very Mary-KateExecutive Producer, Director, WriterCollegeHumorDigital series
2013Precious PlumExecutive Producer, Director, WriterCollegeHumorDigital series, 13 episodes
2014The BritishesExecutive Producer, Director, WriterDirecTVTelevision series, 8 episodes
2015Middle of the Night ShowExecutive ProducerMTVTV series, 9 episodes
2016I Want My Phone BackExecutive ProducerWatchableDigital series, 10 episodes
2016Time Traveling BongExecutive ProducerComedy CentralTelevision series, 3 episodes
2016Bad InternetExecutive ProducerYouTube RedDigital series, 10 episodes
2016Rhett and Link's Buddy SystemExecutive ProducerYouTube RedDigital series, 9 episodes
2014–2019Adam Ruins EverythingExecutive Producer, ActorTruTVTelevision series, 27 episodes
2018–presentDimension 20Executive Producer, PlayerDropout/CollegeHumorDigital series
2019–presentGame ChangerExecutive Producer, Director, HostDropout/CollegeHumorDigital Series, 45 episodes
2022–presentMake Some NoiseExecutive Producer, Director, HostDropout/CollegeHumorDigital Series, 11 episodes

Awards

Awards
YearAwardWork
2008Aspen Rooftop Comedy Award for Best SeriesThe Michael Showalter Showalter
ECNY for Best Short"Minesweeper: The Movie"
2010People's Voice Webby for Best SeriesJake and Amir
Webby for Best Animation"Pixar Intro Parody"
People's Voice Webby for Best Short"Web Site Story"
2011People's Voice Webby for Best Humor WebsiteCollegeHumor
2012People's Voice Webby for Best Short"Simon Pegg and Nick Frost's Star Wars"
Webby for Best Short"Siri Argument"
2013Telly Bronze Award"Mitt Romney Style," "Dora the Explorer Trailer," "Save Greendale"
Telly Silver Award"Gay Men Will Marry Your Girlfriends"
Webby for Best Short
2014Telly Bronze Award"GPS Prank," "HBO Should Show Dongs"
Webby for Best Remix"Music Videos Without Music"
Webby for Best Short"Batman vs. the Penguin"
2015Ursa Major Award for Best Short"Furry Force"
Telly Bronze Award"Music Videos without Music"
Telly Silver Award"Why Engagement Rings Are a Scam," "If Google Was a Guy"
People's Voice Webby for Best Writing"If Google Was a Guy"
People's Voice Webby for Best Short
Webby for Best Writing
Webby for Best Short
Telly Bronze Award"FOIL"
Streamy for Best Cover Music Video
Webby for Best Music Video
2016Telly Silver Award"Go to College Rap"

References
  1. Emily Sweeney (June 29, 2016). "Sam Reich is All About Funny Business". Article. The Boston Globe. Retrieved January 30, 2017.
  2. Sam Reich (February 12, 2016). "Career Advice From a High School Drop-out CEO". Article. Fastco Create. Retrieved January 30, 2017.
  3. "Dutchwest TV". Webpage. Dutchwest TV. Retrieved January 30, 2017.
  4. Spike Friedman (June 3, 2016). "Sam Reich on the Business of Staying Funny Online". Interview Transcript. Forbes. Retrieved January 30, 2017.
  5. "The CollegeHumor Show". Webpage. ProductionBeast. Retrieved January 30, 2017.
  6. Bradford Evans (January 27, 2014). "CollegeHumor Moves from NY to LA, Starts New Production Company". Article. SplitSider. Retrieved January 30, 2017.
  7. Denise Petski (December 7, 2016). "TruTV Rewnews 'Adam Ruins Everything', 'The Carbonaro Effect'; Greenlights Two New Series". Article. Deadline. Retrieved January 30, 2017.
  8. Sahil Patel (April 21, 2015). "MTV Orders Late-Night Comedy Show from CollegeHumor's Big Breakfast". Article. VideoInk. Retrieved January 30, 2017.
  9. Jenni runyan (January 6, 2016). "Comedy Central Greenlights "Time Traveling Bong," A Three-Episode Limited Series from "Broad City's" Ilana Glazer, Lucia Aniello and Paul W. Downs". Press Release. Comedy Central. Retrieved January 30, 2017.
  10. Nellie Andreeva (October 23, 2014). "DirectTV Picks up 'Downton Abbey' Parody Series 'The Britishes' From Electus Digital". Article. Deadline. Retrieved January 30, 2017.
  11. "I Want My Phone Back". Webpage. IMDB. Retrieved March 13, 2017.
  12. Rae Votta (May 26, 2016). "CollegeHumor's 'Bad Internet' is a Dark, Dystopian Look at the Future". Article. The Daily Dot. Retrieved January 30, 2017.
  13. "Rhett and Link's Buddy System Full Cast & Crew". Webpage. IMDB. Retrieved March 13, 2017.
  14. CollegeHumor (July 16, 2014). "Exclusive "Weird Al" Yankovic Music video: FOIL (Parody of "Royals" by Lorde)". YouTube video description. YouTube. Retrieved January 30, 2017.
  15. CollegeHumor (December 10, 2015). "Go To College Music Video (with FIRST LADY MICHELLE OBAMA!)". YouTube Video Description. YouTube. Retrieved January 30, 2017.
  16. Flynn, Kerry (2020-01-08). "CollegeHumor sold to longtime exec, lays off nearly all 100-plus staff". CNN. Archived from the original on August 2, 2022. Retrieved 2023-09-26.
  17. "IAC to Sell CollegeHumor, Which Will Cut Most of Its Workers". Bloomberg.com. Bloomberg. January 8, 2020. Archived from the original on May 22, 2023. Retrieved January 8, 2020.
  18. "Long story short, I need your support now more than ever. The #1 way you can support me is to stay subscribed to Dropout. We have six months' worth of content still to release: Dimension 20, Um, Game Changer, Breaking News, and more". Twitter. Retrieved 2023-07-21.
  19. "CollegeHumor Helped Shape Online Comedy. What Went Wrong?". Wired. ISSN 1059-1028. Archived from the original on November 30, 2020. Retrieved 2020-10-21.
  20. Squires, Bethy (2023-09-26). "Dropout's Playbook for Surviving an Unforgiving Internet". Vulture. Retrieved 2023-10-10.
  21. Emily Sweeney (June 29, 2016). "Sam Reich is All About Funny Business". Article. The Boston Globe. Retrieved January 30, 2017.
  22. "Department of Sociology at Columbia University". Webpage. Columbia University. Retrieved March 13, 2017.
  23. Lins (1995). Newsmakers: the people behind today's headlines : 1995 cumulation, includes ... – Louise Mooney Collins, Gale Research Inc – Google Books. ISBN 9780810357457. Retrieved November 9, 2012.
  24. Jessica Goldstein (December 6, 2011). "'Very Mary-Kate' a hit on the Internet". Article. The Washington Post. Retrieved January 30, 2017.
  25. "Sam Reich's Blog". Webpage. Tumblr. Retrieved March 13, 2017.
  26. Jessica Goldstein (December 6, 2011). "'Very Mary-Kate' a hit on the Internet". Article. The Washington Post. Retrieved January 30, 2017.
  27. "Precious Plum: Honey Boo Boo Parody Series Full Cast & Crew". Webpage. IMDB. Retrieved March 13, 2017.
  28. "Sam Reich, President of Original Content, CollegeHumor, 27". Slideshow. Forbes. Retrieved January 30, 2017.
  29. Kent Gibbons (May 21, 2014). "'40 Under 40' class of 2014 Named". Article. Multichannel News. Retrieved January 30, 2017.
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