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CollegeHumor was a popular internet comedy website of the 2000s and 2010s featuring videos, images and articles to appeal particularly to college students. It is perhaps best known for its wide range of '''''CollegeHumor Originals''''' content, creating many hit sketches and series like ''Jake and Amir'' and ''Hardly Working''. | CollegeHumor (now known as Dropout) was a popular internet comedy website of the 2000s and 2010s featuring videos, images and articles to appeal particularly to college students. It is perhaps best known for its wide range of '''''CollegeHumor Originals''''' content, creating many hit sketches and series like ''Jake and Amir'' and ''Hardly Working''. | ||
The site notoriously came to an untimely close in January 2020, with its parent company deciding to no longer fund its operation after diminishing returns. This naturally left an array of content that was exclusive to the website, having never been uploaded to the official YouTube channel, to be left to the wayside (assuming it hadn't been removed prior like "Fatal Decision 2: The Decision Is You"). This was slightly rectified with the inclusion of legacy content through the successor Dropout service, but it still omits a large amount of CollegeHumor's missing catalogue. In addition, Dropout's versions of legacy videos would be edited in two ways: they would plaster over the old CollegeHumor website screen bug as it serves no purpose anymore, and likewise, they would remove the iconic CollegeHumor end card that originally featured the "HUH!" sound effect and would punctuate the ending punchline of a video, sometimes allowing for a post-end card gag that is now merely merged into the rest of the video. This alters the video from how it's intended to be presented and perceived and unfortunately serves as the only available copy of at least one video with a post-card gag (''Hardly Working'' "Credit Card"), creating reasonable doubt as to how that video is supposed to play out. | The site notoriously came to an untimely close in January 2020, with its parent company deciding to no longer fund its operation after diminishing returns. This naturally left an array of content that was exclusive to the website, having never been uploaded to the official YouTube channel, to be left to the wayside (assuming it hadn't been removed prior like "Fatal Decision 2: The Decision Is You"). This was slightly rectified with the inclusion of legacy content through the successor Dropout service, but it still omits a large amount of CollegeHumor's missing catalogue. In addition, Dropout's versions of legacy videos would be edited in two ways: they would plaster over the old CollegeHumor website screen bug as it serves no purpose anymore, and likewise, they would remove the iconic CollegeHumor end card that originally featured the "HUH!" sound effect and would punctuate the ending punchline of a video, sometimes allowing for a post-end card gag that is now merely merged into the rest of the video. This alters the video from how it's intended to be presented and perceived and unfortunately serves as the only available copy of at least one video with a post-card gag (''Hardly Working'' "Credit Card"), creating reasonable doubt as to how that video is supposed to play out. | ||
In addition, even video uploads on the CollegeHumor YouTube channel have been subject to being quietly taken down over time. A lot of material that could be seen as especially controversial in their current, more politically correct standards is | In addition, even video uploads on the CollegeHumor YouTube channel have been subject to being quietly taken down over time. A lot of material that could be seen as especially controversial in their current, more politically correct standards is almost certainly to now be privated. This could be seen with videos containing trans-related jokes, some kind of redface or brownface, slurs and so on. Even if this was somewhat inconsistent, as for example, ''Hardly Working'' "Brainstorming" contains the usage of "fag" (Jake is called a "fag hater" as part of the others criticising him for perceived homophobia) and remains up on the channel, alongside ''Every Beauty Vlogger Ever'' that contains Emily halfway through putting on blackface. And sometimes it would be particularly difficult to determine exactly why a video was privated in the first place (many of the earlier, pre-Dorkly cartoon sketches seem to be taken down for whatever reason). This absence in specific videos is also felt in the Dropout service, posing another error in that service's archiving capabilities. | ||
A lot of CollegeHumor's videos are thus currently unavailable. The Wayback Machine almost never saves video uploads of coveted episodes' pages on the CollegeHumor website and it seems that it wasn't exactly common for fans to rip and upload the CollegeHumor-exclusive ''Hardly Working'' episodes to YouTube even at the peak of its popularity. There are still a lot of its episodes that are currently missing, even with the edgy episodes and currently Dropout-exclusive episodes both being re-uploaded. | A lot of CollegeHumor's videos are thus currently unavailable. The Wayback Machine almost never saves video uploads of coveted episodes' pages on the CollegeHumor website and it seems that it wasn't exactly common for fans to rip and upload the CollegeHumor-exclusive ''Hardly Working'' episodes to YouTube even at the peak of its popularity. There are still a lot of its episodes that are currently missing, even with the edgy episodes and currently Dropout-exclusive episodes both being re-uploaded. Series co-creator David Fishel also doesn't have any copies of the missing episodes.<ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/jakeandamir/comments/13aymqq/i_asked_david_fishel_cocreator_and_big_force_on</ref> | ||
Considering the scope of an entire website's worth of videos being taken down, '''this may not be a comprehensive and complete list of missing videos''', at least outside of the ''Hardly Working'' and ''The Collegehumor Show'' listings that were more carefully checked (up to "Sex, Drugs, and Treen" of the modern era in 2013 with | Considering the scope of an entire website's worth of videos being taken down, '''this may not be a comprehensive and complete list of missing videos''', at least outside of the ''Hardly Working'' and ''The Collegehumor Show'' listings that were more carefully checked (up to "Sex, Drugs, and Treen" of the modern era in 2013 with the former's episodes whilst the latter had small, complete listings). ''CollegeHumor Originals'' were also seemingly checked through up to "Phillip Ellis, CEO Retirement Roast" at least, if not more, and may not be complete. | ||
==Videos== | ==Videos== | ||
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All but three videos of the original 2008 All-Nighter are lost ("Dodgeball", "Bizarro Office" and "He's Right Behind Me"). Additionally, there exists a weird pattern that even videos with particularly notable guest stars are simply no longer available because they were seemingly incentivised as being CollegeHumor-exclusive and were never reuploaded since (in addition to "Whitest Kids" and "Five Year Hangover", the "Jackass" episode is only available through fan reuploads). "Josh's Mindhouse: The Gruber Brothers" is uploaded on YouTube, but is uniquely made unavailable.<ref>https://youtu.be/y8nYXCNJRgM</ref> "Yawn of the Dead" has also now been made unavailable, presumably due to the usage of copyrighted music in Michael Jackson's "Thriller". | All but three videos of the original 2008 All-Nighter are lost ("Dodgeball", "Bizarro Office" and "He's Right Behind Me"). Additionally, there exists a weird pattern that even videos with particularly notable guest stars are simply no longer available because they were seemingly incentivised as being CollegeHumor-exclusive and were never reuploaded since (in addition to "Whitest Kids" and "Five Year Hangover", the "Jackass" episode is only available through fan reuploads). "Josh's Mindhouse: The Gruber Brothers" is uploaded on YouTube, but is uniquely made unavailable.<ref>https://youtu.be/y8nYXCNJRgM</ref> "Yawn of the Dead" has also now been made unavailable, presumably due to the usage of copyrighted music in Michael Jackson's "Thriller". | ||
Additionally, there's reports<ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/jakeandamir/comments/yshi9k/who_edited_classic_hardly_working_episodes_lost/</ref><ref>https://collegehumorscreenshots.tumblr.com/post/62165865439/whats-the-hardly-working-where-it-devolves-into#notes</ref> of a video involving the cast shouting "Boys vs. girls! Boys vs. girls!" and something causing Sarah to get a nosebleed, with "I Want You Back" by The Jackson 5 playing at the end. It's unknown if this is another video (or ''Hardly Working'' episode) to add to the list or if it's one of the videos already listed. | |||
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|Weather Report||<span style="color:red;">'''Lost''' | |Weather Report||<span style="color:red;">'''Lost''' | ||
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|Keyboard Prank||<span style="color:orange;">'''Partially Found'''</span> (''The CollegeHumor Show'' version) | |Keyboard Prank||[https://archive.org/details/hardly-working-keyboard-prank-the-collegehumor-show-version <span style="color:orange;">'''Partially Found'''</span>] (''The CollegeHumor Show'' version) | ||
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|Insults||<span style="color:red;">'''Lost''' | |Insults||<span style="color:red;">'''Lost''' | ||
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|Whitest Kids||<span style="color:red;">'''Lost''' | |Whitest Kids||<span style="color:red;">'''Lost''' | ||
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|Hardly Drinking||<span style="color: | |Hardly Drinking||[https://archive.org/details/collegehumor-hardly-drinking<span style="color:green;">'''Found'''] | ||
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|Trilogies, Part II!||<span style="color:red;">'''Lost''' | |Trilogies, Part II!||<span style="color:red;">'''Lost''' | ||
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|Magazines||<span style="color: | |Magazines||[https://youtu.be/RgF2r6BpSP0<span style="color:green;">'''Found'''] | ||
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|Hotter||<span style="color:red;">'''Lost''' | |Hotter||<span style="color:red;">'''Lost''' | ||
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|Backwards||<span style="color:red;">'''Lost''' | |Backwards||<span style="color:red;">'''Lost''' | ||
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|Phantom of the Apartment||<span style="color: | |Phantom of the Apartment||[https://youtu.be/j00IXKhN4Cc<span style="color:green;">'''Found'''] | ||
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|Yawn of the Dead (''AKA'' Yawn Dead)||[ | |Yawn of the Dead (''AKA'' Yawn Dead)||[https://archive.org/details/hardly-working-lost-videos<span style="color:green;">'''Found'''] | ||
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|Streeter Theeter: Best Buy Manager Audition||[ | |Streeter Theeter: Best Buy Manager Audition||[https://archive.org/details/hardly-working-lost-videos<span style="color:green;">'''Found'''] | ||
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|Gale Beggy Makes a Movie||<span style="color:red;">'''Lost''' | |Gale Beggy Makes a Movie||<span style="color:red;">'''Lost''' | ||
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|Streeter Theeter: Best Buy Manager Late Halloween||[ | |Streeter Theeter: Best Buy Manager Late Halloween||[https://archive.org/details/hardly-working-lost-videos<span style="color:green;">'''Found'''] | ||
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|Streeter Theeter: Phantom Throughout History||[ | |Streeter Theeter: Phantom Throughout History||[https://youtu.be/hfjVfXErxUU<span style="color:green;">'''Found'''] | ||
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|Streeter Theeter - Best Buy Manager Chat Roulette||[ | |Streeter Theeter - Best Buy Manager Chat Roulette||[https://archive.org/details/hardly-working-lost-videos<span style="color:green;">'''Found'''] | ||
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|My Two True Loves||[https://youtu.be/5_l_7TWf_oo <span style="color:green;">'''Found'''] | |My Two True Loves||[https://youtu.be/5_l_7TWf_oo <span style="color:green;">'''Found'''] | ||
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|Avril Parody||A parody of Avril Lavigne's "Girlfriend"||[https://archive.org/details/avril-parody-college-humor-video.mp-4 <span style="color:green;">'''Found'''] | |Avril Parody||A parody of Avril Lavigne's "Girlfriend"||[https://archive.org/details/avril-parody-college-humor-video.mp-4 <span style="color:green;">'''Found'''] | ||
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|Brohemian Rhapsody||CollegeHumor's epic frat party music video.||[https:// | |Brohemian Rhapsody||CollegeHumor's epic frat party music video.||[https://archive.org/details/brohemian-rhapsody <span style="color:green;">'''Found'''] | ||
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|Taft!|| ||[https://youtu.be/o3pQ2lfvbL8 <span style="color:green;">'''Found'''] | |Taft!|| ||[https://youtu.be/o3pQ2lfvbL8 <span style="color:green;">'''Found'''] | ||
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|Stop Carlos Mencia|| ||[https://youtu.be/y5SWgbIw9kE <span style="color:green;">'''Found'''] | |Stop Carlos Mencia|| ||[https://youtu.be/y5SWgbIw9kE <span style="color:green;">'''Found'''] | ||
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|One Week||Barenaked Ladies Parody||[https:// | |One Week||Barenaked Ladies Parody||[https://archive.org/details/one-week-barenaked-ladies-parody <span style="color:green;">'''Found'''] | ||
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|If I Were A Bro|| ||[https://youtu.be/WaS6mlUS5Kw <span style="color:green;">'''Found'''] | |If I Were A Bro|| ||[https://youtu.be/WaS6mlUS5Kw <span style="color:green;">'''Found'''] | ||
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|The One Kind Of Porn You Can't Find Online|| ||[https://archive.org/details/the-one-kind-of-porn-you-can-at-find-online-comedy <span style="color:green;">'''Found'''] | |The One Kind Of Porn You Can't Find Online|| ||[https://archive.org/details/the-one-kind-of-porn-you-can-at-find-online-comedy <span style="color:green;">'''Found'''] | ||
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|We Didn't Start The Flame War|| ||[https:// | |We Didn't Start The Flame War|| ||[https://archive.org/details/we-didnt-start-the-flame-war <span style="color:green;">'''Found'''] | ||
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|In An Apatow World|| ||[https://youtu.be/DJv-rG_jeGY <span style="color:green;">'''Found'''] | |In An Apatow World|| ||[https://youtu.be/DJv-rG_jeGY <span style="color:green;">'''Found'''] | ||
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|Let's Talk About Sext|| ||[https://archive.org/details/lets-talk-about-sext <span style="color:green;">'''Found'''] | |Let's Talk About Sext|| ||[https://archive.org/details/lets-talk-about-sext <span style="color:green;">'''Found'''] | ||
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|I Gotta Feeling||Black Eyed Peas "I Gotta Feeling" parody. ||[https:// | |I Gotta Feeling||Black Eyed Peas "I Gotta Feeling" parody. ||[https://archive.org/details/i-gotta-feeling-parody <span style="color:green;">'''Found'''] | ||
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|End Of The World|| ||[https://youtu.be/-XTwWqzKeXc <span style="color:green;">'''Found'''] | |End Of The World|| ||[https://youtu.be/-XTwWqzKeXc <span style="color:green;">'''Found'''] | ||
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|The Nightmare Before St. Patrick's Day|| ||[https://youtu.be/29a2ldtBiOE <span style="color:green;">'''Found'''] | |The Nightmare Before St. Patrick's Day|| ||[https://youtu.be/29a2ldtBiOE <span style="color:green;">'''Found'''] | ||
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|You Became A Meme|| ||[https:// | |You Became A Meme|| ||[https://archive.org/details/you-became-a-meme <span style="color:green;">'''Found'''] | ||
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|Run This Raid||"Run This Town" by Rihanna parody.||[https://archive.org/details/run-this-raid-run-this-town-parody <span style="color:green;">'''Found'''] | |Run This Raid||"Run This Town" by Rihanna parody.||[https://archive.org/details/run-this-raid-run-this-town-parody <span style="color:green;">'''Found'''] | ||
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|Sing Talk||"Tik Tok" by Ke$ha parody.||[https:// | |Sing Talk||"Tik Tok" by Ke$ha parody.||[https://archive.org/details/sing-talk-tik-tok-parody <span style="color:green;">'''Found'''] | ||
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|Rude Boy's Response||"Rude Boy" by Rihanna parody.||[https://archive.org/details/rude-boys-response-rihanna-parody-college-humor-video <span style="color:green;">'''Found'''] | |Rude Boy's Response||"Rude Boy" by Rihanna parody.||[https://archive.org/details/rude-boys-response-rihanna-parody-college-humor-video <span style="color:green;">'''Found'''] | ||
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|Scott Gairdner: Coming Out||<span style="color:red;">'''Lost''' | |Scott Gairdner: Coming Out||<span style="color:red;">'''Lost''' | ||
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|Nickelodeon Promos||[ | |Nickelodeon Promos||[https://archive.org/details/collegehumor-lost-sketches<span style="color:green;">'''Found'''] | ||
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|Phillip Ellis, CEO Retirement Roast||<span style="color:red;">'''Lost''' | |Phillip Ellis, CEO Retirement Roast||<span style="color:red;">'''Lost''' | ||
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|Every California Gurls Parody||[https:// | |Every California Gurls Parody||[https://archive.org/details/collegehumor-lost-sketches<span style="color:green;">'''Found'''] | ||
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|Fatal Decision 2: The Decision Is You||<span style="color:red;">'''Lost''' | |Fatal Decision 2: The Decision Is You||<span style="color:red;">'''Lost''' | ||
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|Ghost Spiders||[https://youtu.be/S2TB8pfoknA<span style="color:green;">'''Found'''] | |||
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|Zoo Horn||[https://youtu.be/ApmpGi0PkCc<span style="color:green;">'''Found'''] | |||
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|Very Mary-Kate: Shrooms||<span style="color:red;">'''Lost''' | |Very Mary-Kate: Shrooms||<span style="color:red;">'''Lost''' | ||
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|Molly Made Me: Episode 1||[https:// | |Molly Made Me: Episode 1||[https://archive.org/details/collegehumor-lost-sketches<span style="color:green;">'''Found'''] | ||
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|Molly Made Me (Episode 2)||<span style="color:red;">'''Lost''' | |Molly Made Me (Episode 2)||<span style="color:red;">'''Lost''' | ||
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|Molly Made Me (Ep. 3)||[https:// | |Molly Made Me (Ep. 3)||[https://archive.org/details/collegehumor-lost-sketches<span style="color:green;">'''Found'''] | ||
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===My Name Is=== | ===Hello My Name Is=== | ||
There's a lost ''My Name Is'' episode "John Raven"<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20101106043839/http://collegehumor.com/video:1943275</ref>, apparently featuring a presumably problematic depiction of a Native American drug dealer<ref>https://www.vulture.com/2010/11/meet-john-raven-your-friendly-local-native-american-drug-dealer.html</ref> | There's a lost ''Hello My Name Is'' episode "John Raven"<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20101106043839/http://collegehumor.com/video:1943275</ref>, apparently featuring a presumably problematic depiction of a Native American drug dealer<ref>https://www.vulture.com/2010/11/meet-john-raven-your-friendly-local-native-american-drug-dealer.html</ref>. | ||
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===Mike and Watt=== | ===Mike and Watt=== | ||
Mike Schubach (who appeared in CollegeHumor videos like the ''Jake and Amir'' "Sick Day" saga) & Alex Watt uploaded their own unofficial series of videos to the CollegeHumor website whilst working there. Some of these are preserved through a dedicated YouTube channel<ref>https://www.youtube.com/@MikeandWatt/videos</ref>, but others are missing as they were naturally not official CollegeHumor videos in the first place.<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20130503101725/www.collegehumor.com/tag/mike-and-watt</ref><ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20150107204012/http://www.collegehumor.com/tag/mike-and-watt</ref> | Mike Schubach (who appeared in CollegeHumor videos like the ''Jake and Amir'' "Sick Day" saga) & Alex Watt uploaded their own unofficial series of videos to the CollegeHumor website whilst working there. One video called "Mike and Watt Will Will Dead"<ref>https://archive.org/details/mike-and-watt-will-will-dead</ref> was preserved through being one of the only videos on the CollegeHumor website archived by the Wayback Machine. Some of these are preserved through a dedicated YouTube channel<ref>https://www.youtube.com/@MikeandWatt/videos</ref>, but others are missing as they were naturally not official CollegeHumor videos in the first place.<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20130503101725/www.collegehumor.com/tag/mike-and-watt</ref><ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20150107204012/http://www.collegehumor.com/tag/mike-and-watt</ref> | ||
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|description1 =Outtakes for Hardly Working "Flip Glass." | |description1 =Outtakes for ''Hardly Working'' "Flip Glass." | ||
|service2 =youtube | |service2 =youtube | ||
|id2 =9igSDqwAk7w | |id2 =9igSDqwAk7w | ||
|description2 =Outtakes for Hardly Working "Hardly Drinking." | |description2 =Outtakes for ''Hardly Working'' "Hardly Drinking." | ||
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|description1 =Behind the scenes for Hardly Working "Pee Chain." | |description1 =Behind the scenes for ''Hardly Working'' "Pee Chain." | ||
|service2 =youtube | |service2 =youtube | ||
|id2 =kBzMCQlvx7s | |id2 =kBzMCQlvx7s | ||
|description2 =Brief snippet of Hardly Working "Phantom of the Apartment" (0:41). | |description2 =Brief snippet of ''Hardly Working'' "Phantom of the Apartment" (0:41). | ||
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|id2 =q1wO4-PaqDw | |id2 =q1wO4-PaqDw | ||
|description2 =Brief snippet of Hardly Working "Whitest Kids" (3:13 - 3:15). | |description2 =Brief snippet of ''Hardly Working'' "Whitest Kids" (3:13 - 3:15). | ||
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|id1 =hardly-working-all-nighter-08-lost-videos-whitest-kids-remnants | |||
|description1 =Compiled clips of the missing All-Nighter episodes guessing which snippets were which video, alongside the "Whitest Kids" remnants. | |||
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<gallery mode=packed heights=175px> | <gallery mode="packed" heights="175px"> | ||
File: B2-97NtCEAEq6p9.jpg|Screenshot of ''Jake and Amir'' Mike's Hard Lemonade ad. | File: B2-97NtCEAEq6p9.jpg|Screenshot of ''Jake and Amir'' Mike's Hard Lemonade ad. | ||
File: YAWN1EL8RYQqXsAE19Md.jpg|Screenshot of Hardly Working "Yawn of the Dead". | File: YAWN1EL8RYQqXsAE19Md.jpg|Screenshot of ''Hardly Working'' "Yawn of the Dead". | ||
File: YAWN 2Tumblr l6s0v1ZPNe1qaxr98o1 640.jpg|Screenshot of Hardly Working "Yawn of the Dead". | File: YAWN 2Tumblr l6s0v1ZPNe1qaxr98o1 640.jpg|Screenshot of ''Hardly Working'' "Yawn of the Dead". | ||
File: Tumblr l6czg3z50l1qaxr98o1 r1 540.jpg|Screenshot of "Fatal Decision 2: The Decision Is You". | File: Tumblr l6czg3z50l1qaxr98o1 r1 540.jpg|Screenshot of "Fatal Decision 2: The Decision Is You". | ||
</gallery> | </gallery> | ||
*[https://lostmediawiki.com/images/8/86/Tumblr_mons9ur82Q1qasthro1_400.webp "Every Death from "Hardly Working"" clip.] | |||
*[https://lostmediawiki.com/images/1/1d/Tumblr_mjnvwxomw41qasthro1_500.webp "Very Mary-Kate: Shrooms" clip.] | |||
*[https://lostmediawiki.com/images/6/61/Tumblr_mjnvwxomw41qasthro2_500.webp "Very Mary-Kate: Shrooms" clip.] | |||
==External Links== | ==External Links== | ||
*[https://forums.lostmediawiki.com/thread/8733/collegehumors-videos-primarily-hardly-working Lost Media Wiki Forums topic.] | *[https://forums.lostmediawiki.com/thread/8733/collegehumors-videos-primarily-hardly-working Lost Media Wiki Forums topic.] | ||
*[https:// | *[https://archive.org/details/hardly-working-lost-videos Playlist of missing ''Hardly Working'' content.] | ||
*[https:// | *[https://archive.org/details/collegehumor-lost-sketches Playlist of missing ''CollegeHumor Originals'' content.] | ||
*[https:// | *[https://archive.org/details/bleep-bloop-lost-videos Playlist of missing ''Bleep Bloop'' content.] | ||
*[https:// | *[https://archive.org/details/hello-my-name-is-lost-videos Playlist of missing ''Hello My Name Is'' content.] | ||
*[https:// | *[https://archive.org/details/collegehumors-all-nighter-lost-trailers Playlist of missing All-Nighter trailers.] | ||
*[https://archive.org/details/The-CollegHumor-Show-Lost-Bonus-Clips-Trailers Playlist of missing ''The CollegeHumor Show'' trailers and bonus clips.] | |||
*[https://www.tubefilter.com/2008/05/05/collegehumors-all-nighter Article about the first All-Nighter's videos.] | |||
==Reference== | ==Reference== | ||
{{reflist}} | {{reflist}} | ||
[[Category:Lost advertising and interstitial material]] | [[Category:Lost advertising and interstitial material]] | ||
[[Category:Lost internet media]] | [[Category:Lost internet media]] | ||
[[Category:Partially found media]] | [[Category:Partially found media]] |
Latest revision as of 14:30, 27 June 2024
CollegeHumor (now known as Dropout) was a popular internet comedy website of the 2000s and 2010s featuring videos, images and articles to appeal particularly to college students. It is perhaps best known for its wide range of CollegeHumor Originals content, creating many hit sketches and series like Jake and Amir and Hardly Working.
The site notoriously came to an untimely close in January 2020, with its parent company deciding to no longer fund its operation after diminishing returns. This naturally left an array of content that was exclusive to the website, having never been uploaded to the official YouTube channel, to be left to the wayside (assuming it hadn't been removed prior like "Fatal Decision 2: The Decision Is You"). This was slightly rectified with the inclusion of legacy content through the successor Dropout service, but it still omits a large amount of CollegeHumor's missing catalogue. In addition, Dropout's versions of legacy videos would be edited in two ways: they would plaster over the old CollegeHumor website screen bug as it serves no purpose anymore, and likewise, they would remove the iconic CollegeHumor end card that originally featured the "HUH!" sound effect and would punctuate the ending punchline of a video, sometimes allowing for a post-end card gag that is now merely merged into the rest of the video. This alters the video from how it's intended to be presented and perceived and unfortunately serves as the only available copy of at least one video with a post-card gag (Hardly Working "Credit Card"), creating reasonable doubt as to how that video is supposed to play out.
In addition, even video uploads on the CollegeHumor YouTube channel have been subject to being quietly taken down over time. A lot of material that could be seen as especially controversial in their current, more politically correct standards is almost certainly to now be privated. This could be seen with videos containing trans-related jokes, some kind of redface or brownface, slurs and so on. Even if this was somewhat inconsistent, as for example, Hardly Working "Brainstorming" contains the usage of "fag" (Jake is called a "fag hater" as part of the others criticising him for perceived homophobia) and remains up on the channel, alongside Every Beauty Vlogger Ever that contains Emily halfway through putting on blackface. And sometimes it would be particularly difficult to determine exactly why a video was privated in the first place (many of the earlier, pre-Dorkly cartoon sketches seem to be taken down for whatever reason). This absence in specific videos is also felt in the Dropout service, posing another error in that service's archiving capabilities.
A lot of CollegeHumor's videos are thus currently unavailable. The Wayback Machine almost never saves video uploads of coveted episodes' pages on the CollegeHumor website and it seems that it wasn't exactly common for fans to rip and upload the CollegeHumor-exclusive Hardly Working episodes to YouTube even at the peak of its popularity. There are still a lot of its episodes that are currently missing, even with the edgy episodes and currently Dropout-exclusive episodes both being re-uploaded. Series co-creator David Fishel also doesn't have any copies of the missing episodes.[1]
Considering the scope of an entire website's worth of videos being taken down, this may not be a comprehensive and complete list of missing videos, at least outside of the Hardly Working and The Collegehumor Show listings that were more carefully checked (up to "Sex, Drugs, and Treen" of the modern era in 2013 with the former's episodes whilst the latter had small, complete listings). CollegeHumor Originals were also seemingly checked through up to "Phillip Ellis, CEO Retirement Roast" at least, if not more, and may not be complete.
Videos
Hardly Working
All but three videos of the original 2008 All-Nighter are lost ("Dodgeball", "Bizarro Office" and "He's Right Behind Me"). Additionally, there exists a weird pattern that even videos with particularly notable guest stars are simply no longer available because they were seemingly incentivised as being CollegeHumor-exclusive and were never reuploaded since (in addition to "Whitest Kids" and "Five Year Hangover", the "Jackass" episode is only available through fan reuploads). "Josh's Mindhouse: The Gruber Brothers" is uploaded on YouTube, but is uniquely made unavailable.[2] "Yawn of the Dead" has also now been made unavailable, presumably due to the usage of copyrighted music in Michael Jackson's "Thriller".
Additionally, there's reports[3][4] of a video involving the cast shouting "Boys vs. girls! Boys vs. girls!" and something causing Sarah to get a nosebleed, with "I Want You Back" by The Jackson 5 playing at the end. It's unknown if this is another video (or Hardly Working episode) to add to the list or if it's one of the videos already listed.
Name | Status |
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CollegeHumor Staff Tattoos | Lost |
Toilet Humor | Lost |
Weather Report | Lost |
Keyboard Prank | Partially Found (The CollegeHumor Show version) |
Insults | Lost |
Something to Hide | Lost |
Flip Glass | Lost |
Officer Patrick | Lost |
CH Wrestling League | Lost |
Happy Halloween | Lost |
Whitest Kids | Lost |
Hardly Drinking | Found |
Trilogies, Part II! | Lost |
Magazines | Found |
Hotter | Lost |
Backwards | Lost |
Phantom of the Apartment | Found |
Yawn of the Dead (AKA Yawn Dead) | Found |
Streeter Theeter: Best Buy Manager Audition | Found |
Gale Beggy Makes a Movie | Lost |
Streeter Theeter: Best Buy Manager Late Halloween | Found |
Streeter Theeter: Phantom Throughout History | Found |
Streeter Theeter - Best Buy Manager Chat Roulette | Found |
My Two True Loves | Found |
Josh's Mindhouse: The Gruber Brothers | Lost |
Jar Of Farts | Lost |
Secret Santa | Lost |
Miserable Jake | Lost |
Phantom of the Office: Chair Spinning | Lost |
Five Year Hangover | Lost |
Every Death from "Hardly Working" | Lost |
Sex, Drugs, and Treen | Lost |
All-Nighters
Name | Status |
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All-nighter: Pee Chain | Lost |
All-nighter: Collage Humor | Lost |
All-nighter: 9 O’Clock | Lost |
All-nighter: Man on the Street(er) | Lost |
All-nighter: Handicap Suicide | Lost |
All-nighter: Air Horns | Lost |
All-nighter: Finally Finished | Lost |
You'sa Bitch (All-Nighter 2012)[5] | Lost |
Ads
CollegeHumor has done many ads for Mike's Hard Lemonade, initially the website-spanning Faking It campaign with several videos made involving participation from Jake and Amir. This was followed by several more over the years like the 4th of July in the Office campaign set in the actual CollegeHumor office and several short Jake and Amir ads, which also had a Spotify advertisement as listed on the official script archive.
Name | Status |
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Introduction (Faking It) | Lost |
Office Romance (Faking It) | Lost |
Hit or Miss (Faking It) | Lost |
Writing A Book (Faking It) | Lost |
Marathon (Faking It) | Lost |
Tips from Mike's (Faking It) | Lost |
Mike's Hard Lemonade Faking It | Lost |
Mikes Hard Lemonade | Lost |
4th of July in the Office: Fireworks | Lost |
4th of July in the Office: Parade | Lost |
4th of July in the Office: BBQ | Lost |
July 4th in the Office: Beach Party | Lost |
(Jake and Amir Mike's Hard Lemonade ads) | Lost |
Spotify Ad | Lost |
The CollegeHumor Show
Additionally, a few exclusive bonus videos for The CollegeHumor Show existed on MTV's website, and at least one on CollegeHumor itself[6].
Name | Status |
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The CollegeHumor Show / A Day At The Office | Lost |
The CollegeHumor Show / A Little Advice From Ricky | Lost |
Promo: Streeter Skateboards | Lost |
CollegeHumor Music
CollegeHumor Music was a subsection of the CollegeHumor brand that specialised in musical parodies of popular songs.
Name | Description | Status |
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Avril Parody | A parody of Avril Lavigne's "Girlfriend" | Found |
Brohemian Rhapsody | CollegeHumor's epic frat party music video. | Found |
Taft! | Found | |
Awkward Rap | Found | |
Stop Carlos Mencia | Found | |
One Week | Barenaked Ladies Parody | Found |
If I Were A Bro | Found | |
The One Kind Of Porn You Can't Find Online | Found | |
We Didn't Start The Flame War | Found | |
In An Apatow World | Found | |
25 Random Things | "7 Things" by Miley Cyrus parody | Found |
Don't Stop Your Screaming | Journey's "Don't Stop Believin" parody. | Found |
Kiss The Girl... Continued | Found | |
Honest Graduation Song | Found | |
Turn And Smile | Sitcom Theme Song | Found |
Ringo Wants To Sing More | Found | |
Web Site Story | Found | |
Half-Birthday Sex | Found | |
The Freshman 15 | Found | |
Jetsons Theme Song Extended | Found | |
FUPA | Found | |
Let's Talk About Sext | Found | |
I Gotta Feeling | Black Eyed Peas "I Gotta Feeling" parody. | Found |
End Of The World | Found | |
Actually Ironic | Alanis Morissette parody. | Found |
The Nightmare Before St. Patrick's Day | Found | |
You Became A Meme | Found | |
Run This Raid | "Run This Town" by Rihanna parody. | Found |
Sing Talk | "Tik Tok" by Ke$ha parody. | Found |
Rude Boy's Response | "Rude Boy" by Rihanna parody. | Found |
Replay | "Replay" by Iyaz parody. | Found |
The Ballad of John and Four Loko | A single screenshot from this video can be found here | Lost |
Sketches
"Bookstore" was the first-ever CollegeHumor Original, being uploaded to their website on June 6th, 2000.[7] They have other early works from 2006, some of which are also lost. "Every California Gurls Parody" (which was just a mashup of existing "California Gurls" online parodies) was available on CollegeHumor's iTunes podcast back in the day, which was just their original videos released as a video podcast. "Fatal Decision 2: The Decision Is You" was an interactive choose your own adventure experience using a specific Flash video player of the time that only lasted a couple of years, making it a special rarity amongst lost CollegeHumor content.[8]
Name | Status |
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Bookstore | Lost |
Beaver! | Lost |
Trashcans | Lost |
Disrupting a Bookstore Poetry Reading | Lost |
Breakdancing in Public 1 | Lost |
Breakdancing in Public 2 | Lost |
Breakdancing in Public 3 | Lost |
Fridge | Lost |
Papertowels | Lost |
Dinner Hall | Lost |
Mall Sledding | Lost |
Losing Control Part 1 | Lost |
Spiral | Lost |
Speed | Lost |
Beer-fueled Mayhem 2000 | Lost |
RollerSkating | Lost |
Wedding Store | Lost |
Car Contest | Lost |
Extreme Sledding in D-Major | Lost |
Losing Control Part 2 | Lost |
Mall Fall | Lost |
Weight Watchers Commercial Parody | Lost |
IM Me | Found |
Gwammi Mufasa | Lost |
Street Fighter: The Later Years | Found |
Rejected Wii Games | Found |
Girls's Costume Warehouse | Found |
Losticil | Found |
Street Fighter: The Later Years - Part 2 | Found |
Winter Wonderland | Found |
Street Fighter: The Later Years - Part 3 | Found |
Flip Cup PSA | Lost |
Great Moments in College History | Lost |
John Glen Davies | Lost |
Seth MacFarlane's Nightmare | Lost |
Super Sloppy Thanksgiving | Lost |
Mementos | Lost |
Derrick's Party Dudes | Lost |
Scott Gairdner: Coming Out | Lost |
Nickelodeon Promos | Found |
Phillip Ellis, CEO Retirement Roast | Lost |
Every California Gurls Parody | Found |
Fatal Decision 2: The Decision Is You | Lost |
Ghost Spiders | Found |
Zoo Horn | Found |
Very Mary-Kate: Shrooms | Lost |
Molly Made Me: Episode 1 | Found |
Molly Made Me (Episode 2) | Lost |
Molly Made Me (Ep. 3) | Found |
Miscellaneous
There were also some videos on the site to do with their stage appearances in CollegeHumor Live and CollegeHumor Offline[9] and such.
Name | Release date | Status |
---|---|---|
CollegeHumor Media 2010 | May 8, 2003[10] (seems inaccurate) | Lost |
Collegehumor Live LA: Skyler Stone | Lost | |
CollegeHumor Live: NYC - Leo Allen | October 30, 2008[11] | Lost |
CH Live: NYC - Hardly Working: Endings | December 11, 2009[12] | Lost |
CH Live: NYC - World Records | January 15, 2010[13] | Lost |
Collegehumor Live: SXSW Highlight Reel | April 4th, 2011[14] | Lost |
CollegeHumor Offline Highlight Reel Gramercy Theater 8-10-11 | 15th August, 2011[15] | Lost |
CollegeHumor Offline Returns August 2nd | June 19, 2012[16] | Lost |
CollegeHumor Offline 2012 (highlight reel) | August 10, 2012[17] | Lost |
CollegeHumor: Potato Party | March 8, 2013[18] | Lost |
Bleep Bloop
Name | Status |
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Bleep Bloop: Major League Gaming Teammates | Lost |
Bleep Bloop: Creating a Guitar Hero Song | Lost |
Bleep Bloop: Call of Duty Nightvision Goggles | Lost |
Bleep Bloop: NBA Jam-Off | Lost |
Bleep Bloop: Zoo Keeper | Lost |
Hello My Name Is
There's a lost Hello My Name Is episode "John Raven"[19], apparently featuring a presumably problematic depiction of a Native American drug dealer[20].
Name | Status |
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John Raven | Lost |
Mike and Watt
Mike Schubach (who appeared in CollegeHumor videos like the Jake and Amir "Sick Day" saga) & Alex Watt uploaded their own unofficial series of videos to the CollegeHumor website whilst working there. One video called "Mike and Watt Will Will Dead"[21] was preserved through being one of the only videos on the CollegeHumor website archived by the Wayback Machine. Some of these are preserved through a dedicated YouTube channel[22], but others are missing as they were naturally not official CollegeHumor videos in the first place.[23][24]
Name | Status |
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Mike and Watt Apologize to Murph | Lost |
Mike and Watt Make Will Look Dumb | Lost |
Mike and Watt Are Back At It | Lost |
Mike and Watt Get New Pants | Lost |
Mike and Watt Talk About the Great Gatsby | Lost |
Mike and Watt Get Free or Die | Lost |
Mike and Watt Confront "Watt" | Lost |
Mike And Watt End Mike and Watt | Lost |
Gallery
- "Every Death from "Hardly Working"" clip.
- "Very Mary-Kate: Shrooms" clip.
- "Very Mary-Kate: Shrooms" clip.
External Links
- Lost Media Wiki Forums topic.
- Playlist of missing Hardly Working content.
- Playlist of missing CollegeHumor Originals content.
- Playlist of missing Bleep Bloop content.
- Playlist of missing Hello My Name Is content.
- Playlist of missing All-Nighter trailers.
- Playlist of missing The CollegeHumor Show trailers and bonus clips.
- Article about the first All-Nighter's videos.
Reference
- ↑ https://www.reddit.com/r/jakeandamir/comments/13aymqq/i_asked_david_fishel_cocreator_and_big_force_on
- ↑ https://youtu.be/y8nYXCNJRgM
- ↑ https://www.reddit.com/r/jakeandamir/comments/yshi9k/who_edited_classic_hardly_working_episodes_lost/
- ↑ https://collegehumorscreenshots.tumblr.com/post/62165865439/whats-the-hardly-working-where-it-devolves-into#notes
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20130424061535/http://www.collegehumor.com/allnighter
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20090131041423/http://www.collegehumor.com/thecollegehumorshow
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20001109233700/http://www.collegehumor.com:80/chmovies.html
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20100407080257/http://www.collegehumor.com/decision:5
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20130502060958/http://www.collegehumor.com/video/5926849/collegehumor-offline
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20131022135316/http://www.collegehumor.com/video/6512976/collegehumormedia
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20131022133428/http://www.collegehumor.com/video/3693689/collegehumor-live-nyc---leo-allen
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20121224014205/http://www.collegehumor.com/video/5813765/ch-live-nyc---hardly-working-endings
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20130127205050/http://www.collegehumor.com/video/5817706/ch-live-nyc---world-records
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20130123064220/http://www.collegehumor.com/video/6469277/ch-live-sxsw-highlight-reel
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20130531023436/http://www.collegehumor.com/video/6588074/gramercy-live-show-8-10-11
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20130424130539/http://www.collegehumor.com/video/6782908/collegehumor-offline-returns-august-2nd
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20130516094318/http://www.collegehumor.com/video/6809568/collegehumor-offline-show-2012
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20130930040609/http://www.collegehumor.com/video/6876232/collegehumorpotato-party
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20101106043839/http://collegehumor.com/video:1943275
- ↑ https://www.vulture.com/2010/11/meet-john-raven-your-friendly-local-native-american-drug-dealer.html
- ↑ https://archive.org/details/mike-and-watt-will-will-dead
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/@MikeandWatt/videos
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20130503101725/www.collegehumor.com/tag/mike-and-watt
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20150107204012/http://www.collegehumor.com/tag/mike-and-watt