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David Carr's Night on the Town
Early this morning, at about 5AM, we were browsing through today's edition of the New York Times when we ran across David Carr's media column. Something about it struck us viscerally, so much so that we were unable to process it at the time and write anything about it. More »
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CollegeHumor and their readers attempted to sully a Nebraska license plate design election. They failed.
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MTV Buys College Humor Show
MTV has bought the pilot for a TV show from the gentlemen behind CollegeHumor.com. The deal is for six episodes, scheduled to air this fall, we hear. No word yet on exactly what the content will be, how much MTV paid, or what role supermogul and College Humor owner Barry Diller may have played in making the deal happen. But needless to say, it will add a much-needed dose of humorous frat-boy hijinks to MTV's current schedule of sober public affairs programming. [UPDATE: We hear the show will consist of comedy shorts, wrapped in a storyline, set in the CH office]. (Pictured: CH co-founder Ricky Van Veen) -
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Halo 3 Homicide Detective
College Humor spoofs one of those video games that make more money than any blockbuster movie and thus define a generation. The clip below is only funny if you've played online shooters, but according to sales stats that's 90% of you, so we're set. More »
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By Nick DouglasComment by BlinkyMcChuck: @Nick Douglas: You guys should play College Humor at this instead. Or some sort of Beer Pong/Halo Hybrid game... more » | Other threads
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Things Amir Has Never Done
"Amir has never eaten a peanut butter and jelly sandwich." "Amir has never drank coffee." "Amir has never seen any Star Wars movie." It's a list of things never done by Amir Blumenfeld, a writer and actor at CollegeHumor.com (and half of the comedy duo Jake and Amir). And they're all true, if you believe his boss Ricky Van Veen. [Things Amir Has Never Done] -
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Did College Humor Just Shake Off Adult Supervision?
Say farewell to Mo Koyfman, the IAC executive dropped in to monitor the crazy kids when Barry Diller's internet conglomerate acquired College Humor. He's resigned from his position as chief operating officer of the dorky web site. There's nothing particularly amusing about the news, except for the assumption that Koyfman represented adult supervision. Founders Josh Abramson and Ricky Van Veen were always substantially more straight-laced than their reputation for rampant loft parties would indicate; while 30-year-old wannabe modelizer Koyfman, however engaging, is as much a grown-up as Barry Diller is an internet guru.
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By Nick DentonComment by WileyPeyote: There's something about "their reputation for rampant loft parties" that's bugging me. The use of rampant just doesn't sound right,... more » | Other threads
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Kentucky can ban these anonymous commenters
Kentucky state representative Tim Couch wants to ban anonymous Internet commenters. Below, College Humor presents "Internet Commenter Funeral: Ashes to ashes, dust to F1RST!" and Couch's best argument. More » -
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Plotting a Gawker Murder
College Humor co-founder Ricky Van Veen today blogged about how Gawker writers are "hurling dozens of harsh items a day at vulnerable people," and said it's only a matter of time until one of them is murdered by a "victim." In case he didn't get his, uh, point across, Van Veen went ahead and described exactly how someone might, hypothetically, kill a Gawker blogger. First, be a thinned-skinned introvert who bottles up his emotions for years, so one can go apeshit about a blog post (crime of passion=manslaughter=reduced sentence!). Identify the author of the post by reading his byline (clever!). Then hunt him down, since you "know where the writer works (a low-security, first-floor storefront). These bloggers aren't guarded national TV pundits with chauffers and security — they're young people making relatively little money and taking public transportation." He also writes, "statistically it’s just a matter of time before one of your targets snaps. It’s simply a numbers game." Creepy and servicey all at once! But if Van Veen thinks "harsh" and "negative" blog posts about microcelebrities are really so dangerous, perhaps some housecleaning is in order closer to home. After the jump, a nasty attack on Star editor and Time Out New York columnist Julia Allison, created in the offices of College Humor sister site Vimeo and published to the world by Vimeo Community Director Blake Whitman. More » -
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Career Advice For Barry Diller
What should Barry Diller do? The IAC boss is being hung, slowly, by his largest shareholder. And for good reason: although online commerce and advertising is growing, the internet conglomerate has shrunk in value from $22bn to just over $7bn over five years. Barry Diller's reputation as a canny businessman, built up over decades in the movie and TV business, is tarnished. IAC has proven completely unable to build new businesses; and the New York group has had little success with the assets it bought. Let us count the fuckups.
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By Nick DentonComment by TheBigDoggy: Outstanding post, Nick. Congrats. more » | Other threads
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Darth Vader's Pupil
It's so hard to know which corporate villain to root for. John Malone, the 'Darth Vader' of the cable industry, has built up a dominant stake in Barry Diller's IAC and is putting on the squeeze with a lawsuit. But the internet conglomerate's killer queen has learned well from his evil master: Diller is turning Malone's shares against him, siphoning off outsized personal pay while he buys playthings like the College Humor kids, and generally runs Malone's investment into the ground. (Confused? Here's Duff McDonald's explanation.)
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By Nick DentonComment by HeyThatsMyBike: I love when bad guys fight bad guys! Alien vs. Predator XII: Douchey Queen vs. Darth more » | Other threads
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The Band Splits
This would be the perfect tale of the gentrifying effect of Manhattan. Four kids with a shockingly puerile web site come to the big city, rent a kick-ass loft together in Tribeca and throw wild parties. After four years in New York, founder Josh Abramson (pictured center, in white), goes bourgeois. He's hired Park Avenue decorator David Howell to create a minimalist look — "but not stark," as he told the New York Observer — for his new $1.975m apartment at the Greenwich. But there's a problem with the narrative. More »
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By Nick DentonComment by andyfox1979: if they're only making 450k a year including their t shirt business they aren't monetizing their traffic very well. A... more » | Other threads
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Lodwick's latest project is homeless humor
Amateur attention seeker and entrepreneur Jakob Lodwick may be releasing a new project soon with David Karp, the creator of blogging tool Tumblr. Lodwick recently cut ties with both his beau, Julia Allison, and Connected Ventures, the startup he founded, now controlled by IAC and best known for Vimeo and College Humor. Without Barry Diller's backing or Allison's cleavage, how will the pasty, shirtless hipster generate the buzz he's grown to expect but rarely deserves? By mocking the homeless. More »
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By Tim FaulknerComment by jim_rock: @beng you should whois "get a fucking life" more » | Other threads
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It's Christmas Party Season!
Here is a Christmas party picture of College Humor founder and IAC employee Ricky Van Veen and "The Office" star Benjamin Joseph Manaly Novak and a monkey! [Photo: Ricky Van Veen's Flickr]
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By ChoireComment by MissMollyKate: @oh no i di'nt: Um I thought that's what they are? more » | Other threads
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Jakob Lodwick Is So Into Jakob Lodwick
Who was College Humor boy Jakob Lodwick thinking of in this morning's "morning photo" on his blog Obeastiality? (He takes one every morning and every evening, often topless, often in mixed company.) He's posted a quote from one "A.A.," who says "It occurred to me that possibly hundreds of people across the dashboard were thinking (for just a split second) that you were referring to them—I include myself in that number." Gagging yet? Well, take the bucket away from your face: now ain't the time for your gags. We suspect that the real object of Jakob's morning thoughts is his former girlfriend, Star Editor at Large Julia Allison. Wait, former? Oh, hadn't you heard? They're back on!
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By Emily GouldComment by The One: @emily: Julia's a size queen??? I thought she just screwed for shoes, not for the pleasure of it. more » | Other threads
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the more you know
Know Your College Humor Founders
Jakob Lodwick likes to be photographed topless. Photo by Mareen Fischinger.
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By Emily GouldComment by LasVegasPhil: There was a time when College Humor contained humorous things relative to college e.g., "shame" pics & notes from dorky... more » | Other threads
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CollegeHumor Founder Hits The Road
The adorable scamps of CollegeHumor haven't let The Man break their spirit: They're still living the life of hard-partying sophomores, even though they've got jillions of dollars and ostensibly real jobs. Sadly, some folks aren't so amused. A note from their building's manager cites complaints about liquor bottles left in the men's room, "Drunk people hanging out the window," and, the most serious charge, "Spinning around the revolving doors over and over again." Juvenile, sure, but they're simply following in the footsteps of mentor and owner Barry Diller, who once took a shit on a QVC executive's desk "as a lark." (Kidding, Mr. Diller!) More » -
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CollegeHumor reenacts pretty much every meeting in the dot-com industry
Two CollegeHumor employees meet to go over web site ideas. "IMDb, but no actors, just the movies." "So it's worse IMDb." "Yes." "No." Click through to watch. More » -
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What Really Happened in Amagansett This Weekend
What follows is like aversion therapy for those who might want to go to the Hamptons. On Saturday night in Amagansett, as Jessica Coen reported today at New York mag, the sundry foodie blogging glitterati gathered for a burger cook-off. Coen was there to support her man Lockhart Steele, our (and her!) former boss at this very website. She looks really happy. That "typical summer share house" was Eater honcho Ben Leventhal's, and it is called "Southfork." Julia Allison was there too! She was cozying up with College Humor's Jakob Lodwick. Later they would have a huge knock-down drag-out fight but then go on to make up. Former Glamour blogger and Gawker enemy Alyssa Shelasky was munching on Doritos poolside, as was weirdly attractive photographer Jessica Craig-Martin. Hampton's Style editor Deb Schoeneman was there, as was College Humor millionaire and (coincidence!) Hampton's Style Contributing Editor Ricky Van Veen. His pictures can be found here; the one above is the only one of Julia Allison topless, just to save you time searching. More »
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By Joshua SteinComment by Trackback: Anyone can be found online, but only a few people can be “Internet famous.” And Jakob Lodwick (cofounder of College... more » | Other threads
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early adopters
CollegeHumor editor Ricky Van Veen got his iPhone today! Unless that is a photo of an iPod. Which it is. [Get Excited]
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Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?
Earlier today we learned that an occasional paramour of former Gawker editor and current Vanity Fair chick Jessica Coen had—through some sort of complicated tech stock thing about which we have (and wish to have) no clue—fortuitously become an extremely wealthy individual. Good for him! Surprisingly, this is not the first gentleman who has enjoyed Ms. Coen's tender ministrations to have been gifted with a sudden cascade of riches. Ricky Van Veen, of CollegeHumor fame, touched her parts on more than one occasion—and then his company was acquired by Barry Diller! We were beginning to think her ladyflower was gold! Like she was Suze Orman down there! But we recall that some who succumb to Coen's seductive half-Jew-from-the-Midwest, lady-with-a-smart-mouth-and-a-great-ass appeal have not been so lucky. We know of a string of cast-off Coen lovers whose finances are shaky and who may be living with their parents. Some may even be itchy. So a warning to the men of Manhattan: A conjugal visit with Jessica Coen might just make you a millionaire. Or a pauper. She's got the Magic 8 Ball of vaginas. -
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The Shame Of It All
- Here is a picture of a 95-year-old grandma with a horn growing out of her head. [z.madison ] More »
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By abalk2Comment by slinkimalinki: @Sally Tomato: eh. she's not living up to her obligations unless she's prancing on a rainbow. more » | Other threads
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College Humor, Web 'Entourage,' Meets With Ari
College Humor, a website run by boys who've hung out together since high school in Maryland—back before they were "famous"—has now completed its transformation into the Entourage of the web. First they got a development deal with Paramount, complete with writers from The Office. The early success of their t-shirt and blog empire means they now have to hurdle the vagaries of oodles of money, Barry Diller (who has a controlling interest in their company) and book deals. Yesterday they jumped right through the looking glass. We hear that College Humor ringleader Ricky Van Veen (the Vince of the gang, and surely prettier than Adrian Grenier) "took a meeting" with crazed power-agent Ari Emmanuel, the Endeavor founder on whom Entourage's Ari Gold is based. (College Humor Co-founder Josh Abramson, totally the Eric of the gang, should have been there to police!) Halfway through their pow-wow, Ari calls some producer. "Hey, I have this kid here.... Hey, kid, what's your name again?" Welcome to Hollywood, boys! Don't let all the empty promises go to your heads. -
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New Media Blowup: Elizabeth Spiers, Solo Again
It was March 29, 2006, that Gawker founding editor Elizabeth Spiers launched Dealbreaker, the first of her grown-up internet ventures. Just a few weeks more than a year later, that new media party is over. From her email, just sent: "My partners and I have an insurmountable difference of opinion regarding long-term strategy for the company and we've come to point where I would like to do some projects that are materially riskier and more experimental than Dead Horse's existing properties, and they would prefer to pull back and focus solely on the sites we have." We always thought the safe, happy years for talent came when you stopped working for the millionaire and went out in partnership. Guess not. (Who were we kidding? Oh right, ourselves.) So how long until Ken Lerer turns on Arianna Huffington? How long until Michael Jackson and Barry Diller turn on Kurt Andersen? Heck, how long until Barry Diller tries to spit-roast the College Humor boys? Jon Fine has more.
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By ChoireComment by bartlebysmiles: @BMC -- per Elizabeth's post, how does someone get fired from "her own company?" And who's running Dead Horse if... more » | Other threads
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'Faking It': The College Humor Book Party
Yesterday marked the publication of the sophomore College Humor-branded literary effort, a guide to faking one's way through adulthood. To celebrate, the boys threw a party at the bar of Hotel QT, which has a great gimmick: the glass-walled room adjacent to the bar contains a little swimming pool. (It's a venue we know all too well.) There's no requirement that swimmers wear actual bathing suits—in fact, diving in in your underwear is encouraged. And you can bring your drink in the pool, because the bar is stocked with plastic cups—the classy thick kind of plastic, not the kind you'd see at a keg party or something. Hotel QT is cheesy, sure, but also so wild and crazy and sort of decadent. All that Sex and The City watching paid off for the College Humor boys.
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By Emily GouldComment by MikeyMelbournePDD: Is Thursday, March 23 "Gawker commenters really need to get laid day"? more » | Other threads
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IAC's video schemes
It goes without saying that most online video is crap, and will continue to be so for quite awhile (perhaps forever). Undeterred, Barry Diller's Interactive Corp is steadily ramping up video on all its sites. The Wall Street Journal takes notice, particularly of College Humor's efforts, as those are furthest along. Still, it wouldn't be the WSJ without a tut-tut graf, which beginsBut Mr. Diller is late to the party, some analysts say. To date, IAC hasn't done much to reach out to the tens of millions of Americans who routinely watch video online.
Counter-examples include ESPN's video efforts and the millions-strong audience of "Yahoo Tech's 'Hook Me Up.'" Diller has his own white whale on the horizon, though. More »
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By Chris MohneyComment by Lucia Toledo: Well, late to the party as an entrepreneur. As a content provider, he was right on time. Those... more » | Other threads
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Team Party Crash: College Humor Rush 2007
After a couple of party-heavy weeks, we may be the definition of permanently hung over. Team Party Crash craved a night off, fueled by visions of TIVO backups, generic canned soup, a little beer chased with some illegally acquired sleeping pills. Unfortunately, around lunchtime yesterday we got wind of some rush party over at the College Humor loft and, well, we figured our alcoholism isn't going anywhere unless we keep drinking, and frankly, who knows how to binge drink better than fratboys? Beer Pong? Beer BONGS? Ice Luge? A bunch of uber-wealthy internet kids pretending they're still in college? Hello. Apparently they're celebrating some new funding by spending a shitload of money. Awesome. We sent the overachieving Intern Heather, beer bong champion/shutterfly Kate and jailbait videographer Richard Blakeley back to school for a refresher. Enjoy a truly humbling gallery of photos, or speculate on what could possible motivate Kate to post even more. After the jump, Heather deals with her hangover as best as her private Catholic high-school education will allow. More »
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By Chris MohneyComment by angelina: god, heather - you totally scammed on my girl's guy. I am so bringing this up at the next Kappa... more » | Other threads
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