jakeandamir One of my favorite TV shows is The Office.  It's great, I always make sure to catch new episodes, and now that the writer's strike is off and new episodes are finally coming out on a regular basis I'm happy (although if you're a fan you have to admit that it isn't the same now that Jim and Pam are together).  I say that for two reasons - one to let you know that if you missed The Office and want to catch up Hulu is finally out of beta so you can view them all on the internet (I'm sure they're on NBC's site too, but Hulu has a bunch of other worthwhile content), and second to tell you about an online show that I find similar and pretty great as a result.

JakeandAmir.com has been around for about a year so I'm surprised it took me this long to find it.  That being said, their videos are some really great stuff.  As far as I know both Jake and Amir are actual employees of the media site College Humor who have been able to put up this little side-project based on their dramatized work lives.  The thing I like best about The Office is the relationship that Jim and Dwight share, Dwight being completely annoying and Jim having to cope with that.  Jake and Amir is sort of the same thing - Jake is just there to do his work and get on with life where as Amir is unrelentingly idiotic and constantly distracts Jake.  The main difference is that Amir in this case is trying desperately to become Jake's friend throughout the series which makes for some funny situations (most of which revolve around Amir paying Jake to act like his friend in some way).  Also whereas with The Office Dwight is a "hard worker," Amir is anything but.  He'd rather just work on his chill website with his bro and to be honest, who can blame him?  It's funny, I started out thinking Amir was really annoying but now that I've seen almost all of the videos they've put up I've grown to like his character.

Overall the plot of their videos (which usually only last a few minutes) ranges from office humor to completely over-the-top situations that sort of break the fourth wall.  From what I can tell it seems like they put up a new video a couple times a week (like I said, I haven't been watching for too long) but it's more than enough to keep me interested.  I'd have to recommend to anyone who wants to check them out that you catch maybe a few of the newer videos at most and based on whether you like that go back into the archives and start from the beginning.  The reason I say that is you can sort of tell that when Jake and Amir started this whole thing they weren't really sure where it was going to go.  In the first few videos there is a little more emphasis on Jake being a goof rather than Amir - for instance there's one video where Jake goes on for about 2 minutes about how pimp his kite flying abilities are.  They've really come into their own over time though.

So really I don't have much more to say.  This seems like it's kind of a short post (of course anyone who reads any of my posts probably disagrees since some of them are so long!) but I just wanted to share the love.  This is another shining example that proves to me that "big media" isn't as relevant to consumers these days.  Then again, I don't really think I'm your average consumer...ah well, just go check it out!  Here's one of my favorites:


New Website from Amir on Vimeo.

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