Episode #319: CollegeHumor’s Sam Reich

Sam Reich was 21 when CollegeHumor hired him as its first Director of Original Content in 2006. In a few short years, the success of in-house webseries such as “Hardly Working” and “Jake and Amir” got Reich and CollegeHumor a sketch comedy show on MTV….

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Episode #314: Adam Conover

Adam Conover is a comedian and writer best known for the truTV series Adam Ruins Everything, which  he created and hosted from 2015-2019. Conover’s comedy career began while still a student at Bard College, where he was part of the sketch comedy group,…

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CollegeHumor lays off 100+ employees as IAC pulls funding, hands reins over to longtime CH’er Sam Reich

CollegeHumor launched online in 1999, begat an MTV show in 2009, and turning the corner from 2019 into 2020, now finds itself in a financial hole. IAC, which had bought the site in 2006, announced more than 100 layoffs on Wednesday, after attempts to s…

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CollegeHumor launches subscription streaming service: DROPOUT

Old-school online comedy giant CollegeHumor is getting into the newer-school game of subscription streaming services. They just announced the launch of DROPOUT, its own ad-free, mixed-media subscription service. The cost? Free trials, of course; then $3.99 per month for the first three months; then tiered pricing: $3.99/month if you buy a year at a time, or up […]

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CollegeHumor mocks Bassem Youssef for leaving heart surgery and Egypt for comedy in Hollywood

Bassem Youssef left a career as a heart surgeon to become a successful comedian in Egypt, with a talk show the likes of Jon Stewart’s the garnered tens of millions of viewers until he had to flee. So flee he did. To Hollywood. The kids at CollegeHumor have some questions about all of this. Roll […]

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Inside ‘Hot Date’ with Emily Axford and Brian Murphy

“Sense of humor” is often cited as one of the top three personality traits that people look for in a partner, and it’s probably just as important that they laugh at your jokes as it is that you laugh at theirs. Finding that quality probably wasn’t as much of a problem for Emily Axford and […]

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