1. Jake Hurwitz was hired by the comedy website CollegeHumor after becoming an intern there in 2006, and has written and appeared in original videos for the website, as well as contributing articles which have been published both online and in print.
Jake Hurwitz starred in The CollegeHumor Show, an MTV sitcom that ran for one season in 2009.
Jake Hurwitz is best known as the comedy partner of Amir Blumenfeld: the two appear as humorous and exaggerated versions of themselves in the web series Jake and Amir, with Hurwitz generally assuming the role of the straight man.
Jake Hurwitz has cited the television series Arrested Development and comedian Mitch Hedberg as major influences in his comedy styling.
In 2005, Jake Hurwitz began to write a column for the comedy website CollegeHumor while attending school.
Jake Hurwitz later got a full-time position at CollegeHumor, where he wrote and acted in original videos.
Jake Hurwitz was a cast member on The CollegeHumor Show, a 2009 sitcom set in the CollegeHumor offices and featuring videos from the website.
In 2009, Jake Hurwitz was selected as the host of the second season of BFF, a game show produced for Myspace that Jake Hurwitz described as "The Dating Game for friends".
Jake Hurwitz met his colleague Amir Blumenfeld in 2006, when the former began his internship at CollegeHumor.
Jake Hurwitz received a digital camera as a birthday present from his father, and the two used it to make videos together, which they uploaded to the video-sharing website Vimeo.
The podcast has featured a few smaller campaigns, including "Trinyvale", wherein Jake Hurwitz played a half-elven ranger named Nyack, and "Hot Boy Summer", wherein Jake Hurwitz played a tiefling bard named Tread Nevers.
Jake Hurwitz attended Hamden Hall Country Day School for high school then went on to study at Moravian University then Southern Connecticut State University and finally Hunter College and New School University in New York City.
From 2009 to 2012, Jake Hurwitz was in a relationship with Bee Shaffer, the daughter of fashion editor Anna Wintour, whom he met after she began working at CollegeHumor.