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    Ricky Van Veen March 15, 2009

    When in Rome, you should definitely say "when in Rome" a lot to make your friends laugh.
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    Ricky Van Veen March 15, 2009

    Can somebody in dev please delete this question before Jake/Amir see it? Thx.
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    Ricky Van Veen March 16, 2009

    you shoulda said hello! no creep factor.

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    Ricky Van Veen March 15, 2009

    When in Rome, you should definitely say "when in Rome" a lot to make your friends laugh.
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    Ricky Van Veen March 15, 2009

    Can somebody in dev please delete this question before Jake/Amir see it? Thx.
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    Ricky Van Veen March 16, 2009

    you shoulda said hello! no creep factor.

    Watch TV With US!

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    Ricky Van Veen March 15, 2009

    When in Rome, you should definitely say "when in Rome" a lot to make your friends laugh.
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    Ricky Van Veen March 15, 2009

    Can somebody in dev please delete this question before Jake/Amir see it? Thx.
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    Ricky Van Veen March 16, 2009

    you shoulda said hello! no creep factor.

    The CollegeHumor Show: Q&A

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    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    Thanks dudes who like my character and dude who says we're gay. To answer ManCowTurkey's question, we started off with more sketches in the show (CHTV's), but found that people were more into the storylines and the type of stuff they couldn't find on the website.
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    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    I believe there's going to be at least one Jake and Amir standalone segment in the remaining episodes. (The first season is six total eps.)
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    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    Yep, his name is Adam and he's a cool dude.
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    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    MTV is pretty hands-off, believe it or not. Since we're the production company, we handle everything from start to finish, and they only chime in to approve scripts and give guidance where they can help. They've been great.

    We actually didn't know who the sponsors would be until we saw the show on the air, so that didn't factor in.
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    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    It's definitely been an adjustment. The toughest thing is going from creating 3 min sketches with a joke every second to a well-paced 30 min story arc.
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    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    Since we plan on continuing to run the website, we're going to try to get as many advertisers as will take us.

    Mountain Dew Voltage now runs through my veins instead of blood.
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    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    Rosie, Susanna, and Kevin are all on the writing staff for the show but yeah, they aren't show regulars. Having a cast of nine people was enough for an audience to compute. But they're in the show every so often making appearances.
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    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    We started making original videos in 2006 when Sam came aboard to head up the new effort. The stuff around the office sprang out of just being jackasses with camera equipment.
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    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    We get paid in unsold DVD copies of MTV's Eric Clapton Unplugged.
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    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    Yep. Looks like it. We might reshoot some parts to be in the right camera format, but it should be in there in some form.
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    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    Phantom may also make an appearance in the show.
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    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    The ball pit was real. 40,000 balls total.

    The taco truck was a creation from scratch by our production manager Bennett. It was just the shell of one, it didn't actually run.
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    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    People seemed to think the story flowed better and liked to mentally remain in the office.
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    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    yes and yes.
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    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    please don't tell anybody that Peter Engel is our head writer.
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    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    Yeah, it's pretty good! Rob emailed us the week the shows came out to wish us luck. Very nice dude.
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    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    hah, i miss that too.
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    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    I guess we'll know in the next few months. Those things take a while.

    I think the whole "MTV doesn't play music videos" thing is hilarious. The reason they stopped playing them is because nobody watches the channel when they do. It would obviously be cheaper for them to play videos instead of creating shows, so there's clearly a reason why they don't. If you were MTV would you play something that made everybody change the channel?

    I wasn't in a fraternity, though my co-founder Josh was an SAE.
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    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    We try to make him show skin in every episode.

    For the ladies.
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    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    Slumdog.
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    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    MTV first contacted us about a year ago. They wanted to put something together using the CHTV's and Hardly Workings. That eventually evolved into the narrative format we have now.

    Random example of a thing that we couldn't say was "wet snuggle." We had to replace it with "weiner kiss." That's in the episode "Sarah's New Boyfriend."
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    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    1. The Office (British and American), SNL.

    2. 24? 25?

    3. I dunno, kittens are pretty cute. It would have to be a ton of money.
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    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    MTV came to us.
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    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    Check out another episode and see what you think.
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    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    Writing an episode takes about a week. MTV has the final say since it's their air.
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    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    A bit, but mostly scripted. If we're fortunate enough to do more seasons and have more time for each episode, we'll probably do more improvising.
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    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    Every one except BBG will probably be on this season.
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    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    The other 50 people in the office hate us. I've had my lunch stolen 16 times.
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    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    We'd love to go on those shows, we'd just have to see if they'd take us.
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    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    Well, I appreciate you watching. We first were going to do a sketch-based show, but when we took it to focus groups, they said "we want to see more of the office stuff since we can see CH sketches on the web whenever we want to."

    I think it was the right choice, I'm really proud of the format of the show and it's only getting better as we learn the television world.
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    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    U R GAY!!!!!!!11111
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    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    i think we use DVX's? HVX's? Vinny or Sam can answer that better.

    We had 60 hot girls in the office that day. It was a sight to see.
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    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    Also a question for Sam, though I know we do shoot in HD and it's broadcast in SD.
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    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    The Lee and Gene movie is still in the works. The slow, slow Hollywood works.
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    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    No.

    Wait a second....
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    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    We're definitely cutting back on the old stuff, but there will be some stuff in there so we can showcase some of our favorites to a new audience. Hopefully it won't be too bad for ya.
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    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    Went to a bar. Really.
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    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    On the show, it's what is acceptable for TV.

    On the site, we bleep out some stuff so we can run ads on the video. If a video is too dirty already, we'll just mark it "not safe for advertisers" and leave it unbleeped.
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    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    Watch it on the TV. It's better that way.
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    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    We basically took the crew from the office and said "hey guess what, you're now on a TV show."
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    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    Reading this post was like putting together a puzzle, but I think I understand what he means.

    So, thanks for watching! Glad you like the show!
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    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    Real deal. Got home from a friend's birthday party, still have some energy in me before bed, and decided to chime in.
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    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    if we do more episodes, there could be arcs that span more episodes. but for now, we're going to crawl before we run.
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    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    i don't think we're attractive enough.
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    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    Brad T: NEVER!
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    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    we do have a live tour with some of our fav standups on it. maybe we'll do another round with folks from the show.
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    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    start writing articles for the site that get a lot of hits
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    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    good question. i guess because most of us are busy running the site and such. but we do every once in a while.
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    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    we've seen a small bump in traffic, especially on sundays.
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    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    seinfeld
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    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    i don't get the me = facebook thing?
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    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    we mostly get recognized in bars near colleges. and it's mostly from the website, not the show. at least for now.
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    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    that's why we continue to hire people right out of school, to keep the blood fresh.
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    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    glad you like that format better. it's how it'll be most of the way forward.
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    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    Hmm... Dan wrote a lot of those jokes you mentioned... so maybe he's giving himself the best lines! Caught, Dan!
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    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    if there's more seasons...
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    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    Josh. Yup, he runs the business side of things. He's also an exec producer on the show.
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    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    We hope!
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    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    Seinfeld.

    That's the answer to both of your questions.
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    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    It takes about two weeks of writing and a week of shooting.
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    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    Group effort, then two people go off and write a draft on their own, then we polish as a group.
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    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    It's not my real name, but it's Streeter's real name.

    Mike Parker.

    Jake only listens to Bowling for Soup.
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    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    thx Daniel!
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    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    Hmm... i think there might be a room that hasn't been seen. but we pretty much use every available space.

    thx!

    i don't know if you can change your screen name. but if one of our dev guys is reading this, maybe he can help.
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    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    Josh and I never really had long term expectations for it for most of the beginning, we just kind of took it day by day. But within the past few years we definitely wanted it to become a brand that people were into not just online (in movies tv, books, tours, etc).

    We had a message board a few years ago. We took it down because it became too much of a hassle to run and too insular. I like that the community now is based around the content.
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    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    decision is yes.
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    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    we mostly talk about how much we love jake also.
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    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    battlefield by tugboat
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    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    i got to meet larry david. that was pretty rad. but that certainly doesn't counter your seinfeld theory.
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    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    it was pretty tough to run the site, but we managed to get through it. it's a weird feeling not having to do the show all day.
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    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    the only diva bitch is jeff.
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    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    battlefield by tugboat (aka jesse novak)
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    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    CH Show might be coming to Canada soon.
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    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    soon
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    Ricky Van Veen February 23, 2009

    yes! already shot.
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    Ricky Van Veen February 23, 2009

    you're suprisingly close

    The CollegeHumor Show: Q&A

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    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    Thanks dudes who like my character and dude who says we're gay. To answer ManCowTurkey's question, we started off with more sketches in the show (CHTV's), but found that people were more into the storylines and the type of stuff they couldn't find on the website.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    I believe there's going to be at least one Jake and Amir standalone segment in the remaining episodes. (The first season is six total eps.)
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    Yep, his name is Adam and he's a cool dude.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    MTV is pretty hands-off, believe it or not. Since we're the production company, we handle everything from start to finish, and they only chime in to approve scripts and give guidance where they can help. They've been great.

    We actually didn't know who the sponsors would be until we saw the show on the air, so that didn't factor in.
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    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    It's definitely been an adjustment. The toughest thing is going from creating 3 min sketches with a joke every second to a well-paced 30 min story arc.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    Since we plan on continuing to run the website, we're going to try to get as many advertisers as will take us.

    Mountain Dew Voltage now runs through my veins instead of blood.
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    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    Rosie, Susanna, and Kevin are all on the writing staff for the show but yeah, they aren't show regulars. Having a cast of nine people was enough for an audience to compute. But they're in the show every so often making appearances.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    We started making original videos in 2006 when Sam came aboard to head up the new effort. The stuff around the office sprang out of just being jackasses with camera equipment.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    We get paid in unsold DVD copies of MTV's Eric Clapton Unplugged.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    Yep. Looks like it. We might reshoot some parts to be in the right camera format, but it should be in there in some form.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    Phantom may also make an appearance in the show.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    The ball pit was real. 40,000 balls total.

    The taco truck was a creation from scratch by our production manager Bennett. It was just the shell of one, it didn't actually run.
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    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    People seemed to think the story flowed better and liked to mentally remain in the office.
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    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    yes and yes.
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    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    please don't tell anybody that Peter Engel is our head writer.
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    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    Yeah, it's pretty good! Rob emailed us the week the shows came out to wish us luck. Very nice dude.
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    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    hah, i miss that too.
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    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    I guess we'll know in the next few months. Those things take a while.

    I think the whole "MTV doesn't play music videos" thing is hilarious. The reason they stopped playing them is because nobody watches the channel when they do. It would obviously be cheaper for them to play videos instead of creating shows, so there's clearly a reason why they don't. If you were MTV would you play something that made everybody change the channel?

    I wasn't in a fraternity, though my co-founder Josh was an SAE.
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    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    We try to make him show skin in every episode.

    For the ladies.
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    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    Slumdog.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    MTV first contacted us about a year ago. They wanted to put something together using the CHTV's and Hardly Workings. That eventually evolved into the narrative format we have now.

    Random example of a thing that we couldn't say was "wet snuggle." We had to replace it with "weiner kiss." That's in the episode "Sarah's New Boyfriend."
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    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    1. The Office (British and American), SNL.

    2. 24? 25?

    3. I dunno, kittens are pretty cute. It would have to be a ton of money.
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    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    MTV came to us.
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    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    Check out another episode and see what you think.
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    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    Writing an episode takes about a week. MTV has the final say since it's their air.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    A bit, but mostly scripted. If we're fortunate enough to do more seasons and have more time for each episode, we'll probably do more improvising.
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    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    Every one except BBG will probably be on this season.
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    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    The other 50 people in the office hate us. I've had my lunch stolen 16 times.
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    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    We'd love to go on those shows, we'd just have to see if they'd take us.
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    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    Well, I appreciate you watching. We first were going to do a sketch-based show, but when we took it to focus groups, they said "we want to see more of the office stuff since we can see CH sketches on the web whenever we want to."

    I think it was the right choice, I'm really proud of the format of the show and it's only getting better as we learn the television world.
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    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    U R GAY!!!!!!!11111
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    i think we use DVX's? HVX's? Vinny or Sam can answer that better.

    We had 60 hot girls in the office that day. It was a sight to see.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    Also a question for Sam, though I know we do shoot in HD and it's broadcast in SD.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    The Lee and Gene movie is still in the works. The slow, slow Hollywood works.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    No.

    Wait a second....
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    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    We're definitely cutting back on the old stuff, but there will be some stuff in there so we can showcase some of our favorites to a new audience. Hopefully it won't be too bad for ya.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    Went to a bar. Really.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    On the show, it's what is acceptable for TV.

    On the site, we bleep out some stuff so we can run ads on the video. If a video is too dirty already, we'll just mark it "not safe for advertisers" and leave it unbleeped.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    Watch it on the TV. It's better that way.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    We basically took the crew from the office and said "hey guess what, you're now on a TV show."
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    Reading this post was like putting together a puzzle, but I think I understand what he means.

    So, thanks for watching! Glad you like the show!
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    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    Real deal. Got home from a friend's birthday party, still have some energy in me before bed, and decided to chime in.
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    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    if we do more episodes, there could be arcs that span more episodes. but for now, we're going to crawl before we run.
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    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    i don't think we're attractive enough.
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    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    Brad T: NEVER!
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    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    we do have a live tour with some of our fav standups on it. maybe we'll do another round with folks from the show.
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    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    start writing articles for the site that get a lot of hits
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    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    good question. i guess because most of us are busy running the site and such. but we do every once in a while.
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    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    we've seen a small bump in traffic, especially on sundays.
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    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    seinfeld
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    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    i don't get the me = facebook thing?
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    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    we mostly get recognized in bars near colleges. and it's mostly from the website, not the show. at least for now.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    that's why we continue to hire people right out of school, to keep the blood fresh.
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    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    glad you like that format better. it's how it'll be most of the way forward.
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    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    Hmm... Dan wrote a lot of those jokes you mentioned... so maybe he's giving himself the best lines! Caught, Dan!
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    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    if there's more seasons...
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    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    Josh. Yup, he runs the business side of things. He's also an exec producer on the show.
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    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    We hope!
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    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    Seinfeld.

    That's the answer to both of your questions.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    It takes about two weeks of writing and a week of shooting.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    Group effort, then two people go off and write a draft on their own, then we polish as a group.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    It's not my real name, but it's Streeter's real name.

    Mike Parker.

    Jake only listens to Bowling for Soup.
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    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    thx Daniel!
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    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    Hmm... i think there might be a room that hasn't been seen. but we pretty much use every available space.

    thx!

    i don't know if you can change your screen name. but if one of our dev guys is reading this, maybe he can help.
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    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    Josh and I never really had long term expectations for it for most of the beginning, we just kind of took it day by day. But within the past few years we definitely wanted it to become a brand that people were into not just online (in movies tv, books, tours, etc).

    We had a message board a few years ago. We took it down because it became too much of a hassle to run and too insular. I like that the community now is based around the content.
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    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    decision is yes.
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    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    we mostly talk about how much we love jake also.
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    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    battlefield by tugboat
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    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    i got to meet larry david. that was pretty rad. but that certainly doesn't counter your seinfeld theory.
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    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    it was pretty tough to run the site, but we managed to get through it. it's a weird feeling not having to do the show all day.
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    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    the only diva bitch is jeff.
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    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    battlefield by tugboat (aka jesse novak)
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    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    CH Show might be coming to Canada soon.
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    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    soon
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    Ricky Van Veen February 23, 2009

    yes! already shot.
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    Ricky Van Veen February 23, 2009

    you're suprisingly close

    The CollegeHumor Show: Q&A

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    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    Thanks dudes who like my character and dude who says we're gay. To answer ManCowTurkey's question, we started off with more sketches in the show (CHTV's), but found that people were more into the storylines and the type of stuff they couldn't find on the website.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    I believe there's going to be at least one Jake and Amir standalone segment in the remaining episodes. (The first season is six total eps.)
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    Yep, his name is Adam and he's a cool dude.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    MTV is pretty hands-off, believe it or not. Since we're the production company, we handle everything from start to finish, and they only chime in to approve scripts and give guidance where they can help. They've been great.

    We actually didn't know who the sponsors would be until we saw the show on the air, so that didn't factor in.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    It's definitely been an adjustment. The toughest thing is going from creating 3 min sketches with a joke every second to a well-paced 30 min story arc.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    Since we plan on continuing to run the website, we're going to try to get as many advertisers as will take us.

    Mountain Dew Voltage now runs through my veins instead of blood.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    Rosie, Susanna, and Kevin are all on the writing staff for the show but yeah, they aren't show regulars. Having a cast of nine people was enough for an audience to compute. But they're in the show every so often making appearances.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    We started making original videos in 2006 when Sam came aboard to head up the new effort. The stuff around the office sprang out of just being jackasses with camera equipment.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    We get paid in unsold DVD copies of MTV's Eric Clapton Unplugged.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    Yep. Looks like it. We might reshoot some parts to be in the right camera format, but it should be in there in some form.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    Phantom may also make an appearance in the show.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    The ball pit was real. 40,000 balls total.

    The taco truck was a creation from scratch by our production manager Bennett. It was just the shell of one, it didn't actually run.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    People seemed to think the story flowed better and liked to mentally remain in the office.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    yes and yes.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    please don't tell anybody that Peter Engel is our head writer.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    Yeah, it's pretty good! Rob emailed us the week the shows came out to wish us luck. Very nice dude.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    hah, i miss that too.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    I guess we'll know in the next few months. Those things take a while.

    I think the whole "MTV doesn't play music videos" thing is hilarious. The reason they stopped playing them is because nobody watches the channel when they do. It would obviously be cheaper for them to play videos instead of creating shows, so there's clearly a reason why they don't. If you were MTV would you play something that made everybody change the channel?

    I wasn't in a fraternity, though my co-founder Josh was an SAE.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    We try to make him show skin in every episode.

    For the ladies.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    Slumdog.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    MTV first contacted us about a year ago. They wanted to put something together using the CHTV's and Hardly Workings. That eventually evolved into the narrative format we have now.

    Random example of a thing that we couldn't say was "wet snuggle." We had to replace it with "weiner kiss." That's in the episode "Sarah's New Boyfriend."
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    1. The Office (British and American), SNL.

    2. 24? 25?

    3. I dunno, kittens are pretty cute. It would have to be a ton of money.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    MTV came to us.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    Check out another episode and see what you think.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    Writing an episode takes about a week. MTV has the final say since it's their air.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    A bit, but mostly scripted. If we're fortunate enough to do more seasons and have more time for each episode, we'll probably do more improvising.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    Every one except BBG will probably be on this season.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    The other 50 people in the office hate us. I've had my lunch stolen 16 times.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    We'd love to go on those shows, we'd just have to see if they'd take us.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    Well, I appreciate you watching. We first were going to do a sketch-based show, but when we took it to focus groups, they said "we want to see more of the office stuff since we can see CH sketches on the web whenever we want to."

    I think it was the right choice, I'm really proud of the format of the show and it's only getting better as we learn the television world.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    U R GAY!!!!!!!11111
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    i think we use DVX's? HVX's? Vinny or Sam can answer that better.

    We had 60 hot girls in the office that day. It was a sight to see.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    Also a question for Sam, though I know we do shoot in HD and it's broadcast in SD.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    The Lee and Gene movie is still in the works. The slow, slow Hollywood works.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    No.

    Wait a second....
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    We're definitely cutting back on the old stuff, but there will be some stuff in there so we can showcase some of our favorites to a new audience. Hopefully it won't be too bad for ya.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    Went to a bar. Really.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    On the show, it's what is acceptable for TV.

    On the site, we bleep out some stuff so we can run ads on the video. If a video is too dirty already, we'll just mark it "not safe for advertisers" and leave it unbleeped.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    Watch it on the TV. It's better that way.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    We basically took the crew from the office and said "hey guess what, you're now on a TV show."
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    Reading this post was like putting together a puzzle, but I think I understand what he means.

    So, thanks for watching! Glad you like the show!
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    Real deal. Got home from a friend's birthday party, still have some energy in me before bed, and decided to chime in.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    if we do more episodes, there could be arcs that span more episodes. but for now, we're going to crawl before we run.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    i don't think we're attractive enough.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    Brad T: NEVER!
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    we do have a live tour with some of our fav standups on it. maybe we'll do another round with folks from the show.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    start writing articles for the site that get a lot of hits
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    good question. i guess because most of us are busy running the site and such. but we do every once in a while.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    we've seen a small bump in traffic, especially on sundays.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    seinfeld
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    i don't get the me = facebook thing?
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    we mostly get recognized in bars near colleges. and it's mostly from the website, not the show. at least for now.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    that's why we continue to hire people right out of school, to keep the blood fresh.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    glad you like that format better. it's how it'll be most of the way forward.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    Hmm... Dan wrote a lot of those jokes you mentioned... so maybe he's giving himself the best lines! Caught, Dan!
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    if there's more seasons...
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    Josh. Yup, he runs the business side of things. He's also an exec producer on the show.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    We hope!
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    Seinfeld.

    That's the answer to both of your questions.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    It takes about two weeks of writing and a week of shooting.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    Group effort, then two people go off and write a draft on their own, then we polish as a group.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    It's not my real name, but it's Streeter's real name.

    Mike Parker.

    Jake only listens to Bowling for Soup.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    thx Daniel!
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    Hmm... i think there might be a room that hasn't been seen. but we pretty much use every available space.

    thx!

    i don't know if you can change your screen name. but if one of our dev guys is reading this, maybe he can help.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    Josh and I never really had long term expectations for it for most of the beginning, we just kind of took it day by day. But within the past few years we definitely wanted it to become a brand that people were into not just online (in movies tv, books, tours, etc).

    We had a message board a few years ago. We took it down because it became too much of a hassle to run and too insular. I like that the community now is based around the content.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    decision is yes.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    we mostly talk about how much we love jake also.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    battlefield by tugboat
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    i got to meet larry david. that was pretty rad. but that certainly doesn't counter your seinfeld theory.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    it was pretty tough to run the site, but we managed to get through it. it's a weird feeling not having to do the show all day.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    the only diva bitch is jeff.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    battlefield by tugboat (aka jesse novak)
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    CH Show might be coming to Canada soon.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    soon
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 23, 2009

    yes! already shot.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 23, 2009

    you're suprisingly close

    The CollegeHumor Show: Q&A

    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    Thanks dudes who like my character and dude who says we're gay. To answer ManCowTurkey's question, we started off with more sketches in the show (CHTV's), but found that people were more into the storylines and the type of stuff they couldn't find on the website.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    I believe there's going to be at least one Jake and Amir standalone segment in the remaining episodes. (The first season is six total eps.)
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    Yep, his name is Adam and he's a cool dude.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    MTV is pretty hands-off, believe it or not. Since we're the production company, we handle everything from start to finish, and they only chime in to approve scripts and give guidance where they can help. They've been great.

    We actually didn't know who the sponsors would be until we saw the show on the air, so that didn't factor in.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    It's definitely been an adjustment. The toughest thing is going from creating 3 min sketches with a joke every second to a well-paced 30 min story arc.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    Since we plan on continuing to run the website, we're going to try to get as many advertisers as will take us.

    Mountain Dew Voltage now runs through my veins instead of blood.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    Rosie, Susanna, and Kevin are all on the writing staff for the show but yeah, they aren't show regulars. Having a cast of nine people was enough for an audience to compute. But they're in the show every so often making appearances.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    We started making original videos in 2006 when Sam came aboard to head up the new effort. The stuff around the office sprang out of just being jackasses with camera equipment.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    We get paid in unsold DVD copies of MTV's Eric Clapton Unplugged.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    Yep. Looks like it. We might reshoot some parts to be in the right camera format, but it should be in there in some form.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    Phantom may also make an appearance in the show.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    The ball pit was real. 40,000 balls total.

    The taco truck was a creation from scratch by our production manager Bennett. It was just the shell of one, it didn't actually run.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    People seemed to think the story flowed better and liked to mentally remain in the office.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    yes and yes.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    please don't tell anybody that Peter Engel is our head writer.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    Yeah, it's pretty good! Rob emailed us the week the shows came out to wish us luck. Very nice dude.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    hah, i miss that too.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    I guess we'll know in the next few months. Those things take a while.

    I think the whole "MTV doesn't play music videos" thing is hilarious. The reason they stopped playing them is because nobody watches the channel when they do. It would obviously be cheaper for them to play videos instead of creating shows, so there's clearly a reason why they don't. If you were MTV would you play something that made everybody change the channel?

    I wasn't in a fraternity, though my co-founder Josh was an SAE.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    We try to make him show skin in every episode.

    For the ladies.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    Slumdog.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    MTV first contacted us about a year ago. They wanted to put something together using the CHTV's and Hardly Workings. That eventually evolved into the narrative format we have now.

    Random example of a thing that we couldn't say was "wet snuggle." We had to replace it with "weiner kiss." That's in the episode "Sarah's New Boyfriend."
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    1. The Office (British and American), SNL.

    2. 24? 25?

    3. I dunno, kittens are pretty cute. It would have to be a ton of money.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    MTV came to us.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    Check out another episode and see what you think.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    Writing an episode takes about a week. MTV has the final say since it's their air.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    A bit, but mostly scripted. If we're fortunate enough to do more seasons and have more time for each episode, we'll probably do more improvising.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    Every one except BBG will probably be on this season.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    The other 50 people in the office hate us. I've had my lunch stolen 16 times.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    We'd love to go on those shows, we'd just have to see if they'd take us.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    Well, I appreciate you watching. We first were going to do a sketch-based show, but when we took it to focus groups, they said "we want to see more of the office stuff since we can see CH sketches on the web whenever we want to."

    I think it was the right choice, I'm really proud of the format of the show and it's only getting better as we learn the television world.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    U R GAY!!!!!!!11111
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    i think we use DVX's? HVX's? Vinny or Sam can answer that better.

    We had 60 hot girls in the office that day. It was a sight to see.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    Also a question for Sam, though I know we do shoot in HD and it's broadcast in SD.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    The Lee and Gene movie is still in the works. The slow, slow Hollywood works.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    No.

    Wait a second....
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    We're definitely cutting back on the old stuff, but there will be some stuff in there so we can showcase some of our favorites to a new audience. Hopefully it won't be too bad for ya.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    Went to a bar. Really.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    On the show, it's what is acceptable for TV.

    On the site, we bleep out some stuff so we can run ads on the video. If a video is too dirty already, we'll just mark it "not safe for advertisers" and leave it unbleeped.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    Watch it on the TV. It's better that way.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    We basically took the crew from the office and said "hey guess what, you're now on a TV show."
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    Reading this post was like putting together a puzzle, but I think I understand what he means.

    So, thanks for watching! Glad you like the show!
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    Real deal. Got home from a friend's birthday party, still have some energy in me before bed, and decided to chime in.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    if we do more episodes, there could be arcs that span more episodes. but for now, we're going to crawl before we run.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    i don't think we're attractive enough.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    Brad T: NEVER!
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    we do have a live tour with some of our fav standups on it. maybe we'll do another round with folks from the show.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    start writing articles for the site that get a lot of hits
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    good question. i guess because most of us are busy running the site and such. but we do every once in a while.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    we've seen a small bump in traffic, especially on sundays.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    seinfeld
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    i don't get the me = facebook thing?
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    we mostly get recognized in bars near colleges. and it's mostly from the website, not the show. at least for now.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    that's why we continue to hire people right out of school, to keep the blood fresh.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    glad you like that format better. it's how it'll be most of the way forward.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    Hmm... Dan wrote a lot of those jokes you mentioned... so maybe he's giving himself the best lines! Caught, Dan!
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    if there's more seasons...
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    Josh. Yup, he runs the business side of things. He's also an exec producer on the show.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    We hope!
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    Seinfeld.

    That's the answer to both of your questions.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    It takes about two weeks of writing and a week of shooting.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    Group effort, then two people go off and write a draft on their own, then we polish as a group.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    It's not my real name, but it's Streeter's real name.

    Mike Parker.

    Jake only listens to Bowling for Soup.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    thx Daniel!
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    Hmm... i think there might be a room that hasn't been seen. but we pretty much use every available space.

    thx!

    i don't know if you can change your screen name. but if one of our dev guys is reading this, maybe he can help.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    Josh and I never really had long term expectations for it for most of the beginning, we just kind of took it day by day. But within the past few years we definitely wanted it to become a brand that people were into not just online (in movies tv, books, tours, etc).

    We had a message board a few years ago. We took it down because it became too much of a hassle to run and too insular. I like that the community now is based around the content.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    decision is yes.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    we mostly talk about how much we love jake also.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    battlefield by tugboat
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    i got to meet larry david. that was pretty rad. but that certainly doesn't counter your seinfeld theory.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    it was pretty tough to run the site, but we managed to get through it. it's a weird feeling not having to do the show all day.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    the only diva bitch is jeff.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    battlefield by tugboat (aka jesse novak)
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    CH Show might be coming to Canada soon.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    soon
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 23, 2009

    yes! already shot.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 23, 2009

    you're suprisingly close

    The CollegeHumor Show: Q&A

    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    Thanks dudes who like my character and dude who says we're gay. To answer ManCowTurkey's question, we started off with more sketches in the show (CHTV's), but found that people were more into the storylines and the type of stuff they couldn't find on the website.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    I believe there's going to be at least one Jake and Amir standalone segment in the remaining episodes. (The first season is six total eps.)
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    Yep, his name is Adam and he's a cool dude.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    MTV is pretty hands-off, believe it or not. Since we're the production company, we handle everything from start to finish, and they only chime in to approve scripts and give guidance where they can help. They've been great.

    We actually didn't know who the sponsors would be until we saw the show on the air, so that didn't factor in.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    It's definitely been an adjustment. The toughest thing is going from creating 3 min sketches with a joke every second to a well-paced 30 min story arc.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    Since we plan on continuing to run the website, we're going to try to get as many advertisers as will take us.

    Mountain Dew Voltage now runs through my veins instead of blood.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    Rosie, Susanna, and Kevin are all on the writing staff for the show but yeah, they aren't show regulars. Having a cast of nine people was enough for an audience to compute. But they're in the show every so often making appearances.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    We started making original videos in 2006 when Sam came aboard to head up the new effort. The stuff around the office sprang out of just being jackasses with camera equipment.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    We get paid in unsold DVD copies of MTV's Eric Clapton Unplugged.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    Yep. Looks like it. We might reshoot some parts to be in the right camera format, but it should be in there in some form.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    Phantom may also make an appearance in the show.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    The ball pit was real. 40,000 balls total.

    The taco truck was a creation from scratch by our production manager Bennett. It was just the shell of one, it didn't actually run.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    People seemed to think the story flowed better and liked to mentally remain in the office.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    yes and yes.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    please don't tell anybody that Peter Engel is our head writer.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    Yeah, it's pretty good! Rob emailed us the week the shows came out to wish us luck. Very nice dude.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    hah, i miss that too.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    I guess we'll know in the next few months. Those things take a while.

    I think the whole "MTV doesn't play music videos" thing is hilarious. The reason they stopped playing them is because nobody watches the channel when they do. It would obviously be cheaper for them to play videos instead of creating shows, so there's clearly a reason why they don't. If you were MTV would you play something that made everybody change the channel?

    I wasn't in a fraternity, though my co-founder Josh was an SAE.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    We try to make him show skin in every episode.

    For the ladies.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    Slumdog.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    MTV first contacted us about a year ago. They wanted to put something together using the CHTV's and Hardly Workings. That eventually evolved into the narrative format we have now.

    Random example of a thing that we couldn't say was "wet snuggle." We had to replace it with "weiner kiss." That's in the episode "Sarah's New Boyfriend."
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    1. The Office (British and American), SNL.

    2. 24? 25?

    3. I dunno, kittens are pretty cute. It would have to be a ton of money.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    MTV came to us.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    Check out another episode and see what you think.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    Writing an episode takes about a week. MTV has the final say since it's their air.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    A bit, but mostly scripted. If we're fortunate enough to do more seasons and have more time for each episode, we'll probably do more improvising.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    Every one except BBG will probably be on this season.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    The other 50 people in the office hate us. I've had my lunch stolen 16 times.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    We'd love to go on those shows, we'd just have to see if they'd take us.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    Well, I appreciate you watching. We first were going to do a sketch-based show, but when we took it to focus groups, they said "we want to see more of the office stuff since we can see CH sketches on the web whenever we want to."

    I think it was the right choice, I'm really proud of the format of the show and it's only getting better as we learn the television world.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    U R GAY!!!!!!!11111
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    i think we use DVX's? HVX's? Vinny or Sam can answer that better.

    We had 60 hot girls in the office that day. It was a sight to see.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    Also a question for Sam, though I know we do shoot in HD and it's broadcast in SD.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    The Lee and Gene movie is still in the works. The slow, slow Hollywood works.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    No.

    Wait a second....
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    We're definitely cutting back on the old stuff, but there will be some stuff in there so we can showcase some of our favorites to a new audience. Hopefully it won't be too bad for ya.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    Went to a bar. Really.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    On the show, it's what is acceptable for TV.

    On the site, we bleep out some stuff so we can run ads on the video. If a video is too dirty already, we'll just mark it "not safe for advertisers" and leave it unbleeped.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    Watch it on the TV. It's better that way.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    We basically took the crew from the office and said "hey guess what, you're now on a TV show."
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    Reading this post was like putting together a puzzle, but I think I understand what he means.

    So, thanks for watching! Glad you like the show!
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    Real deal. Got home from a friend's birthday party, still have some energy in me before bed, and decided to chime in.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    if we do more episodes, there could be arcs that span more episodes. but for now, we're going to crawl before we run.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    i don't think we're attractive enough.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    Brad T: NEVER!
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    we do have a live tour with some of our fav standups on it. maybe we'll do another round with folks from the show.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    start writing articles for the site that get a lot of hits
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    good question. i guess because most of us are busy running the site and such. but we do every once in a while.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    we've seen a small bump in traffic, especially on sundays.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    seinfeld
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    i don't get the me = facebook thing?
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    we mostly get recognized in bars near colleges. and it's mostly from the website, not the show. at least for now.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    that's why we continue to hire people right out of school, to keep the blood fresh.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    glad you like that format better. it's how it'll be most of the way forward.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    Hmm... Dan wrote a lot of those jokes you mentioned... so maybe he's giving himself the best lines! Caught, Dan!
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    if there's more seasons...
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    Josh. Yup, he runs the business side of things. He's also an exec producer on the show.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    We hope!
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    Seinfeld.

    That's the answer to both of your questions.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    It takes about two weeks of writing and a week of shooting.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    Group effort, then two people go off and write a draft on their own, then we polish as a group.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    It's not my real name, but it's Streeter's real name.

    Mike Parker.

    Jake only listens to Bowling for Soup.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    thx Daniel!
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    Hmm... i think there might be a room that hasn't been seen. but we pretty much use every available space.

    thx!

    i don't know if you can change your screen name. but if one of our dev guys is reading this, maybe he can help.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    Josh and I never really had long term expectations for it for most of the beginning, we just kind of took it day by day. But within the past few years we definitely wanted it to become a brand that people were into not just online (in movies tv, books, tours, etc).

    We had a message board a few years ago. We took it down because it became too much of a hassle to run and too insular. I like that the community now is based around the content.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    decision is yes.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    we mostly talk about how much we love jake also.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    battlefield by tugboat
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    i got to meet larry david. that was pretty rad. but that certainly doesn't counter your seinfeld theory.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    it was pretty tough to run the site, but we managed to get through it. it's a weird feeling not having to do the show all day.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    the only diva bitch is jeff.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    battlefield by tugboat (aka jesse novak)
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    CH Show might be coming to Canada soon.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    soon
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 23, 2009

    yes! already shot.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 23, 2009

    you're suprisingly close

    The CollegeHumor Show: Q&A

    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    Thanks dudes who like my character and dude who says we're gay. To answer ManCowTurkey's question, we started off with more sketches in the show (CHTV's), but found that people were more into the storylines and the type of stuff they couldn't find on the website.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    I believe there's going to be at least one Jake and Amir standalone segment in the remaining episodes. (The first season is six total eps.)
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    Yep, his name is Adam and he's a cool dude.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    MTV is pretty hands-off, believe it or not. Since we're the production company, we handle everything from start to finish, and they only chime in to approve scripts and give guidance where they can help. They've been great.

    We actually didn't know who the sponsors would be until we saw the show on the air, so that didn't factor in.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    It's definitely been an adjustment. The toughest thing is going from creating 3 min sketches with a joke every second to a well-paced 30 min story arc.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    Since we plan on continuing to run the website, we're going to try to get as many advertisers as will take us.

    Mountain Dew Voltage now runs through my veins instead of blood.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    Rosie, Susanna, and Kevin are all on the writing staff for the show but yeah, they aren't show regulars. Having a cast of nine people was enough for an audience to compute. But they're in the show every so often making appearances.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    We started making original videos in 2006 when Sam came aboard to head up the new effort. The stuff around the office sprang out of just being jackasses with camera equipment.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    We get paid in unsold DVD copies of MTV's Eric Clapton Unplugged.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    Yep. Looks like it. We might reshoot some parts to be in the right camera format, but it should be in there in some form.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    Phantom may also make an appearance in the show.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    The ball pit was real. 40,000 balls total.

    The taco truck was a creation from scratch by our production manager Bennett. It was just the shell of one, it didn't actually run.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    People seemed to think the story flowed better and liked to mentally remain in the office.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    yes and yes.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    please don't tell anybody that Peter Engel is our head writer.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    Yeah, it's pretty good! Rob emailed us the week the shows came out to wish us luck. Very nice dude.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    hah, i miss that too.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    I guess we'll know in the next few months. Those things take a while.

    I think the whole "MTV doesn't play music videos" thing is hilarious. The reason they stopped playing them is because nobody watches the channel when they do. It would obviously be cheaper for them to play videos instead of creating shows, so there's clearly a reason why they don't. If you were MTV would you play something that made everybody change the channel?

    I wasn't in a fraternity, though my co-founder Josh was an SAE.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    We try to make him show skin in every episode.

    For the ladies.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    Slumdog.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    MTV first contacted us about a year ago. They wanted to put something together using the CHTV's and Hardly Workings. That eventually evolved into the narrative format we have now.

    Random example of a thing that we couldn't say was "wet snuggle." We had to replace it with "weiner kiss." That's in the episode "Sarah's New Boyfriend."
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    1. The Office (British and American), SNL.

    2. 24? 25?

    3. I dunno, kittens are pretty cute. It would have to be a ton of money.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    MTV came to us.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    Check out another episode and see what you think.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    Writing an episode takes about a week. MTV has the final say since it's their air.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    A bit, but mostly scripted. If we're fortunate enough to do more seasons and have more time for each episode, we'll probably do more improvising.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    Every one except BBG will probably be on this season.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    The other 50 people in the office hate us. I've had my lunch stolen 16 times.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    We'd love to go on those shows, we'd just have to see if they'd take us.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    Well, I appreciate you watching. We first were going to do a sketch-based show, but when we took it to focus groups, they said "we want to see more of the office stuff since we can see CH sketches on the web whenever we want to."

    I think it was the right choice, I'm really proud of the format of the show and it's only getting better as we learn the television world.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    U R GAY!!!!!!!11111
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    i think we use DVX's? HVX's? Vinny or Sam can answer that better.

    We had 60 hot girls in the office that day. It was a sight to see.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    Also a question for Sam, though I know we do shoot in HD and it's broadcast in SD.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    The Lee and Gene movie is still in the works. The slow, slow Hollywood works.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    No.

    Wait a second....
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    We're definitely cutting back on the old stuff, but there will be some stuff in there so we can showcase some of our favorites to a new audience. Hopefully it won't be too bad for ya.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    Went to a bar. Really.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    On the show, it's what is acceptable for TV.

    On the site, we bleep out some stuff so we can run ads on the video. If a video is too dirty already, we'll just mark it "not safe for advertisers" and leave it unbleeped.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    Watch it on the TV. It's better that way.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    We basically took the crew from the office and said "hey guess what, you're now on a TV show."
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    Reading this post was like putting together a puzzle, but I think I understand what he means.

    So, thanks for watching! Glad you like the show!
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    Real deal. Got home from a friend's birthday party, still have some energy in me before bed, and decided to chime in.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    if we do more episodes, there could be arcs that span more episodes. but for now, we're going to crawl before we run.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    i don't think we're attractive enough.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    Brad T: NEVER!
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    we do have a live tour with some of our fav standups on it. maybe we'll do another round with folks from the show.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    start writing articles for the site that get a lot of hits
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    good question. i guess because most of us are busy running the site and such. but we do every once in a while.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    we've seen a small bump in traffic, especially on sundays.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    seinfeld
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    i don't get the me = facebook thing?
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    we mostly get recognized in bars near colleges. and it's mostly from the website, not the show. at least for now.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    that's why we continue to hire people right out of school, to keep the blood fresh.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    glad you like that format better. it's how it'll be most of the way forward.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    Hmm... Dan wrote a lot of those jokes you mentioned... so maybe he's giving himself the best lines! Caught, Dan!
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    if there's more seasons...
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    Josh. Yup, he runs the business side of things. He's also an exec producer on the show.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    We hope!
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    Seinfeld.

    That's the answer to both of your questions.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    It takes about two weeks of writing and a week of shooting.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    Group effort, then two people go off and write a draft on their own, then we polish as a group.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    It's not my real name, but it's Streeter's real name.

    Mike Parker.

    Jake only listens to Bowling for Soup.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    thx Daniel!
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    Hmm... i think there might be a room that hasn't been seen. but we pretty much use every available space.

    thx!

    i don't know if you can change your screen name. but if one of our dev guys is reading this, maybe he can help.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    Josh and I never really had long term expectations for it for most of the beginning, we just kind of took it day by day. But within the past few years we definitely wanted it to become a brand that people were into not just online (in movies tv, books, tours, etc).

    We had a message board a few years ago. We took it down because it became too much of a hassle to run and too insular. I like that the community now is based around the content.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    decision is yes.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    we mostly talk about how much we love jake also.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    battlefield by tugboat
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    i got to meet larry david. that was pretty rad. but that certainly doesn't counter your seinfeld theory.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    it was pretty tough to run the site, but we managed to get through it. it's a weird feeling not having to do the show all day.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    the only diva bitch is jeff.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    battlefield by tugboat (aka jesse novak)
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    CH Show might be coming to Canada soon.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    soon
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 23, 2009

    yes! already shot.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 23, 2009

    you're suprisingly close

    The CollegeHumor Show: Q&A

    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    Thanks dudes who like my character and dude who says we're gay. To answer ManCowTurkey's question, we started off with more sketches in the show (CHTV's), but found that people were more into the storylines and the type of stuff they couldn't find on the website.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    I believe there's going to be at least one Jake and Amir standalone segment in the remaining episodes. (The first season is six total eps.)
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    Yep, his name is Adam and he's a cool dude.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    MTV is pretty hands-off, believe it or not. Since we're the production company, we handle everything from start to finish, and they only chime in to approve scripts and give guidance where they can help. They've been great.

    We actually didn't know who the sponsors would be until we saw the show on the air, so that didn't factor in.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    It's definitely been an adjustment. The toughest thing is going from creating 3 min sketches with a joke every second to a well-paced 30 min story arc.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    Since we plan on continuing to run the website, we're going to try to get as many advertisers as will take us.

    Mountain Dew Voltage now runs through my veins instead of blood.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    Rosie, Susanna, and Kevin are all on the writing staff for the show but yeah, they aren't show regulars. Having a cast of nine people was enough for an audience to compute. But they're in the show every so often making appearances.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    We started making original videos in 2006 when Sam came aboard to head up the new effort. The stuff around the office sprang out of just being jackasses with camera equipment.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    We get paid in unsold DVD copies of MTV's Eric Clapton Unplugged.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    Yep. Looks like it. We might reshoot some parts to be in the right camera format, but it should be in there in some form.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    Phantom may also make an appearance in the show.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    The ball pit was real. 40,000 balls total.

    The taco truck was a creation from scratch by our production manager Bennett. It was just the shell of one, it didn't actually run.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    People seemed to think the story flowed better and liked to mentally remain in the office.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    yes and yes.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    please don't tell anybody that Peter Engel is our head writer.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    Yeah, it's pretty good! Rob emailed us the week the shows came out to wish us luck. Very nice dude.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    hah, i miss that too.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    I guess we'll know in the next few months. Those things take a while.

    I think the whole "MTV doesn't play music videos" thing is hilarious. The reason they stopped playing them is because nobody watches the channel when they do. It would obviously be cheaper for them to play videos instead of creating shows, so there's clearly a reason why they don't. If you were MTV would you play something that made everybody change the channel?

    I wasn't in a fraternity, though my co-founder Josh was an SAE.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    We try to make him show skin in every episode.

    For the ladies.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    Slumdog.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    MTV first contacted us about a year ago. They wanted to put something together using the CHTV's and Hardly Workings. That eventually evolved into the narrative format we have now.

    Random example of a thing that we couldn't say was "wet snuggle." We had to replace it with "weiner kiss." That's in the episode "Sarah's New Boyfriend."
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    1. The Office (British and American), SNL.

    2. 24? 25?

    3. I dunno, kittens are pretty cute. It would have to be a ton of money.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    MTV came to us.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    Check out another episode and see what you think.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    Writing an episode takes about a week. MTV has the final say since it's their air.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    A bit, but mostly scripted. If we're fortunate enough to do more seasons and have more time for each episode, we'll probably do more improvising.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    Every one except BBG will probably be on this season.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    The other 50 people in the office hate us. I've had my lunch stolen 16 times.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    We'd love to go on those shows, we'd just have to see if they'd take us.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    Well, I appreciate you watching. We first were going to do a sketch-based show, but when we took it to focus groups, they said "we want to see more of the office stuff since we can see CH sketches on the web whenever we want to."

    I think it was the right choice, I'm really proud of the format of the show and it's only getting better as we learn the television world.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    U R GAY!!!!!!!11111
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    i think we use DVX's? HVX's? Vinny or Sam can answer that better.

    We had 60 hot girls in the office that day. It was a sight to see.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    Also a question for Sam, though I know we do shoot in HD and it's broadcast in SD.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    The Lee and Gene movie is still in the works. The slow, slow Hollywood works.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    No.

    Wait a second....
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    We're definitely cutting back on the old stuff, but there will be some stuff in there so we can showcase some of our favorites to a new audience. Hopefully it won't be too bad for ya.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    Went to a bar. Really.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    On the show, it's what is acceptable for TV.

    On the site, we bleep out some stuff so we can run ads on the video. If a video is too dirty already, we'll just mark it "not safe for advertisers" and leave it unbleeped.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    Watch it on the TV. It's better that way.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    We basically took the crew from the office and said "hey guess what, you're now on a TV show."
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    Reading this post was like putting together a puzzle, but I think I understand what he means.

    So, thanks for watching! Glad you like the show!
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    Real deal. Got home from a friend's birthday party, still have some energy in me before bed, and decided to chime in.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    if we do more episodes, there could be arcs that span more episodes. but for now, we're going to crawl before we run.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    i don't think we're attractive enough.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    Brad T: NEVER!
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    we do have a live tour with some of our fav standups on it. maybe we'll do another round with folks from the show.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    start writing articles for the site that get a lot of hits
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    good question. i guess because most of us are busy running the site and such. but we do every once in a while.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    we've seen a small bump in traffic, especially on sundays.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    seinfeld
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    i don't get the me = facebook thing?
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    we mostly get recognized in bars near colleges. and it's mostly from the website, not the show. at least for now.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    that's why we continue to hire people right out of school, to keep the blood fresh.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    glad you like that format better. it's how it'll be most of the way forward.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    Hmm... Dan wrote a lot of those jokes you mentioned... so maybe he's giving himself the best lines! Caught, Dan!
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    if there's more seasons...
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    Josh. Yup, he runs the business side of things. He's also an exec producer on the show.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    We hope!
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    Seinfeld.

    That's the answer to both of your questions.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    It takes about two weeks of writing and a week of shooting.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    Group effort, then two people go off and write a draft on their own, then we polish as a group.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    It's not my real name, but it's Streeter's real name.

    Mike Parker.

    Jake only listens to Bowling for Soup.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    thx Daniel!
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    Hmm... i think there might be a room that hasn't been seen. but we pretty much use every available space.

    thx!

    i don't know if you can change your screen name. but if one of our dev guys is reading this, maybe he can help.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    Josh and I never really had long term expectations for it for most of the beginning, we just kind of took it day by day. But within the past few years we definitely wanted it to become a brand that people were into not just online (in movies tv, books, tours, etc).

    We had a message board a few years ago. We took it down because it became too much of a hassle to run and too insular. I like that the community now is based around the content.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    decision is yes.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    we mostly talk about how much we love jake also.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    battlefield by tugboat
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    i got to meet larry david. that was pretty rad. but that certainly doesn't counter your seinfeld theory.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    it was pretty tough to run the site, but we managed to get through it. it's a weird feeling not having to do the show all day.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    the only diva bitch is jeff.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    battlefield by tugboat (aka jesse novak)
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    CH Show might be coming to Canada soon.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    soon
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 23, 2009

    yes! already shot.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 23, 2009

    you're suprisingly close

    The CollegeHumor Show: Q&A

    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    Thanks dudes who like my character and dude who says we're gay. To answer ManCowTurkey's question, we started off with more sketches in the show (CHTV's), but found that people were more into the storylines and the type of stuff they couldn't find on the website.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    I believe there's going to be at least one Jake and Amir standalone segment in the remaining episodes. (The first season is six total eps.)
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    Yep, his name is Adam and he's a cool dude.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    MTV is pretty hands-off, believe it or not. Since we're the production company, we handle everything from start to finish, and they only chime in to approve scripts and give guidance where they can help. They've been great.

    We actually didn't know who the sponsors would be until we saw the show on the air, so that didn't factor in.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    It's definitely been an adjustment. The toughest thing is going from creating 3 min sketches with a joke every second to a well-paced 30 min story arc.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    Since we plan on continuing to run the website, we're going to try to get as many advertisers as will take us.

    Mountain Dew Voltage now runs through my veins instead of blood.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    Rosie, Susanna, and Kevin are all on the writing staff for the show but yeah, they aren't show regulars. Having a cast of nine people was enough for an audience to compute. But they're in the show every so often making appearances.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    We started making original videos in 2006 when Sam came aboard to head up the new effort. The stuff around the office sprang out of just being jackasses with camera equipment.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    We get paid in unsold DVD copies of MTV's Eric Clapton Unplugged.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    Yep. Looks like it. We might reshoot some parts to be in the right camera format, but it should be in there in some form.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    Phantom may also make an appearance in the show.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    The ball pit was real. 40,000 balls total.

    The taco truck was a creation from scratch by our production manager Bennett. It was just the shell of one, it didn't actually run.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    People seemed to think the story flowed better and liked to mentally remain in the office.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    yes and yes.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    please don't tell anybody that Peter Engel is our head writer.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    Yeah, it's pretty good! Rob emailed us the week the shows came out to wish us luck. Very nice dude.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    hah, i miss that too.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    I guess we'll know in the next few months. Those things take a while.

    I think the whole "MTV doesn't play music videos" thing is hilarious. The reason they stopped playing them is because nobody watches the channel when they do. It would obviously be cheaper for them to play videos instead of creating shows, so there's clearly a reason why they don't. If you were MTV would you play something that made everybody change the channel?

    I wasn't in a fraternity, though my co-founder Josh was an SAE.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    We try to make him show skin in every episode.

    For the ladies.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    Slumdog.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    MTV first contacted us about a year ago. They wanted to put something together using the CHTV's and Hardly Workings. That eventually evolved into the narrative format we have now.

    Random example of a thing that we couldn't say was "wet snuggle." We had to replace it with "weiner kiss." That's in the episode "Sarah's New Boyfriend."
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    1. The Office (British and American), SNL.

    2. 24? 25?

    3. I dunno, kittens are pretty cute. It would have to be a ton of money.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    MTV came to us.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    Check out another episode and see what you think.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    Writing an episode takes about a week. MTV has the final say since it's their air.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    A bit, but mostly scripted. If we're fortunate enough to do more seasons and have more time for each episode, we'll probably do more improvising.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    Every one except BBG will probably be on this season.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    The other 50 people in the office hate us. I've had my lunch stolen 16 times.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    We'd love to go on those shows, we'd just have to see if they'd take us.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    Well, I appreciate you watching. We first were going to do a sketch-based show, but when we took it to focus groups, they said "we want to see more of the office stuff since we can see CH sketches on the web whenever we want to."

    I think it was the right choice, I'm really proud of the format of the show and it's only getting better as we learn the television world.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    U R GAY!!!!!!!11111
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    i think we use DVX's? HVX's? Vinny or Sam can answer that better.

    We had 60 hot girls in the office that day. It was a sight to see.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    Also a question for Sam, though I know we do shoot in HD and it's broadcast in SD.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    The Lee and Gene movie is still in the works. The slow, slow Hollywood works.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    No.

    Wait a second....
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    We're definitely cutting back on the old stuff, but there will be some stuff in there so we can showcase some of our favorites to a new audience. Hopefully it won't be too bad for ya.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    Went to a bar. Really.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    On the show, it's what is acceptable for TV.

    On the site, we bleep out some stuff so we can run ads on the video. If a video is too dirty already, we'll just mark it "not safe for advertisers" and leave it unbleeped.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    Watch it on the TV. It's better that way.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    We basically took the crew from the office and said "hey guess what, you're now on a TV show."
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    Reading this post was like putting together a puzzle, but I think I understand what he means.

    So, thanks for watching! Glad you like the show!
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    Real deal. Got home from a friend's birthday party, still have some energy in me before bed, and decided to chime in.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    if we do more episodes, there could be arcs that span more episodes. but for now, we're going to crawl before we run.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    i don't think we're attractive enough.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    Brad T: NEVER!
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    we do have a live tour with some of our fav standups on it. maybe we'll do another round with folks from the show.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    start writing articles for the site that get a lot of hits
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    good question. i guess because most of us are busy running the site and such. but we do every once in a while.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    we've seen a small bump in traffic, especially on sundays.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    seinfeld
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    i don't get the me = facebook thing?
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    we mostly get recognized in bars near colleges. and it's mostly from the website, not the show. at least for now.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    that's why we continue to hire people right out of school, to keep the blood fresh.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    glad you like that format better. it's how it'll be most of the way forward.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    Hmm... Dan wrote a lot of those jokes you mentioned... so maybe he's giving himself the best lines! Caught, Dan!
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    if there's more seasons...
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    Josh. Yup, he runs the business side of things. He's also an exec producer on the show.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    We hope!
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    Seinfeld.

    That's the answer to both of your questions.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    It takes about two weeks of writing and a week of shooting.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    Group effort, then two people go off and write a draft on their own, then we polish as a group.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    It's not my real name, but it's Streeter's real name.

    Mike Parker.

    Jake only listens to Bowling for Soup.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    thx Daniel!
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    Hmm... i think there might be a room that hasn't been seen. but we pretty much use every available space.

    thx!

    i don't know if you can change your screen name. but if one of our dev guys is reading this, maybe he can help.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    Josh and I never really had long term expectations for it for most of the beginning, we just kind of took it day by day. But within the past few years we definitely wanted it to become a brand that people were into not just online (in movies tv, books, tours, etc).

    We had a message board a few years ago. We took it down because it became too much of a hassle to run and too insular. I like that the community now is based around the content.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    decision is yes.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    we mostly talk about how much we love jake also.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    battlefield by tugboat
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    i got to meet larry david. that was pretty rad. but that certainly doesn't counter your seinfeld theory.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    it was pretty tough to run the site, but we managed to get through it. it's a weird feeling not having to do the show all day.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    the only diva bitch is jeff.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    battlefield by tugboat (aka jesse novak)
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    CH Show might be coming to Canada soon.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    soon
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 23, 2009

    yes! already shot.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 23, 2009

    you're suprisingly close

    The CollegeHumor Show: Q&A

    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    Thanks dudes who like my character and dude who says we're gay. To answer ManCowTurkey's question, we started off with more sketches in the show (CHTV's), but found that people were more into the storylines and the type of stuff they couldn't find on the website.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    I believe there's going to be at least one Jake and Amir standalone segment in the remaining episodes. (The first season is six total eps.)
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    Yep, his name is Adam and he's a cool dude.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    MTV is pretty hands-off, believe it or not. Since we're the production company, we handle everything from start to finish, and they only chime in to approve scripts and give guidance where they can help. They've been great.

    We actually didn't know who the sponsors would be until we saw the show on the air, so that didn't factor in.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    It's definitely been an adjustment. The toughest thing is going from creating 3 min sketches with a joke every second to a well-paced 30 min story arc.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    Since we plan on continuing to run the website, we're going to try to get as many advertisers as will take us.

    Mountain Dew Voltage now runs through my veins instead of blood.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    Rosie, Susanna, and Kevin are all on the writing staff for the show but yeah, they aren't show regulars. Having a cast of nine people was enough for an audience to compute. But they're in the show every so often making appearances.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    We started making original videos in 2006 when Sam came aboard to head up the new effort. The stuff around the office sprang out of just being jackasses with camera equipment.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    We get paid in unsold DVD copies of MTV's Eric Clapton Unplugged.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    Yep. Looks like it. We might reshoot some parts to be in the right camera format, but it should be in there in some form.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    Phantom may also make an appearance in the show.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    The ball pit was real. 40,000 balls total.

    The taco truck was a creation from scratch by our production manager Bennett. It was just the shell of one, it didn't actually run.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    People seemed to think the story flowed better and liked to mentally remain in the office.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    yes and yes.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    please don't tell anybody that Peter Engel is our head writer.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    Yeah, it's pretty good! Rob emailed us the week the shows came out to wish us luck. Very nice dude.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    hah, i miss that too.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    I guess we'll know in the next few months. Those things take a while.

    I think the whole "MTV doesn't play music videos" thing is hilarious. The reason they stopped playing them is because nobody watches the channel when they do. It would obviously be cheaper for them to play videos instead of creating shows, so there's clearly a reason why they don't. If you were MTV would you play something that made everybody change the channel?

    I wasn't in a fraternity, though my co-founder Josh was an SAE.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    We try to make him show skin in every episode.

    For the ladies.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    Slumdog.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    MTV first contacted us about a year ago. They wanted to put something together using the CHTV's and Hardly Workings. That eventually evolved into the narrative format we have now.

    Random example of a thing that we couldn't say was "wet snuggle." We had to replace it with "weiner kiss." That's in the episode "Sarah's New Boyfriend."
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    1. The Office (British and American), SNL.

    2. 24? 25?

    3. I dunno, kittens are pretty cute. It would have to be a ton of money.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    MTV came to us.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    Check out another episode and see what you think.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    Writing an episode takes about a week. MTV has the final say since it's their air.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    A bit, but mostly scripted. If we're fortunate enough to do more seasons and have more time for each episode, we'll probably do more improvising.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    Every one except BBG will probably be on this season.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    The other 50 people in the office hate us. I've had my lunch stolen 16 times.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    We'd love to go on those shows, we'd just have to see if they'd take us.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    Well, I appreciate you watching. We first were going to do a sketch-based show, but when we took it to focus groups, they said "we want to see more of the office stuff since we can see CH sketches on the web whenever we want to."

    I think it was the right choice, I'm really proud of the format of the show and it's only getting better as we learn the television world.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    U R GAY!!!!!!!11111
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    i think we use DVX's? HVX's? Vinny or Sam can answer that better.

    We had 60 hot girls in the office that day. It was a sight to see.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    Also a question for Sam, though I know we do shoot in HD and it's broadcast in SD.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    The Lee and Gene movie is still in the works. The slow, slow Hollywood works.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    No.

    Wait a second....
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    We're definitely cutting back on the old stuff, but there will be some stuff in there so we can showcase some of our favorites to a new audience. Hopefully it won't be too bad for ya.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    Went to a bar. Really.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    On the show, it's what is acceptable for TV.

    On the site, we bleep out some stuff so we can run ads on the video. If a video is too dirty already, we'll just mark it "not safe for advertisers" and leave it unbleeped.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    Watch it on the TV. It's better that way.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    We basically took the crew from the office and said "hey guess what, you're now on a TV show."
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    Reading this post was like putting together a puzzle, but I think I understand what he means.

    So, thanks for watching! Glad you like the show!
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    Real deal. Got home from a friend's birthday party, still have some energy in me before bed, and decided to chime in.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    if we do more episodes, there could be arcs that span more episodes. but for now, we're going to crawl before we run.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    i don't think we're attractive enough.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    Brad T: NEVER!
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    we do have a live tour with some of our fav standups on it. maybe we'll do another round with folks from the show.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    start writing articles for the site that get a lot of hits
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    good question. i guess because most of us are busy running the site and such. but we do every once in a while.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    we've seen a small bump in traffic, especially on sundays.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    seinfeld
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    i don't get the me = facebook thing?
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    we mostly get recognized in bars near colleges. and it's mostly from the website, not the show. at least for now.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    that's why we continue to hire people right out of school, to keep the blood fresh.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    glad you like that format better. it's how it'll be most of the way forward.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    Hmm... Dan wrote a lot of those jokes you mentioned... so maybe he's giving himself the best lines! Caught, Dan!
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    if there's more seasons...
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    Josh. Yup, he runs the business side of things. He's also an exec producer on the show.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    We hope!
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    Seinfeld.

    That's the answer to both of your questions.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    It takes about two weeks of writing and a week of shooting.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    Group effort, then two people go off and write a draft on their own, then we polish as a group.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    It's not my real name, but it's Streeter's real name.

    Mike Parker.

    Jake only listens to Bowling for Soup.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    thx Daniel!
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    Hmm... i think there might be a room that hasn't been seen. but we pretty much use every available space.

    thx!

    i don't know if you can change your screen name. but if one of our dev guys is reading this, maybe he can help.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    Josh and I never really had long term expectations for it for most of the beginning, we just kind of took it day by day. But within the past few years we definitely wanted it to become a brand that people were into not just online (in movies tv, books, tours, etc).

    We had a message board a few years ago. We took it down because it became too much of a hassle to run and too insular. I like that the community now is based around the content.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    decision is yes.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    we mostly talk about how much we love jake also.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    battlefield by tugboat
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    i got to meet larry david. that was pretty rad. but that certainly doesn't counter your seinfeld theory.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    it was pretty tough to run the site, but we managed to get through it. it's a weird feeling not having to do the show all day.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    the only diva bitch is jeff.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    battlefield by tugboat (aka jesse novak)
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    CH Show might be coming to Canada soon.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    soon
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 23, 2009

    yes! already shot.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 23, 2009

    you're suprisingly close

    The CollegeHumor Show: Q&A

    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    Thanks dudes who like my character and dude who says we're gay. To answer ManCowTurkey's question, we started off with more sketches in the show (CHTV's), but found that people were more into the storylines and the type of stuff they couldn't find on the website.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    I believe there's going to be at least one Jake and Amir standalone segment in the remaining episodes. (The first season is six total eps.)
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    Yep, his name is Adam and he's a cool dude.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    MTV is pretty hands-off, believe it or not. Since we're the production company, we handle everything from start to finish, and they only chime in to approve scripts and give guidance where they can help. They've been great.

    We actually didn't know who the sponsors would be until we saw the show on the air, so that didn't factor in.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    It's definitely been an adjustment. The toughest thing is going from creating 3 min sketches with a joke every second to a well-paced 30 min story arc.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    Since we plan on continuing to run the website, we're going to try to get as many advertisers as will take us.

    Mountain Dew Voltage now runs through my veins instead of blood.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    Rosie, Susanna, and Kevin are all on the writing staff for the show but yeah, they aren't show regulars. Having a cast of nine people was enough for an audience to compute. But they're in the show every so often making appearances.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    We started making original videos in 2006 when Sam came aboard to head up the new effort. The stuff around the office sprang out of just being jackasses with camera equipment.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    We get paid in unsold DVD copies of MTV's Eric Clapton Unplugged.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    Yep. Looks like it. We might reshoot some parts to be in the right camera format, but it should be in there in some form.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    Phantom may also make an appearance in the show.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    The ball pit was real. 40,000 balls total.

    The taco truck was a creation from scratch by our production manager Bennett. It was just the shell of one, it didn't actually run.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    People seemed to think the story flowed better and liked to mentally remain in the office.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    yes and yes.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    please don't tell anybody that Peter Engel is our head writer.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    Yeah, it's pretty good! Rob emailed us the week the shows came out to wish us luck. Very nice dude.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    hah, i miss that too.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    I guess we'll know in the next few months. Those things take a while.

    I think the whole "MTV doesn't play music videos" thing is hilarious. The reason they stopped playing them is because nobody watches the channel when they do. It would obviously be cheaper for them to play videos instead of creating shows, so there's clearly a reason why they don't. If you were MTV would you play something that made everybody change the channel?

    I wasn't in a fraternity, though my co-founder Josh was an SAE.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    We try to make him show skin in every episode.

    For the ladies.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    Slumdog.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    MTV first contacted us about a year ago. They wanted to put something together using the CHTV's and Hardly Workings. That eventually evolved into the narrative format we have now.

    Random example of a thing that we couldn't say was "wet snuggle." We had to replace it with "weiner kiss." That's in the episode "Sarah's New Boyfriend."
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    1. The Office (British and American), SNL.

    2. 24? 25?

    3. I dunno, kittens are pretty cute. It would have to be a ton of money.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    MTV came to us.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    Check out another episode and see what you think.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    Writing an episode takes about a week. MTV has the final say since it's their air.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    A bit, but mostly scripted. If we're fortunate enough to do more seasons and have more time for each episode, we'll probably do more improvising.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    Every one except BBG will probably be on this season.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    The other 50 people in the office hate us. I've had my lunch stolen 16 times.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    We'd love to go on those shows, we'd just have to see if they'd take us.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    Well, I appreciate you watching. We first were going to do a sketch-based show, but when we took it to focus groups, they said "we want to see more of the office stuff since we can see CH sketches on the web whenever we want to."

    I think it was the right choice, I'm really proud of the format of the show and it's only getting better as we learn the television world.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    U R GAY!!!!!!!11111
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    i think we use DVX's? HVX's? Vinny or Sam can answer that better.

    We had 60 hot girls in the office that day. It was a sight to see.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    Also a question for Sam, though I know we do shoot in HD and it's broadcast in SD.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    The Lee and Gene movie is still in the works. The slow, slow Hollywood works.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    No.

    Wait a second....
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    We're definitely cutting back on the old stuff, but there will be some stuff in there so we can showcase some of our favorites to a new audience. Hopefully it won't be too bad for ya.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    Went to a bar. Really.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    On the show, it's what is acceptable for TV.

    On the site, we bleep out some stuff so we can run ads on the video. If a video is too dirty already, we'll just mark it "not safe for advertisers" and leave it unbleeped.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    Watch it on the TV. It's better that way.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    We basically took the crew from the office and said "hey guess what, you're now on a TV show."
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    Reading this post was like putting together a puzzle, but I think I understand what he means.

    So, thanks for watching! Glad you like the show!
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    Real deal. Got home from a friend's birthday party, still have some energy in me before bed, and decided to chime in.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    if we do more episodes, there could be arcs that span more episodes. but for now, we're going to crawl before we run.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    i don't think we're attractive enough.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    Brad T: NEVER!
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    we do have a live tour with some of our fav standups on it. maybe we'll do another round with folks from the show.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    start writing articles for the site that get a lot of hits
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    good question. i guess because most of us are busy running the site and such. but we do every once in a while.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    we've seen a small bump in traffic, especially on sundays.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    seinfeld
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    i don't get the me = facebook thing?
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    we mostly get recognized in bars near colleges. and it's mostly from the website, not the show. at least for now.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    that's why we continue to hire people right out of school, to keep the blood fresh.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    glad you like that format better. it's how it'll be most of the way forward.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    Hmm... Dan wrote a lot of those jokes you mentioned... so maybe he's giving himself the best lines! Caught, Dan!
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    if there's more seasons...
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    Josh. Yup, he runs the business side of things. He's also an exec producer on the show.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    We hope!
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    Seinfeld.

    That's the answer to both of your questions.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    It takes about two weeks of writing and a week of shooting.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    Group effort, then two people go off and write a draft on their own, then we polish as a group.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    It's not my real name, but it's Streeter's real name.

    Mike Parker.

    Jake only listens to Bowling for Soup.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    thx Daniel!
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    Hmm... i think there might be a room that hasn't been seen. but we pretty much use every available space.

    thx!

    i don't know if you can change your screen name. but if one of our dev guys is reading this, maybe he can help.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    Josh and I never really had long term expectations for it for most of the beginning, we just kind of took it day by day. But within the past few years we definitely wanted it to become a brand that people were into not just online (in movies tv, books, tours, etc).

    We had a message board a few years ago. We took it down because it became too much of a hassle to run and too insular. I like that the community now is based around the content.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    decision is yes.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    we mostly talk about how much we love jake also.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    battlefield by tugboat
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    i got to meet larry david. that was pretty rad. but that certainly doesn't counter your seinfeld theory.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    it was pretty tough to run the site, but we managed to get through it. it's a weird feeling not having to do the show all day.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    the only diva bitch is jeff.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    battlefield by tugboat (aka jesse novak)
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    CH Show might be coming to Canada soon.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    soon
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 23, 2009

    yes! already shot.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 23, 2009

    you're suprisingly close

    The CollegeHumor Show: Q&A

    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    Thanks dudes who like my character and dude who says we're gay. To answer ManCowTurkey's question, we started off with more sketches in the show (CHTV's), but found that people were more into the storylines and the type of stuff they couldn't find on the website.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    I believe there's going to be at least one Jake and Amir standalone segment in the remaining episodes. (The first season is six total eps.)
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    Yep, his name is Adam and he's a cool dude.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    MTV is pretty hands-off, believe it or not. Since we're the production company, we handle everything from start to finish, and they only chime in to approve scripts and give guidance where they can help. They've been great.

    We actually didn't know who the sponsors would be until we saw the show on the air, so that didn't factor in.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    It's definitely been an adjustment. The toughest thing is going from creating 3 min sketches with a joke every second to a well-paced 30 min story arc.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    Since we plan on continuing to run the website, we're going to try to get as many advertisers as will take us.

    Mountain Dew Voltage now runs through my veins instead of blood.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    Rosie, Susanna, and Kevin are all on the writing staff for the show but yeah, they aren't show regulars. Having a cast of nine people was enough for an audience to compute. But they're in the show every so often making appearances.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    We started making original videos in 2006 when Sam came aboard to head up the new effort. The stuff around the office sprang out of just being jackasses with camera equipment.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    We get paid in unsold DVD copies of MTV's Eric Clapton Unplugged.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    Yep. Looks like it. We might reshoot some parts to be in the right camera format, but it should be in there in some form.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    Phantom may also make an appearance in the show.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    The ball pit was real. 40,000 balls total.

    The taco truck was a creation from scratch by our production manager Bennett. It was just the shell of one, it didn't actually run.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    People seemed to think the story flowed better and liked to mentally remain in the office.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    yes and yes.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    please don't tell anybody that Peter Engel is our head writer.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    Yeah, it's pretty good! Rob emailed us the week the shows came out to wish us luck. Very nice dude.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    hah, i miss that too.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    I guess we'll know in the next few months. Those things take a while.

    I think the whole "MTV doesn't play music videos" thing is hilarious. The reason they stopped playing them is because nobody watches the channel when they do. It would obviously be cheaper for them to play videos instead of creating shows, so there's clearly a reason why they don't. If you were MTV would you play something that made everybody change the channel?

    I wasn't in a fraternity, though my co-founder Josh was an SAE.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    We try to make him show skin in every episode.

    For the ladies.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    Slumdog.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    MTV first contacted us about a year ago. They wanted to put something together using the CHTV's and Hardly Workings. That eventually evolved into the narrative format we have now.

    Random example of a thing that we couldn't say was "wet snuggle." We had to replace it with "weiner kiss." That's in the episode "Sarah's New Boyfriend."
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    1. The Office (British and American), SNL.

    2. 24? 25?

    3. I dunno, kittens are pretty cute. It would have to be a ton of money.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    MTV came to us.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    Check out another episode and see what you think.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    Writing an episode takes about a week. MTV has the final say since it's their air.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    A bit, but mostly scripted. If we're fortunate enough to do more seasons and have more time for each episode, we'll probably do more improvising.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    Every one except BBG will probably be on this season.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    The other 50 people in the office hate us. I've had my lunch stolen 16 times.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    We'd love to go on those shows, we'd just have to see if they'd take us.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    Well, I appreciate you watching. We first were going to do a sketch-based show, but when we took it to focus groups, they said "we want to see more of the office stuff since we can see CH sketches on the web whenever we want to."

    I think it was the right choice, I'm really proud of the format of the show and it's only getting better as we learn the television world.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    U R GAY!!!!!!!11111
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    i think we use DVX's? HVX's? Vinny or Sam can answer that better.

    We had 60 hot girls in the office that day. It was a sight to see.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    Also a question for Sam, though I know we do shoot in HD and it's broadcast in SD.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    The Lee and Gene movie is still in the works. The slow, slow Hollywood works.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    No.

    Wait a second....
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    We're definitely cutting back on the old stuff, but there will be some stuff in there so we can showcase some of our favorites to a new audience. Hopefully it won't be too bad for ya.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    Went to a bar. Really.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    On the show, it's what is acceptable for TV.

    On the site, we bleep out some stuff so we can run ads on the video. If a video is too dirty already, we'll just mark it "not safe for advertisers" and leave it unbleeped.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    Watch it on the TV. It's better that way.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    We basically took the crew from the office and said "hey guess what, you're now on a TV show."
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    Reading this post was like putting together a puzzle, but I think I understand what he means.

    So, thanks for watching! Glad you like the show!
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    Real deal. Got home from a friend's birthday party, still have some energy in me before bed, and decided to chime in.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    if we do more episodes, there could be arcs that span more episodes. but for now, we're going to crawl before we run.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    i don't think we're attractive enough.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    Brad T: NEVER!
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    we do have a live tour with some of our fav standups on it. maybe we'll do another round with folks from the show.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    start writing articles for the site that get a lot of hits
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    good question. i guess because most of us are busy running the site and such. but we do every once in a while.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    we've seen a small bump in traffic, especially on sundays.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    seinfeld
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    i don't get the me = facebook thing?
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    we mostly get recognized in bars near colleges. and it's mostly from the website, not the show. at least for now.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    that's why we continue to hire people right out of school, to keep the blood fresh.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    glad you like that format better. it's how it'll be most of the way forward.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    Hmm... Dan wrote a lot of those jokes you mentioned... so maybe he's giving himself the best lines! Caught, Dan!
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    if there's more seasons...
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    Josh. Yup, he runs the business side of things. He's also an exec producer on the show.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    We hope!
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    Seinfeld.

    That's the answer to both of your questions.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    It takes about two weeks of writing and a week of shooting.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    Group effort, then two people go off and write a draft on their own, then we polish as a group.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    It's not my real name, but it's Streeter's real name.

    Mike Parker.

    Jake only listens to Bowling for Soup.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    thx Daniel!
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    Hmm... i think there might be a room that hasn't been seen. but we pretty much use every available space.

    thx!

    i don't know if you can change your screen name. but if one of our dev guys is reading this, maybe he can help.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    Josh and I never really had long term expectations for it for most of the beginning, we just kind of took it day by day. But within the past few years we definitely wanted it to become a brand that people were into not just online (in movies tv, books, tours, etc).

    We had a message board a few years ago. We took it down because it became too much of a hassle to run and too insular. I like that the community now is based around the content.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    decision is yes.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    we mostly talk about how much we love jake also.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    battlefield by tugboat
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    i got to meet larry david. that was pretty rad. but that certainly doesn't counter your seinfeld theory.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    it was pretty tough to run the site, but we managed to get through it. it's a weird feeling not having to do the show all day.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    the only diva bitch is jeff.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    battlefield by tugboat (aka jesse novak)
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    CH Show might be coming to Canada soon.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    soon
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 23, 2009

    yes! already shot.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 23, 2009

    you're suprisingly close

    The CollegeHumor Show: Q&A

    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    Thanks dudes who like my character and dude who says we're gay. To answer ManCowTurkey's question, we started off with more sketches in the show (CHTV's), but found that people were more into the storylines and the type of stuff they couldn't find on the website.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    I believe there's going to be at least one Jake and Amir standalone segment in the remaining episodes. (The first season is six total eps.)
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    Yep, his name is Adam and he's a cool dude.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    MTV is pretty hands-off, believe it or not. Since we're the production company, we handle everything from start to finish, and they only chime in to approve scripts and give guidance where they can help. They've been great.

    We actually didn't know who the sponsors would be until we saw the show on the air, so that didn't factor in.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    It's definitely been an adjustment. The toughest thing is going from creating 3 min sketches with a joke every second to a well-paced 30 min story arc.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    Since we plan on continuing to run the website, we're going to try to get as many advertisers as will take us.

    Mountain Dew Voltage now runs through my veins instead of blood.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    Rosie, Susanna, and Kevin are all on the writing staff for the show but yeah, they aren't show regulars. Having a cast of nine people was enough for an audience to compute. But they're in the show every so often making appearances.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    We started making original videos in 2006 when Sam came aboard to head up the new effort. The stuff around the office sprang out of just being jackasses with camera equipment.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    We get paid in unsold DVD copies of MTV's Eric Clapton Unplugged.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    Yep. Looks like it. We might reshoot some parts to be in the right camera format, but it should be in there in some form.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    Phantom may also make an appearance in the show.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    The ball pit was real. 40,000 balls total.

    The taco truck was a creation from scratch by our production manager Bennett. It was just the shell of one, it didn't actually run.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    People seemed to think the story flowed better and liked to mentally remain in the office.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    yes and yes.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    please don't tell anybody that Peter Engel is our head writer.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    Yeah, it's pretty good! Rob emailed us the week the shows came out to wish us luck. Very nice dude.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    hah, i miss that too.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    I guess we'll know in the next few months. Those things take a while.

    I think the whole "MTV doesn't play music videos" thing is hilarious. The reason they stopped playing them is because nobody watches the channel when they do. It would obviously be cheaper for them to play videos instead of creating shows, so there's clearly a reason why they don't. If you were MTV would you play something that made everybody change the channel?

    I wasn't in a fraternity, though my co-founder Josh was an SAE.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    We try to make him show skin in every episode.

    For the ladies.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    Slumdog.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    MTV first contacted us about a year ago. They wanted to put something together using the CHTV's and Hardly Workings. That eventually evolved into the narrative format we have now.

    Random example of a thing that we couldn't say was "wet snuggle." We had to replace it with "weiner kiss." That's in the episode "Sarah's New Boyfriend."
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    1. The Office (British and American), SNL.

    2. 24? 25?

    3. I dunno, kittens are pretty cute. It would have to be a ton of money.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    MTV came to us.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    Check out another episode and see what you think.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    Writing an episode takes about a week. MTV has the final say since it's their air.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    A bit, but mostly scripted. If we're fortunate enough to do more seasons and have more time for each episode, we'll probably do more improvising.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    Every one except BBG will probably be on this season.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    The other 50 people in the office hate us. I've had my lunch stolen 16 times.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    We'd love to go on those shows, we'd just have to see if they'd take us.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    Well, I appreciate you watching. We first were going to do a sketch-based show, but when we took it to focus groups, they said "we want to see more of the office stuff since we can see CH sketches on the web whenever we want to."

    I think it was the right choice, I'm really proud of the format of the show and it's only getting better as we learn the television world.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    U R GAY!!!!!!!11111
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    i think we use DVX's? HVX's? Vinny or Sam can answer that better.

    We had 60 hot girls in the office that day. It was a sight to see.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    Also a question for Sam, though I know we do shoot in HD and it's broadcast in SD.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    The Lee and Gene movie is still in the works. The slow, slow Hollywood works.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    No.

    Wait a second....
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    We're definitely cutting back on the old stuff, but there will be some stuff in there so we can showcase some of our favorites to a new audience. Hopefully it won't be too bad for ya.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    Went to a bar. Really.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    On the show, it's what is acceptable for TV.

    On the site, we bleep out some stuff so we can run ads on the video. If a video is too dirty already, we'll just mark it "not safe for advertisers" and leave it unbleeped.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    Watch it on the TV. It's better that way.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    We basically took the crew from the office and said "hey guess what, you're now on a TV show."
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    Reading this post was like putting together a puzzle, but I think I understand what he means.

    So, thanks for watching! Glad you like the show!
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    Real deal. Got home from a friend's birthday party, still have some energy in me before bed, and decided to chime in.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    if we do more episodes, there could be arcs that span more episodes. but for now, we're going to crawl before we run.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    i don't think we're attractive enough.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    Brad T: NEVER!
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    we do have a live tour with some of our fav standups on it. maybe we'll do another round with folks from the show.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    start writing articles for the site that get a lot of hits
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    good question. i guess because most of us are busy running the site and such. but we do every once in a while.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    we've seen a small bump in traffic, especially on sundays.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    seinfeld
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    i don't get the me = facebook thing?
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    we mostly get recognized in bars near colleges. and it's mostly from the website, not the show. at least for now.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    that's why we continue to hire people right out of school, to keep the blood fresh.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    glad you like that format better. it's how it'll be most of the way forward.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    Hmm... Dan wrote a lot of those jokes you mentioned... so maybe he's giving himself the best lines! Caught, Dan!
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    if there's more seasons...
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    Josh. Yup, he runs the business side of things. He's also an exec producer on the show.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    We hope!
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    Seinfeld.

    That's the answer to both of your questions.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    It takes about two weeks of writing and a week of shooting.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    Group effort, then two people go off and write a draft on their own, then we polish as a group.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    It's not my real name, but it's Streeter's real name.

    Mike Parker.

    Jake only listens to Bowling for Soup.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    thx Daniel!
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    Hmm... i think there might be a room that hasn't been seen. but we pretty much use every available space.

    thx!

    i don't know if you can change your screen name. but if one of our dev guys is reading this, maybe he can help.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    Josh and I never really had long term expectations for it for most of the beginning, we just kind of took it day by day. But within the past few years we definitely wanted it to become a brand that people were into not just online (in movies tv, books, tours, etc).

    We had a message board a few years ago. We took it down because it became too much of a hassle to run and too insular. I like that the community now is based around the content.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    decision is yes.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    we mostly talk about how much we love jake also.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    battlefield by tugboat
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    i got to meet larry david. that was pretty rad. but that certainly doesn't counter your seinfeld theory.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    it was pretty tough to run the site, but we managed to get through it. it's a weird feeling not having to do the show all day.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    the only diva bitch is jeff.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    battlefield by tugboat (aka jesse novak)
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    CH Show might be coming to Canada soon.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    soon
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 23, 2009

    yes! already shot.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 23, 2009

    you're suprisingly close

    The CollegeHumor Show: Q&A

    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    Thanks dudes who like my character and dude who says we're gay. To answer ManCowTurkey's question, we started off with more sketches in the show (CHTV's), but found that people were more into the storylines and the type of stuff they couldn't find on the website.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    I believe there's going to be at least one Jake and Amir standalone segment in the remaining episodes. (The first season is six total eps.)
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    Yep, his name is Adam and he's a cool dude.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    MTV is pretty hands-off, believe it or not. Since we're the production company, we handle everything from start to finish, and they only chime in to approve scripts and give guidance where they can help. They've been great.

    We actually didn't know who the sponsors would be until we saw the show on the air, so that didn't factor in.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    It's definitely been an adjustment. The toughest thing is going from creating 3 min sketches with a joke every second to a well-paced 30 min story arc.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    Since we plan on continuing to run the website, we're going to try to get as many advertisers as will take us.

    Mountain Dew Voltage now runs through my veins instead of blood.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    Rosie, Susanna, and Kevin are all on the writing staff for the show but yeah, they aren't show regulars. Having a cast of nine people was enough for an audience to compute. But they're in the show every so often making appearances.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    We started making original videos in 2006 when Sam came aboard to head up the new effort. The stuff around the office sprang out of just being jackasses with camera equipment.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    We get paid in unsold DVD copies of MTV's Eric Clapton Unplugged.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    Yep. Looks like it. We might reshoot some parts to be in the right camera format, but it should be in there in some form.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    Phantom may also make an appearance in the show.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    The ball pit was real. 40,000 balls total.

    The taco truck was a creation from scratch by our production manager Bennett. It was just the shell of one, it didn't actually run.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    People seemed to think the story flowed better and liked to mentally remain in the office.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    yes and yes.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    please don't tell anybody that Peter Engel is our head writer.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    Yeah, it's pretty good! Rob emailed us the week the shows came out to wish us luck. Very nice dude.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    hah, i miss that too.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    I guess we'll know in the next few months. Those things take a while.

    I think the whole "MTV doesn't play music videos" thing is hilarious. The reason they stopped playing them is because nobody watches the channel when they do. It would obviously be cheaper for them to play videos instead of creating shows, so there's clearly a reason why they don't. If you were MTV would you play something that made everybody change the channel?

    I wasn't in a fraternity, though my co-founder Josh was an SAE.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    We try to make him show skin in every episode.

    For the ladies.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    Slumdog.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    MTV first contacted us about a year ago. They wanted to put something together using the CHTV's and Hardly Workings. That eventually evolved into the narrative format we have now.

    Random example of a thing that we couldn't say was "wet snuggle." We had to replace it with "weiner kiss." That's in the episode "Sarah's New Boyfriend."
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    1. The Office (British and American), SNL.

    2. 24? 25?

    3. I dunno, kittens are pretty cute. It would have to be a ton of money.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    MTV came to us.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    Check out another episode and see what you think.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    Writing an episode takes about a week. MTV has the final say since it's their air.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    A bit, but mostly scripted. If we're fortunate enough to do more seasons and have more time for each episode, we'll probably do more improvising.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    Every one except BBG will probably be on this season.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    The other 50 people in the office hate us. I've had my lunch stolen 16 times.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    We'd love to go on those shows, we'd just have to see if they'd take us.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    Well, I appreciate you watching. We first were going to do a sketch-based show, but when we took it to focus groups, they said "we want to see more of the office stuff since we can see CH sketches on the web whenever we want to."

    I think it was the right choice, I'm really proud of the format of the show and it's only getting better as we learn the television world.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    U R GAY!!!!!!!11111
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    i think we use DVX's? HVX's? Vinny or Sam can answer that better.

    We had 60 hot girls in the office that day. It was a sight to see.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    Also a question for Sam, though I know we do shoot in HD and it's broadcast in SD.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    The Lee and Gene movie is still in the works. The slow, slow Hollywood works.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    No.

    Wait a second....
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    We're definitely cutting back on the old stuff, but there will be some stuff in there so we can showcase some of our favorites to a new audience. Hopefully it won't be too bad for ya.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    Went to a bar. Really.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    On the show, it's what is acceptable for TV.

    On the site, we bleep out some stuff so we can run ads on the video. If a video is too dirty already, we'll just mark it "not safe for advertisers" and leave it unbleeped.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    Watch it on the TV. It's better that way.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    We basically took the crew from the office and said "hey guess what, you're now on a TV show."
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    Reading this post was like putting together a puzzle, but I think I understand what he means.

    So, thanks for watching! Glad you like the show!
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    Real deal. Got home from a friend's birthday party, still have some energy in me before bed, and decided to chime in.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    if we do more episodes, there could be arcs that span more episodes. but for now, we're going to crawl before we run.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    i don't think we're attractive enough.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    Brad T: NEVER!
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    we do have a live tour with some of our fav standups on it. maybe we'll do another round with folks from the show.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    start writing articles for the site that get a lot of hits
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    good question. i guess because most of us are busy running the site and such. but we do every once in a while.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    we've seen a small bump in traffic, especially on sundays.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    seinfeld
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    i don't get the me = facebook thing?
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    we mostly get recognized in bars near colleges. and it's mostly from the website, not the show. at least for now.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    that's why we continue to hire people right out of school, to keep the blood fresh.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    glad you like that format better. it's how it'll be most of the way forward.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    Hmm... Dan wrote a lot of those jokes you mentioned... so maybe he's giving himself the best lines! Caught, Dan!
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    if there's more seasons...
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    Josh. Yup, he runs the business side of things. He's also an exec producer on the show.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    We hope!
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    Seinfeld.

    That's the answer to both of your questions.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    It takes about two weeks of writing and a week of shooting.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    Group effort, then two people go off and write a draft on their own, then we polish as a group.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    It's not my real name, but it's Streeter's real name.

    Mike Parker.

    Jake only listens to Bowling for Soup.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    thx Daniel!
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    Hmm... i think there might be a room that hasn't been seen. but we pretty much use every available space.

    thx!

    i don't know if you can change your screen name. but if one of our dev guys is reading this, maybe he can help.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    Josh and I never really had long term expectations for it for most of the beginning, we just kind of took it day by day. But within the past few years we definitely wanted it to become a brand that people were into not just online (in movies tv, books, tours, etc).

    We had a message board a few years ago. We took it down because it became too much of a hassle to run and too insular. I like that the community now is based around the content.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    decision is yes.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    we mostly talk about how much we love jake also.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    battlefield by tugboat
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    i got to meet larry david. that was pretty rad. but that certainly doesn't counter your seinfeld theory.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    it was pretty tough to run the site, but we managed to get through it. it's a weird feeling not having to do the show all day.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    the only diva bitch is jeff.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    battlefield by tugboat (aka jesse novak)
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    CH Show might be coming to Canada soon.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    soon
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 23, 2009

    yes! already shot.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 23, 2009

    you're suprisingly close

    The CollegeHumor Show: Q&A

    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    Thanks dudes who like my character and dude who says we're gay. To answer ManCowTurkey's question, we started off with more sketches in the show (CHTV's), but found that people were more into the storylines and the type of stuff they couldn't find on the website.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    I believe there's going to be at least one Jake and Amir standalone segment in the remaining episodes. (The first season is six total eps.)
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    Yep, his name is Adam and he's a cool dude.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    MTV is pretty hands-off, believe it or not. Since we're the production company, we handle everything from start to finish, and they only chime in to approve scripts and give guidance where they can help. They've been great.

    We actually didn't know who the sponsors would be until we saw the show on the air, so that didn't factor in.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    It's definitely been an adjustment. The toughest thing is going from creating 3 min sketches with a joke every second to a well-paced 30 min story arc.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    Since we plan on continuing to run the website, we're going to try to get as many advertisers as will take us.

    Mountain Dew Voltage now runs through my veins instead of blood.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    Rosie, Susanna, and Kevin are all on the writing staff for the show but yeah, they aren't show regulars. Having a cast of nine people was enough for an audience to compute. But they're in the show every so often making appearances.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    We started making original videos in 2006 when Sam came aboard to head up the new effort. The stuff around the office sprang out of just being jackasses with camera equipment.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    We get paid in unsold DVD copies of MTV's Eric Clapton Unplugged.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    Yep. Looks like it. We might reshoot some parts to be in the right camera format, but it should be in there in some form.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    Phantom may also make an appearance in the show.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    The ball pit was real. 40,000 balls total.

    The taco truck was a creation from scratch by our production manager Bennett. It was just the shell of one, it didn't actually run.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    People seemed to think the story flowed better and liked to mentally remain in the office.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    yes and yes.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    please don't tell anybody that Peter Engel is our head writer.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    Yeah, it's pretty good! Rob emailed us the week the shows came out to wish us luck. Very nice dude.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    hah, i miss that too.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    I guess we'll know in the next few months. Those things take a while.

    I think the whole "MTV doesn't play music videos" thing is hilarious. The reason they stopped playing them is because nobody watches the channel when they do. It would obviously be cheaper for them to play videos instead of creating shows, so there's clearly a reason why they don't. If you were MTV would you play something that made everybody change the channel?

    I wasn't in a fraternity, though my co-founder Josh was an SAE.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    We try to make him show skin in every episode.

    For the ladies.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    Slumdog.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    MTV first contacted us about a year ago. They wanted to put something together using the CHTV's and Hardly Workings. That eventually evolved into the narrative format we have now.

    Random example of a thing that we couldn't say was "wet snuggle." We had to replace it with "weiner kiss." That's in the episode "Sarah's New Boyfriend."
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    1. The Office (British and American), SNL.

    2. 24? 25?

    3. I dunno, kittens are pretty cute. It would have to be a ton of money.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    MTV came to us.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    Check out another episode and see what you think.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    Writing an episode takes about a week. MTV has the final say since it's their air.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    A bit, but mostly scripted. If we're fortunate enough to do more seasons and have more time for each episode, we'll probably do more improvising.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    Every one except BBG will probably be on this season.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    The other 50 people in the office hate us. I've had my lunch stolen 16 times.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    We'd love to go on those shows, we'd just have to see if they'd take us.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    Well, I appreciate you watching. We first were going to do a sketch-based show, but when we took it to focus groups, they said "we want to see more of the office stuff since we can see CH sketches on the web whenever we want to."

    I think it was the right choice, I'm really proud of the format of the show and it's only getting better as we learn the television world.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    U R GAY!!!!!!!11111
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    i think we use DVX's? HVX's? Vinny or Sam can answer that better.

    We had 60 hot girls in the office that day. It was a sight to see.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    Also a question for Sam, though I know we do shoot in HD and it's broadcast in SD.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    The Lee and Gene movie is still in the works. The slow, slow Hollywood works.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    No.

    Wait a second....
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    We're definitely cutting back on the old stuff, but there will be some stuff in there so we can showcase some of our favorites to a new audience. Hopefully it won't be too bad for ya.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    Went to a bar. Really.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    On the show, it's what is acceptable for TV.

    On the site, we bleep out some stuff so we can run ads on the video. If a video is too dirty already, we'll just mark it "not safe for advertisers" and leave it unbleeped.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    Watch it on the TV. It's better that way.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    We basically took the crew from the office and said "hey guess what, you're now on a TV show."
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    Reading this post was like putting together a puzzle, but I think I understand what he means.

    So, thanks for watching! Glad you like the show!
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    Real deal. Got home from a friend's birthday party, still have some energy in me before bed, and decided to chime in.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    if we do more episodes, there could be arcs that span more episodes. but for now, we're going to crawl before we run.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    i don't think we're attractive enough.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    Brad T: NEVER!
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    we do have a live tour with some of our fav standups on it. maybe we'll do another round with folks from the show.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    start writing articles for the site that get a lot of hits
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    good question. i guess because most of us are busy running the site and such. but we do every once in a while.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    we've seen a small bump in traffic, especially on sundays.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    seinfeld
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    i don't get the me = facebook thing?
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    we mostly get recognized in bars near colleges. and it's mostly from the website, not the show. at least for now.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    that's why we continue to hire people right out of school, to keep the blood fresh.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    glad you like that format better. it's how it'll be most of the way forward.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    Hmm... Dan wrote a lot of those jokes you mentioned... so maybe he's giving himself the best lines! Caught, Dan!
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    if there's more seasons...
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    Josh. Yup, he runs the business side of things. He's also an exec producer on the show.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    We hope!
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    Seinfeld.

    That's the answer to both of your questions.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    It takes about two weeks of writing and a week of shooting.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    Group effort, then two people go off and write a draft on their own, then we polish as a group.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    It's not my real name, but it's Streeter's real name.

    Mike Parker.

    Jake only listens to Bowling for Soup.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    thx Daniel!
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    Hmm... i think there might be a room that hasn't been seen. but we pretty much use every available space.

    thx!

    i don't know if you can change your screen name. but if one of our dev guys is reading this, maybe he can help.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    Josh and I never really had long term expectations for it for most of the beginning, we just kind of took it day by day. But within the past few years we definitely wanted it to become a brand that people were into not just online (in movies tv, books, tours, etc).

    We had a message board a few years ago. We took it down because it became too much of a hassle to run and too insular. I like that the community now is based around the content.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    decision is yes.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    we mostly talk about how much we love jake also.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    battlefield by tugboat
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    i got to meet larry david. that was pretty rad. but that certainly doesn't counter your seinfeld theory.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    it was pretty tough to run the site, but we managed to get through it. it's a weird feeling not having to do the show all day.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    the only diva bitch is jeff.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    battlefield by tugboat (aka jesse novak)
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    CH Show might be coming to Canada soon.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    soon
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 23, 2009

    yes! already shot.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 23, 2009

    you're suprisingly close

    The CollegeHumor Show: Q&A

    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    Thanks dudes who like my character and dude who says we're gay. To answer ManCowTurkey's question, we started off with more sketches in the show (CHTV's), but found that people were more into the storylines and the type of stuff they couldn't find on the website.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    I believe there's going to be at least one Jake and Amir standalone segment in the remaining episodes. (The first season is six total eps.)
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    Yep, his name is Adam and he's a cool dude.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    MTV is pretty hands-off, believe it or not. Since we're the production company, we handle everything from start to finish, and they only chime in to approve scripts and give guidance where they can help. They've been great.

    We actually didn't know who the sponsors would be until we saw the show on the air, so that didn't factor in.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    It's definitely been an adjustment. The toughest thing is going from creating 3 min sketches with a joke every second to a well-paced 30 min story arc.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    Since we plan on continuing to run the website, we're going to try to get as many advertisers as will take us.

    Mountain Dew Voltage now runs through my veins instead of blood.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    Rosie, Susanna, and Kevin are all on the writing staff for the show but yeah, they aren't show regulars. Having a cast of nine people was enough for an audience to compute. But they're in the show every so often making appearances.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    We started making original videos in 2006 when Sam came aboard to head up the new effort. The stuff around the office sprang out of just being jackasses with camera equipment.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    We get paid in unsold DVD copies of MTV's Eric Clapton Unplugged.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    Yep. Looks like it. We might reshoot some parts to be in the right camera format, but it should be in there in some form.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    Phantom may also make an appearance in the show.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    The ball pit was real. 40,000 balls total.

    The taco truck was a creation from scratch by our production manager Bennett. It was just the shell of one, it didn't actually run.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    People seemed to think the story flowed better and liked to mentally remain in the office.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    yes and yes.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    please don't tell anybody that Peter Engel is our head writer.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    Yeah, it's pretty good! Rob emailed us the week the shows came out to wish us luck. Very nice dude.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    hah, i miss that too.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    I guess we'll know in the next few months. Those things take a while.

    I think the whole "MTV doesn't play music videos" thing is hilarious. The reason they stopped playing them is because nobody watches the channel when they do. It would obviously be cheaper for them to play videos instead of creating shows, so there's clearly a reason why they don't. If you were MTV would you play something that made everybody change the channel?

    I wasn't in a fraternity, though my co-founder Josh was an SAE.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    We try to make him show skin in every episode.

    For the ladies.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    Slumdog.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    MTV first contacted us about a year ago. They wanted to put something together using the CHTV's and Hardly Workings. That eventually evolved into the narrative format we have now.

    Random example of a thing that we couldn't say was "wet snuggle." We had to replace it with "weiner kiss." That's in the episode "Sarah's New Boyfriend."
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    1. The Office (British and American), SNL.

    2. 24? 25?

    3. I dunno, kittens are pretty cute. It would have to be a ton of money.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    MTV came to us.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    Check out another episode and see what you think.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    Writing an episode takes about a week. MTV has the final say since it's their air.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    A bit, but mostly scripted. If we're fortunate enough to do more seasons and have more time for each episode, we'll probably do more improvising.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    Every one except BBG will probably be on this season.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    The other 50 people in the office hate us. I've had my lunch stolen 16 times.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    We'd love to go on those shows, we'd just have to see if they'd take us.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    Well, I appreciate you watching. We first were going to do a sketch-based show, but when we took it to focus groups, they said "we want to see more of the office stuff since we can see CH sketches on the web whenever we want to."

    I think it was the right choice, I'm really proud of the format of the show and it's only getting better as we learn the television world.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    U R GAY!!!!!!!11111
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    i think we use DVX's? HVX's? Vinny or Sam can answer that better.

    We had 60 hot girls in the office that day. It was a sight to see.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    Also a question for Sam, though I know we do shoot in HD and it's broadcast in SD.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    The Lee and Gene movie is still in the works. The slow, slow Hollywood works.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    No.

    Wait a second....
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    We're definitely cutting back on the old stuff, but there will be some stuff in there so we can showcase some of our favorites to a new audience. Hopefully it won't be too bad for ya.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    Went to a bar. Really.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    On the show, it's what is acceptable for TV.

    On the site, we bleep out some stuff so we can run ads on the video. If a video is too dirty already, we'll just mark it "not safe for advertisers" and leave it unbleeped.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    Watch it on the TV. It's better that way.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    We basically took the crew from the office and said "hey guess what, you're now on a TV show."
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    Reading this post was like putting together a puzzle, but I think I understand what he means.

    So, thanks for watching! Glad you like the show!
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    Real deal. Got home from a friend's birthday party, still have some energy in me before bed, and decided to chime in.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    if we do more episodes, there could be arcs that span more episodes. but for now, we're going to crawl before we run.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    i don't think we're attractive enough.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    Brad T: NEVER!
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    we do have a live tour with some of our fav standups on it. maybe we'll do another round with folks from the show.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    start writing articles for the site that get a lot of hits
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    good question. i guess because most of us are busy running the site and such. but we do every once in a while.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    we've seen a small bump in traffic, especially on sundays.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    seinfeld
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    i don't get the me = facebook thing?
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    we mostly get recognized in bars near colleges. and it's mostly from the website, not the show. at least for now.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    that's why we continue to hire people right out of school, to keep the blood fresh.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    glad you like that format better. it's how it'll be most of the way forward.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    Hmm... Dan wrote a lot of those jokes you mentioned... so maybe he's giving himself the best lines! Caught, Dan!
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    if there's more seasons...
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    Josh. Yup, he runs the business side of things. He's also an exec producer on the show.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    We hope!
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    Seinfeld.

    That's the answer to both of your questions.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    It takes about two weeks of writing and a week of shooting.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    Group effort, then two people go off and write a draft on their own, then we polish as a group.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    It's not my real name, but it's Streeter's real name.

    Mike Parker.

    Jake only listens to Bowling for Soup.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    thx Daniel!
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    Hmm... i think there might be a room that hasn't been seen. but we pretty much use every available space.

    thx!

    i don't know if you can change your screen name. but if one of our dev guys is reading this, maybe he can help.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    Josh and I never really had long term expectations for it for most of the beginning, we just kind of took it day by day. But within the past few years we definitely wanted it to become a brand that people were into not just online (in movies tv, books, tours, etc).

    We had a message board a few years ago. We took it down because it became too much of a hassle to run and too insular. I like that the community now is based around the content.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    decision is yes.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    we mostly talk about how much we love jake also.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    battlefield by tugboat
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    i got to meet larry david. that was pretty rad. but that certainly doesn't counter your seinfeld theory.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    it was pretty tough to run the site, but we managed to get through it. it's a weird feeling not having to do the show all day.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    the only diva bitch is jeff.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    battlefield by tugboat (aka jesse novak)
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    CH Show might be coming to Canada soon.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    soon
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 23, 2009

    yes! already shot.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 23, 2009

    you're suprisingly close

    The CollegeHumor Show: Q&A

    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    Thanks dudes who like my character and dude who says we're gay. To answer ManCowTurkey's question, we started off with more sketches in the show (CHTV's), but found that people were more into the storylines and the type of stuff they couldn't find on the website.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    I believe there's going to be at least one Jake and Amir standalone segment in the remaining episodes. (The first season is six total eps.)
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    Yep, his name is Adam and he's a cool dude.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    MTV is pretty hands-off, believe it or not. Since we're the production company, we handle everything from start to finish, and they only chime in to approve scripts and give guidance where they can help. They've been great.

    We actually didn't know who the sponsors would be until we saw the show on the air, so that didn't factor in.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    It's definitely been an adjustment. The toughest thing is going from creating 3 min sketches with a joke every second to a well-paced 30 min story arc.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    Since we plan on continuing to run the website, we're going to try to get as many advertisers as will take us.

    Mountain Dew Voltage now runs through my veins instead of blood.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    Rosie, Susanna, and Kevin are all on the writing staff for the show but yeah, they aren't show regulars. Having a cast of nine people was enough for an audience to compute. But they're in the show every so often making appearances.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    We started making original videos in 2006 when Sam came aboard to head up the new effort. The stuff around the office sprang out of just being jackasses with camera equipment.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    We get paid in unsold DVD copies of MTV's Eric Clapton Unplugged.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    Yep. Looks like it. We might reshoot some parts to be in the right camera format, but it should be in there in some form.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    Phantom may also make an appearance in the show.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    The ball pit was real. 40,000 balls total.

    The taco truck was a creation from scratch by our production manager Bennett. It was just the shell of one, it didn't actually run.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    People seemed to think the story flowed better and liked to mentally remain in the office.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    yes and yes.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    please don't tell anybody that Peter Engel is our head writer.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    Yeah, it's pretty good! Rob emailed us the week the shows came out to wish us luck. Very nice dude.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    hah, i miss that too.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    I guess we'll know in the next few months. Those things take a while.

    I think the whole "MTV doesn't play music videos" thing is hilarious. The reason they stopped playing them is because nobody watches the channel when they do. It would obviously be cheaper for them to play videos instead of creating shows, so there's clearly a reason why they don't. If you were MTV would you play something that made everybody change the channel?

    I wasn't in a fraternity, though my co-founder Josh was an SAE.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    We try to make him show skin in every episode.

    For the ladies.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    Slumdog.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    MTV first contacted us about a year ago. They wanted to put something together using the CHTV's and Hardly Workings. That eventually evolved into the narrative format we have now.

    Random example of a thing that we couldn't say was "wet snuggle." We had to replace it with "weiner kiss." That's in the episode "Sarah's New Boyfriend."
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    1. The Office (British and American), SNL.

    2. 24? 25?

    3. I dunno, kittens are pretty cute. It would have to be a ton of money.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    MTV came to us.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    Check out another episode and see what you think.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    Writing an episode takes about a week. MTV has the final say since it's their air.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    A bit, but mostly scripted. If we're fortunate enough to do more seasons and have more time for each episode, we'll probably do more improvising.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    Every one except BBG will probably be on this season.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    The other 50 people in the office hate us. I've had my lunch stolen 16 times.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    We'd love to go on those shows, we'd just have to see if they'd take us.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    Well, I appreciate you watching. We first were going to do a sketch-based show, but when we took it to focus groups, they said "we want to see more of the office stuff since we can see CH sketches on the web whenever we want to."

    I think it was the right choice, I'm really proud of the format of the show and it's only getting better as we learn the television world.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    U R GAY!!!!!!!11111
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    i think we use DVX's? HVX's? Vinny or Sam can answer that better.

    We had 60 hot girls in the office that day. It was a sight to see.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    Also a question for Sam, though I know we do shoot in HD and it's broadcast in SD.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    The Lee and Gene movie is still in the works. The slow, slow Hollywood works.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    No.

    Wait a second....
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    We're definitely cutting back on the old stuff, but there will be some stuff in there so we can showcase some of our favorites to a new audience. Hopefully it won't be too bad for ya.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    Went to a bar. Really.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    On the show, it's what is acceptable for TV.

    On the site, we bleep out some stuff so we can run ads on the video. If a video is too dirty already, we'll just mark it "not safe for advertisers" and leave it unbleeped.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    Watch it on the TV. It's better that way.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    We basically took the crew from the office and said "hey guess what, you're now on a TV show."
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    Reading this post was like putting together a puzzle, but I think I understand what he means.

    So, thanks for watching! Glad you like the show!
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    Real deal. Got home from a friend's birthday party, still have some energy in me before bed, and decided to chime in.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    if we do more episodes, there could be arcs that span more episodes. but for now, we're going to crawl before we run.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    i don't think we're attractive enough.
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    Brad T: NEVER!
    view in context

    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    we do have a live tour with some of our fav standups on it. maybe we'll do another round with folks from the show.
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    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    start writing articles for the site that get a lot of hits
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    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    good question. i guess because most of us are busy running the site and such. but we do every once in a while.
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    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    we've seen a small bump in traffic, especially on sundays.
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    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    seinfeld
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    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    i don't get the me = facebook thing?
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    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    we mostly get recognized in bars near colleges. and it's mostly from the website, not the show. at least for now.
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    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    that's why we continue to hire people right out of school, to keep the blood fresh.
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    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    glad you like that format better. it's how it'll be most of the way forward.
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    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    Hmm... Dan wrote a lot of those jokes you mentioned... so maybe he's giving himself the best lines! Caught, Dan!
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    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    if there's more seasons...
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    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    Josh. Yup, he runs the business side of things. He's also an exec producer on the show.
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    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    We hope!
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    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    Seinfeld.

    That's the answer to both of your questions.
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    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    It takes about two weeks of writing and a week of shooting.
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    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    Group effort, then two people go off and write a draft on their own, then we polish as a group.
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    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    It's not my real name, but it's Streeter's real name.

    Mike Parker.

    Jake only listens to Bowling for Soup.
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    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    thx Daniel!
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    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    Hmm... i think there might be a room that hasn't been seen. but we pretty much use every available space.

    thx!

    i don't know if you can change your screen name. but if one of our dev guys is reading this, maybe he can help.
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    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    Josh and I never really had long term expectations for it for most of the beginning, we just kind of took it day by day. But within the past few years we definitely wanted it to become a brand that people were into not just online (in movies tv, books, tours, etc).

    We had a message board a few years ago. We took it down because it became too much of a hassle to run and too insular. I like that the community now is based around the content.
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    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    decision is yes.
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    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    we mostly talk about how much we love jake also.
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    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    battlefield by tugboat
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    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    i got to meet larry david. that was pretty rad. but that certainly doesn't counter your seinfeld theory.
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    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    it was pretty tough to run the site, but we managed to get through it. it's a weird feeling not having to do the show all day.
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    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    the only diva bitch is jeff.
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    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    battlefield by tugboat (aka jesse novak)
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    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    CH Show might be coming to Canada soon.
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    Ricky Van Veen February 22, 2009

    soon
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    Ricky Van Veen February 23, 2009

    yes! already shot.
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    Ricky Van Veen February 23, 2009

    you're suprisingly close

    The CollegeHumor Show: Q&A

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    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    Thanks dudes who like my character and dude who says we're gay. To answer ManCowTurkey's question, we started off with more sketches in the show (CHTV's), but found that people were more into the storylines and the type of stuff they couldn't find on the website.
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    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    I believe there's going to be at least one Jake and Amir standalone segment in the remaining episodes. (The first season is six total eps.)
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    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    Yep, his name is Adam and he's a cool dude.
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    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    MTV is pretty hands-off, believe it or not. Since we're the production company, we handle everything from start to finish, and they only chime in to approve scripts and give guidance where they can help. They've been great.

    We actually didn't know who the sponsors would be until we saw the show on the air, so that didn't factor in.
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    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    It's definitely been an adjustment. The toughest thing is going from creating 3 min sketches with a joke every second to a well-paced 30 min story arc.
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    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    Since we plan on continuing to run the website, we're going to try to get as many advertisers as will take us.

    Mountain Dew Voltage now runs through my veins instead of blood.
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    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    Rosie, Susanna, and Kevin are all on the writing staff for the show but yeah, they aren't show regulars. Having a cast of nine people was enough for an audience to compute. But they're in the show every so often making appearances.
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    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    We started making original videos in 2006 when Sam came aboard to head up the new effort. The stuff around the office sprang out of just being jackasses with camera equipment.
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    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    We get paid in unsold DVD copies of MTV's Eric Clapton Unplugged.
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    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    Yep. Looks like it. We might reshoot some parts to be in the right camera format, but it should be in there in some form.
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    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    Phantom may also make an appearance in the show.
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    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    The ball pit was real. 40,000 balls total.

    The taco truck was a creation from scratch by our production manager Bennett. It was just the shell of one, it didn't actually run.
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    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    People seemed to think the story flowed better and liked to mentally remain in the office.
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    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    yes and yes.
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    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    please don't tell anybody that Peter Engel is our head writer.
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    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    Yeah, it's pretty good! Rob emailed us the week the shows came out to wish us luck. Very nice dude.
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    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    hah, i miss that too.
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    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    I guess we'll know in the next few months. Those things take a while.

    I think the whole "MTV doesn't play music videos" thing is hilarious. The reason they stopped playing them is because nobody watches the channel when they do. It would obviously be cheaper for them to play videos instead of creating shows, so there's clearly a reason why they don't. If you were MTV would you play something that made everybody change the channel?

    I wasn't in a fraternity, though my co-founder Josh was an SAE.
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    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    We try to make him show skin in every episode.

    For the ladies.
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    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    Slumdog.
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    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    MTV first contacted us about a year ago. They wanted to put something together using the CHTV's and Hardly Workings. That eventually evolved into the narrative format we have now.

    Random example of a thing that we couldn't say was "wet snuggle." We had to replace it with "weiner kiss." That's in the episode "Sarah's New Boyfriend."
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    Ricky Van Veen February 21, 2009

    1. The Office (British and American), SNL.

    2. 24? 25?

    3. I dunno, kittens are pretty cute. It would have to be a ton of money.