Chuckles, Guffaws and Some Yucks

"The second video was great -- although not as good as the first one, it's like a one-trick pony. Baby saying bad words," Kahn said. "But it's still funny."

Funnyordie is fighting to distinguish itself amid a growing horde of well-funded companies trying to steal away some of YouTube's eyeballs: Google Video, MSN Soapbox, Yahoo! Video, MySpace Videos, AOL UnCut and an entire army of upstarts such as DailyMotion, Flurl, LiveVideo, Revver and Veoh.

This is why you need an A-list celebrity arguing with a foul-mouthed toddler to even get noticed.

"Literally, Pearl got offered a movie off of it. Somebody came to CAA with a project with Jackie Chan and wanted to attach Pearl to it," says the starlet's proud father, McKay.

"She doesn't remember any of it. She never said any of it again. She doesn't know what 'Get your drink on' means," McKay says. "We know what we're doing as parents."

McKay was initially bugged by the criticism. "Do I write a piece on it, in Huffington Post or the New York Times, about how pathetic broadcast news has gotten?" he recalls asking himself. ("Good Cop, Baby Cop" will be Pearl's last acting gig. A release from Funnyordie "quoted" Pearl as saying, "My ventures as an actor on the Internet have been rewarding and spiritually fulfilling, but now I must look to broader challenges as I approach my 26th month.")

Luckily, other stars keep bringing it.

Jack McBrayer, who plays the hapless page Kenneth on NBC's "30 Rock" and who worked with Ferrell and McKay in "Talladega Nights," found out about "The Landlord" video like most people: "It was forwarded to me," he says. "I didn't even realize it was those fellows doing this Web site."

Then McBrayer ran into an old friend from his days doing comedy with the Upright Citizens Brigade who works on the site. His response when the friend suggested he post a video: "Are you kidding? I would walk over hot coals if those boys asked me to."

"It's funny, when you just come across people who are like, 'I'm working on something for Funnyordie.com,' you say, 'Oh yeah, you're in the club,' " says McBrayer, whose video has not yet been posted.

In addition to McBrayer, future confirmed participants include Bill Murray, Eva Longoria, Li'l John, Danny DeVito, John C. Reilly and Sally Jessy Raphael. They will join Ferrell, Ed Helms, Jimmy Fallon, Brooke Shields, Jeremy Piven, Jenna Elfman, Michael Cera, James Franco, Rob Corddry and Jason Biggs.