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Sept. 26, 2023
Dropout’s Playbook for Surviving an Unforgiving Internet As the comedy platform sheds its CollegeHumor past, CEO Sam Reich reflects on the effectiveness of his “radically boring” strategy.
By Bethy Squires
Almost Everyone at CollegeHumor Has Lost Their Jobs The internet is a very tough place to be a comedy outlet.
By Megh Wright
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Sept. 26, 2018
By Megh Wright
Inside ‘Hot Date’ with Emily Axford and Brian Murphy “Sense of humor” is often cited as one of the top three personality traits that people look for in a partner, and it’s probably just as […]
By Kenneth Arthur
Here’s an Episode of CollegeHumor’s New Game Show ‘I Want My Phone Back’ CollegeHumor premiered a new game show created by Luke Kelly-Clyne on Comcast’s Watchable platform last month called I Want My Phone Back, and […]
By Megh Wright
Adam Ruins Everything Except For This Interview
We all have that one overzealous friend who is perpetually primed with a Wikipedia-like bank of information just in case someone in their […]
By Isaac Kozell
Check Out CollegeHumor’s ‘Black Mirror’ Parody Series ‘Bad Internet’ Today, a new series debuts on YouTube Red from CollegeHumor called Bad Internet, and if you want a sneak peek, they’ve made the first episode […]
By Megh Wright
CollegeHumor Looks Beyond the Internet The comedy outlet tackles its own “adapt or die” moment.
By Kenneth Arthur
Jay Pharoah and Michelle Obama Made a Rap Video Together Called ‘Go to […] First Lady Michelle Obama is always open to working with funny people so long as there’s a good cause attached – in the case of Billy Eichner […]
By Megh Wright
‘Adam Ruins Everything’ Finds the Joy in Telling You Your Assumptions Are […] Everything you thought you knew is wrong, and Adam Conover is going to tell you about it.
This is the premise of Adam Ruins Everything, […]
By Rachel Sugar
Two Writers Are Accusing MTV and CollegeHumor of Stealing Their Talk Show […] A war is brewing between the writers/producers behind a rejected 2013 FX pilot and brand new show premiering on MTV. On Twitter yesterday, […]
By Megh Wright
Inside the Minds of Internet Comedy Video Executives Last weekend, standup comedy luminaries from around the world assembled in Montreal to showcase their talents and make obligatory jokes about […]
By Chris Wade
Watch ‘CollegeHumor’s Comedy Music Hall of Fame’ Hosted by Paul F. Tompkins CollegeHumor teamed up with IFC on Friday to premiere the first ever Comedy Music Hall of Fame, and if you missed it, you can now watch the […]
By Megh Wright
Here’s a Canada-Themed Sneak Peek of ‘CollegeHumor’s Comedy Music Hall of […] CollegeHumor and IFC are teaming up this Friday for the first-ever Comedy Music Hall of Fame, a celebration of all things comedy music-related […]
By Megh Wright
Watch the First Trailer for ‘CollegeHumor’s Comedy Music Hall of Fame’ […] IFC has a special treat in store for this Friday with CollegeHumor’s Comedy Music Hall of Fame, a new TV special hosted by all-around classy […]
By Megh Wright
truTV Greenlights ‘Adam Ruins Everything,’ Orders ‘Jake and Amir’ Pilot, […] truTV announced a bunch of premiere dates and new projects today, including an 11-episode series order for Adam Conover’s Adam Ruins Everything […]
By Megh Wright
CollegeHumor Is Making a New Late Night Show for MTV, ‘Middle of the Night […]
Big Breakfast, CollegeHumor’s production company, has just had its first TV series picked up by MTV. Middle of the Night Show is a late night […]
By Adam Frucci
How the Furry Community Embraced CollegeHumor’s Furry-Lampooning ‘Furry […] When CollegeHumor’s Brian Murphy and Adam Conover wrote Furry Force, they never dreamt that their hilarious and uncomfortably arousing animated […]
By Sydney Parker
Behold the Final Eight Episodes of CollegeHumor’s ‘Jake and Amir’ After eight years on CollegeHumor, Jake Hurwitz and Amir Blumenfeld’s hit web series Jake and Amir released the final installment of its […]
By Megh Wright
Adam Conover’s ‘Adam Ruins Everything’ Ordered to Pilot at truTV truTV is filling up its comedy roster. The network announced today that it’s ordered a half-hour pilot for Adam Ruins Everything based on Adam […]
By Megh Wright
The End, and Beginning, of ‘Jake and Amir’ About eight years ago, two boys with a dream and some spare time after work started making short, funny web videos. Those boys were Jake […]
By Isaac Kozell
The Final Eight Episodes of ‘Jake and Amir’ Debut Next Month Jake Hurwitz and Amir Blumenfeld’s hit CollegeHumor web series Jake and Amir is ending next month. Hurwitz and Blumenfeld revealed the news in […]
By Megh Wright
Here’s a Video Primer on the Arguments for Abolishing Restaurant Tips “Why don’t they just pay you a normal amount of money and make the food more expensive?”
By Clint Rainey
Sketch Anatomy: Adam Conover on ‘Why Engagement Rings Are a Scam’ Welcome to our column Sketch Anatomy, where we ask some of our favorite comedy writers to choose any sketch — one they personally wrote or one […]
By Megh Wright
CollegeHumor Launches a New YouTube Channel for Experimental Comedy CollegeHumor just launched a brand new YouTube channel devoted to the weird and experimental. Called CH2, the channel will feature live-action […]
By Megh Wright
The Economics of Internet Comedy Videos Funny videos on the internet come from a plethora of sources, from established internet studios to TV networks to independent comedians. But […]
By Nicole Dieker
Pete Holmes, Ben Schwartz, BriTANicK, and More Swung by the CollegeHumor […] CollegeHumor pulled an all-nighter last night and created ten new videos with a bunch of funny people, and above is one such video featuring […]
By Megh Wright
CollegeHumor Moves from NY to LA, Starts New Production Company Comedy website CollegeHumor announced today that they have moved their production team from New York to Los Angeles and that they’re forming a […]
By Bradford Evans
‘Jake and Amir’ is Coming to TBS with Ed Helms as Executive Producer After five years and over 600 videos, CollegeHumor’s smash hit web series Jake and Amir is finally coming to television. According to Deadline, […]
By Megh Wright
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Dec. 19, 2013
By Halle Kiefer
This Week In Web Videos: ‘Precious Plum’ Way back, a long long time ago (in the early 2000s), a little sketch group called Dutch West became one of the first collectives of writers and […]
By Luke Kelly Clyne
CollegeHumor’s First Movie ‘Coffee Town’ Comes Out Today Web comedy enterprise CollegeHumor is putting out its first-ever feature film today. Called Coffee Town, it stars Glenn Howerton (Always […]
By Bradford Evans
Watch Glenn Howerton and Ben Schwartz in the Trailer for CollegeHumor’s […]
Here’s the trailer for CollegeHumor’s first-ever feature film. Called Coffee Town, it’s written and directed by Brad Copeland (who wrote for […]
By Bradford Evans
CollegeHumor Is Delivering 10 Straight Hours of Comedy with Its Annual […] Every year, the comedy website CollegeHumor holds its annual All-Nighter, filming and posting new videos for 10 straight hours, and tonight is […]
By Bradford Evans
Watch a Trailer for YouTube’s Comedy Week
YouTube is holding its first-ever comedy week from May 19 to 25th, and they got Sarah Silverman, Rainn Wilson, Jake & Amir, the Gregory […]
By Bradford Evans
Watch a Supercut of Every Fake Video Game from ‘The Simpsons’
CollegeHumor cut together every clip of someone playing a fake video game in The Simpsons. I mean, they probably missed one or two, what with […]
By Bradford Evans
meet the new website
Mar. 20, 2013
A Message Tee for Every Mood Recently launched TeePublic is crowd-sourcing designs for custom shirts.
By Vanessa Grigoriadis
CollegeHumor Made a Miniseries Based on Their ‘Dora the Explorer’ Movie […]
Here’s the trailer for a three-part web miniseries CollegeHumor made, based upon a fake trailer they made last year (embedded below) for a […]
By Bradford Evans
Talking to Jake and Amir About Their Web Series, CollegeHumor, and More If Facebook Likes, YouTube views and autotuned remixes are to be believed, Jake (Hurwitz) and Amir (Blumenfeld) are two of the most popular […]
By Deidre Ann Davis
Talking to ‘Very Mary-Kate’ Creator Elaine Carroll About the Appeal of the […] It’s easy to make fun of celebrities; just look at how many TV shows and Twitter feeds are devoted to nothing else. But it’s a skill to spoof […]
By Elise Czajkowski
CollegeHumor Is Offering the First-Ever Scholarship for Average Kids Web comedy powerhouse CollegeHumor announced this week that they’re launching a new scholarship contest to specifically reward average […]
By Bradford Evans
The Jeff Rubin Jeff Rubin Show: Collegehumor Panel at New York Comic Con This week on the Jeff Rubin Jeff Rubin Show, Jeff moderates a panel at the New York Comic Con consisting of the nerdiest people working at […]
By Jeff Rubin
Paul Scheer Auditioning for 50 Shades of Grey: ‘You like that cheese dick’
Scheer nails so many of Grey’s 50 shades. There’s grey suit grey and grey backdrop grey and poorly lit white paper grey and aluminum foil […]
By Jesse David Fox
CollegeHumor Takes Aim at Malaria with the Star-Studded ‘Reverse Telethon’ […]
CollegeHumor has teamed up with Malaria No More to create Malarious, a “reverse telethon” that asks folks to donate whatever they want, from a […]
By Adam Frucci
It’s That Episode 24: Streeter Seidell/’The Wonder Years’ - My Father’s […] On “It’s That Episode,” Craig Rowin (UCB Theatre) invites guests over to his apartment to watch any episode of any TV show they want. They […]
By Splitsider Editors
Pete Holmes Isn’t the Batman We Want, He’s the Batman We Deserve
CollegeHumor’s summer series Badman features Pete Holmes as Batman and Matt McCarthy as commissioner Gordon, continuing the adventures they’ve […]
By Adam Frucci
If All Our Generals Looked Like Patrick Warburton Countries Would Be […]
Do you like extended comedic metaphors equating military action with sex? And do you like Patrick Warburton (Puddy from Seinfeld and Ken […]
By Adam Frucci
It’s That Episode 12: Jeff Rubin/’Saved By The Bell’ - Graduation On “It’s That Episode,” Craig Rowin (UCB Theatre) invites guests over to his apartment to watch any episode of any TV show they want. They […]
By Splitsider Editors
CollegeHumor’s Making Moves Into the TV Arena CollegeHumor just announced the hiring of Sam Grossman, a former Director of Development for MTV and Comedy Central, as their new Senior Vice […]
By Hallie Cantor
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