The director of Lindsay Lohan’s hysterical “Funny or Die” video is either trying to get in her pants or for some reason give her good press. Because he’s clearly lying for her. Director Eric Appel claims Lindsay came up with several of the ideas for the video. In fact, the skit itself was her idea – Last Wednesday she got in touch with the “Funny or Die” people and said she wanted to do something to poke fun at the disastrous end of her relationship.

Lindsay Lohan is in on the joke. She took to her MySpace celebrity blog to tell fans why she did the Funny or Die video. “I just think it’s better to take something negative and turn it into something good… laughter is the BEST medicine,” she wrote Tuesday.

The video’s director, Eric Appel also tells Usmagazine.com that it was done in good fun. “She wanted to do a Funny or Die video with all the stuff that everyone’s saying,” Appel tells Us. “She wanted to respond to it in a funny way, show that she gets it.” Lohan reached out to Will Ferrell’s manager Wednesday about shooting a spoof. By Thursday, the team was pitching her ideas. On Friday, they had a script written. They filmed the one-and-a-half-minute clip in under two hours on Saturday.

“She came up with the stuff about being a threat to all security guards — she improvised while doing it,” he says. “She threw in a bunch of fun, funny stuff.” As for the line that she was looking for somebody to spend the rest of her life with — or at least the rest of her probation? “She laughed,” Appel says, “She thought it was a funny line.”

The actress also holds up a cover of Us Weekly, which Appel says, “was a last minute thing. We all came up with the idea collectively and sent someone to the store to buy one. It was her idea to say, ‘I’m so alone’ directly into the camera.”

The actress — who brought a few friends, her sister and her mom — was “really a blast to work with,” Appel says. “She came in, did her thing, was really professional,” Appel says. “People forget Lindsay Lohan’s, like, a good actress. There’s so much attention [to everything she does], but…you forget this girl has really good comic timing.”

[From Us Weekly]

Not to be overly-critical, but the line about being a threat to security guards was one of the only un-funny ones in the video. I thought it just fell flat, especially in comparison to the rest of the script. It wasn’t awful or anything, but it’s not like Lohan came up with the best part.

That said, Appel is right – there is so much drama surrounding Lohan (mostly of her own making) that you completely forget she’s an actress. And a decent one. I’m not saying she’s the greatest of her generation or any of the other crap her parents are always spewing about her talent. But she is good. I don’t even think of her as an actress anymore – more as a professional shopper/dramatic relationship haver. If she would focus on toning down the drama and working hard, she could still have a good career. Or at least make more promo videos for eHarmony.