Jake and Amir is an online sketch comedy series featuring the lives of the two title characters, Jake Hurwitz and Amir Blumenfeld, co-workers who sit across from each other at the CollegeHumor offices in New York City, New York. Jake's character is the traditional straight man in the comedy duo, with Amir playing the role of the funny man, much of his act being centered around his character's stalker-like obsession with Jake. The series started out with skits taking place entirely within the CollegeHumor offices, but eventually spread to other locations, including California, Florida, the streets of New York City, and the characters' homes. History Jake Hurwitz and Amir Blumenfeld met while working at the CollegeHumor offices in New York City. As a side-project they began shooting short videos with each other and posting them online for their friends. After getting positive feedback, they decided to create a website and make videos regularly. They registered jakeandamir.com in May 2007, and have since made over 130 episodes, usually between 1 and 3 minutes long. On June 9, 2008, Jake and Amir performed live for the first time in Street Meat, a monthly comedy show at Cake Shop, a venue in New York City. Releases Jake and Amir post on an unofficial semiweekly schedule. New clips are usually posted on Tuesdays and Thursdays in the late afternoon, although many videos may be posted on irregular days throughout the week. Plot The episodes center on the relationship between Jake and Amir, most commonly at the CollegeHumor offices. A typical episode, Lunch Meeting, shows Jake attempting to discuss work with Amir, while Amir insists on calling for lunch before he can work. Amir initially dials 911 because he is so hungry that it's an emergency, and Jake immediately hangs up the phone. Amir continues to unsuccessfully try to order food, until an exasperated Jake takes the phone and tries to order for the both of them. Recurring Gags Ace and Jocelyn Several episodes of Jake and Amir are attempts by Amir to create a new television show, titled Ace and Jocelyn: Astronaut Accountants from Outer Space. These episodes involve Amir pretending to be Jocelyn, a character in the show, and trying to get Jake to play along, much to his annoyance. Chicken Nuggets Amir only eats junk food, including chips, sprinkles, and frosting, and has been known to eat unorthodox sandwiches. But by far his favorite food is McDonald's Chicken McNuggets. He talks about them frequently and is often seen eating them. He even put candles in them on his birthday and has attempted to order them at an In-N-Out Burger. In one episode Amir explains that he orders the "special" which is only the skins of the nuggets and dipping sauce, or "jus' tha skin and tha sauce!" Amir's Sayings Amir frequently replaces real words with his own phrases that often carry over between episodes, for example saying "QQ" to mean quick question, or saying "shiatsu" instead of shit. He also incorrectly uses the word "comprende", which is the Spanish word for comprehend, to mean friend (probably in place of the word Compadre). Amir also often uses words like "whatever" and "brother", exchanging the 'er' on the ends of the words to an 'ah' sound. Amir once used the phrase "FYE" (For Your Advice) instead of the phrase "FYI" (For Your Information). Jake responded by telling him that is was the wrong word, wrong saying, and that it wouldn't end with an "E". Amir also uses the word nay instead of not, such as 'I do nay agree with you.' Other words that Amir uses are Gullies (friends) and Ace (awesome). It is understood that many of the words Amir uses, such as, "ace" and "gullies," were originally said by Jake facetiously, with Amir taking them to be real words. Slapping In many episodes Amir slaps Jake, often unexpectedly, and points his finger sternly at Jake's face. During their live appearance at Street Meat in June 2008, Jake blocked one of Amir's slaps and slapped him back for the first time. ==="Jake."=== Amir often quickly says "Jake," as if to get Jake's attention, even when they are already talking to each other, or right after they finish a conversation. Many episodes end abruptly with Amir saying "Jake." Quick Endings Episodes will frequently end abruptly, a technique once employed by Frederick Faust. The abrupt termination of episodes is usually executed by ending the episode before the characters have fully played out the situation or to end without letting the audience know the full extent of the punchline. The quick ending is also the motif most often paired with the next one: Amir Freaks Out Much to Jake's dismay, Amir will periodically lose his temper completely and start screaming at someone, with or without provocation. As previously stated, this situation usually employs a quick ending, cutting off Amir's rant a second or two after it starts, in order to give the audience the idea that his freakout probably lasted a long time, and the camera cut just as it started. Sometimes, however, there will simply be a jump cut to the next scene, rather than an ending to the episode. ==="Dinner tonight?"=== In many episodes, Amir asks Jake to have dinner with him. Jake almost always refuses these requests. However, in a few episodes, Jake has agreed, including Bowling for Soup, Date - Part 2, Hallie Part III, and "Dinner Tonight". Jake's motives are more self-serving in the Bowling for Soup episode, since he agrees to have dinner in order to prevent Amir from telling the office he likes the band Bowling for Soup. In Date - Part 2, Jake plays the role of a compassionate friend and has dinner with Amir to cheer him up after Amir is dumped by Jake's cousin, Diana. In Hallie Part III, Jake, who seems psychotic after finding out that Amir may have slept with Jake's ex, Hallie, asks Amir out for dinner. In the November 6, 2008 episode entitled "Dinner Tonight", Jake takes Amir to dinner to try to teach him to eat something other than Chicken McNuggets High Voice Amir often speaks and repeats irritating or nonsensical phrases in falsetto. Often, he stops when Jake asks him to. Loose Change In several episodes, when Amir is seen falling or flipping, lots of coins fall out of his pockets. In an interview, the creators said this gag wasn't originally planned, it just happened while filming and they liked it so much that they decided to make it a running gag. Several outtakes of the loose change gag can be found at Jake and Amir's facebook page. Penguin Suit Amir inexplicably owns a penguin suit, which he often wears for no reason. He seems to be able to don it impossibly fast, as evidenced in the first episode in which it is seen. The episode starts with Amir in normal clothes, cuts to Jake asking a question, then cuts back to Amir, already in the suit. It is implied that the first time he wore it was due to him mistaking the date that Halloween falls on, but it also seems likely that he had just felt like wearing it, and the thought of Halloween never even crossed his mind. Amir's Freestyles There are several episodes where Amir attempts a freestyle rap that he admits to writing ahead of time, which is the opposite of the definition of a freestyle. Mostly they are spontaneous with no relevance to what is going on at the moment. Amir has also used the same word twice to rhyme with one another and incorrectly "sampled" lyrics from "Stronger". The first time Amir comes up with a usable lyric was during the episode Election. The line was, "Because you pale in (Palin) comparison to Sarah." Unfortunately he forgets it before he can write it down. Jake Impression It is revealed late in the series that if Amir holds his throat a certain way, he can do a perfect impression of Jake's voice. Amir has used this skill to get information out of Jake's parents that Jake doesn't want him to know about. Dreams There have been only two occurrences of a Dream Sequence in Jake and Amir - Zombie and Dream (which is on their Facebook Page). In the two videos, either Jake or Amir is having a particularly scary dream, involving getting beaten up by the other. However, when they wake up, they recall it as the most awesome dream, based on a trivial detail. In Zombie, Jake dreamt that Amir was a zombie and had taken a bite out of Jake's shoulder. When he woke up, he called it the most awesome dream because Amir was dead. In Dream, Amir dreamt that Jake invited him to do something after work, which lead to Jake and his friends trapping him and beating him up, and eventually, his gruesome death. When he woke up, he called Jake and said he had the greatest dream ever, because he invited him to do something after work. Amir's Money Despite his apparent lack of any skills whatsoever, and the often referenced fact that he never really does any actual work at Collegehumor, Amir is not only perpetually able to keep his job, but somehow he seems to have almost obscene amounts of money. This is often used to the advantage of Jake, who will trick him into giving him money. For example, in one episode, Jake asks for continually increasing amounts of money for him to pretend to be Amir's friend in a video documentary Amir makes for his mom (however, since Amir doesn't know how to edit, we see all of the sequences of Jake initially rejecting Amir, then coming up with a sum). Jake also tricks Amir into giving him $100 to own the right to hop around everywhere, because Jake insists that he owns the move and Amir can't use it, and gives Amir the option to pay him in real money for landing on Jake's spaces during Monopoly, rather than pay with much larger amounts of Amir's money from the game. Other characters also use the situation to their advantage, as Amir often gets them to help him out by promising them ridiculous amounts of money. For example, Amir promised Patrick $1553 to IM Amir with "normal" phrases to say to Jake (but it backfires when Amir reads Pat's messages directed at Amir out loud), and he later promises Sam $3000 to talk for him when Jake refuses to speak to him. Since no one ever comments otherwise, it is implied that Amir ends up actually paying them. Other Characters There are various other recurring characters in the series played by employees of the CollegeHumor office. For the most part, they play their "normal selves," often being dragged into Amir's bizarre antics despite Jake's attempts to stop him. Amir seems to hate most of them, and it is generally hinted that he doesn't actually like anyone except Jake. ===Jeff "Rosie" Rosenberg=== Jeff Rosenberg, or "Rosie" for short, was seriously injured by something that Amir did to try to defend Jake in Rosie's eponymously-named episode, and continues to fear Amir's unusual physical strength (often hinted at but never actually shown on screen). Though it is never made clear what exactly Amir did to him, it is known that he had to be taken to the hospital, and was actually crying at one point. He flinches and shrieks whenever Amir acts as though he is going to punch him, which he constantly does. Despite the notion that everyone except Jake and Amir are "normal" people, at one point it is hinted that Rosie is meant to be a stupid character, as Patrick Cassels refers to him as "too dumb to defend himself" in the episode "DVD Part 2". Patrick Cassels Often bullied into assisting Amir with his schemes, he was once forced to be the first "villain" of the Ace and Jocelyn series. Thinking that Patrick was a burglar (because Amir never told Jake about the episode, and attempted to film it extremely late at night at Jake's apartment), Jake punched him in the face, presumably sending him to the hospital. Because of this, Patrick seems to continue to hold a grudge against Jake, and often sees the worst of him due to his anger at Amir. However, Pat and Amir become friends after getting drunk while trying to help Jake get over Sarah in Interpreters Part 2 (Cheer Up). Amir admits that he and Jake had been "best friends" so long that he never considered adding a third person to their group. Patrick also appears to have slept or 'wrestled' with Sarah in Interpreters Part 3 (For the Wind). In Interpreters Part 4, Patrick is seen in a injured state due to Jake's rage (not seen) over his sexual escapades with Sarah. The sketch ends with Pat leaving Sarah a voicemail begging for a "steady" date. Diana Diana, who is Jake's cousin, briefly dated Amir because she thought he was funny, but soon came to realize the full extent of his personality and began to get scared, especially since, as she put it, he "only eats chicken nuggets, and nothing else, not even water". Despite her desire to end her relationship with Amir, they share several mannerisms; Diana sometimes says, "Jake" even when she already has his attention, and even exited a scene saying, "lunch this weekend?" In the end, she talked Jake into breaking up for her (since she was afraid of Amir's reaction). Jake's sympathy toward Amir in this situation led to one of the only times that Jake has ever offered to take Amir to dinner. Diana is Amir's real life girlfriend. Jeff Rubin Jeff was also once tricked into assisting Amir with an Ace and Jocelyn episode (of course, Jake wasn't aware of Amir's plan to film the episode), and subsequently tries to avoid him. Amir considers him an "earth nerd", in consistence with his general hatred of the office members. Sam Reich Sam doesn't seem to like Amir either, but was forced to be his secretary when he lost a bet regarding how many consecutive days Amir could eat McDonalds, betting 12 days, which Jake later said was a stupid bet, especially when Sam discovered through receipts that Amir had already been eating it for 43 consecutive days. The "secretary" deal was originally supposed to last a week, but Jake tricked Amir into losing a bet over how long Amir could go without saying Jake's name (he didn't even last 5 seconds). Despite Jake never having set terms to this bet in the first place, he managed to convince Amir that Sam was now his secretary, thus giving Sam the "freedom" to finally lash out at Amir. Sam returns in the episode Interpreters, where he relays messages from Amir to Jake. Sam is unusually skilled at doing this, as he is able to repeat what Amir says to him at the exact instant that Amir whispers to him, complete with the exact vocal inflections that Amir intends. We find out in a later episode that Sam is doing this because Amir promised him $3000, but he is later disheartened when he finds out that Amir intends to pay him in change. Sarah Schneider At first, Sarah thought Amir's act was a joke, but after realizing that it wasn't, she sometimes assists Jake in using Amir's trust in him to make him do bad things to himself. Sarah is also supposed to be Jake's "real" best friend, who has known him since they were children. In the "Sick Day" episode, Jeff alludes to Jake having a "crush on Sarah", but this is never fully revealed until the "Interpreters" episode where Sam (speaking for Amir) tells Sarah that Jake specifically chose her for Secret Santa. Jake (speaking through Sarah) calls Sarah "the prettiest girl at the office." Jake then confides in Pat that he is in love with Sarah in Interpreters Part 3, but Jake (at that point) didn't know that Sarah had slept (or as Amir had put it, "wrestled") with Pat the night before. Ricky Van Veen Amir's boss in the series, and the actual boss of the CollegeHumor office, Ricky is often mentioned, but is only actually seen in a few episodes. His name is brought up when Jake wonders why Amir hasn't been fired, since he never seems to do any actual work. In one episode, Amir crosses the line by slapping him, for which he apologizes profusely and begs for one more chance. When Ricky says yes, hoping to get Amir to stop embarrassing himself, he asks for "two more chances". When Ricky again complies, Amir slaps him again and calls him a "fucking pushover". Media Coverage In December 2007 Jake and Amir appeared together in character on 's vlog . In addition, "Jake and Amir" was mentioned in the April 2008 issue of Wired as up-and-coming web stars by the sketch comedy group Human Giant. The show was also mentioned in the July 2008 issues of Cosmopolitan and Us Weekly.
Hey, Who's Andy Blume's Gf?? Kinda curiouse cause he is sooo [C.U.T.E] I just [L.O.V.E] him
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3. 27-01-2011 18:38
I want to marry him. Like, seriously. Cause marriage is something... serious. I dunno. I'm 18. How should I know. But, seriously. Amir, if u like, ever read this MARRY ME. Seriously.
