Tasting College Kid Wines with Jake and Amir from College Humor

Tasting College Kid Wines with Jake and Amir from College Humor – Episode #649

March 30, 2009

Gary Vaynerchuk visits the College Humor office to teach Jake and Amir about wine.

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“Although I’m sure the majority of avid wine library watchers could not…” by New watcher
“Gary brought the thunder as always
Amir is lame and not funny

Ja…” by Thomas Moore
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Wines tasted in this episode:

2006 Chat.st Michelle Indian Wells RieslingColumbia Valley Riesling
2006 Bodegas Norton Reserve MalbecArgentine Malbec
2006 Chateau Pesquie Les TerrassesVentoux/Luberon/Nimes

Links mentioned in today’s episode.

Amir sinks one from half court

470 Responses

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March 31, 2009

Rodney
HI Gary !

I love the Half Time Show, I was cracking upppp.

Best regards 2 u and Mott.
March 31, 2009

Eric
Can’t wait for the *next* episode – whatever it may be. Maybe I’ll just go back & watch an old one…
March 31, 2009

rowland
OH MY GOD A CLEAR SPIT BUCKET! THIS IS GONNA BE INTERESTING!

(Gary you know im not usually a negative commentor, but …)
UGh straight up, I do not like these guys, and I really hate the idea that they represent the average collage student, since their humor is more on the level of middleschool. and if you want them to be jackoffs then stop asking them for their “thoughts” of which they clearly have few. You could do a better show with monkeys on either side of you, i kinda hope these kids get lost in the woods.
March 31, 2009

*/^_^\*
okay….so that was painful

more painful than the frozenfoodTV episdoe?

yes, i think so…..
March 31, 2009

BT
The only two episodes of WLTV I’ve seen were the two collegehumor ones. I enjoyed both of them, probably because I’m such a big collegehumor fan. After seeing so many negative responses I skimmed through a large portion of them and it seems like most of them came from absurdly pretentious people who consider wine loving to be some sort of special club. This show was clearly designed to open that club up to a lot of newer and younger people and I think you all are just upset because that makes your membership less important. As a college student about to turn 21, I really appreciate Gary enlightening me about what to look for in an inexpensive wine.

And jake and amir are by far the funniest people on the internet, though I’ll admit it works better when it’s scripted.
March 31, 2009

Bryant
To neutron212 you’re making fun of college kids when you can’t even form a grammatically correct sentence. Dyslexic preschoolers can write better than you. I think the show was good but Jake and Amir did try a little to hard to keep the act going, it would have been nicer if they had just been themselves.
March 31, 2009

deft
It’s almost hilarious how insulting a lot of these posters are acting. For one do you not realize how many new ppl have just found this bc of Jake and Amir. I guess that never dawned on you. Any publicity is good publicity. Personally I thought they were very funny.

Pretty sad when the so-called “immature college crowd” is showing a lot more class then almost all of the pretentious “mature wine crowd”. Get over yourself and learn to laugh a little. Life will be a lot better
March 31, 2009

Andrew W.
The auto-download for this episode in Itunes is broken, I got a second copy of the Wine n’ Bacon episode instead. Not sure if this was because of the harsh comments and wanting people to come search out the episode if interested. Just wanted to throw out the heads up (btw if this has already been mentioned in the comments sorry).
March 31, 2009

Seth
Hahaha, “Why are you Amir”?

This was another very funny tie-in of the CH Kids, I can’t wait for another!

And for those snobbish, “mature” fans of Gary’s show who have professed their extreme hatred of Jake & Amir’s presence on this episode, just realize that Gary is making a very smart move here by bringing in a much broader audience that wouldn’t normally view anything on Wine Library.

And for the record, I highly doubt that they were high. If they were, hell, that’s just an excellent way to appreciate a drink that many find difficult to enjoy.
March 31, 2009

Kunstadt
“YOU KIDS GET OFF MY LAWN!!!!” yell all the crusty old farts who post comments. Holy crap. You people should ask for your money back for having to watch the show. pff

I actually thought it was pretty funny and I was not expecting to. I win!!

Gary did a nice job keeping the show mostly on track. It could have been sooooo much worse.

QOTD: $68 Malbec. twice the price? I WISH restaurants only charged twice the price. so, yes. If Amir was a restaurant, I would pay twice the price. maybe he is – i dunno.

nice back-end.
March 31, 2009

Jake in NC
All in all a boring show. I’m not usually a fan of the college humor folks, at least from my limited experience with their content that ends up on the front-page of Digg. Like (in my opinion) most of the funny or die sketches, I just find their content to often sound funny in the title but then let me down when I actually click it- I much prefer the onion, or even cracked, but that’s me.

In character or not, Amir’s schtick just didn’t play that well. It was a little bit too “Joaquin Phoenix on David Letterman”-esque, which I leave people to interpret however they want. On the upside, I think Amir’s only 25 or 26, so maybe he still has time to hone his routine a bit more?

Lastly, and maybe it’s a name bias on my part, but I found Jake to be at least tolerable. He wasn’t great, but he didn’t stink up the room like Amir did.

Keep up the good work Gary, and even though I had a tough time NOT clicking off to something else during this episode, I agree that you should keep mixing it up. I first found your site through digg, and I’m sure there are some people who frequent college humor and will get into your vibe as a result.

Oh, and for what it’s worth to the College Humor people, I do like your stuff at bustedtees sometimes.
March 31, 2009

BeerGuerrilla
Man! I’ve watched quite a few WLTV episodes and though this one wasn’t one of the best, I still enjoyed it. Too many people seem to really have no sense of humor about wine or the show to understand that these guest are playing characters from their web show “Jake and Amir”. Though Amir does get a bit annoying on their show I thought he was very funny on this episode in a quirky kind of way.

Gary, don’t let the haters get you down. You do an awesome job!

QOTD: Probably about $100 as a gift for my dad (big time wine drinker)
I would pay double if you wrapped the bottle with diamonds!
March 31, 2009

me
you guys are all pretentious buttmunchers. laugh or don’t watch.
March 31, 2009

neutron212
do thies to guy make good skits for college humor yes. but when they are trying to be funny for funny sake it comes across two tools using inside jokes trying to top the other one while hinting they smoked up just be for they taped this. all so if you drink own it dont hint around it and giggle like your 15 its really really sad got people at there age.
March 31, 2009

Sujo
Hello,

I get what allot of you are saying about the show being rather off topic due to the addition of the college humor kids, but keep in mind i will now be an avid watcher of this show from now on and would never of found it without the link on the collegehumor page.

Cheers
March 31, 2009

Steak Monster
I have to say that I do know a few people in college who have very similar reactions to wine. It can be fun, but also frustrating, to introduce them to something new.

QoTD: I tend to split costs with others so I can’t really say.
March 31, 2009

flip
Coming from someone who knows the CollegeHumor site fairly well, but also recognizes awkward shit when i see it, i say this: this was an utter failure. The original material on their site is occasionally funny, such as this skit about a “Man-Baby:” http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1904488 . It is silly, but you have to admit, a lot funnier than jake and amir on this episode of wine tv.

Jake and Amir is borderline annoying to begin with, but when coupled with a semi-serious show like this, it fails miserably. Asking a character like Amir to focus on a tangible subject like wine appreciation was the biggest mistake. someone should have realized this before they shot this awkward mess.
March 31, 2009

BobbyCondo
Couldn’t get through even five minutes of this episode…nothing funny about these guys at all…just annoying.
March 31, 2009

GolfTurtle
Ok…watched it again..WTF? Still..WTF? Can we please get back to the old school style. Honest to God I get it, I understand the intentions, however I REALLY DOUBT any (maybe 3) of the new CK fan viewers that linked over and watched are gonna order anything from WL. I have to be honest (again) I still gotta say I can appreciate the “going out on the limb” and taking what I’m quite certain you knew was gonna be a major risk for the sake of growing your viewership and potentially your business. I dont have a “pair” big enough to have taken that risk. That’s why you’re OG Gary Vee and I’m just the GolfTurtle. MOTT! link up the next epp so we can move on and not talk about this anymore.
QOTD: WTF?
March 31, 2009

jon33
I’m a long time watcher… I have never felt moved to post a comment before this terrible ep. Both the videos i have seen with college humor people are trash imo. I watch this show to learn. I don’t watch this show to see douche bags destroy the integrity and value of wine.
March 31, 2009

Chris
Some of you are seriously lacking in the sense-of-humor department.

Gary had fun with it, why can’t you?
March 31, 2009

GolfTurtle
WTF?…WTF? Did they taste wine on this show today? Was Gary Vee there?
Was this WLTV? I’m confused, so I’ll go watch some archived episodes now to restore my understanding of why I tune into this on a daily basis. I’m sorry Gar, I think you’ll see if you search my tweets & ect that I am a HUGE fan of you as an entreprenuer, a brand, a motivational person, ect, ect..however it would not be cool if I wasn’t honest in my Reply to this epp. I didnt like it, wasn’t “WINE” enough for me. Not saying there’s not an audience for this out there, as a matter of fact I’m sure many people really enjoyed this. Bottom of my list for repeat viewings though. Looking forward to you reading some comments next episode, and rebounding with the thunder.
~GolfTurtle OUT~
March 31, 2009

Elias
Oh, and all us that hated Amir, we DO understand he was in character, it was just that this character did not sit well with the show, did not click with GV, and was disruptive in the reviewing process.

That’s a reply to those people saying “Amir was in character, he is not like that in real life!”
March 31, 2009

Elias
I have read most of the comments, GVs apology and Amir’s post as well. Maybe us Vayniaks that did not like this episode got a bit out of hand (me too…)

Gary, don’t stop taking risks like that. It was unfortunate that the whole thing did not click for some reason, but I love the fact that you diversify and keep us and yourself on our toes. If you just talked about wine, had wine people, and were sterile and clinical as all other wine blogs and shows, well… then you would not be Gary Vay-ner-chuck, by another wine guy…

You got me into wine because of your casual, goofy style, I was always put off wine because of the pretentiousness and seriousness that came with it, and here comes a guy talking about wrestling, football shouting, laughing, goofying around, but in the end delivering amazing wine knowledge and spot on reviews. Most of all, opening our eyes to wines from any region of the world, diversifying our palates.

Yeap, this episode was a miss in my mind, but still risks like that should be taken, please don’t become another sterile wine-reviewer…

Keep it up GV!
March 31, 2009

blah
i watched this as a jake and amir fan and enjoyed it. i was gonna watch some more episodes but after reading the comments i don’t really want to anymore, you all seem to hate that a couple light hearted guys who don’t like wine were on the show and are ripping them for it.
and no, they are not high at all, idiots.