Pick an unusual or funny object and place it on their desk for a week.
If people have no original reporting to add, they instead try to come up with something clever or funny to say.
The show received mixed reviews from American critics ahead of its premiere, with the New York Daily News declaring it "neither daring or funny".
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People always have turned to movies during hard times, Basinger said, but it's oversimplifying to say light or funny narratives will succeed in a recession and serious subject matter won't.
If we all lived in fear that our links or funny pictures or clever videos could get us or the site we were socializing on taken offline, how would we interact online at all?
Traits on offer included some which a pilot study indicated people associate with a sense of psychological stability (such as being trustworthy or reliable), some that are associated with psychological instability (being spontaneous or adventurous, for example) and some with no real relevance to instability or stability (like being loving or funny).
The way he'd turn a line, or spin on his heels, or make something funny, or out of nowhere make me cry - I just never knew what was coming next.
To show followers he's human, he'll occasionally share music he likes or a funny video.
Touch your heart, or a nerve, or your funny bone.
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Some like CAA are starting their own funds or partnering with private equity for their clients in ventures such as Funny or Die.
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You wouldn't laugh during a conference where the boss says quarterly earnings are at an all-time low but you would laugh if the boss told a funny (or at least he thinks it's funny) joke.
Funny or Die has a partnership with HBO, which, like CNN, is owned by Time Warner.
Go to the beach, go out for a sail, play golf or read a funny book about happy things.
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Funny or Die plans to release its movie, which will clock in between 60 and 75 minutes, on April 15.
Whereas if you're sitting in a balcony watching it on the stage, you're saying, 'So, is this funny or not?
Kids know the short clips on "Funny or Die, " don't they, even if they never caught the Stooges online or DVD.
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Will Ferrell's uninhibited Web site Funny or Die has had 200 million views in the last year, but celebrity videos aren't serialized.
Some of it could be things set in a game world that use the game characters in a funny or dramatic way.
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Web sites like Funny or Die and College Humor operate as loosely run studios, producing material that viewers vote up and down.
Not that you were funny or sad, but that the brand means something more to them now than before you ran the ad.
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Originally slated for release on April 15, Funny or Die said it decided to delay the debut in light of the Boston tragedy.
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He said the project began as one of the short-form sketches Funny or Die is best known for: a spoof trailer for a Jobs biopic.
Some viral videos succeed because they are funny or shocking, but the best succeed because they expose viewers to a new idea that they want to share.
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It can include stipulations such as "no physical contact" - or "no funny business", as one parent put it - and the procedure is completed with the mahr.
He costars on the hit HBO series Bored to Death and his Funny or Die web series, Between Two Ferns, has become must-see viewing for the hipster set.
He also set up comedy website Funny Or Die and has reprised his role as Ron Burgundy in Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues, due to be released later this year.
And even Funny Or Die took time out to spoof the Royals when there are plenty of Americans who are doing stupid things and deserve to be made fun of.
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One of several viral videos he's done for the Funny or Die site, the spoof shows a lighter side of his range that hasn't received much attention, says the 47-year-old actor.
The sorority email is amusing when Michael Shannon reads it on Funny Or Die or when you think of it as a great dark comedy monologue for Parker Posey to recite.
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Hollywood talent agency CAA launched the comedy platform Funny or Die, Turner and Warner Brothers partnered to run Media Camp, and just recently the New York Times launched timeSpace.
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