Our love affair with the Internet is serious — and it’s only getting worse. Thanks to CollegeHumor.com, we have transcended the gap from casual use to something that borders full out addiction.

The site’s original videos are hilarious, its college articles are nail-bitingly accurate and millions of people are tuning in daily to allow its content to course through their veins. Simply put, CollegeHumor is at the top of the game, and they are loving every second of it.

The State Press recently had a chance to speak to Streeter Seidell, the site’s front-page editor/writer/actor, as he talked about his personal experiences and creative process.

The State Press: How did you first get hooked up with your “day job” at CollegeHumor, and what kind of work did it take to get in your position?

Streeter Seidell: My friend actually sent me the link to the Web site when I was a junior in college. I remember reading a bunch of the articles and being like, “Oh, I think I can write stuff like this.” So I sent the editor a bunch of articles I had written. He liked them, gave me a column and I wrote for that for about two years. When I graduated, I had a full-time job. I think I wrote about 300 articles. (Laughs.) There was definitely a fair amount work that went into it.

SP: In one of CollegeHumor’s most popular video series, Prank War, with you and your friend, Amir Blumenfeld, you were most recently tricked to believe your parachute had failed to open properly while skydiving. Do you have any ideas yet on how to retaliate against Amir for the next installment?

SS: You know, I always kind of wait for an opportunity. If an opportunity doesn’t present itself, you just wait longer until something truly, truly great comes along. Who knows, it may never come along. (Laughs.) I actually have a couple of ideas that would be really good, but, you know, they’d be way too expensive.

SP: I understand the Prank War videos are also a big hit in Japan, to the point of making it on to primetime television. What was it like listening to your voice dubbed over with Japanese?

SS: The whole thing was pretty surreal. Actually, my cousin who lives in Japan was watching TV one day and it just came on, so he managed to somehow get a hold of it and send it to me. (Laughs.) The Japanese … man, they love their pranks.

SP: What is a typical day like inside the CollegeHumor office?

SS: You know, people kind of tend to think that we don’t do anything all day and kind of dick around. (Laughs.) The reality is it’s a lot of work. A lot more work than people realize. I mean, it’s fun work, but it’s very, very time consuming. Everyone who works here are good friends with each other. … actually they might be our only friends at this point. All of us hang out and go out together. As far as “jobs” go, it’s pretty great.

SP: When working on original sketches, what is generally the creative process?

SS: Normally, someone will throw out an idea — a vague, little idea as a jumping-off point. After that, it kind of snowballs from there. Or, a lot of times, we kind of just mess around with a little improvisation, if one of us laughs, maybe that could be a whole video. A lot of times we’ll all just kind of work off of each other. Every now and then, there will be a fully-formed idea that someone throws out that won’t need any kind of improvement. Generally, though, it’s a collaborative effort.

SP: Recently, you guys had a brief stint on MTV with “The CollegeHumor Show.” How did you feel when MTV gave you the opportunity to have your own show?

SS: (Laughs.) We were like, it’s too good to be true … and it was. I mean, the show was fun, but there were a lot of things about it that I think we all kind of wished we did differently. We hardly had any time at all to write it; they changed the format halfway through [the season]. Also, we didn’t hire anyone to cover our day jobs, so we essentially worked two full-time jobs — we were all exhausted. (Laughs.) But we did, however, probably make the cheapest television ever in the history of cable. In retrospect, I think everyone was very excited to have done it. I mean, it’s a shame that we didn’t get to do it again, but I think we kind of figured out a good process by the end of it. We knew what worked, what didn’t and we were all more in tune with each other’s strengths. I think we’re all a little wiser now because of it.

SP: You were also one of the hosts for MTV’s show “Pranked.” Are there any more episodes of that coming out?

SS: Yeah, “Pranked” is filming their second season right now. We actually just finished filming that last week. That should be airing sometime this summer. (Laughs.) They’ll probably just re-run “Jersey Shore” until people can’t possibly take it anymore, and then that’s when they’ll air us.

SP: So you’ve obviously made a decent living exposing the pitfalls of college life, but how good or bad was your actual collegiate experience?

SS: You know, that’s so funny you say that because I really was not good at college; I couldn’t drink during the day, I’d always get sick, and, you know, it seemed like I always would get sinus infections. Me and the college life did not get along very well. (Laughs.) I got, like, super fat during college. After freshman year, I remember thinking that I never wanted to come back ever again. So it’s pretty funny that I actually made my career out of making fun of that. I probably know more about college now than I ever did going to it.

SP: One of the reoccurring themes I’ve noticed in your earlier articles was self-deprecation stemmed from failures with women. Has that situation improved now that you’ve made it big online and on television?

SS: You know, I always was — and always will be — a huge nerd with girls. I don’t think any TV show can really ever change that. (Laughs.) I mean, I talk to girls, but I’m just terrible at sealing the deal. It’s even gotten to the point where my previous girlfriends thought it would be a fun thing to make fun of me for and call me out for being a bumbling moron. (Laughs.) All throughout college I would date girls who I already knew from my town, so I didn’t have to face meeting new ones. Fortunately for me, I have a pretty steady girlfriend right now, so hopefully I’ll never have to get another one.

SP: Out of all the creative outlets you could have chosen, why did you end up doing comedy?

SS: It wasn’t always like that. In high school, I was a drummer and really considered going to music school. (Laughs.) But it just seemed like it would be a terrible career choice. I guess I just kind of fell into comedy. I didn’t really know what I wanted to do in college. Later on, my buddy, who was the editor of a student-run paper at Fordham University, asked me to write stuff for him, and before I knew it, I was writing humor columns.

SP: When CollegeHumor first started making and posting original shorts online, wasn’t it almost unheard of?

SS: Yeah, Web videos didn’t even really exist six or seven years ago. You know, the technology just wasn’t really there. So it was a brand new industry that we all sort of found ourselves in the forefront of. When I first started working here, nobody made Web video. It was all, like, cat videos and stuff. Basically, the only ones who were doing that were EbaumsWorld.com and us. But I think we were the first ones to really start taking it seriously. (Laughs.) That’s probably why we have this big office and EbaumsWorld is a shred of its former self.

SP: What kind of advice can you give to anyone trying to make it as a writer?

SS: If I could give any advice, it would be just write constantly, send your stuff to everyone and make blogs. You have to really promote it, because no one is going to find it for you. You need to make the moves.

SP: Ok, final question. “Jersey Shore” — love it or hate it?

SS: To answer the question, it’s very much a love-hate relationship for me. I mean, you can hate the “guidos” all you want, but you have to admire them. When those cameras go off and the show is finished, you can be sure their going to stay the same exact way. They stick to their guns, you know? They’re not trying to pretend like they’re something they’re not.

Reach the reporter at djarvie@asu.edu