That’s earned Finchamp a coveted internship with the popular comedy website CollegeHumor.

Finchamp, a communication arts major from Altadena, Calif., with communication design and leadership minors, is working as a production assistant intern at the CollegeHumor studio on Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles. His work started during Tour Week and will last through part of summer.

CollegeHumor produces original videos daily as well as articles. User-submitted material is also featured.

Finchamp writes his own sketches and enjoys filming practical jokes such as “ghost-walking” in which a “ghost-walker” closely follows a passerby for as long as possible without being noticed.

As the executive producer for the past four years of Wartburg TV’s “Late Knight,” Finchamp wrote and directed various comedy sketches that can be found on YouTube, as well as doing short films and documentaries.

“Trevor is a passionate, creative professional who has a love for sketch comedy,” said Travis Bockenstedt, Wartburg Television adviser. “This internship is a perfect fit for him to meet industry professionals and hopefully unlock some doors so he can live out his dreams.”

His work hasn’t been confined to humor. He has had a clip featured on CNN and was nominated for a documentary award in the student division of the Upper Midwest region of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences for his piece on poverty in the Dominican Republic.

“I challenged him to take his creative abilities to another level by seeking outside peer review — film, documentary festivals — but that’s because I expect that level of work from him,” said Dr. Bill Withers, professor of communication arts.

Finchamp’s creativity has been on display at the Awareness Film Festival, May 3-6, in Los Angeles, where his 10-minute film, “Fired,” was selected for presentation. Heal One World — a nonprofit that wants to bring “awareness” to issues related to ecology, politics, health and scientific progress — sponsors the annual festival.

Befitting Finchamp’s out-of-the-box take on things, “Fired” features him playing “God,” who is on the verge of being terminated from his first project, Earth, because it’s no longer profitable. A board of directors issues an ultimatum for a turnaround in two weeks or it will be “shut down.”

Dani Dohlman ’12, Mitch Grubb ’13 and Gretchen Joy Skellenger ’14 star in the film, which includes appearances by others from the Wartburg community. 

“Fired” can be seen at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZ0jm1l3n0o&feature=youtu.be

Currently, Finchamp is working on a documentary about the 1938 “War of the Worlds” broadcast and the media’s effects on its viewers.

To get his internship, Finchamp said he had a friend who grew up near one of the creators of CollegeHumor. He sent them his resume, a link to his website and asked his friend to put in a good word.

Finchamp will be mostly helping out around the set and running errands. Ultimately, he said, “I want to get more involved in TV than the Internet.”

Finchamp left Southern California to come to Wartburg while being recruited for football as a kicker (he played two years).

“I saw they had a great communications department, and I would have a lot of opportunities, so I went for it. I haven’t regretted it for a second,” Finchamp said. “I knew since it was a smaller school, I would have more opportunities to work hands-on and really expand what I do versus the cut-throat, competitive environments at California film schools.”

As for his ambitions now, he has had promising talks with representatives from “Jimmy Kimmel Live” about a potential opening in September.

“This is something I would definitely be interested in making permanent,” Finchamp said.