Cultivated Wit

We Make Fun

Who We Are

We are a company that knows how to make fun in every sense of the phrase. Combining comedy, technology, media, and strategy backgrounds, we strive to make the tech space more creative and the creative world more innovative. And also, freedom. Learn More

  • Baratunde Thurston

    CEO & Hashtagger-In-Chief

    Thinks big thoughts. Loves sound of own voice. Travels and tweets hard.

  • Brian Janosch

    Creative Director & Midwesterner

    Loves creative process. Believes in journalism, the Green Bay Packers.

  • Craig Cannon

    Product Director & Doomsday Prepper

    Designs things. Codes things. Enjoys sleeping outside.

Our Network

We are more than our employees. We are a network of comedic humans, writers, developers, artists, and unmanned aerial vehicles excited by the idea of pushing the bounds of creativity. If you believe in using technology as more than distribution and deploying wit to infuse the world with some much-needed humanity, you are one of us.

What We Do

  • We Talk To You

    There’s a bunch of knowledge in our collective brain space. Translating that knowledge into words, we speak into microphones and project into rooms full of people. It is a thing of beauty. More

  • We Talk With You

    Want to bring us into your office to work together on generating creative ideas? Provided you have coffee and comfortable chairs, we’re open to being swayed. More

  • Creative Projects

    In those rare instances when talking doesn’t resolve all the world’s problems, we are willing to roll up our sleeves, untuck our shirts, and loosen our imaginary ties. Once we’ve adjusted our clothing, we build products, campaigns, and experiences on our own or in loving partnership with others. Here are some examples. More

  • Comedy Hack Day

    Nothing may better encapsulate “what we do” than Comedy Hack Day. We lock comedians and developers in a room filled with beer and hummus, encourage them to form teams, and hold a contest to see who can create the most hilarious products. More

Where You Come In

Whiskey Friday

Greetings. You’ve made it this far, how ‘bout a drink? As you can gather from the name, this is the cozy little corner of our site dedicated to the advancement of gathering and drinking whiskey on Fridays. Go ahead, make yourself comfortable and click on through to learn more.

Event Schedule

We host events. We join events hosted by other people, often uninvited. Here are some items that fit the description of the prior two sentences.

Contact Us

We have an advanced digital answering service designed to process your queries whether you want to feature us on the cover of your magazine, compensate us for a creative project, or labor on our behalf without compensation. answeringmachine@cultivatedwit.com

Section Four

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Section Four

Section 4 is perhaps the most important of all the four sections of our site. By now you have either read (skimmed) everything else on the page or you simply clicked “Section 4” at the top because it looked different and you’re a curious person. Either way, we like you already.

This section is dedicated to practicing what we preach when we say “we make fun.” It’s also dedicated to Brian’s dog Gizmo (1991-2005) because if it can be dedicated to a cliche like “practice what we preach” why can’t it also be dedicated to a dead dog?

Anyway, over time we hope to grow Section 4 into a place for visitors to play around with all sorts of strange and wonderful things. Maybe someday Section 4 will overtake the whole site and we’ll stop making money but we won’t care because look at all the cool stuff!

Until then…

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