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Baratunde Is Joining The Daily Show, I Will Helm Cultivated Wit & Global Warming Is Still More Important Than Either Of Those Things

Comedy Central announced today that Baratunde will become the supervising producer for digital at The Daily Show. It’s news that Craig, Adam and I have been excited about since the moment Baratunde told us. Not excited like we wanted him gone, but excited like it’s an awesome opportunity and he’s ... read more

Brian Janosch

August 27, 2015

Trying Out Comedy Hack Day at Conferences

This week we flew up to Toronto to test out a new kind of Comedy Hack Day. CMDC had us build and demo two Comedy Hack Day-style projects at their conference. We brought six Comedy Hack Day all-stars (Zoe, Toby, Matt, Derek, Kim, and Aliya) and made two projects: Tab Champ and ... read more

Craig Cannon

May 7, 2015

Digipressions Behind WellDeserved

Last week we published our first Comedy Hack Day product video. It looks like this: We’re thrilled that people like it. We had a blast making the thing and would’ve been happy with 5k plays so all of this is gravy, honestly. However, because we did get a bunch of ... read more

Craig Cannon

March 20, 2015

We made the self-important startup video to end all self-important startup videos

You know those startup videos? The ones that explain a product as you see people laughing in parks and b-roll of the Golden Gate Bridge? We made one for the most recent Comedy Hack Day winner–WellDeserved, the premier marketplace for unused privilege. We had a ton of fun creating this ... read more

Craig Cannon

March 11, 2015

Cultivated Wit Issues Formal Hollywood Press Release On CEO’s TV Gig

San Francisco, CA (October 8, 2014) – Cultivated Wit, a company that produces events and content worth hyperlinking in a lede, issued a press release today announcing that CEO and Co-Founder Baratunde Thurston will be embedded within Participant Media’s TV network, Pivot, as a co-host on TakePart Live. Thurston joins ... read more

Horace

October 9, 2014

Hooray Humans! Miranda July Releases Somebody

Miranda July has just released two things that are wonderful: Somebody, a messaging app that encourages strangers to deliver your texts to friends verbally, and a short film that imagines four increasingly awesome stories around the app. When Somebody hit the Burrito Den, our internal Slack channel for goofy stuff, ... read more

Craig Cannon

August 29, 2014

Misuseful: $14 For Sexual Favors & The Unexpected Comedy Of Online Bill Payment

In December 2006, virtual real-estate mogul and real-life millionaire Anshe Chung conducted an interview with CNET inside the virtual walls of a Second Life studio. But not long into the interview, something not-so surprising happened. The conversation was hijacked by a bombardment of flying penises. Pictures and video went viral ... read more

Mike Faley

August 28, 2014

Swoon Of The Week: We Love The Verge’s Profile Of 8-Bit Artists eBoy

Let’s stop speculating about the future of online journalism for 20 minutes, and instead just enjoy the present of online journalism. Specifically, one of the more creative, fun, and masterfully executed videos you’ll ever find under the banner of “news.” Last week The Verge released a profile of eBoy, a ... read more

Brian Janosch

June 25, 2014

Cards Against Humanity’s Max Temkin on the Secret Strengths of Analog Games

We might be launching a series of good talks with good people, or we might not. For the purposes of this blog post, let’s say we are. To kick off Talks With Interesting People, I sat down with Max Temkin, co-creator of Cards Against Humanity, April 24, 2014 in Chicago, Ill. ... read more

Baratunde Thurston

June 12, 2014

Quick Hits: There’s A Real Show Called Sex Box, And It’s Coming To America

One of my last acts as Director of Digital at The Onion was to help sell our channel to YouTube in Spring 2012 when it was launching its first major investment in original content. What The Onion ended up producing (for which I can take no credit) is some of ... read more

Baratunde Thurston

May 21, 2014

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