Funny Or Die
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Type
Private
Industry Film, TV, internet
Genre Comedy
Founded April 2007; 9 years ago
California
Founders Adam McKay, Will Ferrell, Chris Henchy
Headquarters Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Key people
Mitch Galbraith (CEO)
Website www.funnyordie.com
Funny Or Die is an Emmy-winning comedy video website and film/TV production company founded by Will Ferrell, Adam McKay and Chris Henchy. The website Funny Or Die contains exclusive material from a number of famous contributors (e.g., Judd Apatow, James Franco) and also has its own Funny Or Die Team, which creates original material for the site.
Many clips on the site feature well-known actors (examples include Steve Carell, Charlie Sheen, Ryan Gosling, Patrick Stewart, Daniel Radcliffe, Sophia Bush, Mila Kunis, Hilary Duff, Adam West, James Van Der Beek, Jim Carrey, and Selena Gomez). Michael Kvamme, an aspiring young comedian, came up with a concept for a new kind of comedy site; and the site was developed by Randy Adams. Videos are voted on by users of the site; those that are deemed funny stay, but those that are not "die" and are relegated to the site's "crypt".
Funny Or Die launched on January 24, 2007. The site's first video, "The Landlord", has received over 80 million views and features Ferrell confronted by a swearing, beer-drinking two-year-old landlord.[1] In June 2007, they received venture capital funding from Sequoia Capital,[2] and in June 2008, they announced a partnership with HBO
Unlike other viral video sites, members of Funny Or Die are encouraged to vote on videos which they view, with the options of "Funny" or "Die". The video then gets a score of the total percent of people who voted the video "Funny". If the video receives an 80% or greater "Funny" rating after 100,000 views, it gets an "Immortal" ranking. If the video receives a 20% or less "Funny" rating after 1,000 views, it is relegated to the Crypt section of the site.
The Funny Or Die staff can also select a rating of "Chosen One", which disables voting for a video, merely saying "Chosen One" instead.
Television and movie productions Edit
Funny Or Die expanded to include a television and film production company in 2011.
Funny Or Die Presents (2010-2011, HBO)
Jon Benjamin Has a Van (2011, Comedy Central)
Brody Stevens: Enjoy It! (2013, Comedy Central)
American Muscle (2014-present, Discovery)
The Spoils Before Dying (2015, IFC)
America’s Next Weatherman (2015, TBS)
The Chris Gethard Show (2015-Present, Fusion)
Pilots
What's Going On? with Mike Mitchell (2011, FX)
The Gorburger Show (2015, HBO)
Jim Carrey NRA Song for Brady Campaign: Cold Hand Dead Edit
In March 2013, Funny Or Die created the video, “Cold Dead Hand” starring Jim Carrey as both a country singer and former NRA president, Charles Heston.[40]
In the video, Carrey is joined by singers portraying Mahatma Gandhi, Abraham Lincoln, and John Lennon, all of whom were assassinated by gunmen, as they perform on “Hee Haw”,
