Tag: Funny or Die

Facebook “has completely destroyed independent digital comedy,” according to Funny or Die’s Matt Klinman, who was recently interviewed following mass layoffs at the company.

Comedian Billy Eichner announced on Thursday that he has teamed up with the film company Funny or Die for an initiative called ‘Glam Up the Midterms,’ intended to encourage millennials to participate in the 2018 midterm elections.

Prominent black celebrities, including actors Yvette Nicole Brown, Meagan Good, and Dulé Hill, star in a Funny or Die video posted Thursday urging Americans to “take Black Friday back” by donating to The Collective PAC, an organization committed to ‘fund and elect 45 progressive black candidates in 2017 & 2018.’

Less than two months after she mocked Christians and Trump voters in a promo video for her new standup special, comedian and actress Sarah Silverman says she wants her forthcoming Hulu talk show, I Love You, America, to build bridges between people on opposite sides of the political spectrum.

A bevy of Hollywood’s biggest celebrities starred in several on-screen campaigns to help build support around the passage of the Affordable Care Act, commonly called Obamacare. Now, more than seven years after it was signed into law, President Obama’s crowning legislative achievement is likely going to collapse under its own bureaucratic weight.

David Letterman and Sen. Al Franken were both feeling frustrated about pessimism around the topic of climate change — so they got together to talk about it. Thankfully they invited some cameras along, too, with the help of Funny or Die and the Primetime Emmy Award-winning “Years of Living Dangerously.”

Hulu has ordered ten half-hour episodes of I Love You, America, a new comedic political talk show hosted by Sarah Silverman and produced by left-wing comedy outlet Funny or Die.

Celebrities including Susan Sarandon, Dulé Hill and Lizzy Caplan know why President Donald Trump issued an executive order last week temporarily prohibiting some immigration to the United States — it’s because he’s working from an alternative, “cursed” Constitution.

Celebrities are making a final, profanity-filled plea to Americans to vote for Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton with just a few days remaining until Election Day.

Actress and Hillary Clinton campaign surrogate Lena Dunham stars as “MC Pantsuit” in a new pro-Clinton rap video released on liberal comedy website Funny or Die Wednesday night.

Ben Affleck became the latest A-list celebrity to star in a get-out-the-vote PSA Wednesday, as part of NextGen Climate and Funny or Die’s “Everyone Votes!” campaign.

Pop icon Madonna joined her colleague Katy Perry in getting naked to encourage Americans to head to the polls on Election Day.

Pop star and outspoken Hillary Clinton supporter Katy Perry stripped down to her birthday suit to head to the ballot box in a new voter registration PSA produced by liberal comedy website Funny or Die.

Days after having Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton appear as a guest on his popular Funny or Die web series Between Two Ferns, actor Zach Galifianakis said he wouldn’t extend the same invitation to Republican Donald Trump.

On Thursday morning, the Funny or Die website released a comedic interview between Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton and actor Zach Galifianakis on Between Two Ferns, a fictional talk show regularly featured on the website.

Liberal comedy website and production company Funny or Die has closed its offices in San Mateo, California and laid off 37 employees, or about 30 percent of its workforce.

Liberal comedy website and functioning Democratic Party outreach vehicle Funny or Die recruited actor Ken Jeong for a video mocking Donald Trump that aired in primetime during the Democratic National Convention Monday night.

Canadian comedian Tom Green — who was fired by Donald Trump during the 2009 season of NBC’s Celebrity Apprentice — is back with a retaliatory video releaesed on liberal comedy website Funny or Die that features the presumptive GOP presidential nominee rapping to an audience featuring Nazis and Ku Klux Klan members.

Liberal comedy website Funny or Die held a ten-hour stand-up comedy marathon late Wednesday into early Thursday morning to show support for the current Democrat push for more gun control. The marathon — which reportedly began Wednesday night and lasted until 4:30

Jennifer Lawrence has never met Donald Trump, but the actress did reveal what she planned to say to him if they ever do meet.

During a red carpet interview for the premiere of his latest film, Johnny Depp suggested that a Donald Trump presidency would be “exciting” for America because the billionaire real estate mogul would be the “actual last president of the United States.”

Comedy website and cultural arm of the Democratic Party Funny or Die released a new sketch Thursday skewering North Carolina’s recent passage of a religious freedom law with a fake tourism commercial highlighting what critics call the law’s “anti-gay” bias. North Carolina’s

Johnny Depp ripped into GOP presidential frontrunner Donald Trump during a lecture at Arizona State University on Saturday, where he called him a “brat” and offered up several of his best impressions of the billionaire candidate.

Just in time to celebrate Donald Trump’s victory in the New Hampshire primary Tuesday night, leftwing comedy website Funny or Die has released a star-studded fake Trump biopic based on his book The Art of the Deal with Johnny Depp starring as Trump.

In a “Funny or Die” PSA promoting more gun laws, actor Dennis Quaid claims gun control is an American as football and Taylor Swift.

Rapper and former presidential “candidate” Waka Flocka Flame has his sights set on a new (and arguably more attainable) leadership position – Speaker of the House.

Funny or Die released a preview of the interview that airs Sept. 29 between alleged rape-hoaxer Lena Dunham and Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton. Dunham has a new website up by the name of “Lenny Letter,” and Clinton jokingly told her that she

Jeb Bush’s presidential campaign has explored partnering with the traditionally GOP-hostile comedy website Funny or Die in an effort to expand the candidate’s message to “broader audiences.”

Those who have seen enough red carpet interviews or film press tours know that women are usually asked ubiquitous questions about their style or love lives.

In an interview with the Daily Beast, actress Olivia Wilde said she will throw her support behind Hillary Clinton in the 2016 presidential election, despite having previously urged Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren to run for the post.

A new web series from Daily Show alumnus Aasif Mandvi uses sitcom-style humor to disarm many of the stereotypes surrounding Muslims living in America.

Actors James Van Der Beek and Anna Camp mock both conservatives and Indiana’s new religious freedom law in a new Funny or Die sketch, which pits them as two TV home shopping hosts attempting to discriminate against potentially gay customers.

Funny or Die, the online comedy outlet co-created by funnyman Will Ferrell, has hired a former Obama administration official to manage a new office it will open in Washington, D.C.

A March 12, a Funny or Die public service announcement for the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence features an actor and actress trying to act gangsta with bb guns, waving them around and discussing states in which criminals who “wear leather jackets and scream at women” can most easily carry guns.

Michelle Obama seems funnier than the comedian hosting “Funny or Die.”