CollegeHumor

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CollegeHumor

Accessed April 6, 2008
URL	http://www.collegehumor.com
Commercial?	Yes
Type of site	Entertainment website
Registration	Optional
Owner	Connected Ventures
Created by	Josh Abramson and Ricky Van Veen
Launched	1999

CollegeHumor is a comedy website based in New York City. The site features a collection of original and user-submitted videos, as well as pictures, articles, and links. This content is usually of a humorous nature, and includes user-submitted media and original content from CollegeHumor.

1 History
2 Features
3 CHTV
4 Books
5 Movie
6 Related links
7 External links
8 References

[edit] History

The site was created in 1999 by Josh Abramson and Ricky Van Veen, two high school friends from Baltimore, Maryland as a means to stay in touch when they attended college. It has since grown considerably and is operated by Connected Ventures, a New York company that also owns Defunker, BustedTees, and Vimeo. Site traffic averages eight million monthly unique visitors; most visitors are men between the ages of 18 and 24. [1]

CollegeHumor, along with its parent company Connected Ventures, was acquired by Barry Diller's InterActiveCorp in August 2006. [2]

In 2007, CollegeHumor was nominated for a Webby Award in the Humor category.

[edit] Features

[edit] Videos

CollegeHumor hosts a large collection of viral videos. These movies include home movies capturing a funny moment, comedy sketches, bizarre sports highlights, and other moments typical of Internet videos.

CollegeHumor also produces original videos under the CHTV banner.

[edit] Pictures

CollegeHumor's Picture's section features user-submitted photographs. Like the site's videos, CollegeHumor's pictures are of a humorous or bizarre nature. CollegeHumor also occasionally holds photo-based contests for its users.

[edit] Articles

CollegeHumor posts original writing from its staff and users, including humorous essays, comics, interviews and weekly columns on sports, video games, college life, and dating. Contributing writers to the site include notable comedians Christian Finnegan, David Wain, Paul Scheer, and Judah Friedlander.

[edit] CHTV

CHTV is CollegeHumor's original comedy video section. The site releases roughly 4 new videos per week. CHTV videos include sketch comedy, film and television parodies, animation, and music videos.

CHTV produces The Michael Showalter Showalter[3], a Charlie Rose-style comedic interview series hosted by Michael Showalter. Past guests on the show include Paul Rudd, Andy Samberg, and David Cross.

In 2008, the CHTV series "Street Fighter: The Later Years" was nominated by YouTube's Video Awards [4] in the category of "Series."

CHTV's "Prank War" series, which documents the escalating practical jokes between two members of the CollegeHumor staff, gained national notoriety after one of the two employees staged a public marriage proposal to the other's girlfriend on his behalf. The incident was known as “The Yankee Prankee.” [5]

[edit] Books

(2006) The CollegeHumor Guide to College ISBN 0-525-94939-9 [6]
(2007) Faking It: How to Seem Like a Better Person Without Actually Improving Yourself ISBN 0-525-94991-7 [7]

[edit] Movie

In July 2005, CollegeHumor established a deal with Paramount Pictures to develop a feature-length comedy. The script is in development by Gene Stupinsky and Lee Eisenberg, writers on NBC's The Office.[8]