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Jake and Amir watch their TruTV Pilot (Part One) (Patreon)

Published:
2026-02-12 16:03:51
Edited:
2026-04-05 20:15:39
Imported:
2026-02

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The day has finally come for the guys to re-watch their passed-on TruTV pilot.

Would you have greenlighted this shit? Comment down below your network notes.

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Carter

I never thought I’d see the day

Ben E

Nobody fucking blab about this outside of the Patreon. I’m for serious, man

Justin Romie

We deserve so much more than this

IcyT

Hey truTV - sue their asses! Sue their literal asses!

Spacialjones

I’m at 9:50 and just saw Tim Baltz….Josh, Asmear, and Tim Baltz from Bajillion Dollar Properties…. How does not work? Like.. I wanna see more already.

Jent Watches

Man, Tim Baltz and Rick Fox were in the show? I’m very happy to see this and also now very, very upset that it never went anywhere.

Spencer

Healthy Pat would have gone so hard on this

Viv

That’s fine, that’s more than fine actually

PearsonT

Nice moustache Jake !

Ant

Sleigh Bells, niiiiice

Frans

where else can I put a ship

Leah C

Is it too late just pitch this again? I mean Netflix is cranking out 50 new shows a month and this can't be much worse than any of those.

Nickel Brady

BETSY SODARO WAS IN THE PILOT??? we could have had it all :(((

Shiren

While I'm glad we're finally getting to see it... I'm gonna be real, there's no there there so far. I chuckled once, at least.

ejaybugboy3

This is not a terrible pilot. So far, this is pleasant. Big what if. It should've got the full season.

Facundo Iglesia

Stealing content from truTV? Stand up. I think I need to fight you.

Michael Gumption

If the world didn’t end in 2012 we would have nine seasons of this and a Betsy Sodaro spinoff show à la Joey

HolyFatFish

I think it's funny! Tru tv? More like... Fals tv

HolyFatFish

I just realized how much this whole situation reminds me of rhe first Wayne's World

rj

the lads are looking YOLKED, the freaking eggheads

JVLN

This was amber, taupe, chill, ace, and gold. This was forever night. Fox? Rocks. Howey? Wowie! Sodaro? No sorrow! Baltz? He's pretty good!

IcyT

Wait that was the whole pilot? Coulda sworn there’s some clip floating around on the internet with Ben Schwartz in it. We demand so much more!

PussySandwich

Can’t believe they got ariana grande for this

Michael Jamieson

"We have a freaking Patreon, you jackasses" is iconic.

Darby

"I have thankles. I'm thankful for these ankles" See this is the energy Jake brings that Geoff lacks

Joel Anderson

Rick Fox playing himself is fucking inspired. This really could have been great! TruTV had no idea what they were buying, and that’s a real shame.

tryin_gosling

bruh were you just tuning out what they were saying in the video 😂

matt

If they cease and desist I will peaceful resist ✊

Rodney's Rice

Getting to finally see some of the pilot, it really such a let down TruTV didn't green light you guys. I feel like over the past decade absurdist humor has gone even more mainstream. Had you guys actually gotten the chance to do a full season, I think the show would have gone on for quite a while. BUT I do think the lighting is too bright/flat

Noemi

This should have been filmed Oppa mockumentary style.

Shane Campbell

I never thought I'd see the day, this was awesome dudes! Can't wait to see more

Nathan Reeser

So far honestly this is better than I expected. I do wonder if you guys think you could write better now that you’re more removed from Collegehumor days or worse.

Neila

Someone tell Jake about vaseline

GregorTomato

And/or not in a set that looks like a kindergarten classroom. TruTV should’ve been like 1% more classy and not had Amir in a bright purple hoodie.

Chris H

As much as y'all deserve so much more than this, I'm kinda glad this isn't a timeline where J&A humor got neutered by mainstream TV. I can see it before me: Amir: "Murph!" Jake: "Nonono, pshht!" [freakin Chris Prat or one of the Skarsgårds pops up behind Jake, looking pissed] Jake: "He's right behind me, isn't he?" [canned audience laughs] [camera pans to Amir squinting in empathic agony, audible cartoon violence SFX from off-screen ending in a cat screaming] Amir: "Um yeah, THAT just happened!" [canned audience goes apeshit]

APC + atgwmlavtam

I definitely would have watched your tv show, I love your sense of humor! And the cast seemed great. Rick Fox and Jake & Amir will always be a winning combo TruTV made a mistake not making more episodes. But it’s probably for the best because the tv execs could have butchered it going forward. And I laughed at the cold open! A surprise drone in the office is on-brand for Amir’s character and the POV shot of it hitting Jake’s head was well done. If you’re able to disclose this information, how much did the pilot cost to produce? I hope you guys get a tv show in the future!

IcyT

I was more than tuning out I was aloof

Scott Craig

It's insane how pat he sounds

Scott Craig

Pilots are always the hardest for character driven sitcoms. Given time you would have found the funny in all the ensemble cast and tweaked the writing to fit the longer format well. You guys, Betsy, R Fox & fake-Pat were all established early in Ep00 with real laughs, sucks this wasn't greenlit - it would have grown

Shawn Haymaker

I actually like Amir's egg sledding on bacon shirt :(

Sam Ninegar

After all of the shit talking about the pilot over the years, this is surprisingly pretty decent thus far

Sean L Byrne

Cannot believe y'all had Lou Avery on your pilot. Scout's honor, amirite

PogieJoe

Never thought I'd see the day! Rough cold open but I agree that the excellent ensemble cast was actually getting me into it. Really would have loved if this was given a chance

gich

Of what?

gich

Yall need to repost this pilot so we can watch without all the stop and go

A

I love that the guy the network hired instead of Pat Cassels is just doing a Pat Cassels impression.

A

This show would have been such an unbelievable time capsule of the era in Internet clickbait. I mean, the web show already was, but CollegeHumor was a really specific niche and I feel cheated of seeing the series expand its scope to a parody of the wider "digital media" market. I'd watch a J&A sitcom if you made it now, but it would look totally different. Maybe with them slaving away in the basement of an overseas AI content farm.

Daniel

If this had the cinematography of L&H it could have been an HBO hit

Noemi

Hot idea: write a new pilot but this time you guys play podcast bros.

dung beeble

makes me sad when they are negative about their own work, which has always been funny to me

Todd Skinner

Wow you now owe TruTV a million dollars. In the form of a suit... class action!

Margot

i like it. it sounds like what’s up.

Togayther

i LOVE the 2015 look of the show. the simplicity of the design and the coloring is great. so incredibly fitting as a tv show and def would have been perfect to follow the videos ending.

Togayther

RIGHT perfffff choice. works so beautifully

Davis Morgan

Definitely very Silicon Valley coded. I almost wonder if that’s why the network got skittish. I think in today’s TV landscape you’d definitely get picked up by a streamer. This landed in that awkward time before studios had any sort of understanding of how to leverage internet success into traditional media.

Alex is Learning

Holy guac, this is so much better than I expected!! Stacked cast, could've been awesome 😭 as you guys said, pilots are always clunky (see e.g. Community innit). "It doesn't have to be good, [everyone] it just has to be online"

metalfaced kid

yesterday i saw Rick Fox in a random cameo in the 2009 show Dollhouse by josh whedon and i was like, that dude could have gone anywhere. but he chose to try out this jake and amir tv pilot

Aaron Singer

fuckkkkk i want this show to be a real thing!!!! Can they not sell another version of J&A to another network still? I feel like it would've done better on a weirder network like Adult Swim or something :/

Aaron Singer

THIS SHOULD HAVE AT LEAST 5 SEASONS ON HULU

Aaron Singer

TruTV deserves so much more than this

Aaron Singer

Yea the meeting scene was actually rly good Jake killed it as the low key straight man mumbling under his breath lol

Aaron Singer

I sincerely think if this would've continued it could've been a huge hit... Especially the more the network started to trust them and backed off and let them be weird

Aaron Singer

it was def too well lit and generic looking i feel like all the network notes sucked lol

Aaron Singer

Tim Baltz as Pat is insane to see lmao

Aaron Singer

YES or like a different version of Jake & Amir that's not legally based off this??

Aaron Singer

REBOOT WITH JASON MANTZOUKAS AS MICKEY

PogieJoe

Almost every creative is their harshest critic!

Aaron Singer

Is there a way to organize this site better? I'd love for the to be a playlist of JUST J&A videos (separate from all the other new Headgum stuff), so I don't have to scroll so far if I want to find J&A stuff, like if I want to re-watch this gem of a video again...?

Noah Mendoza

This pilot ain’t legal MICKEY

Joel Anderson

It’s funny how much better J&A episodes like Celebrity Date and Tinder look than the vastly more expensive pilot, just in terms of lighting and cinematography

Emily Jayne Peters

What a cast! Love this, can’t believe it wasn’t picked up

John Coogan

Your honor, I would like to claim "who gives a shit"

AlaskanEmily

I actually didn't hate that as much as the intro lead me to think I should. I could imagine this being the unstable pilot for a show I would like almost as much as the web series. I liked "Don't fear technology!" in the opening. That was the one good line from Amir. It is wild how little Jake and Amir is actually in this first half of the Jake and Amir pilot. Though wow the supporting cast actually was good. Almost like they were all actual funny actors.

Specific Tso’s

Hi i’m an HBO exec. Remake the show but cast Geoff as Amir and Amir as Birdie and we’ll greenlight it

J&A Studios

Have you seen those networks lately? Mostly reruns because nobody watches tv anymore. Tough out there.

John Coogan

Holy shit is that Lou from Mad Men?

Rodney's Rice

YES! As I was watching this, I was imagining J&A episodes I've seen that the lighting looks way better

A

I know the J&A episodes you made at Headgum don't really get into the weeds of why Jake and Amir are working together again, but I feel like the setup you implied there would make a great sitcom. Jake loses yet another job, turns to podcasting, is reluctantly forced to contact his long-lost work nemesis because he knows he needs his insanity in order to go viral.

A

I'm sure the design department was trying to evoke the BustedTees shirts Amir would sometimes wear in the original sketches without actually giving a dime to BustedTees.

Aldorn

Honestly, pretty good so far.

Davinia

How did they say 'no' to this?... It's true TV!

A

Amir Bells, NICE

Sabrina

This is lost media at this point

Chris

It was much better than I was expecting. I do agree though that the cold open was the weakest link, goodnight.

Rikard Ström

I guess we're the target audience but this was much better than I expected. So sad that it didn't get picked up

Chernfrog

I think not giving that a shot for 1 season is kinda harsh. I find a majority of sitcoms are high key not very funny and I think even if I didn’t know y’all and just randomly turned to it I’d be amused at the randomness. It would be a show I’d have to be stoned as a kite for though.

Shaun H

I see why Jake always says almost any other cold opening would have worked better. It’s been great after that though

Nikolaus Cox

Dang. Until I saw this I never realised what we lost by not getting the TruTV Jake and Amir show. This is delightful!

Smiththebat

Pat would have been fun and great but… I mean… it’s Baltz…

Rose Behar

The cast is INSANELY stacked. I am so sad this didn't get a chance because I'm a hundred percent sure it would be my comfort show to this day.