22 Facts About Amir Blumenfeld

Amir Shmuel Blumenfeld is an Israeli-American comedian, actor, writer, television host, and member of the American comedy duo, Jake and Amir.

Amir Blumenfeld's acting in the series gained him a Webby Award for Best Individual Performance in 2010.

Amir Blumenfeld wrote for ESPN The Magazine and Mental Floss.

Amir Blumenfeld has described how he became aware of his humor early on: "I realized I was funny at an early age, I realized I could make people laugh at a later age, and then by college time, I was trying to make jokes in terms of writing".

Amir Blumenfeld attended a Jewish kindergarten and elementary school, before going to Milken Community High School, a private Jewish high school.

Amir Blumenfeld graduated from the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley with a Bachelor of Science degree, hoping to get a creative job in advertising or marketing while writing comedy on the side.

Since 2017, Amir Blumenfeld has dated Avital Ash, a writer, actress, and comedian.

Amir Blumenfeld is Jewish, although he has described himself as "not too religious" and does not attend Temple, nor does he keep Kosher.

Amir Blumenfeld does celebrate Jewish holidays with his family and speaks Hebrew.

In 2003, while a sophomore at Berkeley, Amir Blumenfeld began writing articles for the comedy website CollegeHumor after he emailed its co-founder Ricky Van Veen ideas, which Van Veen found funny and posted on the website.

Amir Blumenfeld later moved to writing original videos for CollegeHumor with Dan Gurewitch, and has acted in CH Originals, as well as the series Hardly Working.

In 2009, Amir Blumenfeld starred in The CollegeHumor Show on MTV along with eight other CollegeHumor employees.

Since 2010, Seidell and Amir Blumenfeld have hosted Pranked, an MTV series featuring pranks recorded on video and posted online.

Amir Blumenfeld met his colleague Jake Hurwitz in 2006, when the latter began an internship at CollegeHumor.

At the 14th Webby Awards in 2010, Jake and Amir won a People's Voice award for Comedy: Long Form or Series, and Blumenfeld won one for Best Individual Performance.

Amir Blumenfeld starred in the 2009 short film The Old Man and the Seymour alongside colleagues Streeter Seidell and Dan Gurewitch, as well as Shawn Harrison, Liz Cackowski and Jordan Carlos.

Amir Blumenfeld played a writer hired to improve a movie script in the second half of the episode.

Better With Popcorn George Prax said that he played "the 'unfunny' guy who actually ends up coming off as the funniest of all to the audience", and that Amir Blumenfeld "should be guesting and starring in many more things".

Amir Blumenfeld called Blumenfeld's first sitcom appearance a "clearly momentous occasion".

Amir Blumenfeld had a part in I Just Want My Pants Back, an MTV show produced by Doug Liman.

Amir Blumenfeld has a section in Mental Floss called "The Curious Comedian".

Amir Blumenfeld has cited Larry David as an influence, and likes Louie and Curb Your Enthusiasm.