Web meets TV, hilarity ensues

Have you ever found yourself sitting with your friends watching YouTube videos and you come across videos titled "Realistic Hollywood Sex Scene," "Minesweeper: The Movie" or "One Week Parody?" Chances are you have.

CollegeHumor.com is a Web site that was formed in a dorm room in 1999 by high school friends Ricky Van Veen and Josh Abramson. The purpose for the site was to gather their personal college stories and everything that college students were looking at on the Internet and basically put it in one spot. The CollegeHumor content cannot only be seen on their Web site, but the videos also have large hits on YouTube.com.

CollegeHumor has come a long way in the past 10 years and currently has two books out, The CollegeHumor Guide to College and Faking It…How to Seem Like a Better Person Without Actually Improving Yourself, a movie with Paramount in the works, and now has a show on MTV titled "The CollegeHumor Show." The show is part of the MTV "See You Sunday" lineup.

"The show is a scripted comedy. We are all playing exaggerated versions of ourselves, a little bit stupider and more selfish," said Jeff Rubin, managing editor of CollegeHumor.com and one of the stars of The CollegeHumor Show. "It's been tricky because we film the show in our actual full functioning office, but we enjoy making the MTV show."

The show encompasses the popular Web site and will not let their faithful viewers down. The actual show is based on the "Hardly Working" series that is featured on the Web site.

"Hopefully [college students] will find it funny if they like the Web site,"said Streeter Seidell, star and front page editor of CollegeHumor.com. "We try to keep the same tone for the show. College-ish things creep into it. The premiere last week involved beer pong, it's relatable," The show, which also stars Ricky Van Veen, Amir Blumenfeld, Jake Hurwitz, Streeter Seidell, Patrick Cassels, Sarah Schneider, Jeff Rubin, Dan Gurewitch and Sam Reich, is expected to run for five more episodes on MTV and CollegeHumor is hoping to get another season going.

"I'll just say that if enough people watch it and we get a second season I will tell everyone a super awesome secret, but we'll have to get another season for me to do that," Seidell said.

"The CollegeHumor Show" airs Sunday at 9:30 p.m. ET/PT on MTV.

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