"The College Humor Show" Hits MTV (VIDEO)

"The College Humor Show" Hits MTV (VIDEO)

The New York Times' Brian Stelter writes that web sensation CollegeHumor.com is taking its act to MTV, with a show that premieres this weekend:

When a visitor enters Ricky Van Veen's office on Park Avenue, it's hard not to notice the blown-up photo of his face hanging on the wall. Mr. Van Veen, a founder and editor in chief of CollegeHumor.com, the successful Web site, is quick to explain, "It's a prop!"

CollegeHumor, which peddles fraternity pranks and workplace stunts to an online audience of millions, is making the move to television. The Web site's hijinks are being reformatted for an absurdist 30-minute comedy series, "The College Humor Show," which will have its premiere on MTV at 9:30 on Sunday night. The CollegeHumor staffers -- who specialize in three-minute bits of sophomoric comedy for the Web -- wrote, shot and starred in the television series, while they continued to crank out content for their day jobs. The dramatic photo of Mr. Van Veen -- he has jokingly titled the work "infinite introspection" -- is one example of the fiction that is invading CollegeHumor's real workspace.

By relying on its existing staff as actors and using its offices as the set, the show is a hybrid of reality TV and scripted storytelling. "It's a reality premise," Sarah Schneider, an editorial manager for the site, said in an interview this week. "With a fictional execution," Mr. Van Veen added. Then they high-fived.

Read the full article here, or watch the show's trailer below:

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