Prank War

CollegeHumor Now for some Friday fun. A friend just tipped me off about this. Two guys from CollegeHumor, Streeter Seidell (a Frontpage Editor) and Amir Blumenfeld (a Senior Writer) have been involved in a Prank War for last 7 months or so.

It started innocently enough, when Streeter played an iTunes prank on Amir. Then Amir retaliated with a fake date. From there, it gets nasty. Real nasty. The kind of nasty that makes you go “Oooo did he really just do that??”

The latest prank by Amir is a classic. I’d recommend watching the whole series in chronological order to see how they go from Ha ha! to Oh DAMN! But if you’re the type to read the end of a mystery novel first, here’s the latest (and greatest, IMO) prank:

Not only are some of these pranks hilarious, but they’re also a great vehicle for self-promotion. These two have been getting calls left and right. Newspapers, radio stations, even DeadSpin.com interviewed Amir about this prank (to which he said, “I kinda felt bad about that”).

Since these two guys are humor writers and comedians, this is some fantastic publicity. Sure, it’s costing them a bit (in terms of dignity and girlfriends, perhaps?), but I’m sure they’re going to get noticed by some “industry people.”

It’s probably also generating some great traffic for CollegeHumor. I myself just watched a bunch of other videos there, as I eagerly await Streeter’s next revenge prank. Muhahaha!

Author: Mike Lee

An idealistic realist, humanistic technologist & constant student.