Samantha Bee presents This Is Not A Game, the trivia phone game to encourage higher voter turnout

Full Frontal with Samantha Bee might not have won an Emmy this past weekend, but they’re paying it forward anyhow, with a new trivia phone game that can win you cash prizes in the hopes of encouraging voter turnout this November. Presenting…This Is Not A Game. Available in iOS and Android versions, the app runs […]

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I Used Funny or Die’s Pitch App for a Month, and This Is What It Was Like

I touched the olive-colored olive icon and was in: Pitch, the invite-only joke-writing app developed by Funny or Die. It was the first day of its wide release, in late July, when there were about 900 users. Everyone, but especially the app’s creator, Matt Klinman, and the app’s editor, Tim Racine, were curious to see […]

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Making a Pitch for comedy writers at Funny or Die

In ye olden times, you’d hear about a comedy friend or friend of a friend claiming to write for The Tonight Show or Letterman, sending in jokes by fax. In 2017, what’s a fax? Funny or Die has not only made an app for that, but also perhaps revolutionized the process of finding new comedy […]

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Laughable podcast app celebrates version 2.0 with an ‘Artists Collective’ live showcase

As the comedy boom enters its final explosive phases, more and more entrepreneurs are figuring out how to make the most out of it, if not also a bit of profit, too. I’m taking a look at some of these businesses this week… For years, I told people I didn’t have a podcast because there […]

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