Kinda Funny is an online entertainment company that produces videos and

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s on video game culture, film, television, and comics. Kinda Funny creates content on two

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channels: The primary Kinda Funny channel features comedy videos such as ''Kinda Funny: The Animated Series'', as well as Kinda Funny's flagship podcast 'The Kinda Funny Podcast' (formerly 'The GameOverGreggy Show'). While Kinda Funny Games is the company's video game arm focusing on

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s and weekly podcast ''The Kinda Funny Gamescast''. Since June 19, 2017, the Kinda Funny Games arm of the company has produced a live, daily, video games news podcast for YouTube and

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, under the name "Kinda Funny Games Daily".

History

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editors Greg Miller and Colin Moriarty created ''The GameOverGreggy Show'' in 2013 as a side project, following the popularity of A Conversation With Colin on Greg's personal YouTube channel, GameOverGreggy. Video producers Nick Scarpino and Tim Gettys, also from IGN, later joined the team. In fall of 2014, they launched a

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for the channel and rebranded it as Kinda Funny. They received $10,000 in funding within the first 24 hours. On January 5, 2015, the Kinda Funny team left IGN to start their own entertainment venture, which would allow them to cover video game topics that had previously been off limits to Kinda Funny due to their conditions with IGN. The new company was funded primarily through viewer support and

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on Patreon. The channel covers games, film, television, and comics, as was covered at IGN, but often touches on other topics such as politics and snack foods. Their crowdfunding had raised $30,000 in the months leading up to their decision, and $10,000 the day of their announcement. Soon after, they raised close to $35,000 a month between two Patreon accounts. Ben Kuchera of ''

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'' viewed the news as evidence that fan-funded content had reached new levels, and remarked that content-creators served to make more money when fans paid creators directly rather than the creators using advertising to raise money from fans. The team also continued to freelance for IGN after they left. On March 30, 2016, Kinda Funny formed a partnership with

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by joining the LetsPlay Network and now occasionally appear in video content on the LetsPlay channel, as well as selling merchandise through the Rooster Teeth online store and participate in LetsPlay events. New Kinda Funny content featured during one of ''GameSpot'' two stage shows at the 2016

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. On March 13, 2017, Colin Moriarty announced his resignation from the company following outcry over a controversial joke posted on Twitter, citing a difference in creative vision with the rest of the Kinda Funny co-founders. In January 2019, Kinda Funny announced Kinda Funny 4.0. This included the end of The Morning Show and the beginning of many new weekly shows. These include Internet Explorerz, KF/AF, Screencast, Party Mode, and Debatable. The group also retooled their podcast lineup; most notably they retired the long running GameOverGreggy Podcast and replaced it with The Kinda Funny Podcast. The Kinda Funny initiative was kicked off with a month long Patreon fundraiser drive.

Shows

Shows include:

General

* Kinda Funny In Review * Kinda Funny Morning Show * KF/AF * We Have Cool Friends * Internet Explorerz * NickNames * Screencast * The Kinda Funny Podcast * Greg's Comic Book Club * Love, Sex, & Stuff (formerly known as Love & Sex Stuff) * Cooking with Greggy * Debatable * Kinda Funny Doodles * Kinda Funny: The Animated Series * Kinda Funny Showdown (Variety Gameshow) * Colin & Greg Live

Gaming related

* Kinda Funny Games Daily * Kinda Funny Gamescast * Party Mode * A Conversation With Colin * The PlayStation VR Show * Kinda Funny Reacts * Kinda Funny First Impressions

Kinda Funny's game of the year

* 2014 Greg: South Park: The Stick of Truth / Tim: Super Smash Bros. 3DS/WiiU / Colin:

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* 2015 Greg: Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain / Tim: Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain / Colin:

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References

External links

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