Plot Synopsis

LOLWORK follows the staff at Cheezburger, one of the largest humor publishers on the Internet, which encompasses more than 50 sites, including ICanHasCheezburger.com, FAIL Blog, Memebase and The Daily What. Combined, the sites receive over 375 million page views a month. In this 30-minute series, Cheezburger CEO Ben Huh and his eccentric staff attempt to make the world laugh five minutes a day by putting nimble yet grammatically incorrect captions on cute photos of domesticated pets and animals. The series begin as the staff at Cheezburger competes to create a new comedic web series for the site. This series features the following people: Ben Huh, Cheezburger CEO, who founded a web analytics company before putting together an investor group to buy Cheezburger in 2007; Todd Sawicki, the Chief Revenue Officer of the Cheezburger Network, who has over 15 years of experience with online startups, media companies, specializing in online advertising, monetization, and user acquisition; Emily Huh, Ben's wife and Editor in Chief of ICanHasCheezburger.com, who was Assistant Director of an educational center prior to working at Cheezburger; Forest Gibson, Content Editor at Cheezburger, who was President of a music technology startup and has produced and starred in multiple episodes of "Know Your Meme" for the site; Paul Gude, Content Editor at Cheezburger, who had worked a variety of writing jobs, including covering celebrity interviews for a social media site, and can now be seen hosting episodes of the "Failblog Clip Show"; Sarah Hiraki, Art Director at Cheezburger, who, as the youngest member of the staff, co-hosts the webseries "Know Your Meme" and is the resident graphics whiz; Alison Luhrs, the company's Content Moderator, who is in charge of communicating with the animal-loving users who frequent the site; Alison Monda, the Assistant at ICanHasCheezburger.com, who has co-hosted the "Failblog Clip Show" and "Failblog Mini Clip Show"; William Sharick, Content Supervisor (aka Censor), who ensures that every cat on the site receives the respect they deserve; and Tori Wadzita, Production Manager at Cheezburger, collaboratively produces "KLOL: The Internets News for Cheezburger," "Know Your Meme," as well as runs various clients' ad campaigns for the site.