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#3:  Sarah Schneider
It's entirely possible that you've seen Sarah Schneider in several places, but had no idea just who she was.  The name sounds familiar, right?  Here, let's put an office behind her:




That's right, Sarah Schneider of College Humor, AKA the odd girl out in a room full of boys.  This multi-talented lady is responsible for some of the most memorable moments in College Humor history, and not just because she was "the girl".

In fact, to merely credit her as a great performer (and she undoubtedly is) is to do her a massive disservice.  The fact is, Schneider got her start working on College Humor through her writing skills, hammering away at the tricky life of a freelancer before being hired on in 2005 to co-write the first College Humor book, The College Humor Guide to College.  At the time, she was the site's first and only full-time permanent female member.  From there, she's gone on to write skits like "Learning Piano to Get Laid", "Peach and Zelda:  Boyfriends", and one of my personal favorites, "Girls Watch Porn, Too".

Schneider was also the lead and co-writer of what might possibly be College Humor's most honest, dramatic series to date:  Full Benefits.


Full Benefits took the College Humor style and put it into a rom-com-ish plotline; two coworkers who sleep together and find they might have feelings for each other.  It's a situation that more than a few of us have been in, but what really brought the show home was the way it remained true to the "universe" that had been built up by web series like Hardly Working.  Schneider's performance alone makes it worth a look, but her writing is what makes it worth committing to (pun intended(?)).

I think it's a testament to Schneider's abilities as an actor and a writer that she so capably waded into a world that was ostensibly created for teenaged boys and carved out her own character and her own style.  Everything she did for the site felt, for lack of a better term, inclusive.  She didn't feel a need to define herself by anything but her work, and it paid off tremendously in some of the funniest content I've ever seen, for a website or otherwise.

Sadly for College Humor, Schneider has moved on to become a writer for Saturday Night Live.  Their loss, however, is our gain, as Schneider has already started churning out sketches for Elton John, Helen Mirren and Tom Hanks, to name just a few.


She is, in short, proof positive that the statement that "girls aren't funny" is not only untrue, but ESPECIALLY untrue in the context of a supposed "boys-only" club.  Writers like Schneider are defined by their work, and in her case, she's a powerhouse of talent that can only keep on going.