Rubin Recommends

(Part of The Weekly Check In series)

Here’s the first installment of a Weekly Check In with another Rubin in the world (who I’m not related to). Jeff Rubin is a funny guy. I’ve been enjoying his stuff on Collegehumor for some time now, enjoy his stand up and his newest show Bleep Bloop (a show about video games).

Name: Jeff Rubin
Location: New York
Age: 28
Occupation: Editor of CollegeHumor.com
Websites: http://jeffrubinjeffrubin.com / http://www.collegehumor.com/bleepbloop

Rubin: What are you currently working on or just finished that you’re excited about?

Jeff Rubin: One of the nice things about the website is we’re always working on a few different things. We just had Chuck Klosterman, who is one of my favorite writers, on my videogame show Bleep Bloop and we’re almost done editing. I can’t wait to post that. I wrote a few scripts that are going to be videos soon (including an Electric Slide parody) so that’s always exciting. We’re currently plotting a CollegeHumor Live event at the Gramercy Theater for February. It’s the biggest venue we’ve ever done by ourselves, so that’s going to be a lot of fun.

Rubin: Where have you traveled this month or recently?

Jeff Rubin: We just did a live show in Notre Dame which is great. We’ve got a show at the end of the month in Utah, so I’m hoping to spend some time in Zion national park.

Rubin: What’s your favorite music right now?

Jeff Rubin: It’s always fun when someone asks that. I’ve been listening to nothing but MF Doom (who I only recently discovered) and Rod Stewart.

Rubin: Best food you’ve had in your neighborhood lately or while you were traveling?

Jeff Rubin: I try to do a bit of pizza tourism anywhere I go and on a recent trip to San Francisco I recently tried Tony’s (in North Beach). It wasn’t just a good pie for San Francisco (a wonderful town cursed with bad pizza), it was a great pie for anywhere.

Rubin: Anything else you want to mention?

Jeff Rubin: Rod Stewart is good! Really! He had some of the best musicians of the era on his early solo albums, and his work with The Faces and the Jeff Beck Group is criminally underrated.