Thursday, February 17, 2011

Funny or Die

What I found most interesting about the Funny or Die website is its expansion. Starting from small videos outside of an office, it now has a television and film section. Mike said in one of the lectures I attended, very briefly, that his ultimate goal would be to pull an Oprah and have his own network for Funny or Die. With all the undertone of anger he had towards television networks, it makes sense that he would want to bypass all that and be in charge of his own ideas on his own network.

It got me thinking, isn't that practically what he is doing now? He has a website that contains Funny or Die's original videos, some that are webisodes like on a television network. Is the next wave of media not television, but perhaps the internet? What he is doing now is like having his own television network. With websites like Hulu, which now shows original content, becoming more and more popular, is it possible that the television cable networks will be replaced by internet original content.

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