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EXCLUSIVE: MP Cunningham and Jeremy Jackson’s new scripted comedy Agua Donkeys has landed at Quibi and will be released this spring. Inspired by the short film of the same name, Agua Donkeys will be produced by Funny or Die and nd 3 Arts Entertainment. In the new series where it’s always summer, MP (Cunningham) and…

For Jonathan Van Ness, best known as the grooming expert within Queer Eye's Fab Five, the summer of 2019 came with mixed emotions. Seeing the Netflix reality series pick up six more Emmy nominations was, of course, cause for celebration. Just two months earlier, though, the pop culture aficionado said goodbye to HBO's…

Jerry O, a new entertainment talk and comedy series hosted by Jerry O’Connell, has tapped Talking Dead executive producer Brandon Monk as EP/showrunner. Co-produced by Lionsgate’s Debmar-Mercury and Funny Or Die, Jerry O debuts Monday, August 12, for a three-week preview on Fox Television Stations. "Brandon's…

EXCLUSIVE: Netflix’s movie adaptation of Funny or Die’s Between Two Ferns talk show has added Ryan Gaul (The Last O.G., Bajillion Dollar Properties), Lauren Lapkus (Crashing, Orange is the New Black) and UCB’s Jiavani Linayao. The trio will join Zach Galifianakis’ crew in the feature that will be directed by Comedy Ban…

There are lavish Emmy campaigns with elaborate FYC spaces, panels and food for TV Academy voters in addition to custom-made mailers. And then there are shows with little on no Emmy budgets, forcing their producers to get creative. That is the case with Comedy Central’s Corporate and the team from Funny or Die, who had…

Funny Or Die premiered a new talk show today with comedian and actress Tig Notaro. The new series is a celebrity talk show with Notaro as host — but her knowledge of TV, film and famous people is really bad. That’s why the new series is titled Under A Rock with Tig Notaro. The first episode (which you can watch above)…

After subbing for Wendy Williams, Jerry O'Connell is getting a show of his own. Jerry O, a new entertainment talk and comedy series hosted by the actor and TV personality will get a three-week preview this summer. Per Fox stations’ limited-run model, the series from Lionsgate's Debmar-Mercury and Funny Or Die is set…

Nora Kirkpatrick (The Office, Edward Sharpe) and Funny or Die are teaming on The Coop, an eight-episode interactive series for Eko. Production is underway with casting to begin this week. Created by Kirkpatrick, who directs all episodes, the first season of The Coop is described as Big Brother meets an Agatha Christie…

Will Ferrell’s Cord Hosenbeck and Molly Shannon’s Tish Cattigan are returning to “host” coverage of the 2019 Rose Parade. Last year, the pair debuted via Funny or Die on Amazon Prime Video; for this edition, the spoofy coverage will be simulcast live on FunnyOrDie.com and its social platforms as well as on…

The podcast world is about to get classier. Will Ferrell is reviving his legendary Anchorman character Ron Burgundy with a new podcast appropriately titled The Ron Burgundy Podcast. The podcast is set to launch on the iHeartRadio Podcast Network and will be available for your listening pleasure in early 2019. It will…

IFC is developing five comedy projects for series consideration, including one from exec producer Margaret Cho and another from Funny or Die. The shows in the running at IFC are Almost Asian, which chronicles the life of a mixed-race millennial in Los Angeles; Annika Erotica, following a young Colorado pastor who…

A year after Billy Eichner left TruTV and took his show Billy on the Street with him, he is coming back with new episodes of his popular man-on-the-street series. The eight short-form web-only episodes hail from Billy on the Street producer Funny Or Die, in partnership with Lyft Entertainment. The list of celebrities…