JibJab, the creators of the famous 2004 U.S. presidential election parody cartoon “This Land” have a new original video out called “The News,” embedded above. The new video premiered tonight at the annual Radio and Television Correspondents Dinner.
All of their original videos can be viewed here.
JibJab is slowly expanding from pure content creation to becoming a hub for humor-related video and other media. In October we mentioned their Great Sketch Experiment.
In my opinion, “The News” isn’t as good as previous content from JibJab, although things really pick up at the 1:20 mark.
The company was founded by brothers Gregg and Evan Spiridellis and is currently headquartered in Santa Monica, CA. JibJab raised a Series A round of funding from Jon Flint at Polaris Ventures in June.
Okay, am I seeing things?
At the 1:20 mark is that a pic of Mr. Arrington himself? It would be the stick figure to the left of the screen in front of the map of Afghanistan.
If so, you have officially made it Mike. Being featured in a JibJab video is a celebrity right of passage.
Do I win the prize>?
yeah, Chris Pirillo and Robert Scoble, too. In front of a map of Afghanistan. hmmm.
Wow.. I think it might be. If so, they are placing you in the 3% category. Mike, could you really point to Kabul on the map?
Good video.. I enjoy the JibJab guys.
well, i can now.
That is awesome!
Lame-O (aside from the Kabul bit). I wonder how an outfit can sustain themselves with just 2 and half hits.
There’s this Network Solutions ad that uses the same “mouth shifting” animation and it annoys me to no end.
LOL. I spotted this earlier too. Tried to ‘Tweet’ you all about it
http://kosso.wo...eeks-on-jibjab/
hey Mike, a little off topic but how about integrating a rating system for all Tech crunch posts like Guy Kawasaki does on his site:
http://blog.guykawasaki.com/
Like others who are busy, but visit TC frequently, it sure would be nice to quickly scroll through low-rated articles..
funny…
Is it just me, or does this not work in anybody elses reader? I had to actually visit the TC site for once. (It’s a nice site and all, but I like my reader).
Gold video though.
Cool that you’re in it Mike, and the video itself is well done. I even like the MSN player.
But the comedy… That’s fresh stuff– warmed-over-Mark-Russel-fresh.
I was trying to remember that guy’s name, with the stupid hat and jacket playing the piano. He would love that song though.
Hey dude
I saw you on Jay Leno show . They played the JibJab Clip. Make sure you get copy of the show.
Congrats
Phew this must take them forever to put together, really excellent work.
I saw this video on the Tonight Show…
I thought that was Arrington – turns out it is.
But why did they fit you into the Afghanistan background?
Everybody knows that Afghanistan is in Northern Africa.
I just saw the video on CNN’s headline news!
Very funny! Greg and Evan are hilarious. Congrats to the whole JibJab team!
Through an exclusive arrangement with the awesomely fine folks at JibJab, we’re selling the downloadable iPod version of this short for 1 cent at CartoonBrewFilms.com. The penny deal is only good through April though; after that it’ll be a $1.99 download at JibJab’s own website.
I fail to find this even remotely funny.
The first video they ever did was ok. This, on the other hand, is crap.
Please, don’t waste our time with lame stuff like this.
Moderately amusing. But… more depressing in its accuracy than anything else [sigh].
BO-ring. Predictable moon-june-spoon rhymes over a relentlessly annoying clichéd music track. What, couldn’t get the rights to “Camptown Races”?