Jake and Amir
| Jake and Amir | |
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The show's third title card (2013–2016)
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| Genre |
Double act comedy Sitcom Black comedy Cringe comedy |
| Starring |
Amir Blumenfeld Jake Hurwitz |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of episodes | 751 |
| Production | |
| Camera setup |
Multiple (formerly single) |
| Running time | 1–5 minutes |
| Production company(s) | CollegeHumor |
| Release | |
| Original network |
CollegeHumor YouTube Vimeo (2007–2008) |
| Picture format | 720p (16:9 HDTV) |
| Original release | May 23, 2007 – October 27, 2016 |
| Chronology | |
| Related shows |
The CollegeHumor Show Hardly Working |
| External links | |
| Tumblr blog | |
| Production website | |
Jake and Amir is an American comedy web series created by and starring former CollegeHumor writers Jake Hurwitz and Amir Blumenfeld, originally set in New York City and later Los Angeles. The two played humorous versions of themselves: Jake is usually depicted as a sensible "", and Amir as his annoying, obsessive and odd co-worker. The pair are seen acting as a comic double act. The series began on May 23, 2007, and new videos were posted every Tuesday to CollegeHumor's website and the series' Tumblr blog. The series won a Webby Award in 2010.
On December 18, 2013, it was announced that the web series would be adapted into a TV series, to air on TBS and be executive-produced by Ed Helms, Hurwitz, Blumenfeld, and several others.
On January 27, 2015, CollegeHumor announced that the series would air its last 8 episodes beginning on February 17, 2015. A social media campaign titled #GreenLightJakeandAmir was launched the next day, with the aim of convincing TBS to allow for the series pilot to be filmed. The final episode was posted on April 7, 2015.
On April 8, 2016, a new web series entitled Lonely and Horny, written by and starring Blumenfeld and Hurwitz, was released on Vimeo.
On October 27, 2016, the duo returned to Collegehumor for a single episode of Jake and Amir titled "Jake and Amir: Donald Trump", where the two introduced the episode by jokingly commenting on how they had gotten fired.
Jake and Amir was one of CollegeHumor's longest-running series. The series began with Hurwitz and Blumenfeld making short comedic videos on their own; though both of them were CollegeHumor employees, the videos were just a hobby, posted on Vimeo. As they grew more popular, CollegeHumor began incorporating them into its website as an original feature, collaborating with the pair to create further episodes. Jake explains that Jake and Amir was never intended to be a series, "We actually had no idea we were creating a series at the time we were doing it. I just thought Amir was so funny, and I had this crappy camera. We just made these videos and our friends started passing them around. It kind of grew from there."
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