Free Man

Filed under: Daily Life — August 26, 2008 @ 10:08 pm

According to a recent survey, the hardest job in America to fill is “engineer.”

The easiest job? You guessed it: “casting agent for a Nelson Mandela movie.”

Mandela

Master of your Domain

Filed under: Daily Life — August 23, 2008 @ 11:09 am

When Obama chose Joe Biden to be his runningmate last night, the real winner wasn’t Joe Biden. It was this guy:
obama biden

Though for every prescient techie who predicts the candidates twenty months ahead of time, there are plenty of failed attempts.
obama clinton

Oh, well. You can’t blame a guy for trying. Well, maybe you can blame this guy:
obama mccain

Amir Bloomenfeld Interview

Filed under: Daily Life — August 22, 2008 @ 10:09 am

Beet.tv came to our offices last week to interview Sam and I about CHTV.

Fun fact: The palpable silence after every joke was even more deafening in the actual interview! Enjoy!

CollegeHumor Pretty Original Video

Filed under: CollegeHumor Stuff — August 19, 2008 @ 5:08 pm

Phillip Ellis CEO Retirement Roast is a new CHTV video based on an article I wrote by the same name.

I’m really happy Sam took a risk on producing it, even though it’s not a fundamentally “viral” premise. And I’m really, REALLY happy he let me act in it.

Enjoy!

Awkward Live

Filed under: Daily Life — August 14, 2008 @ 10:04 pm

You can now reserve tickets to the next CollegeHumor Live Show! (Thursday, August 21)

Not only are three of my top ten favorite comedians performing (John Mulaney, Chelsea Peretti and Anthony Jeselnik) but Sam, Dan, and I are doing a live performance of Awkward Rap.

Laughing Out Loud guaranteed!

Picturesque

Filed under: Daily Life — August 12, 2008 @ 8:58 pm

This picture, taken by Diana this weekend in Atlantic City, is one of my favorites to date.
Pavla

That’s an Awkward Wrap!

Filed under: CollegeHumor Stuff — August 11, 2008 @ 11:28 am

Awkward Rap is now a reality. Thanks to Dan for writing, Sam for directing, Vinny for shooting, Kyle for steadicamming, Davey for editing, and many more honorable CH Production folk that I’m forgetting about.

In terms of having fun on a shoot, it’s going to be hard to top this one — at least until Sam approves my script about a boy (me) playing one-on-one against Shaq in a pool of Koosh-balls.

Click on the photo below to watch the finished version on CH.
awkward rap

Jake and a M.A.S.H.

Filed under: CollegeHumor Stuff — August 7, 2008 @ 4:04 pm

Jake and I got a chance to write a CHTV script together a couple months ago. It was a fun departure from our usual collaboration.

We handed it over to the CHTV production team assuming they wouldn’t be able to pull off most of the ridiculous things we had written. And guess what? They did!

It’s called “M.A.S.H.” and it’s about the childhood game by the same name. Enjoy!

Have you dugg it yet? WHY NOT?!?!

Hallie of Fame

Filed under: Daily Life — August 4, 2008 @ 11:09 pm

I’m really proud of the latest Jake And Amir episodes — a four part video series called “Hallie.”

Jake and I don’t usually make multiple episode story arcs because our videos are mostly based on individual jokes rather than longer situations. However, we came up with the idea of me having a crush on Jake’s ex-girlfriend and decided it would at least be a two-parter.

With help from Patrick and Sarah, and a breakthrough performance by CH-Intern Hallie, we were able to flesh it out into a four episode series.

The “Hallie” videos have been viewed over 100,000 times in under two weeks and the comments have been unanimously overwhelmingly positive. I’m pleasantly surprised that after 125+ episodes, Jake and I are up to the task of finding fresh ways to squeeze comedy out of these relatively old characters that we’ve nurtured and developed.

More importantly than the numbers and the acclaim is the fact that we’re still having a lot of fun making these videos. The challenge is now, as it has always been: “What’s next?” In other words, how do we make sure the best videos we’ll ever make have yet to be produced?

…While we figure that out, enjoy the Hallie series in it’s entirety within this convenient little Vimeo Hubnut:

Hilarious Shirt For Sale!

Filed under: Daily Life — August 4, 2008 @ 9:15 am

BustedTees is having a sale until August 10th in which all of their most AWESOME BEST SELLING SHIRTS are on sale for only $9.99. Only the most hysterical shirts made the cut.

That means you can get your very own Cymbal and Ready to Mymbal shirt for just a shade under $10! (As long as you get somebody else to pay for shipping.)

Only great shirts, not the least selling ones, are on sale. I cannot stress that enough.