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Samuel Dalton Reich ( ; 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, including hosting the web series Game Changer and its spin-off Make Some Noise, as well as his work on TruTV's Adam Ruins Everything,. Career In 2000, Reich dropped out of Buckingham Browne & Nichols High School as a result of clinical depression and in order to pursue acting. Shortly thereafter, he moved to New York and founded the comedy group Dutch West, which focused on making comedy videos for the Internet. After being discovered by CollegeHumor in 2006, he was hired as Director of Original Content. He was then promoted to President of Original Content along with the premiere of The CollegeHumor Show on MTV in 2009. In 2014, Reich founded Big Breakfast, CollegeHumor's offshoot production company, and moved CollegeHumor's video team to Los Angeles. The company has since produced Adam Ruins Everything on TruTV; Middle of the Night Show on MTV; Time Traveling Bong on Comedy Central; The Britishes on DirecTV; I Want My Phone Back on Comcast's Watchable; and Bad Internet and Rhett and Link's Buddy System on YouTube Red. With CollegeHumor, he has collaborated on music videos with "Weird Al" Yankovic and former United States First Lady Michelle Obama. 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. At the time that IAC sold CollegeHumor, Reich asked fans to support the company by purchasing subscriptions to the streaming service. 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". Reich oversees the content created in Dropout and hosts some of the shows including Game Changer and Make Some Noise.

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Samuel Dalton Reich ( ; 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, including hosting the web series Game Changer and its spin-off Make Some Noise, as well as his work on TruTV's Adam Ruins Everything,. Career In 2000, Reich dropped out of Buckingham Browne & Nichols High School as a result of clinical depression and in order to pursue acting. Shortly thereafter, he moved to New York and founded the comedy group Dutch West, which focused on making comedy videos for the Internet. After being discovered by CollegeHumor in 2006, he was hired as Director of Original Content. He was then promoted to President of Original Content along with the premiere of The CollegeHumor Show on MTV in 2009. In 2014, Reich founded Big Breakfast, CollegeHumor's offshoot production company, and moved CollegeHumor's video team to Los Angeles. The company has since produced Adam Ruins Everything on TruTV; Middle of the Night Show on MTV; Time Traveling Bong on Comedy Central; The Britishes on DirecTV; I Want My Phone Back on Comcast's Watchable; and Bad Internet and Rhett and Link's Buddy System on YouTube Red. With CollegeHumor, he has collaborated on music videos with "Weird Al" Yankovic and former United States First Lady Michelle Obama. 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. At the time that IAC sold CollegeHumor, Reich asked fans to support the company by purchasing subscriptions to the streaming service. 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". Reich oversees the content created in Dropout and hosts some of the shows including Game Changer and Make Some Noise.

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