Loser Takes All
This week, I went to visit my kids in New York. I caught up with Hannah, Sarah, and Eliza for lunch in the Village. Then I walked over to the CollegeHumor office to see Jake. He met me in the lobby wearing a superhero costume, specifically, The Flash. He explained that he’d made a bet with a co-worker, and the loser had to wear the costume for the rest of the week.
I couldn’t stop laughing, and here’s why:
Jake spent his entire third year of life in Superman pajamas. In fact, the red cape, which was attached to the shoulders by Velcro tabs, once fell off in Stop and Shop and Jake wept inconsolably until I drove back to retrieve it.
When he turned four he gave up being Superman, which was a good thing because the pajama bottoms had to be held up by safety pins because the elastic was totally shot. Now he was Batman. Thankfully, his Batman pajamas didn’t have a Velcro cape, but Jake did require two accessories, namely, his gray moonboots and a ski mask.
More recently, when he was a junior in high school and obsessed with the show Jackass, he bought a Spiderman costume and went to the busiest street in town, where he climbed up on the concrete base of a street light and had his friends videotape his antics and the reactions of startled passersby.
The truth is, the only way to intensify Jake’s “punishment” would be to make him wear the costume for the rest of the year.
I love Jake and I really love Jake’s mom, as most of us do at the office.
What most people don’t know is that the Mohrers and the Hurwitzs actually have a history that predates CollegeHumor and BustedTees. My dad’s brother and his family, also The Mohrers, lived next door to the Hurwitzs in Connecticut long ago. I think the pairs might have also known each other from college as both Jake’s dad and my uncle went to Columbia and Jake’s mom and my aunt went to Yale. I’ve also heard reports of a cookie theft incident, but you’d have to ask Jake about that.
When I first started working here we discovered this coincidence and when I told my aunt about Jake’s role here as one of the main cast members, comedy writers and break-out star in the Jake and Amir series, my aunt said to my uncle, “Honey, did you hear that? The Hurwitz boy turned out okay!”
Cheers to Jake Hurwitz and his awesome mom who reveals yet another hilarious tidbit of Huwitz-History every day!
