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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.

1:34 PM on Thu Mar 27 2008
By Nick Denton
1,493 views, 10 comments

Latest 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, but it's not wrong enough for me to really criticize. more »

college humor

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 »

1:56 PM on Wed Jan 9 2008
By Nick Denton
10,252 views, 66 comments

Latest by andyfox1979: if they're only making 450k a year including their t shirt business they aren't monetizing their traffic very well. A top 1000 alexa site should be earning several million a year. more »

the house that boobs built

CollegeHumor Boy's Flashy New Pimp Pad

Take a gander at CollegeHumor co-founder Josh "The Boring One" Abramson's new digs over at 13th Street and 6th Avenue! 15-foot ceilings! A marble-topped kitchen island! A closet as big as the craphole you live in now! But don't be jealous; use it as inspiration! Somewhere out there is an idea that could be your "posting pictures of drunk co-eds whipping their boobs out on the Internet": you just have to go find it and then watch the cash roll in!

New Apartment from Josh Abramson on Vimeo.

9:40 AM on Thu Sep 20 2007
By abalk
3,478 views, 46 comments

Latest by britneyspearstears: Is that a bottle of Old Spice body wash sitting there on the shower ledge? UTA should really start teaching their clients about class. 1st rule: money doesn't necessarily mean you have any. more »

the more you know

Know Your College Humor Founders

Jakob Lodwick likes to be photographed topless. Photo by Mareen Fischinger.

News of College Humor fella Zach Klein's departure from the lucrative website he co-founded got us to thinking: Who are these twenty-five-year-old millionaires, anyway? I mean, sure, we all read the New Yorker article two years ago, but the boys must be slightly different after a couple years of living in New York. Like: they probably watch Sex and the City way less! And maybe they've slept with some famous ("famous") people.

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3:40 PM on Tue Sep 11 2007
By Emily Gould
18,154 views, 47 comments

Latest by Orangina: Dwayne Provecho: I got more where that came from...he also used to keep a Casio keyboard in his dorm room and occasionally to play some tunes and have a sing along. No effing lie. more »