Hoo-RAY!

October 8, 2004 2:05 PM

It's Good to be in DC. The latest from JibJab. Life is good.
posted by XQUZYPHYR (16 comments total)

Life may be good, but this video on the other hand, is in the words of John in DC, "little more than a series of fag jokes."
posted by soyjoy at 2:32 PM on October 8, 2004

(Just sayin.')
posted by soyjoy at 2:33 PM on October 8, 2004

You are right soyjoy.
posted by caddis at 3:00 PM on October 8, 2004

Yeah, who is the guy in the pink shirt even supposed to be?
posted by mathowie at 3:13 PM on October 8, 2004

Oh, McGreevy. Sheesh, yeah it's just a bunch of fag jokes.
posted by mathowie at 3:16 PM on October 8, 2004

yeah, this one lacks inspiration, I'd say.
posted by Busithoth at 3:16 PM on October 8, 2004

I guess I'm the only fag who likes fag jokes, then. Sheesh people, lighten up.
posted by WolfDaddy at 3:32 PM on October 8, 2004

I didn't think it was gay-bashing, but I got the feeling of someone coming very late to the scene and vaguely realizing that people were making gay jokes about Kerry and Edwards four months ago, and then not knowing how to make it funny, or that it never was.

I think the best thing Jib Jab ever did was their Founding Fathers rap. That was much more clever.
posted by inksyndicate at 3:50 PM on October 8, 2004

A. reductionism is the whole point of political humor, so the fag jokes fit right in, and

B. it's not hateful towards gays, as it's not saying anything about being gay, only that it'd be funny to see these stiff uptight types go a little Homo.

Seriously, unclench a wee bit.

But not around McGreevy.
posted by dong_resin at 4:33 PM on October 8, 2004

Also, Clinton got slapped twice by Hilary in this one!
posted by WolfDaddy at 5:41 PM on October 8, 2004

Eh. It would be one thing if it was fag jokes put into some new, more humorous context, but it's juvenile right-out-of-the-box homophobe cliche, and the whole JibJab shtick is now getting kind of repetitive. It's not like we should be marching in the streets because this is "hateful towards gays," it's just that there's not much left over get very excited about. IMO.
posted by soyjoy at 6:03 PM on October 8, 2004

Not as funny. Too much about gays and not enough about the candidates. Did they run out of political jokes and figured they could shunt over to some gay jokes?
posted by jmccorm at 6:06 PM on October 8, 2004

Lightning rarely strikes in the same place twice. I thought it was ok, but not as good as the last one, and that they were trying to hard this time. On the other hand, the style is great. I really like the way they animate the characters.
posted by crunchland at 11:54 PM on October 8, 2004

not very funny. The first was mildly amusing, the second just mild. There's a lot of funny shit about both Kerry and Bush that they didn't even get close to, and the sucked too.
posted by cell divide at 12:13 AM on October 9, 2004

that was terrible
posted by Satapher at 1:38 AM on October 9, 2004

not at all as good as This Land is Your Land--it's too cheap and easy to turn it all into fag jokes.
posted by amberglow at 11:19 AM on October 9, 2004