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Billy Eichner's Nighttime Show Gets Nominated for a Daytime Emmy

Billy Eichner, host of Fuse's comedy game show Billy on the Street, received a much-deserved Emmy nomination yesterday. Eichner was nominated for a Daytime Emmy Award for "Outstanding Game Show Host," despite the fact that his show airs at night (the Primetime Emmys don't have a category for game shows, so all game show people receive recognition by the Daytime Emmys). Billy on the Street, which is produced by Funny or Die, features Eichner ambushing New York pedestrians with silly trivia questions and challenges. In March, the series wrapped up its second season on cable network Fuse, featuring guest appearances from Will Ferrell, Maya Rudolph, Rashida Jones, and Zachary [...]

Watch Michael Shannon Read a Crazy Letter from a Sorority President

Last week, an insane letter from a sorority president was leaked online and went viral. Funny or Die had Boardwalk Empire's Michael Shannon read the letter for this video to really showcase how crazy the words in it are.

Seth Rogen Is a Big Jerk in This New Funny or Die Video

Here's a new Funny or Die video Seth Rogen made for an Alzheimer's Association event he's hosting called Hilarity for Charity. Like all good charity videos, it involves the spokesperson committing armed robbery, playing Russian roulette, and making meth with Bryan Cranston.

Watch Anna Kendrick Make Her K-Pop Debut on Funny or Die

Here's a new Funny or Die video featuring Oscar nominee Anna Kendrick traveling to South Korea to join the K-pop supergroup F(x). It'll most likely be the best video about an Oscar nominee traveling to South Korea to join a K-Pop supergroup you see all day.

Funny Or Die Invites You to Visit Ryan Gosling's Acting Range

Here's a new Funny Or Die video from staffers Charles Ingram and Nick Corirossi, starring Corirossi as Ryan Gosling, who runs his own open range where he teaches acting lessons. Look for this to  be the Ryan Gosling impression that all future Ryan Gosling impressionists ape a la Dana Carvey's George Bush.

Craig Robinson Will Serenade You

Here's a new video Craig Robinson made for Funny or Die, in which he plays the piano and sings a seductive song, which is how I'm assuming he'll be spending all of his time these days now that The Office is ending.

'iSteve' and the Fun of an Intentionally Half-Assed Biopic

In a scathing review published yesterday on Wired, Mat Honan panned iSteve, Funny Or Die’s 80-minute parody biopic of Steve Jobs, calling it “profoundly unfunny… worse in every way than a sidewalk dentist in Bangkok sans anesthesia.” His review is funny in its own right, though not intentionally; reading it, one gets the strong sense that Honan (a tech reporter) is an admirer of Steve Jobs and that part of what bothered him about iSteve was the film's lack of reverence for its subject.

It's a bit unfair to review iSteve as if it were a feature film — it is, and doesn’t pretend to be anything but, a cheap and extended sketch, a cheeky internet experiment. [...]

Watch Huey Lewis and Weird Al Recreate 'American Psycho' for Funny or Die

Here's Huey Lewis and Weird Al reenacting the Huey Lewis and the News scene from the movie American Psycho in a new video for Funny or Die, with Lewis taking Christian Bale's place in the Patrick Bateman role. Huey Lewis proves here he's much funnier than all of the News combined.

Watch Jim Carrey in the New Funny or Die Video "Cold Dead Hand"

Here's some self-described "biting social satire" from Funny or Die featuring Jim Carrey playing both a country singer and Charlton Heston, who come into conflict with each other over gun rights. The video was written and directed by Charles Ingram and Nick Corirossi, who gave us last week's great Funny or Die video "Ryan Gosling's Acting Range." This will probably be the funniest video you watch all day that has a heavy-handed message about gun rights.

Funny or Die Made a Feature-Length Steve Jobs Biopic

There are currently two Steve Jobs biopics in the works – one that was already filmed starring Ashton Kutcher and another written by Aaron Sorkin – but Funny or Die beat them to the punch and is releasing a Steve Jobs biopic first. The NY Times reports this week that Funny or Die's Ryan Perez wrote and directed a comedic biopic about Jobs called iSteve that stars Justin Long as the Apple mogul and runs somewhere between 60 and 75 minutes in length. Perez wrote the script in three days and shot it in five. The movie also stars James Urbaniak (Venture Bros.) as Bill Gates, Michaela Watkins (SNL) [...]

Sarah Silverman to Star in Her First HBO Special, Produced by Funny or Die

Sarah Silverman is coming to HBO. The pay-cable network announced today that Silverman will be doing her first-ever stand-up special for them, produced by Funny or Die. Entitled Sarah Silverman: We Are Miracles, the hour-long special will film next month and air in the fall. This past year, Silverman has lent her voice to Bob's Burgers and Wreck-It Ralph, and she signed on for a supporting role in Seth MacFarlane's live-action western A Million Ways to Die in the West. She also recently launched the YouTube comedy channel JASH with fellow comedy people Michael Cera, Tim & Eric, and Reggie Watts. We Are Miracles will be Silverman's [...]

Funny or Die Debuts 'iSteve,' Its First Full-Length Movie

Comedy video website Funny or Die has released its first movie this morning. Called iSteve, it's a comedic biopic of Steve Jobs starring Justin Long as the Apple founder and it's  now streaming on FOD. Clocking in at 79 minutes, it's not only the first movie for Funny or Die but also the first biopic of Jobs to see a wide release, beating Ashton Kutcher's Jobs out of the gate. iSteve was written and directed by Funny or Die staffer Ryan Perez, who says he only used Steve Jobs's Wikipedia page and a few interviews as source material. It took Perez five days to write the script [...]

Watch the Trailer for Funny or Die's Steve Jobs Movie 'iSteve'

Here's a new teaser trailer for iSteve, a feature-length Steve Jobs biopic made by Funny or Die that will debut on the website Monday, April 15th. The movie will be somewhere between 60 and 75 minutes in length, and it will be the first Steve Jobs biopic to be released, beating the two real ones. iSteve was written and directed by FOD staffer Ryan Perez, and it stars Justin Long as Jobs, James Urbaniak (Venture Bros.) as Bill Gates, Michaela Watkins (SNL) as Melinda Gates, and Jorge Garcia (Lost) as Steve Wozniak. Let's hope this kicks off a "comedy biopics about real people" trend.

Jenny Slate and Gabe Liedman Bring Back 'Bestie X Bestie' for Funny Or Die

After nearly a year and a half away, best friends and comedy partners Jenny Slate and Gabe Liedman brought back their web series Bestie X Bestie for a new episode for Funny Or Die's digital magazine The Occasional. Hopefully, there are more of these on the way, as the two are still really spontaneously funny together.

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