August 2010
3 posts
We just wrapped “Harold and Kumar 3,” marking the end of my first experience acting in a film.
In fact, before we started shooting, I had never even been on a movie set. To me, the entire shoot was a crash course in movie making.
Here’s what I learned:
-I learned that acting is difficult, and the audience is unforgiving when it comes to excuses. Nobody cares that you only got two or three...
Three great Q’s and A’s from an amazing Ron Artest Interview. I used to think Ron Artest was crazy– now I realize he’s just 100% unabashedly truthful.
DO YOU STILL WANT TO PLAY FOR TEAM USA?
I want a gold medal so bad, I’d be the water boy. But they won’t even let me try out! I’ve been trying to get on that team forever. Three years ago, I called Jerry Colangelo. He answered the phone. I said,...
After two hours of YouTube tutorials, the ante has been officially upped.
Next step: Learning to solve this baby without help.
Step after that: Lead an active social life.
July 2010
3 posts
Really excited about my first real art purchase.
I found the painting by doing a google image search for “Woody Allen Portrait” and contacted the artist: Gayle Bell. Three weeks later Woody was back where he grew up, in Brooklyn, NY.
(For more Gayle Bell artwork, check out GayleBell.com!)
To me, weather prognostication is like stacking pillows: The first two or three may find themselves accurately above the ones below, but once you’re ten pillows high the tower will come crumbling down in a heap of inaccuracy.
That is to say, tomorrow or the day after’s weather prediction may be accurate, but I’ve always operated under the assumption that 10-day weather forecasts are bullshit (and...
I’m going to be in the new Harold and Kumar movie! It’s true.
Three cool facts:
1) It’s called “A Very Harold and Kumar Christmas”
2) Todd Strauss-Schulson, the director, also directed Die Hardly Working.
3) It’s being shot in 3D!
It comes out a year from this Christmas so hopefully you all stay alive to watch it.
June 2010
4 posts
MyJewishLearning.com asked me to talk about Jewish summer camps.
(…Click on the underlined part of the sentence above to see what I said…)
(…Sorry. Just… you should know to click on it, though. I hate having to tell you guys — nevermind. I’m over-explaining it…)
I couldn’t make the Webby Awards last night because I was not in New York so I trusted Jake to go up there and accept our People’s Voice Award for best Comedy Series with grace, dignity, and respect.
Every winner is allowed a 5 word acceptance speech and I was certain Jake would find a way to succinctly and brilliantly sum up how grateful we are for having the best fans in the world and how...
In college I used to make videos for the Internet with my roommates/friends Offer and Pavla before most people even made videos for the Internet. I eventually parlayed my mild Internet video and writing skills into a job at CollegeHumor.com, which forced me to move to New York.
Saturday, June 12, 2010 was my fifth year anniversary of moving to New York, and also the day Offer got married.
I...
Finally a webshow that combines my two favorite things: Dan Klein and Seinfeld. So funny.
(More at SeinfeldComedy.com)
May 2010
4 posts
“Pranked” Season 2 debuts tonight (Thursday, May 27) on MTV! I believe it’s two back-to-back all new episodes starting at 11pm. MTV spent its entire marketing budget* on mine and streeter’s blog shout outs, so check it out!
*39 cents and a Jersey Shore Season 1 DVD.
This banner ad a seemed to be a little much, “Brad Benson Hyundai.”
Then again, maybe I deserve it for inquiring where my local Salvation Army was. I dunno.
Jake and Amir is now on Hulu! Thanks to the cool designers and marketing peeps at CollegeHumor for making this happen.
If you’re not a big sports fan, what in life can make you feel so unbelievably deflated and then suddenly extremely happy in an instant?
April 2010
5 posts
Weird to think that this week is the three year anniversary of:
I wish I could time travel back to 1948 and show Burt Baskins and Irv Robbins this flash banner ad and struggle to explain to them what the fuck it all means.
Actually this banner ad is an entire flash game that promotes milk shakes… so if you’ve seen it, maybe you can explain to ME what the fuck it all means.
“Jake and Amir” is nominated for a Webby for Best Comedy Series! There is an academy of experts who will choose one winner… but the other winner will be decided by popular vote. That means YOU can help by voting here!
I’m also nominated for Best Individual Performance… which you can vote for right here. I’m up against one of my sitcom heroes, Ed O’Neil — and while I may not be a better actor than...
Recommend Amir for the Comedian Directory →
To whoever said twitter was worthless… check out THIS screencap:
You were right.
March 2010
6 posts
Streeter and I wrapped Season 2 of Pranked last week in Malibu! 12 episodes in all.
No specific air date yet, but at least I got to live out my fantasy of wearing a wetsuit and holding one of those long-ish, stiffer boogie boards. A water-skate-board of sorts.
And the award for best sound design in an internet video goes to CollegeHumor super editor Mike Schaubach for his work on Joshs Mindhouse: Robo Terrorist.
I asked Mike to show me his timeline for the project (thumbnail below) and it contained fifty-five layers of audio. Fifty-five! Here’s just a taste of it:
My 5th New York winter is over! It was a little too snowy for my tastes but you know what they say: Survive and Advance.
My, my, how far we’ve come… (Directed by Todd Strauss-Schulson)
Last Saturday on top, this Saturday on bottom. (Can YOU Spot the difference!?)
answer: 5,000 miles.
This is actually what the front page of the LA Times looks like today:
I don’t have any problem with creative advertising–it just feels a little messed up that below the fold of this same edition is Alice, bottomless and spread eagle, over an article about a family of four being murdered in Anaheim. It’s like… not cool.
February 2010
7 posts
The entire UK Office is now on Hulu.
If you haven’t seen it yet, your excuses are now down to a very anemic NONE. Make it happen!
Warning: This blog post is going to ask you to donate a minute of your time to potentially make a BIG difference in somebody’s life. If busy with other blogs/facebook please skip.
Last week, my friend and coworker David Young had the blind audacity to actually ask a lady to spend the rest of her life with him. Crazier still: She agreed to it! Seriously!
Now that he’s engaged, David has realized...
Because writing comedy and co-hosting a video game web show for a living isn’t enough to satiate his creative desires, CollegeHumor Co-Worker Extraordinarre Pat Cassels has recently started a blog devoted to his two favorite passions: film and slightly dated pop-culture.
It’s called it’s called Ten Year Old Movies (http://10yearoldmovies.com), and it’s a blog devoted to dissecting movies that...
Donate money to Haiti relief through this Doctors Without Borders webpage and get access to a never-before-seen (and never-will-air) Jake and Amir, Hardly Working AND CH original. Seems like a Win-Win-Win situation!
And so ENDS the most surreal week of my life… (Who Dat!)
Jake and I covered the Ocho Cinco pool party yesterday for Team OCNN.
And so begins the most surreal week of my life…
January 2010
11 posts
This page is probably getting a big spike in traffic today.
Brrrr.
(Via Creighton’s Nerdology)
The last couple Jake and Amir episodes (Dave part 1 and Dave part 2) are two of my favorites. I rarely laugh while editing, but David and Jake’s performances had me LOLing alone in an edit bay.
Speaking of David Young — did you know HE HAS A BLOG!? ! It’s true! Check it out.
(Cool, he said he wouldn’t do any more vids with us unless I plugged his shit. What a diva, right?)
I just had this conversation with one of my best friends, Jesse (who, I should mention is turning 27 in just a few minutes.)
Moral of the story: You’re never too old to learn about new foods! Or embarrass your friends on their birthdays.
This video brings a million years of honor to me and my family.
“Gary Larson retired so that his comic wouldn’t slip into mediocrity. He has a cameo tonight on The Simpsons 20th Anniversary Special. Ahem.” — @lucasbrooks
I totally forgot how amazingly awkward this was. It’s pretty much perfect.
You know how sometimes when people paint you in peanut butter and jelly and make a time lapse video about it and put it on YouTube?
Well it took forever but somebody FINALLY made me! Thanks ProjectBlackManga!
Mike Shanahan named coach of the Redskins. Though one look at his face and you realize there was never any doubt.
(Probably the most appropriate coach signing since Romeo Crennel joined the Browns.)
Every month or so I get an email asking me if I was in “Nick and Nora’s Infinite Playlist.” Usually I just respond with a “No! But I get asked that a lot…”
Yesterday I asked the emailer to take a screencap for me:
I dunno what all these people are talking about. I’m not that tall. I don’t have a beard. OR dreads! And last time I checked, I wasn’t black.
My new favorite sports thing to do is waiting for Kobe to hit a game winning shot, then looking up tweets from fans of the opposing team.
Good, better, best!
December 2009
6 posts
As fun as shooting videos with Ben Schwartz is, it’s almost more fun editing them, because I get to see frames like these.
How often can you see high-res images of yourself laughing as hard as you possibly can? (click photo to see end results)
After helping me prank Streeter a couple months ago the fine folks at Skydive Long Island (in Calverton) said they’d take me on a jump for free. After declining many times I was finally peer pressured into going for it.
Now that I survived I can honestly say it was the best decision of my autumn!
I’m in the latest Bleep Bloop! We play the new Wii Mario game.
CollegeHumor All-Nighter Part 3. Coming Thursday night! (9pm - 9am eastern)
Fifteen months ago, I speculated that the easiest job in the world would be casting a movie with a Nelson Mandela character — because you’d obviously go with Morgan Freeman.
Luckily, my days of speculation are over! Now, I can just email Fiona Weir, Casting Director for Invictus, and ask her directly if she has the easiest job in the world.
Jake and I are hosting a comedy show for Global Goodness on Monday, December 7.
Even if you don’t like helping fight illiteracy in some of the worlds poorest countries, you will at least enjoy the stand up comedy of all of our favorite comedians!
November 2009
11 posts
And thus concludes the greatest season of Curb Your Enthusiasm…
The perfect fictional ending to Seinfeld, may be the perfect real ending to Curb. After all, how can Larry David, who has so much pride in going out on top, come back for yet another season?