San Francisco (CNN Business) Cards Against Humanity is buying ClickHole and handing ownership of the comedy website over to its employees.

The card game company paid ClickHole's previous owner G/O Media an undisclosed amount for the site in a deal that closed on Monday, Cards Against Humanity co-creator Max Temkin said in a statement to CNN Business. Cards Against Humanity will keep a minority stake in the new company, with a "substantial majority stake" owned by the ClickHole staff.

"ClickHole has accumulated this once-in-a-generation team of comedy talent," Temkin said. "We're not going to tell them how to run their business. Our goal is just to give them every creative tool that we have."

The companies share some sensibilities: Cards Against Humanity, which describes itself as a "party game for horrible people," features a series of questions to which players must pick the funniest possible (often politically incorrect) responses from a deck of answer cards.

Cards Against Humanity said it will not interfere with ClickHole's day-to-day operations, adding that it will only provide financial support to the website.

"We don't want to be a publisher and we're not really thinking of this as an investment with a huge return," Temkin said. "We just want ClickHole to be around for 100 years."

The ClickHole staff will relaunch its website and story archive on a new platform.

"We are thrilled that Cards Against Humanity has made the very ill-advised financial decision to give us the funding we need to buy business supplies, such as staplers and TI-83 graphing calculators," ClickHole said in a statement. "They are giving us the rare opportunity to work with total creative freedom and to run our business with zero oversight, which will undoubtedly result in us bankrupting our company. This can only end in disaster."

G/O Media was formed last year when private equity firm Great Hill purchased the Gizmodo Media Group — publisher of The Onion, ClickHole and other sites such as Jezebel, Gizmodo and Deadspin — from Univision. The company includes the family of websites formerly known as Gawker Media.

G/O Media did not respond to a request for comment on the sale of ClickHole.