Amir Blumenfeld: Wikis

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Amir Blumenfeld (Born 1983) is an American comedian and writer. He graduated from University of California, Berkeley and now works for the website CollegeHumor.com in New York City. Amir has become very popular through his videos of the prank war between him and his co-worker, Streeter Seidell as well as his comedic shorts with co-worker Jake Hurwitz known as Hardly Working on CollegeHumor.com. Many more videos involving Amir and Jake are available at their own website, JakeandAmir.com

Writing

Amir co-wrote the book The Collegehumor Guide to College: Selling Kidneys for Beer Money, Sleeping with Your Professors, Majoring in Communications, and Other Really Good Ideas (ISBN 0-525-94939-9) published by Penguin Group along side Streeter Seidell, Jeff Rubin, Sarah Schneider, Ethan Trex, and Ricky Van Veen.

He also co-wrote Faking it: How to Seem Like a Better Person Without Actually Improving Yourself published by Penguin Group along side Ethan Trex.

Blumenfeld also helped write ESPN Guide to Psycho Fan Behavior edited by Warren St. John

Jake and Amir

Jake and Amir is a comedy web series that involves Amir's co-worker Jake Hurwitz. The episodes usually revolve around Amir striving to gain Jake's friendship in some form or fashion and always failing horribly and/or embarrassing Jake greatly. The series has received a great deal of acclaim across the internet with several Facebook.com fan groups and an extreme number of visits to Jake and Amir's website.

On CollegeHumor.com the series is known as Hardly Working.

Prank War

Prank 1 - Audio Prank on Amir

The "Prank War" was started in February 2007 with Streeter splicing in sounds of a sex scene into a song Amir sang aloud as he listened along to it in the office. The video shows Amir clearly upset by the prank.

Prank 2 - Streeter's Big Date

For Amir's revenge he set up a fake email correspondence with Streeter as a female fan that wanted to meet Streeter. When Streeter went to meet the woman from the email he is stood up and, sitting alone, desperately tries to contact her through text messaging to a friend of Amir's phone. Finally Streeter places a call to the "woman" and Amir answers completing the prank.

Prank 3 - Andy Bloom makes his Appearance

Streeter then retaliated by placing a fake ad on Craigslist.org which was asking for comedians to send in a video of them impersonating and/or acting out scenarios from a list in the ad. Streeter involved co-workers and friends in Los Angeles culminating in Amir sending an audition tape of himself impersonating various characters to Los Angeles hoping to get a part in an upcoming television program. In the video Amir uses the stage name Andy Bloom. Streeter had the tape immediately sent back to him in New York and played it for the entire office of CollegeHumor.com.

Prank 4 - Streeter Bombs

Amir sought his revenge rather quickly by pranking Streeter back in less than ten days time. The prank involved The Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre in New York City where Streeter was set to perform a stand up comedy routine. Before Streeter arrived Amir had told the audience not to laugh at any of Streeter's jokes. The audience complied and when Streeter begins his act the audience shows no interest and soon begins to throw insults towards Streeter. Streeter walks out of the theatre visibly shaken and almost in tears. Amir captured his reaction on video then notifies Streeter of it being his revenge for the Andy Bloom fiasco.

Prank 5 - Amir's Big Break with Human Giant

Streeter continued the prank war quickly as well by making it seem as though Amir and Streeter had landed a part in the comedy show The Human Giant. Streeter and Amir flew to Los Angeles to participate in the fake scene where members of the Human Giant, no matter how well Amir did, continued to tell him he was doing his scene wrong eventually taking him out of the skit all together and replacing him with Streeter. Members of the Human Giant continue to mistakenly call Amir "Anil." Amir becomes greatly upset, walking out of the apartment room in which the video is filmed. Streeter eventually told Amir that the whole thing was a prank, but Amir misunderstood him thinking just the part about him not being able to act was the prank when in reality everything was a prank. This greatly upsets Amir, the video ends with him in tears.

Prank 6 - The Yankee Prankee

Almost 4 months later Amir retaliated with the most popular prank in the series, The Yankee Prankee. Streeter and his girlfriend Sharon had been planning to attend the Seattle Mariners vs. New York Yankees game on September 7th, 2007. Amir, knowing of this, set things up so that it would seem that Streeter was proposing to Sharon at the middle of the 5th inning on the jumbotron. Amir purchased tickets for two of his friends to sit in the same section as Streeter and Sharon to film them and their reaction to the prank. Amir sat across the field and watched the prank unfold with binoculars. The proposal, which read "Dear Sharon, I love you forever!! Will you marry me? Streety-Bird" was announced over the loud speaker (as well as the message appearing on the jumbotron). Sharon and Streeter immediately took notice with Sharon saying "yes" to the fake proposal. Streeter, confused at what is going on repeatedly tells Sharon that he "didn't put that up there" and that he "doesn't want to fucking marry [her]." When Streeter stated the last comment Sharon slapped him in the face and walked out of the stadium. Amir eventually calls Streeter but there is no footage of his reaction to the prank.

Prank 6 garnered rather a large bit of media attention across the internet and television, such as Good Morning America( Video), causing prank war 6 to become one of the most popular videos of the week on Digg.com and having over 2,000 "likes" on CollegeHumor.com.