Funhaus

"Funhaus is a Rooster Teeth thing.

Funhaus is a bunch of people who play games. Does that mean we only play games? No - we've also got podcasts and fan Qs&As...about games.

Mainly.

We're Adam Kovic, Bruce Greene, James Willems, Lawrence Sonntag, Elyse Willems, Matt Peake, Omar de Armas, Dan Schneider, Don Casanova, Jacob Fullerton, Adam Brouillard, and Jon Smith. We'll play everything from GTA to the crappiest games we can find. We'll also be doing regular news content with The Know (Mondays and Wednesdays), Let's Play, event coverage, live streams, fan events, and collaborations with any Rooster Teeth friends and colleagues who wouldn't be embarrassed to be seen with us.

Subscribe to Rooster Teeth to see videos one day early along with our Dungeons and Dragons series: Funhaus Website"

- Official YouTube channel

Funhaus

Funhaus logo used on their videos/website in 2016.
Type	Division
Industry	Entertainment
Genre	Comedy Gaming, Let's Play, Gameplay Walkthroughs, Live action skits, Q&As, Podcasts
Founded	February 5, 2015; 2 years ago
Founders	Bruce Greene Adam Kovic James Willems Lawrence Sonntag Joel Rubin Sean Poole Matt Peake Burnie Burns Jon Risinger
Headquarters Location	Los Angeles, California, United States
Key people	Bruce Greene (General Manager) Adam Kovic James Willems Lawrence Sonntag Matt Peake Elyse Willems Omar de Armas
Services	Online video Community Website
Number of employees	12
Parent	Rooster Teeth Productions, LLC.
Website	Official Website

Funhaus (pronounced as "Fun-House", also known as "FunHaus", "Rooster Teeth West| or the "Funhaus Team", and often abbreviated as FH) is an American video gaming division unit and a YouTube production company launched by Rooster Teeth back in February of 2015 in Rooster Teeth's brand new Los Angeles offices and studios comprised of former Machinima's Inside Gaming veterans and it is one of Rooster Teeth's gaming and podcast YouTube channels. Like Achievement Hunter, The Know and ScrewAttack, it is also another division branch of Rooster Teeth Productions that is comprised of and features former members of the former Inside Gaming YouTube Producers group, a division from Machinima Inc. The channel focuses on and creates both gaming news and comedy gameplay videos, similar to The Know and Let's Play respectively, such as Let's Plays and other video game related content. The channel was was initially founded by the former cast of Inside Gaming veterans, along with Rooster Teeth staff members Burnie Burns and Jon Risinger on February 5, 2015. Hosted by the former cast of Inside Gaming (Adam Kovic, James Willems, Bruce Greene, Lawrence Sonntag, Matt Peake, and formerly Sean "Spoole" Poole and Joel Rubin), along with former GameTrailers host Elyse Willems, and Omar de Armas, the channel produces and hosts a large variety of gameplay videos of various genres in a retrospective and comedic manner, in a similar manner to Achievement Hunter, where the team claims that they "will play everything from GTA to the crappiest games they can find". These range from forgotten trash like Demo Disk where they play games from late 90s demo CDs and drinking games because they claim that they are "responsible adults". Their Funhaus GTA 5 Gameplay is a series where the crew (either one person or 4 crew members) would play GTA Online matches, usually with the fan community.

In addition to game play, Funhaus also produces podcasts and fan Qs&As about games, including segments, and be doing regular news content for The Know, appearing on the the Rooster Teeth news channel on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays (with Adam Kovic and Bruce Greene as co-anchors, also appearing alongside Ashley Jenkins, Jon Risinger, Ryan Haywood, Gus Sorola and formerly Meg Turney until her departure from Rooster Teeth and The Know in June 2016), Let's Plays, event coverages, live streams, fan meetups and events at various conventions and expos (such as LPL, RTX, PAX etc) as well as collaborations and crossovers with other fellow Rooster Teeth friends and colleagues, who "wouldn't be [too] embarrassed to be seen with them", according to the team. Previously, Funhaus collaborated with Achievement Hunter and The Know (which they still do), in addition to ScrewAttack (now Game Attack), Kinda Funny, The Creatures and CowChop.

After leaving Machinima on late January of 2015, the group formed a partnership, ownership and developed an acquisition along with (and by) Rooster Teeth as part of the newly formed West Coast branch of the company's brand new built offices and studios located in Los Angeles, California.

☀They were made part of the studio on February 5, 2015. Similar to their earlier works on Inside Gaming at Machinima Inc, Funhaus covers video game news, gameplays, live action skits, Q&As, and podcasts on their channel in addition to crossovers and collaborations with Rooster Teeth and Achievement Hunter.

Funhaus is based, headquartered and located in the Los Angeles, California offices and studios of Rooster Teeth Productions. The channel officially launched on February 16, 2015. Funhaus produces many other content shows and podcasts such as "Open Haus" (Q&A), "Art Haus" (Fan Art), a podcast called Dude Soup, and game play series such as Demo Disk and Wheelhaus.

Their official Twitter handle is @FunhausTeam. Their official YouTube page can be found here, and their official subreddit can be found here.

In early 2016, shortly following one full year of employment, both Sean Poole and Joel Rubin would amicably resign from their positions at Funhaus and Rooster Teeth, with Let's Play Live! 2 in Los Angeles/LA and RTX 2016 only a few months away. On February 8, Poole announced his departure in order to return to his hometown of Seattle, where he continues to focus more to live stream on Twitch full time. On April 5, Rubin announced his departure. He currently works for SourceFed as Director of Programming.

Since its founding, Funhaus has grown to become a major core component of Rooster Teeth next to Achievement Hunter, hosting a wide variety of videos related to video games. Their website, formatted to the Rooster Teeth website was launched in 2015 along with the Funhaus YouTube channel. The most frequent videos are hosted by the seven most prolific employees: Adam Kovic, Bruce Greene, James Willems, Lawrence Sonntag, Matt Peake, Elyse Willems, and Omar de Armas. As of December 2016, Funhaus clocks over 200,000 Twitter followers and over 1 million subscribers on their YouTube channel. Bruce Greene currently serves as the General Manager and Main Head of Funhaus with Adam Kovic as his right hand man after Joel Rubin resigned from his position as Channel Director of Programming

History and Creation

2013-2015: Inception and Employment growth

Funhaus had first started in 2013 as the YouTube channel "Inside Gaming", working with the company Machinima. It was originally started as a news channel featuring only Adam Kovic and Bruce Greene. Game plays videos were soon introduced and it quickly became their dominant form of content. Over time, more and new members were introduced into the group, most already working behind the scenes. James Willems was the first to be featured in a video. The group continued to grow over time adding Lawrence Sonntag, Matt Peake, Joel Rubin, and Sean Poole while at Inside Gaming and Machinima. Inside Gaming departed from Machinima and formed Funhaus after joining Rooster Teeth, the group initially consisted of a seven main cast members team: Adam Kovic, Bruce Greene, Lawrence Sonntag, James Willems, Joel Rubin, Matt Peake & Sean Poole. The team was already known online Machinima’s old Inside Gaming department, and have previously appeared on season two of Rooster Teeth’s competition show The Gauntlet. Inside Gaming also made an appearance at RTX 2014. Furthermore, Adam Kovic from Inside Gaming also made an appearance on Rooster Teeth's 2014 Extra Life Stream.

2015: Departure from Machinima and Rooster Teeth inauguration

It was initially announced on January 26th, 2015 that a majority of the Inside Gaming employees (Adam Kovic, Bruce Greene, Lawrence Sonntag, Joel Rubin, Sean Poole, James Willems, and Matt Peake) would be leaving the company of Machinima to form their own independent network. On January 27th, 2015, the Inside Gaming crew announced that they are leaving Machinima on their daily news program. The news was later covered by several gaming sites. The last episode of the daily was aired on January 30th as their farewell to the company.

Then, the group, formerly known as Inside Gaming, a division of Machinima had announced via a YouTube video on 29 January 2015 that they were leaving Inside Gaming and Machinima and that they were going independent from their former network while still residing and working in Los Angeles, California.

2015-present: Popularization and growth

On February 3, 2015, Burnie tweeted that he and Jon Risinger were visiting L.A, and confirmed that they were going to establish brand new new Rooster Teeth offices and studios there on the West Coast. On the same day, Funhaus had also officiallysigned up for and joined Twitter on February 3, 2015 at 4:50 p.m.

On February 5, 2015, Rooster Teeth Co-Founder and Creative Director Burnie Burns announced via his journal entry on the Rooster Teeth website that Funhaus was officially joining the Rooster Teeth family and community, and that the Inside Gaming Crew will be joining the company on board under the name Funhaus, rebranding themselves as part of their newly formed West Coast branch, and that they're officially a division of Rooster Teeth just like The Know and Achievement Hunter , being owned by Rooster Teeth with Inside Gaming and GameTrailers moving into Rooster Teeth's newly formed Los Angeles, California offices. In his journal, Burnie explained that he was excited how Rooster Teeth is giving its fans more gaming content to consume through an all-new channel based on the West Coast, and that Funhaus will feature content from gaming veterans Adam Kovic, Bruce Greene, Lawrence Sonntag, James Willems, Joel Rubin, Matt Peake, and Sean Poole. The seven cast members are already known online from Machinima’s old Inside Gaming department, and have previously appeared on season two of Rooster Teeth’s competition show The Gauntlet. On the same day, The Funhaus YouTube channel was created and alongside the Rooster Teeth Channel, they had uploaded a video regarding the announcement.

Burnie had also explained that the Funhaus Team will not only play video games on their channel, but will also release a podcast, cover related events, participate in fan Q&A sessions, contribute to Rooster Teeth’s news show The Know, and appear on Rooster Teeth’s video podcast. Members of the Austin production company (which was acquired by YouTube multi-channel network Fullscreen in November 2014) will occasionally be seen in Funhaus’s projects, too as well as collaborate with fellow video gaming and podcast channel Achievement Hunter. “It’s always a great day when we can add new and talented people to our ranks here at RT,” wrote Rooster Teeth’s Creative Director Burnie Burns in a blog post. “And today’s addition is a monster. Welcome aboard, guys! Glad to have you with us. You are doing a terrible job and we need to talk right away. Please email me your availability for next week. You had a good run.”

Shortly after, on the same day (Feb 5, 2015) Funhaus had officiallysigned up for and joined YouTube releasing a welcome video via their YouTube page introducing their channel's cast. It was also announced that they will be creating plenty of gaming content from podcasts, to fan Qs&As, to live action skits to gameplays to also joining on board The Know, to talk about video game news, everything going around the world of video games, entertainment, technology and beyond. It was also mentioned by Askley that Adam would be in the Austin studios office February 9th, and encouraged the fans to subscribe to the Funhaus channel to get ready for their action. Around the same day as the channel’s announcement, /r/funhaus, was created and has since gathered more than 25.000 users or “hausmates”, pronoucned as "house mates".

The video also set the challenge in which if Funhaus reached 100k subscribers by Sunday February 8, that they (Funhaus) promises that they were going to release a podcast early and that it will upload the first podcast episode early, but only if its channel can get 100,000 subscribers by Sunday, February 8. It was revealed shortly after that they had reached their target of 100k subscribers in less than 12 hours via Twitter. By February 17, Funhaus had passed 300k subscribers.

Funhaus was officially launched via Twitter on February 16, 2015. Their YouTube channel also started uploading YouTube videos and hausing after so many people subscribed.

Shortly after, Funhaus released their first podcast "Dude Soup" with Burnie and uploaded a video titled “SO WHAT NOW? (With Burnie!)”, uploaded to YouTube on February 7th, 2015, with Burnie guest starring alongside the Funhaus Team. The podcast revealed an in-depth look at Funhaus, their plans and expectations as well as future projects, where they further discuss in detail about the crew joining Rooster Teeth alongside Burnie Burns. As of March, 2015, the video has gathered more than 560.000 views. The Channel officially became active on February 16th, 2015.

On February 9th, 2015, Rooster Teeth launched the Funhaus podcast, Dude Soup. The podcast stars four (Adam Kovic, Bruce Greene, Lawrence Sonntag, and James Willems) members of Funhaus, with occasional guest appearances from other Rooster Teeth employees. Dude Soup focuses on comedy, gaming news and game culture in general. Funhaus also hosted a FAQ Podcast where Funhaus Answers Questions. On the same day, February 9, 2015, Funhaus staff member Adam had made his appearance on Episode #310 of the RT podcast with Gus, Burnie, Gavin and Meg. This was later uploaded to YouTube on February 10th, 2015. On the same day, Funhaus featured Adam on AHWU Episode #251.

On February 10th, 2015, Funhaus began their collaborations with fellow Rooster Teeth channel and subsidiary The Know in delivering the latest news from the video game world, appearing on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays with Adam Kovic and Bruce Greene serving as co-anchors with occasional appearances with Funhaus and Rooster Teeth staff members including collaborations with fellow anchors and hosts Ashley Jenkins, Meg Turney, Jon Risinger and Ryan Haywood, a job similar to the Inside Gaming Daily news channel on Machinima Inc's Inside Gaming. Instead of constantly flying back and forth between Los Angeles and Austin every day, this part of The Know is usually filmed at the Funhaus and Rooster Teeth offices in Los Angeles. Collaborations with other The Know hosts, such as Ashley, Meg, Jon and/or Ryan would mostly be done via Skype although they would still fly back and forth between Los Angeles and Austin every now and again (around once a month) to collaborate in person. Similar to their previous work on Machinima, the crew would rely on clickbait style thumbnails and titles with a laid back style on their reporting while keeping as informative as possible. On February 13, 2015, a fan released some fan art based on the Funhaus logo towards the Funhaus subreddit.

On February 19, 2015, Funhaus made their first appearance on Episode #12 of the Rooster Teeth game show "On The Spot", hosted by Rooster Teeth staff member and Funhaus co-founder Jon Risinger. Funhaus staff members James Willems & Bruce Greene were on the Red Team and named themselves "Team Santa Barbara Seawolves" whereas Funhaus staff members Lawrence Sonntag & Adam Kovic were on the Blue Team and had named themselves "Team Public Defecation". The Red Team won.

On February 20th, 2015 (Funhaus and Rooster Teeth employee Adam Kovic's 30th birthday), 15 days after Funhaus officially joined and partnered up with Rooster Teeth, and four days after they started releasing their shows and content in their website (formatted to the Rooster Teeth website) as well as their YouTube channel, Funhaus collaborated with Achievement Hunter in #IDARB at Rooster Teeth's first Let's Play Live! concert, held at the Moody Theater in Austin, Texas. During Achievement Hunter vs. Funhaus in #IDARB at Let's Play Live 2015, Funhaus competitors were represented by Adam, Bruce, James and Lawrence while the Achievement Hunters were represented by Jack, Ray, Michael and Ryan. Over time, they continued their wealth of crossovers and collaborations in video game plays with Achievement Hunter and with news coverage with The Know. On March 19, 2015, Funhaus released their first reddit Frequently Asked Questions (or FAQ/F.A.Q.).

On April 10, 2015, Ray Narvaez, Jr. announced his departure from Achievement Hunter in favor of and in order to focus on and to pursue full time independent Twitch.tv livestreaming, although he agreed to reprise his roles in X-Ray and Vav and the Internet Box Podcast as well as occasionally guest star in Rooster Teeth's productions every now and again. Narvaez received endorsement from several Funhaus staff members, including Adam Kovic, James Willems and Spoole. On April 16, 2015, Ray and Kerry faced against Adam and James from Funhaus during the Season 2 Finale of On The Spot Episode #20.

The wealth of crossovers and collaborations between Achievement Hunter vs. (and) Funhaus occurred after Narvaez's departure. In May of 2015, Achievement Hunter competed with Funhaus in Smite. In early June of 2015, Funhaus intern Jacob Fullerton began his internship at Funhaus for the summer of 2015. Later, on mid-June of 2015, Rooster Teeth announced RTX Australia and that Funhaus had plans to attend the event. On June 30, 2015, it was announced and confirmed that Bruce and Adam from Funhaus would be attending RTX Australia in January of 2016 alongside James Willems, Lawrence Sonntag, Elyse Willems, Gus Sorola and Barbara Dunkleman and others. On July 1, 2015, more fan art was posted to the subreddit. On July 22, 2015, intern Jacob hosted his first reddit AMA.

Almost 6 months later after leaving Machinima Inc and joining Rooster Teeth, at RTX 2015, Funhaus also began hosting their panels for the first time ever since partnering up and being owned by Rooster Teeth after leaving Machinima Inc. In addition to hosting episode #28 of the Dude Soup Podcast hosted and presented live in front of their audience at RTX 2015, they also collaborated with Achievement Hunter in Rainbow Six Seige in a 5 vs 5 match, the Achievement Hunters were represented by Geoff, Jack, Ryan, Michael and Gavin. Ray was also supposed to join, but departed from Achievement Hunter almost four month earlier in favor of and in order to focus on Twitch livestreaming, although he still appeared elsewhere at RTX 2016 such as on the X-Ray and Vav Panel and the Internet Box Podcast Panel at RTX 2015. The Funhaus Team included all seven team members, with Adam Kovic, Bruce Greene, James Willems, Lawrence Sonntag and Sean Poole playing. Joel Rubin and Matt Peake served as onlookers and "cheerleaders", from the main stage. Adam, Bruce and Joel were also interviewed at RTX 2015 about their departure from Machinima Inc. as well as their inauguration, partnership, ownership, employment and acquisition and collaborations with Rooster Teeth, including their collaborations with Achievement Hunter. The fifth annual RTX in August 2015 was the largest U.S. convention yet, with more than 40,000 attendees, three different venues, over 90 different exhibitors, and a sponsorship by Pizza Hut. At the time, RTX Co-Director and RT Community Manager Barbara Dunkelman told Tubefilter she expected RTX 2016 to be “even better” than this year’s event. And it certainly seems like the event is on track to be just that.

Almost seven months after Rooster Teeth hosted their first Let's Play Live! concert (at the Moody Theatre in Austin, Texas back in February of 2015), Rooster Teeth released "Let's Play Live: The Documentary" for sponsors on their website on September 14, 2015, starring the Funhaus Team along with Achievement Hunter, Rooster Teeth and other special guests/Internet personalities. The same day, Funhaus also appeared in AHWU. On September 15, 2015, James Willems and Bruce Greene co-starred with Gus Sorola and Burnie Burns on RT Podcast #341. On the same day as well, Funhaus made their first appearance on Episode #4 of Sportsball, with Bruce and Matt (Peake) as the Studio Audience), and Adam Kovic, James Willems and Joel Rubin appearing alongside Barbara Dunkelman, Cole Gallian, Joshua Ornelas, Mariel Salcedo, and Michael Jones.On September 16, 2015, Funhaus staff members Adam Kovic and Bruce Greene appeared alongside fellow The Know hosts Ryan Haywood and Meg Turney during Free Play Episode 311. On September 25, 2015, Bruce Greene and Adam Kovic faced off against Blaine Gibson & Miles Luna during Episode #33 of On The Spot. Bruce also faced off against James in Episode #35 of On The Spot on October 8, 2015. On October 19, 2015, Funhaus visited the Achievement Hunter office for AHWU #287.

On November 4, 2015, ScrewAttack announced that they would be partnering up and becoming part of Rooster Teeth's family. In mid November of 2015, they merged with Rooster Teeth into the extensive Rooster Teeth family and community as well as announcing their collaborations with Achievement Hunter vs. Funhaus. Its website has updated to be consistent Rooster Teeth's branding, along with all its previously existing users becoming Rooster Teeth users and its forums being absorbed into Rooster Teeth's forums.In addition, RTX 2016 dates were announced on November 12, 2015 with the ScrewAttack Gamign Convention (SGC) merging into RTX starting as of RTX 2016.

On November 23, 2015, former GameTrailers host Elyse Willems was confirmed to be part of Funhaus and Rooster Teeth. In December of 2015, Sean Poole, having been able to visit his family in Seattle for the first time since working in California, told Bruce that he would be amicibly leaving the company two months later in February, following their one year anniversary. On December 18, 2015, James and Lawrence were confirmed guests to RTX Australia. On December 30, another wallpaper forum was posted on the Funhaus subreddit.

On January 5, 2016, the Funhaus team returned as Special Guests in Episode #20 of Sportsball. With Bruce Greene in the background, there was also Elyse Willems, Matt Peake, Joel Rubin, Lawrence Sonntag, and James Willems. On January 23-24, 2016, Funhaus attended RTX Australia 2016 held at the Australian Technology Park in Sydney which attracted 11,000 attendees.

On January 26, 2016, it was announced that Omar de Armas would be leaving GameTrailers and joining the Funhaus Team. He joined Funhaus and Rooster Teeth on February 1, 2016. Funhaus celebrated it's one year anniversary of leaving Machinima and joining/partnering up with Rooster Teeth on February 5, 2016.

On February 8, 2016, Sean Poole announced his departure from Funhaus and Rooster Teeth to return to his hometown of Seattle. He left on February 12th.

On February 26, 2016, Funhaus staff members Adam Kovic and Bruce Greene made their first appearance on the Achievement Hunter Off Topic Podcast on Off Topic Episode #13, along with Achievement Hunter and fellow Rooster teeth staff members Michael Jones, Geoff Ramsey and Jeremy Dooley.

On March 2016, current independent Twitch livestreamer, video mange entertainer and the former Achievement Hunter team member Ray Narvaez Jr. announced via Twitter that he would be visiting California to collaborate with Funhaus (and Game Grumps), visiting in early April, before his one-year anniversary. However, he only filmed two videos with Funhaus during his visit. In response to a fan, Narvaez said: "We never really collaborated [with each other] all that much before, either back when I was still at AH". On March 21, 2016, the Rooster Teeth "Let's Play Family" was founded, with the Rooster Teeth Let's Play channel originally created on January 10, 2006. The Let's Play channel which previously was only (or at least primarily) host to videos from Achievement Hunter and some Rooster Teeth individuals has now expanded to include other channels and is now rebranded as the Let's Play Family. The channel location is the same, but in the future, fans will be seeing more collaborations with members of the Let's Play Family and more solo videos from members of the Family (like Funhaus Let's Plays on Saturdays). It's founders were: Geoff Ramsey (representing Achievement Hunter), Bruce Greene (representing the Funhaus Team), Craig Skistimas (representing the ScrewAttack Crew), Greg Miller (representing Kinda Funny) and Jordan "Kootra" Mathewson (representing The Creatures).

On March 28, 2016, a partnership between Rooster Teeth with Kinda Funny was announced. Members of the Kinda Funny group, a unit comprised by former IGN veterans, will appear in Rooster Teeth content, and Kinda Funny merchandise is now available on the Rooster Teeth Store. In addition to Achievement Hunter, Funhaus would also collaborate with Kinda Funny on the Let's Play channel, Let's Play Live and other Rooster Teeth videos and content. Despite the partnership, however, Greg Miller announced and confirmed on his Patreon journal entry blog post that the deal between the two companies (Rooster Teeth and Kinda Funny) was not an acquisition or ownership but instead wrote that Rooster Teeth and Kinda Funny would be "taking their relationship to the next level and working together more often, while still maintaining Kinda Funny's independence". Kinda Funny LIVE! was presented by Let's Play and hosted by Burns and Miller. In addition to Burns and Gus Sorola representing Rooster Teeth, Geoff Ramsey and Michael Jones attended representing Achievement Hunter as well as Adam Kovic and Bruce Greene representing Funhaus.

On April 1, 2016, Funhaus made an April Fools joke about Adam Kovic leaving ScrewAttack although he works at the Funhaus department. On the same day, Adam Kovic and Lawrence Sonntag starred in Episode #18 of the Off Topic Podcast with Michael and Geoff. A partnership between Rooster Teeth with The Creatures was announced on April 4, 2016.

On April 5, 2016, Joel Rubin announced his departure from Funhaus and Rooster Teeth. He left on April 8, 2016. Joel is now working at SourceFed as Director of Programming. Following Rubin's amicible resignation, on April 11, it was revealed via reddit that Bruce was the General Manager, Lead Producer and Main Head of Funhaus with Adam Kovic being his right hand man.

On April 18, 2016, Funhaus announced via a YouTube video that Let's Play Live would be coming to their hometown of Los Angeles. On the same day, Achievement Hunter, Kinda Funny and The Creatures also announced their intentions to attend the second rendition of the Let's Play Live! concert.

On April 28, 2016, Cow Chop was also confirmed to be partnering up with Rooster Teeth, and Rooster Teeth's Let's Play family and channel. Cow Chop, unlike its fellow Let's Play partners, has its own Rooster Teeth website, with videos being released on a regular basis like its YouTube channel. On the same day, former Funhaus intern Jacob Fullerton announced on Twitter that he would be starting to work at Funhaus and Rooster Teeth on Monday, May 2nd. It was also announced in May of 2016 that Don Casanova would be working at Funhaus as their editor.

In early June of 2016, a fan suggested that Funhaus should collab with Achievement Hunter in Overwatch. On June 17, 2016, Funhaus performed at Let's Play Live! 2 at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California near their own Rooster Teeth office and studio in Los Angeles, CA where they and Achievement Hunter reprised their roles form the first concert (held on February 20, 2015 at the Moody Theatre in Austin, Texas) in addition to four other newest members of the Rooster Teeth and Let's Play family: ScrewAttack, Kinda Funny, The Creatures and CowChop. On June 19, 2016 the first guests to attend RTX Australia 2017 were announced and included Rooster Teeth's Burnie Burns, Gus Sorola, Kerry Shawcross and Miles Luna, Achievement Hunter's Jack Pattillo, Funhaus' Bruce Greene and James Willems and Kinda Funny's Greg Miller and Tim Gettys. Later, on June 24, 2016, Funhaus officially had hit the one million subscribers milestone mark before YouTube reportedly corrected a bug which purged some subscribers on creators’ channels. On June 27, 2016, Meg Turney announced her dismissal from Rooster Teeth and The Know, stating that she was let go because her secondary and outside jobs, activities and merchandise with Playboy, modelling and cosplays blossomed out of control to the point where it was conflicting and interfering with her job, violating RT company policies on her contract which included scheduling conflicts. Despite his, Funhaus (and Rooster Teeth) continued co-anchoring The Know and hosting The Patch with Gus, Ryan and Ashley following Meg's departure. She has stated that she would continue to make occasional re-appearences along with Ashley, Jon, Ryan, Adam and Bruce on The Know, but not as often.

Funhaus once again continued hosting their panels at RTX 2016. In addition, Funhaus performed a Dude Soup LIVE Podcast, Episode #77 in front of a live audience at RTX 2016, they revealed for the first time what "really" makes them tick. Funhaus members Bruce Greene and James Willems also competed against Game Grumps stars Arin Hanson and Dan Avidan during episode #63 of On The Spot, live in front of the audience at RTX 2016 once again hosted by Risinger. This episode originlly aired on July 7, 2016 and is sponsored by Pizza Hut. Bruce also represented Funhaus during the Let's Play family panel at RTX 2016.

They also collaborated with Achievement Hunter in Gigantic. Former staff member Sean Poole attended the event, although Joel Rubin could not due to scheduling conflicts. It was also announced and revealed at RTX 2016 on July 2, 2016 that Funhaus will be getting a new show (an animated series) titled Animated ‘Sex Swing’. At the Funhaus Live panel, the gaming group’s Bruce Greene, James Willems, Elyse Willems, Lawrence Sonntag, and Adam Kovic played several interactive games with audience members before closing out the session with the announcement of the upcoming series Sex Swing: The Animated Series. While no further information was revealed at the time, the animated show will most likely be inspired by the gaming group was currently in production by the Rooster Teeth Animation department and based on two popular Funhaus shorts where Greene, Willems, Sonntag, Kovic, and other Funhaus employees play returning members of the fictional rock band inspired by Sex Swing, a faux group known for playing Rock Band/Guitar Hero instruments (who only play fake instruments through the video game Rock Band). As confirmed by the official website, it states that Sex Swing "is the story of four bandmates, battling against all odds to make their way in the world of music and beyond with little to no regard for what’s come before or what will come after." The series is expected to premiere next year, coming soon in early 2017. it is not, however, animated by the same person in the same style.

In an interview at RTX 2016, Funhaus personality Adam Kovic attributed some of the brand’s success to its well-timed integration with Rooster Teeth and its other related properties like Achievement Hunter and Let’s Play. Kovic said, “We came in at an interesting time where the Achievement Hunter audience, and just the Rooster Teeth audience in general, was getting older. And so we kind of filled this void where people were like, ‘Yeah, I was about to leave but then you guys came on and now I’m still a part of this.’ That’s the goal of any sort of network, right? You want all demographics.” Fellow Funhaus member Bruce Greene agreed. “We’re lucky enough to have that interesting crossover with Rooster Teeth, because they generally have the Minecraft younger audience,” Greene explained. “We were just saying Achievement Hunter kind of has to deal with the kids a little bit. Those younger children aren’t necessarily as savvy, comedy or otherwise, with life, and I think our audience is, and I think that’s valued by Rooster Teeth.”

In mid-July of 2016, Achievement Hunter collaborated with Funhaus in dead by Daylight, with Ryan as the opposing killer and the Funhaus team as the defendants. In the end, Ryan sneakily came in, and he destroyed, trashed and obliterated the team, claiming the victory for Achievement Hunter. Following this, Lawrence became a "very salty, sour asshole and a very bitchy, jealous loser" according to viewers after AH dominated FH and won the game, claiming that "They (AH) win because they play way too many video games than us without having anything better and more productive to do, while we're too busy doing work." He then yelled at AH: "We don't have time to play games all day like you guys have free time and shit, we have to do work!". He claimed that Funhaus was very busy working hard on important things while Achievement Hunter carelessly has free time and slacks off playing video games all day. Apparently, Lawrence got the facts mixed up. The "work" he was referring to is the fact that the main Funhaus hosts still have to edit, script, process and publish their videos (both on the Funhaus and Rooster Teeth website and the seriers' YouTube channel and subreddit), shows and content whereas the main six Achievement Hunter cast members don't have to do that anymore. They already have at least a dozen behind the scenes AH editors to do that for them. Basically, they don't have as much time to play like AH as they're doing other work (editing and writing and such, which AH has grown beyond and has off-screen talent to handle). Anyways, Achievement kept poking at it and shit-talked smack and BS about it on Episode #33 of AH's Off Topic Podcast because they found it funny. At around 33:00 Michael, alongside Jeremy, Gavin, Jack and Ryan mini-ranted and casually took a little jab as a joke about Funhaus sucking at video games after Ryan previously trashed the team in Dead by Daylight in addition to making fun of Funhaus working as an excuse for them to avoid making as many gameplay videos (for a living) as Achievement Hunter. Some fans found it funny and suggested it be made into an RTAA. Episode #33 of the Off Topic Podcast aired live originally on Friday, July 15th and was uploaded to YouTube on Sunday July 17th. On Monday, July 18, 2016, the catastrophe took it's worst toll on both parties. A small clip of this mini joke rant (Michael talking this smack was said for laughs with Jeremy, Gavin, Jack and Ryan) was extracted and posited onto the Funhaus subreddit via streamable.com after an anonymous redditor posted it. Consequently, an "argument" broke out with the fan groups as redditors argued about it and the fans also blew it up. After Bruce and Lawrence watched and heard this video out of context and mistook it as a serious threat and/or a personal insult, they "went apeshit" according to fans. Bruce and Lawrence took everything from that clip a thousand times too seriously and personally, went off and got all twisted up about it, and turned it into some giant insult/threat that it wasn't, making it such a big deal, fuss and drama over a casual, mall joke, something so unimportant, literally nothing. But they continued egging it on and unwittingly took it too far themselves. Michael's rant was just the ribbing of a drunk man playing things up for humor and attention for thew sake of comedy and laughs, it was never meant to be taken seriously. So Bruce (with Lawrence as his right hand man) replied to Michael's Off Topic rant with Jeremy, Gavin, Jack and Ryan in the clip, writing a "long ass paragraph rant" claiming that Funhaus was busy working while Michael was talking this smack with others. They talked about the truth of the work Funhaus spends a lot of time doing and explained the workflow and work ethics Funhaus does (including quantity vs. quality). Essentially, Bruce and Lawrence were just defending themselves and Funhaus, and they probably were a little offended that Michael (with Jeremy, Gavin, Jack and Ryan) implied that they don't work very hard when he takes his work and making sure it gets done very seriously. In an attempt to "mend interstatual relationships" with Bruce and Lawrence (fixing a relationship between Achievement Hunter and Funhaus after AH and FH played each other in Dead by Daylight. Apparently AH dominated and shit talked in their videos) Michael jumped into the fray, defending the honor and trying to salvage the reputation of Achievement Hunter inside of the subreddit by trying to reason with Bruce and Lawrence although he ended up getting distracted from filming Let's Play Minecraft Episode 217 and Michael was visible typing on (and laughing to himself) in the background of AHWU #326. In the most recent AHWU, he refered to the Funhaus bunch favorably at the tme around 8 minutes and 34 seconds, but it was obviously very tongue in cheek. As the drama continued, Michael, Bruce and Lawrence then "argued" (disagreed) and went back and forth at each other on the Funhaus subreddit for a while with Bruce and Lawrence taking it way too seriously and personally as a threat/insult and they came off as salty, serious, jealous, insulted, offended and envy while Michael was being laid back, calm and seemed to have fun with himself, casually joking and fooling around as he was laughing to himself whilst typing on the Funhaus subreddit in the background of AHWU #326 in addition to the format of his paragraphs showing that Bruce and Lawrence cared about this a lot more than Michael did. Even the rest of the Achievement Hunters joked about it during Let's Play Minecraft Episode 217. Michael came up with four points of his own to defend his side: 1) Playing video games and hosting the Off topic podcast is part of their job because Achievement Hunter plays video games and hosts the Off Topic Podcast for a living 2) They still have to work elsewhere at Rooster Teeth by constantly running back and forth between the AH and RT office working on (filming, editing, recording, shooting and starring in ) Rooster Teeth's other videos, live action and animated content, and machinima. 3) AH always shit talks as a joke because it's their style of friendships and sense of humorous, everyone is an "asshole" to each other for the audience and for the sake of comedy/laughs. Michael only fake-yelled as a joke with Jack, Jeremy, Ryan and Gavin casually cracking up. Not being mean, just goofing around. 4) Winning or losing doesn't matter as it's just a game and all about having fun. As long as you participate and show interest and enjoyment, have fun, and play by the rules, it makes you the real winner every time. Michael was mostly just casually joking and fooling around with the other AH guys as they do on Off Topic, but Bruce and Lawrence (and the rest of the Funhaus Team) took it way too personally and seriously, wanting to make sure the Funhaus reddit community knew how much time FH has to spend on other stuff compared to how the on-screen talent at AH can spend more time gaming. By the time it was over, Michael revealed that he was sexting with Bruce (and Lawrence). It is unclear if these sexts were from the past back when Michael, Bruce and Lawrence didn't have the feud or if this was at that very moment. In the tweet showing the sexting exchange between them, Michael was friendly as well, and it appears as though he's squashing the "beef". In doing this, Michael has both initiated and resolved the "conflict" in only a couple days, without giving Bruce any real say in the matter. (assuming Bruce knew those texts would be posted to twitter.)

Michael, Bruce and Lawrence eventually rounded up, negotiated, and talked elsewhere. As a result, the so-called "conflict" had been resolved. it is unclear if they did it themselves or their superiors (such as Burnie) told them to put aside their differences and forgive and forget. Either way, Michael Bruce and Lawrence buried the hatchet and they said "Hey. No problem at all. We still love you." It is unclear if Achievement Hunter said this to Funhaus or Funhaus said this to Achievement Hunter. While FH took it seriously, AH was casually joking about the reddit drama in Minecraft Let's Play Episode 217. In summary, AH is able to spend more time gaming because they now have editors and such, while the FH team still does most of their own editing. Michael played the part of brash drunk dude like he does so well and Bruce and Lawrence took it a bit personally and personally. It was finally publicly over but was most likely an ongoing reference and come up at Let's Play Live in Chicago. On July 31, 2016, Funhaus collaborated with Game Grumps in Overwatch.

On August 1, 2016, Funhaus debuted a new show titled "Twits and Crits", where the Funhaus team play Dragons and Dungeons in a laid back, retrospective and comedic manner, similar to Achievement Hunter's Heroes and Halfwits. Funhaus, along with Achievement Hunter performed at two more Let's Play Live concerts at the Chicago Theatre in Chicago on August 19th 2016. They took a short break from The Know but resumed afterwards. it was also revealed that CowChop would be moving out. On September 26, 2016, Funhaus's hausmate ScrewAttack released a video on their YouTube channel titled "EVERYTHING CHANGES", with the video itself just stating the date October 10, 2016. On October 1, 2016, it was announced that Game Attack wild officially become another video gaming division of Rooster Teeth, similar to Achievement Hunter and Funhaus. The third Let's Play Live event took place at the Hammerstein Ballroom in Manhattan, New York on October 8th, during the three day New York Comic Con (NYCC) 2016 event. Bruce also had his head hair shaved on-stage for the audience. On October 10, 2016, at 10:00 A.M. Central Time, ScrewAttack released another video explaining how Craig Skitsimas, along with employees Shaun Bolen, Bryan Baker, and Parker Bohon, would be resigning from their positions, moving away from the company of ScrewAttack, change departments and shift their focus onto making a spin-off brand and fellow Rooster Teeth American video gaming subsidiary channel and website known as "Game Attack", named after a gameplay series that had been airing for a few months at that point. Game Attack started as a Let's Play show on ScrewAttack. Eventually Craig Skitsimas, Shaun Bolen, Parker Bohon, and Bryan Baker would leave ScrewAttack on October 1, 2016 to found Rooster Teeth's new gaming division Game Attack, with ScrewAttack still in very good hands, with Sean and Chad taking over. Game Attack was announced on October 10, 2016. Despite shifting focus however, Craig confirmed via his journal post that the creation of Game Attack was not completely the team's official departure or resignation from ScrewAttack. Craig wrote that this is ScrewAttack's secondary Let's Play/Gaming channel they've been working on. Death Battle and other regular shows will be on the ScrewAttack and video gameplay, podcasts, "dick jokes", and live streams and more will be on Game Attack. It was much more amicable than the rough and abrupt split between The Creatures and CowChop. Instead, Game Atack is basically the video gaming channel division of ScrewAtack and a new gaming channel to Rooster Teeth. Game Attack, also known as the "Achievement Hunter" of ScrewAttack, was born from ScrewAttack the same way Achievement Hunter was born from Rooster Teeth. It was also noted that in addition to still working at ScrewAttack (and Rooster Teeth, just shifting focus, switching departments and building a video gaming department for ScrewAtack and another gaming and podcast channel for Rooster Teeth), that Game Attack is still a part of both Screw Attack and Rooster Teeth and that ScrewAtack and Game Attack would sill continue to be and work together because it is still filmed in ScrewAttack's office as well as crossovers with ScrewAtack members Chad and Sam, including Achievement Hunter and Funhaus.

On November 8, 2016, Funhaus hosted their first reddit AMA on the Funhaus subreddit. It was also announced in late 2016 that James Willems, Bruce Greene, Elyse Willems, Adam Kovic and Lawrence Sonntag would be attending RTX Australia 2017 on behalf of Funhaus which would be held from February 4-5 2017 at the International Convention Centre Sydney in Darling Harbour, Sydney. On November 30, 2016, it was announced that Funhaus would be taking a temporary hiatus break from The Know with Crristmas and New Year's holidays coming up, and that they would be resuming sometime later in early/mid 2017.

In early December of 2016, former employee Spoole visited L.A. to collaborate with ETC Show, although he also visited the Funhaus and Rooster Teeth office in Los Angeles to guest star in their videos. Also, in early December 2016, Funhaus began shooting their first live action Rooster Teeth content with other fellow Rooster Teeth employees, called "Eleven Little Roosters". It was also announced that Funhaus Christmas merch shirts would go on sale on December 7th. On December 9, 2016, Jon Smith was officially hired as a Funhaus editor. On December 10, 2016, Achievement Hunter and Funhaus collaborated with each other in Overwatch. On Decvember 19, 2016, according to James (from CowChop), his plans for next year (in 2017) is for Cow Chop to move from Colorado to Los Angeles, California due to them having more contacts there and being a better location for the YouTube Group.

On December 21, 2016, Funhaus hosted their second reddit AMA. It was also revealed that Funhaus had just rapped up Eleven Little Roosters, their biggest live action content performed yet. Funhaus was also featured at the RT 2016 rewind. On December 22, 2016, a new design banner for the Funhaus subreddit was held by a mod. On December 27, 2016, the Funhaus awards ceremony was also held on the Funhaus reddit, once again posted by the same mod.

Cast

Current Staff

• Bruce Greene (February 5, 2015-present; Content Creator, Content Producer, Editor and Main Host; April 2016-present; General Manager, Main Head, Lead Producer)
• Adam Kovic (February 5, 2015-present; Content Producer, Content Creator, Editor and Main Host)
• James Willems (February 5, 2015-present; Content Producer, Content Creator, Editor, and Main Host)
• Lawrence Sonntag (February 5, 2015-present; Content Producer, Content Creator, Editor and Main Host)
• Matt Peake (February 5, 2015-present; Content Producer, Content Creator, Editor and Host)
• Elyse Willems (November 23, 2015-present; Content Producer, Content Creator, Editor, and Host)
• Omar de Armas (February 1, 2016-present; Content Producer, Host and Editor)
• Daniel "Dan" Schneider (2016-present, Editor)
• Jacob Fullerton (May 2, 2016-present, Editor)
• Don Casanova (May 2016-present, Editor)
• Adam Brouillard (2016-present, Editor)
• Jon Smith (December 9, 2016-present; Editor)

Former Staff

• Sean "Spoole" Poole (February 5, 2015 - February 12, 2016; Producer, Content Creator, Editor and Host)
• Joel Rubin (February 5, 2015 - April 8, 2016; Senior Channel Director of Programming)

Shows

Current Shows

• Demo Disk
• Dude Soup
  • Dude Soup Post Show
• Funhaus Cartoons
• Filmhaus Podcast
• Fullhaus
• Funhaus on Let's Play
• Funhaus Shorts
• Gameplay
• In Review
• Open Haus
• Twits and Crits
• Wheelhaus
• Your Comments

Past Shows

Funhaus: FAQ

Rest Of

Trivia

• A YouTube video was released showing fans how to pronounce "Funhaus". It is really pronounced as "fun house".
• Funhaus refers to their fellow Rooster Teeth friends and colleagues as "Hausmates". These include YouTube channels The Know, Rooster Teeth, Achievement Hunter, LetsPlay, The Slow Mo Guys and Red vs Blue
• The team was already known online Machinima’s old Inside Gaming department, and have previously appeared on season two of Rooster Teeth’s competition show The Gauntlet.
• The Funhaus guys will not only play games on their channel, but will also release a podcast, cover related events, participate in fan Q&A sessions, contribute to Rooster Teeth’s news show The Know, and appear on Rooster Teeth’s video podcast. Members of the Austin production company Rooster Teeth (which was acquired by YouTube multi-channel network Fullscreen in November of 2014) alongside its department Achievement Hunter will occasionally be seen in Funhaus’s projects, too.
• The group initially consisted of a seven main cast members team whern they first joined Rooster Teeth: Adam Kovic, Bruce Greene, Lawrence Sonntag, James Willems, Joel Rubin, Matt Peake and Sean "Spoole" Poole. After Spoole and Joel Rubin left, the team now comprises of twelve members: Adam Kovic, Bruce Greene, James Willems, Lawrence Sonntag, Elyse Willems, Matt Peake, Omar de Armas, Dan Schneider, Don Casanova, Jacob Fullerton, Adam Brouillard and Jon Smith
• The comedy and gaming group's content is not exactly classy. There are fart jokes. There are racial puns. There are frequent references to genitals. There are even porn and sexist-related antics.

Schedule

• Monday: Demo Disk
• Tuesday: Open Haus (Dude Soup, Live Broadcast Schedule at 11:30 A.M. CT)
• Wednesday: Dude Soup Podcast (Archived)
• Thursday: GTA V Gameplay
• Friday: Funhaus Comments, Funhaus Gameplay
• Saturday: Funhaus Gameplay
• Sunday: Funhaus Cartoons

Appearances

The team also make appearances on The Know with regular news content, the Lets Play Channel, the RT Podcast, as well as event coverage, live streams, podcasts, fan events, conventions and expos, and collaborations with any Rooster Teeth friends and colleagues.

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