"Isn't YouTube a fantastic thing that a guy like Samwell, an unknown from Chicago, can put something up on the Internet and millions of people can enjoy it around the world. People started sending it to their friends and next thing you know you have a worldwide sensation ... It's the best three minutes you'll spend all week, I mean, it's magic."

Kevin & Bean, L.A.'s #1 Morning Show

"You know, people send us a lot of crazy videos asking us to post them on the site. And I don't mean "teenage girls dancing to Nelly in their bedrooms" kind of crazy, I mean "Charlie Manson riding a unicorn on an LSD-fueled trip to the center of the universe" kind of crazy. Usually we just ignore them, but this one is simply too amazing to slip through the cracks. I don't know much about who or what this is, but it's by someone called Samwell … you'll be glad you stuck around."

VH1's Best Week Ever

Dan Savage

Eric Fensler 

"Here is today's truly most viral video, because real humans, not charts decide what is viral … This whole thing, funny as it may be, seems like a perfectly executed viral conspiracy. Shrouded in mystery, baked on MySpace and referred to as a WORLD PREMIERE, it has nearly 100,000 views on YouTube and the buzz about it far trumps that. We assure you this will be all over the place, but remember, you saw it here second."

VH1's Web Junk 

Adam Curry, Daily Source Code

"A short music video posted online by a fellow calling himself Samwell has circulated around the world via the Internet. In response, naturally, Samwell has his own Web site where he boasts that the video has had more than 425,000 views in one week and announces that a "teaser" CD is out with more on the way. Samwell tells us he is gay, but he's not tapping into a gay audience, necessarily. He is tapping into the stupendous growth of interest in anal sex among everybody else."

Brian Alexander, MSNBC

Jason Harper, Pitch Music Weekly