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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 President of Development. Grossman, who's worked on Human Giant and on programming for the Onion and the Gregory Brothers, will spearhead "the development of original long form content for both online and television." The hire definitely signals a push into TV for CollegeHumor, whose CollegeHumor Show ran for one season on MTV and who are also currently producing a movie with Glenn Howerton and Ben Schwartz. Internet comedy: not just on the Internet anymore.

CollegeHumor and the Cast of Community Want You to Save Greendale

CollegeHumor made a pretty dope ad for Greendale featuring the full cast of Community, and yeah, that includes Magnitude. Watch and be transported to a world of intellectual stimulation where the number of soggy National Geographics to be perused in the libary is second only to the number of raccoons enjoying a quick garbage-rifling at the campus snack bar! The college years truly are the best of our lives.

CollegeHumor and Funny or Die Just Released Pretty Much Identical Videos

Here's a weird thing: CollegeHumor and Funny or Die released almost exactly the same video on the same day. Responses to Occupy Wall Street, both feature the 1% in an effort to "Occupy Main Street" and demand even more of the country's wealth. But that's not all! Both videos also include some kind of twist on the idea of "fat cats," the failure of a newspaper/TV network owned by a millionaire to cover their own protest, helicopters/helipads, and duh, champagne. Only one, however, has rich people eating baby pandas.

It's pretty amazing that both sites released such a similar video on the same day. One of them must [...]

SNL's Abby Elliott and Sarah Schneider Team Up for "Balls! The Music Video"

SNL's Abby Elliott and Sarah Schneider teamed up over their hiatus to write and star in this new CollegeHumor video: Balls! The Music Video. It is, as the title suggests, about balls, objects which Abby — sorry, "Channon" — finds to be fascinating to the point of obsession. Also: dancing!

Bill Nye the Meth-Cooking Guy

In this new CollegeHumor video, Breaking Bad's Walter White is replaced with another science whiz, albeit one with a bit less menace about him: Bill Nye the Science Guy. Never before has cooking meth been so joyful and easy to understand!

Megan Mullally and Nick Offerman Do Cowboy Dragon Karaoke All the Time

The best way to enjoy this music video is to imagine that it's the kind of thing Megan Mullally and Nick Offerman often do on a random Tuesday, and CollegeHumor just happened to capture it on video this time. I bet they text each other stuff like this during the day:

Nick: After work are we gonna finish up s4 of The Wire or try Homeland? Megan: ORRR we could go inside a karaoke machine and sing a cowboy duet about a creationist and a paleontologist riding on a dragon together? Nick: YES, Chinese afterwards? Megan: It's a date. Love you Nick:

Very Mary Kate Is Back and Texting Faster Than Ever

We knew she would come back to us! Well, we knew since last week. Very Mary Kate has returned, along with Fat Professor, Jewish-Looking Girl and Bodyguard's disembodiguarded voice. It's so good to see/hear them all again! If you have comments on the video, raise your hand. (Then put it down on your keyboard and type a comment.)

With Jake and Amir's "Fired," CollegeHumor Tries a New Model for Online Video

Last week, CollegeHumor unveiled "Fired," a 30 minute episode of their popular web series Jake and Amir. The episode was made available both as a $2.99 stream and a $13 DVD that also included outtakes, behind-the-scenes content, commentary, and 10 other Jake and Amir episodes.

I talked to Sam Reich, CollegeHumor's President of Original Content, about why they're trying this new model. "We have no plans to move entirely to the pay-per-view model. Advertising is our bread and butter," he told me. "That being said, we wanted to experiment with making something big and devoid of advertising, and the pay-per-view model was the only way we [...]

Former U.S. Secretary of Labor Robert Reich Helps Us Avoid Failure Chowder

As former U.S. Secretary of Labor Robert Reich explains the credit downgrade for CollegeHumor, it seems pretty obvious that the canary in the economic coal mine is our nation's seafood eateries. I got off board from we lost Bonefish Grill, got back on board when we settled at Long John Silver's, and finally lept back off when we plummeted to Arthur Treacher's. The nation might as well be overrun by A&W Restaurants. We'll be living in Mad Max times, people, if Mad Max had to choke down inexpensive chowder!

Weird Al Goes Down with the Titanic

Here's a new one from CollegeHumor, in which they enlist the help of one Weird Al to depict what the band on the deck of the Titanic really should have been like. Dying with dignity is overrated.

CollegeHumor's Making a Real, Feature-Length Movie With Glenn Howerton & Ben Schwartz

CollegeHumor is branching out from the web videos game into producing a full-length movie, directed by Arrested Development's Brad Copeland and starring Glenn Howerton, Ben Schwartz, and Steve Little. It's called Coffee Town and it's about three freeloadin' friends. (Which, Three Freeloadin' Friends I mean, is also the title of my upcoming country-rap album.) Howerton plays "an underachieving web designer who plans to stage a fake robbery in order to preserve his daily routine at a local coffee shop, which is being converted into a pub." Over-under's at 3 for the amount of times this character pops his shirt off real quick.

Very Mary Kate Will Make a Triumphant and Fat-Free Return on Dec. 1

Elaine Carroll's amazing web series Very Mary-Kate is coming back for a third season. New episodes will appear magically on CollegeHumor starting Dec. 1. Rejoice! Or maybe just take like a suuuuper quick nap till then, 'cause you should probably save your energy for the celebratory blimp ride you'll want to take. P.S. If you missed the first and second seasons, it's never too late to get convinced before Thursday.

CollegeHumor Takes Aladdin to a Very Dark Place

Here's a new animated short from CollegeHumor, in which Aladdin uses his last wish with the best of intentions. But as the saying goes, the road to horrifying disfigurement and attempted suicide is paved with good intentions. Thank you for making a childhood Disney classic nightmare-inducing, CH!

John Stamos' Cuddling Techniques Keep Your Lady/Bob Saget Happy

John Stamos' Guide To Cuddling will have you enjoying your snuggle buddy Bob Saget all night long, provided that you can keep your eye lids frozen open during Stamos Shark Sleep. It's also about time someone in the entertainment community came forward and put a voice to what we're all thinking: having your spare arm pinned under somebody truly is worse than death.

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