The cast of Seeso’s new series Bajillion Dollar Propertie$ stepped aside from playing the various cutthroat people in the world of bajillion dollar real estate to show us all how to truly craft comedy.
Note: the making of craft comedy might differ from the making of comedy that you’re familiar with.
(via Poynter)
Clickhole was founded by The Onion to satirize all the clickbait sites that have risen to prominence online over the last couple of years. One of their biggest targets was Buzzfeed and they made sure to make Buzzfeed style quizzes and listlcles, but with their own absurd twist. The folks at Clickhole were so good at parodying Buzzfeed that, sometimes, the only way to differentiate between the two was the font, graphics, and URL.
Now, “the snake has eaten its own tail” or “life imitates art” or “if you can’t beat’em, join’em” all applies as Buzzfeed has just hired Daniel Kibblesmith, a Clickhole associate editor to be part of their staff. They were impressed with his work and thought his quizzes would work as regular non-parody on Buzzfeed.
What this all means in the long run has yet to be seen, but we do know that this is one way where the Internet has reinforced itself from attempts by others to “break it”.
One of the more informative and funny BuzzFeed videos of late is a series of a questions that many people are curious about when it comes to lesbians.
BuzzFeed got some great answers to those questions that come from none other than the hilarious Cameron Esposito along with her fiancee Rhea Butcher.
Watch Questions You Want To Ask A Lesbian here.
(via The Hollywood Reporter)
BuzzFeed has raised $50 million to bank their newly rebranded BuzzFeed Motion Pictures. They’ll be making .gifs, full length feature films, and anything in between.
Given their branding, we’re guessing that there will be heavy comedic bent to a lot of content if it already isn’t actually a comedy web video/short/feature already.
Honestly, this could a multitude of directions in regards to format, tone, and quality, especially since BuzzFeed has been posting actual long form articles that aren’t in the form of lists as of late.
The Onion’s Clickhole Launched Today
The clickbait parody site by The Onion known as Clickhole officially launched today and it’s as perfectly satirical as you would hope it to be. Listicles, nostalgia, personal quizzes abound there in a way with headlines that The Onion pulls off the best.
Interestingly enough, the parody of clickbait still makes us want to click, which kind of makes it clickbait, but the kind that we feel less guilted into checking out.
The Onion Launching Clickhole.com To Stick It to BuzzFeed and Upworthy
Well, The Onion is laying down a new gauntlet by launching Clickhole.com to make fun of the listicles and aspirational, dramatic headlines that both Buzzfeed and Upworthy have made themselves famous for on the Internet.
Already, there’s a pretty great primer for Clickhole.com right now before it’s launch in June. We’re really curious how or if Buzzfeed and Upworthy will go toe-to-toe with them.
Watch Clip of Romantic Comedy You’d Hope To Get From Amy Poehler & Paul Rudd
David Wain’s latest film They Came Together starring Amy Poehler and Paul Rudd is premiering at Sundance, but Buzzfeed has an exclusive clip that promises a romantic comedy that what come from a member of The State/a kind of romantic comedy we’ve been waiting to see for awhile.
Click through to watch.