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Todd Glass Asks People If Back In The Day Was Really That Much Better

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Todd Glass wants to get to the bottom of this fixation of the past or, rather, living “back in the day” as if it was somehow better than the present. So, he asked people on the street their opinion and, if they opted for “back in the day” as a better time period, he revealed some surprising facts about how bad it was in the past to see if they would change their mind.

Not only does Todd make a great point, but he also makes a man-on-the-street segment delightfully all his own. Watch it here.

Fox Adds Funny or Die Exec Conor Welch as VP of Comedy

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Fox Adds Funny or Die Exec Conor Welch as VP of Comedy

With Kevin Reilly out, Fox is having to switching up their ranks quite a bit. Namely, Conor Welch will be joining Fox as their VP of Comedy after serving as an executive at Funny or Die and working at Ben Stiller‘s Red Hour.

Given how Fox tried to bring an Adult Swim/Funny or Die sensibility with Fox ADHD, we hope that Welch will continue to be in that ball park.

Adam McKay, Ruben Fleischer, and Rawson Thurber Being Considered to Replace Edgar Wright as “Ant-Man” Director

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Adam McKay, Ruben Fleischer, and Rawson Thurber Being Considered to Replace Edgar Wright as “Ant-Man” Director

Citing creative differences, Edgar Wright has left his post as director of the upcoming Ant-Man movie from Marvel Studios. Of course, a search for his replacement has been immediately underway with the aforementioned names of Adam McKay, Ruben Fleischer, and Rawson Thurber being floated around.

Many of you probably know McKay’s filmography/Funny or Die over Fleischer’s or Thurber’s, but know that Fleischer and Thurber helmed Zombieland and Dodgeball, respectively. Wright leaving the project is sad, but we’ll be intrigued what any one of the three will do.

Norm MacDonald Gives Great Advice That Only Norm Would Give in Commencement Speech

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Norm MacDonald isn’t one for mincing words. That’s why the commencement speech he just gave is to the point and hones in on a poignant advice.

Watch it here at Funny or Die.

2014 Winners for Comedy/Humor

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2014 Winners for Comedy/Humor

Congratulations to Team Coco, Funny or Die, Badman from College Humor and Front Page Films, Jimmy Kimmel, Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee, and The Onion for all taking home Webby Awards this year and giving the Internet some damn good laughs over the last year.

Billy Eichner Asks Drew Barrymore If Drew Barrymore Would Like That

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Billy On The Street took one of their games to the next level by having the very subject of the game play the game itself. Of course, we’re talking about Drew Barrymore being a contestant in Would Drew Barrymore Like That?

As you might imagine, Drew starts to suspect how well she knows herself vs. Billy. Watch it all go down here.

Will Jesse Ventura Run For President? James Adomian and Funny or Die Have an Answer

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Funny or Die has James Adomian reprise his amazing impression of Jesse Ventura to answer, sort of, whether Ventura will make a presidential run in 2016.

We hope he does just so more of these videos get made. For now, watch this one now.

So Many Nominees and Categories in Comedy Along for This Year’s Webby Awards

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So Many Nominees and Categories in Comedy Along for This Year’s Webby Awards

The Simpsons, The Pete Holmes Show, Above Average, College Humor, Funny or Die, Conan O’Brien, Billy on The Street, The Onion, Between Two Ferns, Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee, Kid President, Burning Love, and more are up for honors of being the best in the Internet in various disciplines ranging from Comedy: Long Form or Series to Social Content and Marketing: Humor and everything in between for this year’s Webby Awards.

You can actually vote for your favorites that will be announced on Apr. 29th from above as well as wonder if there are currently more categories in The Primetime Emmys or The Webby Awards.

LA Film Fest and Funny or Die’s Make Em LAFF Competition Taking Submissions

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LA Film Fest and Funny or Die’s Make Em LAFF Competition Taking Submissions

The LA Film Festival and Funny or Die have joined forces for a short film/web video comedy competition for underrepresented communities in the comedy world.

If you have a video under 5 min that highlights your voice as “artists of color, women and/or LGBT” and submit before May 9th, 2014, then you could win cash, a talent holding deal, and more.

Best of all, it’s free to submit.

Get Your Tour of LA Traffic Now From Tony Hale and Funny or Die

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Why see Hollywood Blvd. or celebrity homes when you can just get literally caught up in one LA’s most notable attributes?

Go see LA Traffic Tours with Tony Hale and Funny or Die because, mostly, you’re going to see traffic anyway and why not have a tour guide to get you through it.

The Oddball Comedy Festival Is Returning and You Could Be A Part of It

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This Summer, Funny or Die is embarking on their massive comedy festival tour known as Oddball and, this time around, they’re holding a contest to find a stand up comedian to join Oddball.

More details are here or you can watch this promo then get more details/enter into the contest here.

Funny or Die’s The Occasional Becomes Full Fledged Website

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Funny or Die’s The Occasional Becomes Full Fledged Website

Funny or Die has brought their “Journal of American Humor” to the World Wide Web by putting The Occasional online.

So now, you don’t need an iPad to enjoy it.

Microsoft In Talks to Partner with France’s Internet Video Site Dailymotion

February 27, 2014

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Microsoft In Talks to Partner with France’s Internet Video Site Dailymotion

If this potential partnership happens with Dailymotion and Microsoft and Dailymotion gains serious traction in the States, you’ll have to seriously think about where to upload your sketches and parody videos between them and YouTube, Vimeo and Funny or Die or whether to do all four.

It wouldn’t be out of the realm of possibility if, in a few years, there were bidding wars for hosting funny viral videos between them all much like studios do for scripts, projects, and properties.

Make a Movie with Jean Claude Van Damme Doing a Bunch of Stuff on Green Screen

February 18, 2014

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Make a Movie with Jean Claude Van Damme Doing a Bunch of Stuff on Green Screen

Funny or Die has gotten together with Jean Claude Van Damme and shot him doing a bunch of the types of action scenes that got him famous in front of green screen.

You can get the green screen footage and make your own Van Damme action (or another genre if you so choose) that you want as part of the JCVD Make My Movie Challenge.

The best one wins a prize and the deadline to submit is 3/3, but we’re wondering how long it will take for someone to put cats in the background.

Watch Crowdsourced “Our RoboCop Remake” Right Now

February 7, 2014

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Our RoboCop Remake hails from over 50 filmmakers from Channel 101, Funny or Die, and more banding together and making over 50 different sections of RoboCop.

The result is awesome, hilarious, absurd, spectacular, and so much more. So, with that being said, go watch it right now because it’s online in full.

Here’s a Brand New Between Two Ferns with Zach Galifianakis Just in Time for The Holidays

December 18, 2013

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Samuel L. Jackson, Tobey Maguire, and Arcade Fire join Zach Galifianakis in the latest episode of Between Two Ferns/how awkward a good portion of Christmas parties will be this year.

Either way, you win because it’s a brand spanking new episode of Between Two Ferns right here, right now.

December 11, 2013

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Join Funny or Die and Friends to Help #FreeShez from Will Ferrell

Shez Cassim got put in jail in the United Arab Emirates for 8 months and counting because of this video clearly intended to be just a funny video.

Join Funny Or Die and Friends to Help #FreeShez. Will Ferrell, Patton Oswalt, Adam McKay, Wayne Federman, Chris Mintz-Plasse, and many more comedy friends express their support to #FreeShez.

(Source: http://www.funnyordie.com/)

#FreeShez, an American Thrown in Jail in United Arab Emirates Over Internet Parody Video

December 8, 2013

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A clip of the pretty innocuous video is in this report by TYT.

Billy On The Street Returns for 3rd Season in March

December 6, 2013

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Billy On The Street Returns for 3rd Season in March

Billy Eichner will be frantically roaming the streets of NYC with the likes of Lena Dunham, Seth Meyers, Amy Poehler, Nick Offerman, even Lindsay Lohan, and more for this latest season of Billy On The Street.

Make sure to catch the season 3 premiere on Mar. 12th 11PM on Fuse.

Nikki Finke Deadline Fall Out as Told by Funny or Die

December 2, 2013

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A few weeks ago mysterious Hollywood insider blogger Nikki Finke had a falling out with the site she created Deadline, one of the world’s leading entertainment news sources.

Well, instead of looking up all the details, we’d rather watch this “dramatization” by Funny or Die that’s pretty close what we imagined to what happened.

Funny or Die’s Occasional To Be Published Online

November 25, 2013

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Funny or Die’s Occasional To Be Published Online

After being distributed pretty much just for the iPad, Funny or Die is taking it’s digital magazine The Occasional into the more appropriate digital space of the whole Internet.

If you haven’t had an iPad to see what they’re up to, the Occasional has had some really great features and spreads that deserve to be reblogged/RT’d/whatever the verb for Pinterest is.

Comedy Central Orders ‘The Chris Gethard Show’ Pilot from Funny or Die and Zach Galifianakis

November 21, 2013

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Comedy Central Orders ‘The Chris Gethard Show’ Pilot from Funny or Die and Zach Galifianakis

Sure, there’s plenty of paperwork to be done and Comedy Central does have to see a pilot (it’s not like there’s 116 episodes of it lying around anywhere, right?), but we can only hope this amazing news becomes even more amazing sooner rather than later by getting to The Chris Gethard Show as a full fledged television show.

Also, please note that Funny or Die, as far as we’re concerned, is swinging a pretty great batting average on TV with Billy on the Street, “@midnight w/Chris Hardwick”, and hopefully The Chris Gethard Show.

Funny or Die Releases 2nd Feature Length Film in Limited Run

October 4, 2013

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Funny or Die Releases 2nd Feature Length Film in Limited Run

Funny or Die is continuing to expands their modes of distribution in releasing another feature length film, though, this time, for a limited period before it gets released in other formats.

You can watch the 91 min. We Are Young, now, for free at Funny or Die.

Justin Bieber Does an Episode of Between Two Ferns with Zach Galifianakis

September 26, 2013

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Funny or Die didn’t hire any lookalike to play Justin Bieber for the latest episode of Between Two Ferns with Zach Galifianakis.

It really happened.

Also, Zach got to air what a probably a lot of us (well, a lot of us who aren’t Beliebers anyway) would want to say to Bieber if we ever had to interview him. Watch it here.

Hannibal Buress Brings His “Gibberish Rap” vs. Actual Rapper Bun B

September 5, 2013

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Minus the Hartford controversy, there’s plenty of great hijinks being had at Funny or Die’s Oddball Comedy & Oddity Festival/Tour.

For instance, while Oddball stopped in Houston, Hannibal Buress made fun of some rap lyrics, specifically some by Bun B, then get confronted by Bun B, then doing a rendition of Hannibal’s single “Gibberish Rap” in response to Bun B asking how Hannibal can critique lyrics when he’s a comedian.

Watch it all go down here.