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Funhaus (pronounced fun-house) is an American comedy group, YouTube channel and Los Angeles-based division of Rooster Teeth Productions. Composed primarily of former members of Machinima’s Inside Gaming, the channel focuses on the production of comedy video content around video games, usually in the form of gameplays, streams, comedy sketches and variety shows. With close to 1.4 million subscribers as of August 2018, Funhaus is one of Rooster Teeth’s most popular channels. Funhaus’s main cast is composed of Adam Kovic, Bruce Greene, Elyse Willems, James Willems, Lawrence Sonntag and Matt Peake.

Origin
Prior to joining Rooster Teeth, Kovic, Greene, Willems, Sonntag and Peake (along with Funhaus alumni Sean Poole and Joel Rubin) were part of Inside Gaming, a video game-based comedy section of Machinima. In November 2014 Rooster Teeth was acquired by Fullscreen Media, a move that RT CEO Matt Hullum said would give them the resources and tools to expand and compete against other producers. As part of this expansion, on February 2015 it was confirmed that Rooster Teeth would be establishing an office in Los Angeles, from which the newly created channel Funhaus would produce content. With this move Rooster Teeth also hired the Inside Gaming cast, which released the first teaser of the channel on February 5th.

Cast changes
In November 2015 Funhaus confirmed the addition of comedienne, writer and producer Elyse Willems to the main cast. The cast of Funhaus was solidified in six personalities (much like its sister channel Achievement Hunter) with the departure in 2016 of Joel Rubin and Sean Poole.

Content
Funhaus’s content focuses mainly in improvisational, surreal and very often controversial humor around video games. Their most common set up is similar to that of game streamers, with the screen toggling between gameplay and the cast, where one of them plays while the rest make jokes and comment on the game.

Recurrent shows
Some of the content that Funhaus uploads regularly is:


 * Dude Soup: Funhaus’s weekly podcast about videogames featuring the whole cast plus some of the crew plus occasional guests.
 * Open Haus: a weekly comedy Q&A show.
 * Filmhaus: a movie podcast
 * Talking Stalkings: an extremely chaotic talk show hosted by James Willems featuring the screening of 90s television show Silk Stalkings, recurring guests such as Rahul Kohli, and a house band (The OC Ska Kids).
 * Demo Disk Gameplay: the gang plays demo discs for PC from the early 2000s. On the later stages of the show they also incorporated gameplay using old Xbox 360 demo disks.

Sex Swing
Originally based on a joke from a GTA V gameplay, in RTX 2016 it was confirmed that Funhaus would be producing an animated series about a metal band with characters voiced by the Funhaus cast. It premiered on RT’s website in February 2017. After airing 6 episodes it came to a stop, and its cancellation was confirmed in May with a post by Evan Bregman on the RT website.

Haus of Pain
As part of Rooster Teeth’s documentary division (RT Docs), Haus of Pain follows James Willems’s journey in achieving his life-long dream of becoming a wrestling superstar, accompanied by Funhaus co-star Lawrence Sonntag. In March 2017 Willems published a tweet announcing a WWE-style fight between his and Sonntag's wrestling personas and their heels H.A.T.E. . A month later it was revealed that footage of this fight was part of the documentary.