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High Times Editorial Office

Just another day at the High Times Editorial Office where real work is always difficult to accomplish and employees are fired for passing their drug tests.

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Comedy College Humor

High Times Editorial Office

Just another day at the High Times Editorial Office where real work is always difficult to accomplish and employees are fired for passing their drug tests.

High Times Editorial Office

Directed By College Humor
Made In USA

A site with continually good original online content? That is the golden goose everybody is looking for. Funny shorts that aren’t the newest viral video of a cat being spanked, but thought-through concepts and scripts that are actually acted out? That would be cool. I’m not saying that College Humor achieves that hallowed status, but their original content often ain’t all that shabby. Take this week’s short for example, a humorous piece that borrows the look and feel of The Office and transports it into the editorial room of the stoner mag High Times.

This isn’t high art, but you don’t need a poster of Bob Marley on the wall to enjoy it either. It is the kind of well-acted, well-written spoofing that Saturday Night Live used to be known for (I haven’t been keeping up actually, is it trendy to diss SNL again yet?) Sound work and set design are minimal but well thought out, the camera work faithfully evokes its popular reference, and notice how the reoccurring joke is satisfyingly concluded…ah never mind, don’t overthink it… It’s funny!