Funny Or Die
Funny or Die logo.png
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”,

Donald Trump stumbles on David Duke, KKK

[background chatter]
These days, you hear a lot
of things about the KKK,
and it's hard to know what's
fact, and what's fiction.
That's why we're here to
dispel these misconceptions
once and for all.
Not all Klansmen
support Donald Trump!
The KKK is a group
of white supremacists
dedicated to restoring
America to it's
milky white
heritage.
But one thing that
we're not, is stupid.
If we elect Donald Trump,
we're electing somebody
with no government
experience to the
most powerful position
in the world.
That's just crazy.
True, he is a racist,
but for some of us just
being a racist,
it isn't enough.
Sure, there are some of
us in the KKK that think that
Trump is the best way to
a racially pure America,
but to lump us in with
them is not just ignorant,
it's insulting.
Considering the way Trump
is running his campaign,
accusing someone of
supporting him is like
the same as calling
him an idiot.
And I did not spend two
full years going to school
in the grandmammy's hay
barn to be called an idiot.
When it comes to Trump,
we in the KKK say
♪ Nay, nay, nay ♪
♪ Come again
another day ♪
You can say a lot of
things about the KKK.
You can say that our
dresses look stupid.
You can say that we
marry our sisters.
You could say that we're a
little more than scared,
hate mongering, wimps,
hate mongering wimps,
who murdered thousands
of innocent black people,
because we couldn't face
up to the fact that the
white man's grip on
America was weakening.
But one thing you can't is
that we all support
Donald Trump.
That's right.
A lot of us support
Ted Cruz.
So as the GOP nomination
draws ever closer,
let me remind you guys,
don't just say that Trump is a
racist, bigoted, sexist,
totalitarian, and ignore
all the bad parts
in his platform.
Think hard,
and you'll see,
he's just not the
man for the job.
And remember,
not all Klansmen
support Donald Trump!
And another thin