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Funny business
Created: 11/05/2009
Video description: Rafe Needleman interviews two experts on the business of online humor: Ben Huh, CEO of the Cheezburger Network, the company behind Failblog, ICanHazCheezburger, ThereIFixedIt, and other sites you're probably wasted your lunch hours on; and Ryan Dolan, previously in business development at the Onion, now making a go of it with his own business of selling funny products, 30Watt.

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