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

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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

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April 1, 2009

jeffe
@ YoungDave:

I haven’t watched the show yet, but no matter what goes down, what you say is da true. I’ve seen a lot of comments hating in this vein over the past whatever, and I think folks need to keep in mind that this is all a freebie for them. Look, we don’t have network programming (or most of the internet) without advertising — you may hate the ads, but they’re what’s bringing you your precious content. NCAA tourney, anyone?

Look, lord knows I’ve bought plenty of wine from GV after he’s raved about it on WLTV. But you know what? Every single wine has been exactly as advertised and I’ve enjoyed them all immensely.

Remember that TruBlood episode from a ways back? I’m 85% certain that was a sponsored deal, and I loved that show.

Not all capitalism is bad.
April 1, 2009

Nathan
WOOO!!! Washington state! We sell quite the variety at my work. I try to stay away from the wines though…they don’t make sense and I believe they threaten me while i’m sleeping on the front counter.
April 1, 2009

YoungDave
Well, after reading some of the comments from the regular Vayniacs, I had to comment again. Bottom line about this show:

Gary did this show to do some very smart cross-promotion (I’m sure there is some better, more business-oriented vocabulary to plug in here). The idea of this type of show is to bring in new viewers to the Thunder Show from the huge college humor fan base (and then also turn more younger people on to the wine world), and then also potentially give the College Humor site some wine drinking new viewers. So maybe the show was a bit silly and even annoying for some of the regular Vayniacs from what I read in the previous comments, but Gary has given so many educational episodes with great guests, ALL AS FREE CONTENT for years, so if you didn’t like the show, no one is forcing you to watch the whole thing. As a regular viewer we have the opportunity to voice our opinions on the shows, but to talk about how you think it was a waste of your time and seem upset about it is foolish. This show is FREE and so it won’t kill you if there is one episode that isn’t as enjoyable as the rest. Gary will do another one tomorrow, and everything will be ok. It was a different episode, but fun nonetheless.
April 1, 2009

YoungDave
Funny and fun show. I gotta check these guys out on their site more often,

QOTD: 2005 Chateau Figeac. No, I would NOT pay double to get it from Amir… but I like that business plan.
April 1, 2009

Toni
Amir was pathetic. In character or not… he comes across as an annoying heckler. There are numerous ways of acting cute if you know nothing of the subject, but THIS WAS NOT ONE OF THEM.

QOTD: Amir, I will not even google you, now that I saw this show, let alone buy anything from you. I really love wine, but if you were the last wine seller on the planet, I’d drink piss.
April 1, 2009

Omallley
Ouch. Not much else to add that hasn’t been said, is there?

I hope that you can continue to have the likes of Jancis Robinson and Nicolas Joly make appearances in the future, Gary. They added a heck of a lot to the show.
April 1, 2009

Monden
QOTD: The most expensive wine i bought was a Grand cru Chablis 2002, Clos Bougros, Jean-Marc Brocard at 52 bones(can.) It was quite good, though i had with a crowd of people who didn’t appreciate it quite enough for what it was.Grand cru Chablis are quite subtle and you need to a have a well educated pallatte to appreciate it. But it was a lot of fun still. I think you can still enjoy a good wine with people you enjoy being with, even if they don’t enjoy the wine as much as you would like them to. It kind of sums up this show with these 2 guys. It’s still fun because you’ve enjoyed the wine and the company, but the wine experience was a bit diminished, and that’s a bit sad, because after all, this is what this show is all about. QOTD@:And i wouldn’t buy it from Amir or anybody at twice the price. Maybe Scarlett Johansson if she would drink it with me….
April 1, 2009

Monden
I have no idea who these guys were. Hey, i’m 49!! and i’m from Canada. How’s that for being boring? But i have to agree with most comments that this show lacked a bit of fun. I don’t say it was boring. It’s not my kind of humor. Watched the link with the basketball prank. thought it was pretty hilarious. This show is about passion and to me, it was pretty obvious that these guys are not passionnate about wine. So, to me this is how they missed the point. They don’t seem to be passionnate about anything in what i’ve seen, but again, all i know about these guys is that they’re obviously big in colllege humor and not big in wine. Nice try Gary, and if this show makes college kids buy wine, even cheap wine, then the show was a success. This is what this show is all about, right? Changing the wine world? The problem is, maybe, who have they convinced watching this show?……….Let’s say this is the first time i watch this show and i stumbled on this episode…. It might not change my wine world….
April 1, 2009

J Crazy
I love that this show tries to reach into EVERYONE’s computer screen. This is truly what changing the wine world is all about: getting out there into venues and demos that Wine Spectator and His High Holiness Robert Parker couldn’t dream of tapping into. Imagine Sir James Suckling trying to do the same thing. Uh uh, not gonna fly. No disrespect to either of the wine world’s magnates as I deeply respect their opinions, brands, ability to spread their wine opinions but, dudes, if your over 21 you should have access to wine knowledge that speaks your language.

QOTD: 2003 Sassicaia (disappointing at best)…and sorry, Amir, but I’m not the one with a TV show so we’ll have to got halfers on this one.
April 1, 2009

AaronB
Well, my college years are 20+ years behind me, so I guess I’m not part of the target demographic for this episode. I realize that Jake and Amir were in character, but their characters weren’t even remotely amusing (just irritatingly stupid). Fortunately I had all the other comments to read while the episode played in the background, so I didn’t have to actually watch most of it.

QOTD: I have a couple of bottles of $300 Scotch (30 year-old Laphroaig), but my most expensive wine was probably around $120 for a Silver Oak (don’t remember what vintage). And no, I wouldn’t buy anything from a little toerag like that guy.
April 1, 2009

Rajiv
Gary – kudos for giving the College Humor guys another go, despite the bad reaction last time.

That said… my reaction was the same as last time. I’m in college, and found this dumb and infantile, not funny. Couldn’t finish it.
March 31, 2009

max
Reading the majority of these comments makes me want to cry.
Gary is great. Jake & Amir are great.
Can’t that be enough? Life’s too short.
March 31, 2009

shawn
GV- Are you serious? Come on man, next time do a quick interview on your guests before you put them on these WL episodes. 8:16 in to the video and I couldn’t take the Amir guy anymore. I can stand a bit of douchebagness, but this guy takes it to another annoying level.
March 31, 2009

Katie
I love Jake and Amir, and for this reason, I now love wine.

Therefore Jake and Amir = the best thing in the world, you other lowlife pricks who think they suck can go to hell.

Thank you, good day.
March 31, 2009

eric79
Really funny episode.
Not everybody’s type of humour, just like not everybody likes Gary’s super enthusiastic ways, or not everybody likes Pinot Noir. Just because something is not to your liking does not make it wrong, because others do like it. That’s variety for ya.
March 31, 2009

Foreman
I’m a big Jake and Amir fan and I was not even impressed with this episode. Truthfully the only WLTV episodes I have seen were ones with college humor staff in them, so after reading some comments I decided to watch some other episodes, and really like how the show is done on a regular basis, i will also probably become a regular to WLTV. I still hope Gary (had to scroll up and find the name…) decides to keep bringing in interesting people on to the show especially college humor staff… Patrick Castles cough* cough*
March 31, 2009

Gio
I realize I’m in the minority here, but I have to say, while I’ve never heard of these kids, and am a big Thunder Show fan, I thought they were very, very funny, that Gary did a good job keeping things moving while also letting them do their thing…I think it was a very entertaining show.
March 31, 2009

A.J.
I was hoping for Mad Dog 20/20 and Boone’s Farm to be judged for college kids.
March 31, 2009

Brittany
I must say I have to disagree with Jay down there below me.

“To put it another way, among the college-age audience, you aren’t gaining any eyeballs by having Jake and Amir on the show that you wouldn’t already have watching your show’s other episodes. If they’re watching the episode for Jake and Amir, they’re not your relevant audience and are more than likely missing the point of the show to begin with.” – Jay

I myself am a college kid who doesn’t really know about wine, though it doesn’t mean I wouldn’t like to. And it is strictly because of Jake and Amir that I discovered this site and this video. So I think that Jake and Amir brought in a huge audience that would have remained unclaimed without their involvement. People can have a wide variety of humor. Just because I enjoy the Jake and Amir videos doesn’t mean I can’t enjoy and learn about a good glass of wine.

And what people have to understand is that they are playing Jake and Amir as characters, not as people. This is entirely unedited, and frankly I don’t think most of you could do a better job in this situation. Why is it so difficult to accept that some people just don’t know about wine. This episode is aimed towards college kids, as you can clearly see from the title “Tasting College Kid Wines”. Our palate is going to be much less trained and honestly, I would be lost watching an episode filled with too much stuffiness. Just take this for what it’s worth. You don’t have to like what they did, but you should at least respect people for what they do and not call them “humorless douchebags”.
March 31, 2009

Leigh
I think the video achieved what it set out to do- bring this shower to a wider range of people. So props to the boys for appearing in it. I’m a college student in my early 20s, little experience with wine, so for me the vid was both educational and appealing in terms of comedy.
People need to stop judging and get over themselves.
March 31, 2009

rowland
Look im not trying to be a D**k, and what i said was not personal, (Ill rephrase it, I hope their CHARACTERS get lost in the woods) but Im pretty sure having “characters” on an unscripted show would be a bad idea. You cant improvise a character, the whole idea is that youve alread thought about how that character, as opposed to you, will react or what they will say. if these guys wanted to do an “in character” show, then it should have been at least run thru once off camera, hell do a script, work out a few APPROPRIATE places for jokes. And how am i suppost to know your in character if your characters name is also your name?
March 31, 2009

A dumb Rhine king
Wow, didn’t see that Amir posted. That was pretty classy man, but no one should have to apologize.

A lot of people didn’t think it was a stellar performance, but who the crap cares? Gary’s normal fans will get over it like they always do and hopefully the negative comments won’t dissuade the newer audience from watching the show, or even liking wine in general.

I totally believe that you guys can kill it with 90% of both audiences if you tried it again, in character or not. I would love to see Gary do a future ep with you.

This can be a huge win for future guests. Gary, you could keep a log of what you would consider to be key episodes that can show people your posting audience base. That way, they can still be themselves (and better be), but then they can gear their act or spiel more towards the viewers’ tastes. There is nothing wrong with that, it helps bridge polar audiences together. Take it or leave it, just throwing out an idea.
March 31, 2009

JP
Oh, yeah, and … that episode was so ace!
March 31, 2009

Pete B
I think people are being a little harsh. I agree that this wasn’t the best episode or the greatest guests but I think Gary was just trying to expand his fan base to a wider audience. The older I get, the more out of touch I get with younger humor, but I probably would have loved these guys ten years ago. Thanks Gary for again going outside the box.
March 31, 2009

JP
Hi, all. I am a first-time visitor to this site (yes, brought in by the Jake&Amir tie-in). While I agree with many of the detractors that staying in character may not have been the wisest decision, I also think a number of you are missing the point of the episode. Wine Library TV is a very nontraditional approach to being a wine connoisseur to begin with, and I applaud Gary for expanding his demographic. Like many Jake&Amir fans who are also budding wine aficionados, this exposure has led me to bookmark this site.

I am actually a Scotch drinker, but my wife is helping develop my wine palette. As a Scotch drinker, I look for many of the same elements in a good Scotch that you look for in a good wine (Macallan and a number of other whiskys are matured in Sherry casks, giving them a great bouquet). In fact, on the subject of going off the reservation, I think it would be a neat idea to explore that common ground if you haven’t done so already, perhaps by having Scotch experts on the show. Props to you, Gary, for thinking outside the box, and thumbs-up to viewers from both camps who found some middle ground. Cheers!