JibJab Returns With '07 Salute
By Gretta Parkinson
Good news for Hollywood’s 15-minute club: America may have forgotten you and your ponyhawk for a time (Sanjaya), but JibJab.com has offered this year’s favorite train wrecks another minute or two in the limelight. The humor site's latest Flash cartoon, “In 2007,” does for the year what the Spiridellis brothers' “This Land” pardoy did for the presidential election in 2004 by exposing its utter ridiculousness...but sugarcoated, of course.
Watch this and and then try to listen to the parody's inspiration, Billy Joel’s “We Didn’t Start the Fire,” without picturing an animated Sen. Craig surrounded by dancing angels in a bathroom. I dare you. With “cameos” by Miss Teen South Carolina, Michael Vick and Britney Spears in disastrous VMA peformance mode, JibJab will make America remember a year that should be forgotten. At least there was the iPhone.
