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JibJab.com: "He's Barack Obama"
Comedy Web site JibJab's latest offering, a video spoof that depicts the President as a superhero saving the planet from a myriad of ills, made its world premiere last night in front of the President himself.
"He's Barack Obama," billed by JibJab as its first satire of the Obama administration, was presented Friday evening at the 65th Annual Radio and Television Correspondents' Dinner held in Washington and broadcast live on C-Span. [Watch video below.]
President Obama laughed his way through the 2-minute clip, which shows No. 44 with oversized ears and in a spandex superhero suit battling the world's problems to a reworking of the Civil War song "When Johnny Comes Marching Home."
Some of the lyrics:
He'll use his super powers to win in Iraq,
Then kung-fu chop the Taliban! Ka-chow! Ka-cha!
Our image in the world he'll mend,
Then make the Jews and Arabs friends!
He's Barack Obama,
He's come to save the day!
According to JibJab's press release, the site ditched their "banjo-centric musicals of the Bush era" and "assembled an all-star rock band for their latest creation. Foo Fighters' Chris Shiflet and Taylor Hawkins were joined by Chris Chaney, Jane's Addiction, Roger Joseph Manning Jr., Jellyfish and Beck, and Jess Harnell, renowned television and film voice actor, under the direction of composer, John Frizzell, whose film scoring credits include "Office Space" and '"Beavis & Butthead Do America."
JibJab also notes that the video's animation style "represents a radical departure from past JibJab productions, replacing simple collage animation with a combination of frame-by-frame character animation and live action video."
"With a new President came the opportunity to push into new creative territory," said JibJab co-founder and Head Art Guy, Evan Spiridellis. "Our goal was to push the quality of made-for-the-web entertainment farther than anyone has ever pushed it before and we hope our audience enjoys it."
This is the second time JibJab has premiered a video for a sitting US President. In 2007, the company released a satire of the news media entitled "What We Call the News" for George W. Bush at the Radio and Television Correspondents Dinner in 2007. [Watch clip below.]
C-Span will rebroadcast the RTCA Dinner tonight (June 20) at 10:34 p.m. and Sunday at 1:33 a.m. EST. Click here to watch video of President Obama's comedy bit and comedian John Hodgman's keynote speech. Plus find out who won 2009 RTCA awards and which "celebs" were in the building.
Or, you can watch the entire 1 hour 8 min. broadcast at C-span.org.
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