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    CollegeHumor’s Ricky Van Veen Is Excited

    When you score a New Yorker profile at age 23, where do you go next?

    Ricky Van Veen, the 29-year old CEO of CollegeHumor, posed for cheesy photos in New York Magazine this week and talked about how to make funny:

    Van Veen also loves stunts and weird pranks, such as when he hung Read More

    By Gillian Reagan 7/28/09 4:50pm

    Ricky Van Veen, CollegeHumor Co-Creator, Graduates to a New Notional Spinoff

    After ten years creating online comedy content geared toward making frat boys chuckle from their laptops, CollegeHumor co-creator and editor in chief Ricky Van Veen is graduating to a new venture at Barry Diller’s IAC. By the end of this year, he’ll transition into a position as chief executive of Notional, a CollegeHumor spinoff Read More

    By Gillian Reagan 7/01/09 7:22pm

    A Reference Guide to CollegeHumor’s Web Site Story

    Broadway meets the Internet in CollegeHumor’s recent viral video hit, Web Site Story, a five minute musical, jam-packed with references to some of the Web’s most popular (or loathed) services. Meet a modern version of Tony and Maria, sweethearts who hook up on Facebook, tweet about their “deets,” use a secret seducing weapon Read More

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