Is CollegeHumor's Ricky Van Veen The Future Of TV?

Is This The Future Of TV?

This trusty recipe, though, has become a kind of dilemma, as [CollegeHumor CEO Ricky] Van Veen looks to expand the site beyond the viral-comedy business. "All Internet comedy is niche comedy," Reich explains. "If you do an Internet video about Halo, every Halo fan will send it to every other Halo fan. But if you did an episode of a network comedy that parodied Halo, most of your audience wouldn't even get it." So Van Veen is looking to reformulate the recipe, to accomplish his next goal: to transform CollegeHumor from a successful comedy website into a successful movie-and-TV-production company. Or, more specifically, a successful company that makes whatever it is that will replace movies and TV.

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