I really wanted to play a gag on you this year. I wanted to post a ridiculous sounding internship with a ridiculous application process, but I couldn’t bring myself to have fun at your cost. The job search is stressful enough. You don’t need someone messing with you even if you should know better than to believe anything that you read on April 1st. It’s going to be hard to top last year’s April Fools’ Day internships with Motley Fool, and unfortunately I wasn’t smart enough to save internships with The Onion for today, so we’re going to go with CollegeHumor, which “was founded in 1999 by two high school friends from Baltimore, Maryland who went to different colleges as a way to share all of the pictures, videos, and links their friends would IM and e-mail each other.” Somehow, a completely childish and immature website turned into a real media company over the past 10 years; in fact, IAC recently bought a majority share in CollegeHumor’s parent company. College, just like April Fools’ Day, is a time to have fun – often at the expense of others. I guess it makes sense that CollegeHumor, now based in New York City, has become a real business, with real employees, and real unpaid interns (ok, you don’t need to be a real business to have those).
CollegeHumor isn’t for everyone (back in the day they had a disclaimer saying that anyone over 32 shouldn’t be on the website), but if you are amused by what others deem offensive, then an internship with CollegeHumor might be your jam – especially if you want to work for a company that has a corporate beer pong team. Ok, so it’s not all fun and games. According to CollegeHumor’s Jobs and Internships page, they have two internships available right now – one in Editorial and the other in Marketing/Ad Sales. The descriptions sound cool, but you can’t like applying when the e-mail address is YesIWillWorkForFree@gmail.com. (That’s for the Editorial internship. For the other internship you can apply to steph@connectedventures.com. You can also see the other types of interns that CollegeHumor currently has on their staff by checking out their About page, where they list all of their employees and job titles. If you see an internship that you like that isn’t posted, maybe you should contact CollegeHumor and try to steal the person’s internship. You can say, “April Fool’s! I took your internship. Go find another unpaid position!” Also, I hear that CollegeHumor does pay interns who do an exceptional job – in Busted Tees (one of CollegeHumor’s sister companies). April Fools’! I made that up.
Ok, seriously, there is one more option for internships with CollegeHumor. If you check out the Jobs from Connected Ventures, CollegeHumor’s parent company, you’ll see there’s a posting for an IT intern. You could give that a shot too.
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I love collegehumor and I think I’d really enjoy interning there. :] There are so many clever jokes in the videos and articles on their site. Some of them really make you think. That’s the kind of humor I love, the kind that offers a great laugh but leaves you thinking, and possibly laughing even more later on.
I love collegehumor and I think I’d really enjoy interning there. :] There are so many clever jokes in the videos and articles on their site. Some of them really make you think. That’s the kind of humor I love.