The CollegeHumor Guide To College: Selling Kidneys for Beer Money, Sleeping with Your Professors, Majoring in Communications, and Other Really Good Ideas

by CollegeHumor.com

CollegeHumor.com is the National Lampoon of its generation. Since its creation in early 2000, the Web site has grown to become the nation’s most recognized comedy brand for young people. With eight million unique visitors a month, quarterly revenues surpassing $1.2 million, and a successful line of merchandise (from T-shirts to novelties)—not to mention a deal with Paramount to create and brand movies with CollegeHumor’s imprimatur—CollegeHumor is truly a franchise in the making. The CollegeHumor Guide to College is a laugh-out-loud depiction of the college experience. Written primarily by two of CollegeHumor’s most popular columnists, Ethan Trex and Streeter Seidell, this guide features all-new material not found on the Web site. It also includes helpful advice—the kind you probably won’t hear from a college counselor—on an array of subjects, such as food, clothing, parents, dating, sex, drinking, and roommates. Filled with outrageous illustrations, this edgy and irreverent book will be indispensable to all present and future undergraduates.

Genres: Humor, Nonfiction, Education, Comedy

368 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2006

Reviews

[Greg Kerestan · Rating 2 out of 5]

This book is a time capsule of the mid-2000s, both in terms of its social satire and the form it takes. This is "College Humor dot com" in the days before Buzzfeed, FunnyOrDie, even YouTube and Facebook changed internet comedy. Before media got so social, comedy sites were prime content-generation locations, and CollegeHumor was one of the top sources. Unfortunately, the material hasn't aged that well, like a MAD Magazine from a decade or more ago.

[Megan Collins · Rating 2 out of 5]

It's not a narrative but a collection of gags and jokes regarding college life. Some of them are funny, some of them are sad, some of them are ridiculous, and some are mean spirited. Diversionary fluff--but I can't say it has aged well.

[C · Rating 1 out of 5]

About as useful, relevant, or entertaining as college was.

[Shirin · Rating 5 out of 5]

I know I started using an app like this years ago but here's another try! I started this book today, after I completed a post-graduate degree and... it. is. hilarious! You should definitely pick it up. It's a fast read with lots of great pictures and sidebars and inserts...and just hilarious. Would you really expect anything less? I got it as a bargain book at CSULA's bookstore and it's been worth every penny...I know you can get it for pennies online so go for it! HILARIOUS!!


Also, kinda makes me sad I didn't have more of these experiences, although...I did have quite a few of them!

HILARIOUS! GREAT READ!! SO SAD IT'S OVER.

[David Ward · Rating 3 out of 5]

The College Humor Guide to College by the Writers of Collegehumor.com (New American Library 2007) (817+/-). This is a truly sophomoric collection of jokes and cliches that will be side-splittingly funny to college males of the alpha sort. The authors have thoughtfully provided chapters on every important aspect of the college experience (“Food, Health, Laundry,” “Alcohol,” “Parties,” “Greek Life,”, “Drugs,” “Extracurricular Activities,” etc. Here's a suggestion that may revolutionize higher education: Why not save the cost of four years of tuition and simply read this book instead? My rating: 7/10, finished 4/25/15.

[William · Rating 5 out of 5]

College Fun! This book tells stories, jokes, and tips(that you shouldn't trust) about life from the start of senior year in high school until the end of college life. Obviously the humor in the book makes people laugh really hard and leave you in disbelief that some of it is true. For the 340 pages I've read, it never seemed to got me bored at all. All I can say for sure is that college will be a fun and difficult life to sustain. =D

[Chris Seltzer · Rating 2 out of 5]

The only value I see here is the nostalgia the book can bring up for those who read the old collegehumor.com during its heyday.

Even then, it's a pale imitation of the website itself, with the humor not quite as edgy and the substance significantly less so. You also understand that the authors lack various experiences many would consider substantial.

I don't know; I'd generally recommend avoiding it unless you're trying to scratch a very particular itch.

[Kelly · Rating 3 out of 5]

It's...ridiculous and not a "good read" but it's funny. I got it at the library and I don't know why. But it's a cute little thing to read if you are going to college for the first time and then you'll learn how true so many things are.

I don't really know why I am admitting on this Web site that I actually looked through this book. Oh well. I am a dork.

[Ben Goodhue · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book was hilarious, but it is best to read after some time in college and I'm not sure how good it would be after graduation. It has a bunch of small stories and illustrations so it makes a good coffee table book (in the right company, of course) and can be picked up and read for any amount of time.

[Diana · Rating 3 out of 5]

A humorous handbook for those in college.

Very dirty, and not always as funny as Ruminations, but it's enjoyable to read.

[Tasha · Rating 2 out of 5]

So far I find the book to based more towards males than females, so not really for me.

[Matthew Hallman · Rating 4 out of 5]

Helpful and humorous for the naive college freshman