Today marks the launch of Mr. Vicarious, a new reality comedy web series emerging from the recently announced partnership between CollegeHumor and PepsiCo’s SoBe. “SoBe Studios,” as the new enterprise is called, is a content factory that will produce a steady stream of brand-relevant videos for distribution across multiple media platforms, including TV and the web. CollegeHumor CEO Ricky Van Veen announced the partnership at yesterday’s Mashable Media Summit, along with the launch of the three part series premiering today. Sort of a snack-sized reality version of Cyrano de Bergerac (or Roxanne for you Steve Martin Fans), Mr. Vicarious features comedians Nick Kroll and Paul Scheer (host of this year’s Streamy Awards), who use radios to whisper dialogue into the concealed earpieces of actors pranking attendees at the South by Southwest festival in Austin, Texas. Related News:CollegeHumor Gets Its Own MTV Series: ‘The CollegeHumor Show’ ‘CollegeHumor Show...
- 6/9/2010
- by Drew Baldwin
- Tubefilter.com
Trying something new here on Tubefilter. There are just so many web series related tid bits out there worth mentioning—including a heap in our News Desk email inbox that are worth a click. College Humor staffers are moving crosstown to parent company Iac's offices, out of the unsupervised Union Square office sanctuary that birthed many of the Ch crew's original series like Hardly Working and The CollegeHumor Show. And co-founder Ricky Van Veen is taking a more grown up post as CEO of Barry Diller's new web production arm Notational. He's also hired Vogue Editor Anna Wintour's strapping daughter Bee Shaffer as his assistant. Can you say cameo? [Business Insider] Bite Me TV, The Man Cooking Show launched its second season with host Josh Landis today, cooking recipes aimed at impressing a date in an edgy, guy-friendly way. Other series out of the unabashedly male site are Field Trippin' and Drink n' Play.
- 12/2/2009
- by Marc Hustvedt
- Tubefilter.com
At 23, Jake Hurwitz is already a web comedy veteran. As one half of College Humor's long running Jake and Amir series, Hurwitz has found himself at the center of a New York comedy powerhouse and starring himself in a slew of Ch originals including Hardly Working and its TV adaptation—MTV's The CollegeHumor Show. This summer, he was even tapped to host the second season of MySpace's game show Bff, which despite some questionable view counts, managed to work out to a pretty nice deal for Hurwitz in his first series outside the vaunted walls of College Humor. We caught up with the Connecticut native-turned-Brooklyn-local Hurwitz for a little tell all into just what it means to be a successful young comedy writer coming of age on the internet. That, and what to make if this Bff series. Tubefilter: How do you describe Bff if you’re trying to tell...
- 11/30/2009
- by Marc Hustvedt
- Tubefilter.com
As part of our ongoing effort to grow the web television space and evangelize the inherent advantages of an open entertainment medium, Tubefilter has partnered with creative communities all over the country. Nyu's Tisch School of The Arts has a longstanding reputation as a hotbed of talent for visual arts, and we're honored to join them in programming the web-focused installments of their renowned Director's Series. We're very excited to announce that the next installment of Nyu's Web Directors Series will be a candid conversation with CollegeHumor TV moderated by Tubefilter on November 9th at 6:00 Pm. When they began posting funny photos and stories on the Internet as college freshmen, CollegeHumor.com creators Ricky Van Veen and Josh Abramson didn't realize they were creating an entertainment sensation. Since its launch in 1999, CollegeHumor.com has grown into a massively popular site for 6 million visitors monthly, a comedy tour, a T-shirt business,...
- 10/29/2009
- by Jamison Tilsner
- Tubefilter.com
I'll be honest, I didn't even know the first season of Bff had ended already, but apparently it did. It's one of the few online game shows (why aren't there more?) and it returns this week with new host Jake Hurwitz. Hurwitz is a familiar face to web series fans, as half of the Streamy-nominated comedy duo Jake & Amir from CollegeHumor.com, which was picked up by MTV and developed as The CollegeHumor Show. It's a bit of a shame to see the typically absurd Hurwitz stripped of any real comedy purpose and thrown into what is pretty squarely a young, fashion-loving women's chit-chat. Really, they make no qualms about who this show is going after and lead sponsors Always and Ortho Women’s Health & Urology probably want them to play it safe. Related News:MySpace Wants to Be Your ‘Bff’CollegeHumor Gets Its Own MTV Series: ‘The CollegeHumor Show’‘CollegeHumor...
- 8/27/2009
- by Marc Hustvedt
- Tubefilter.com
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