“Just Give Me a Damned Cigarette” : JibJab Goes Puppets for Year-End-Review
One of the things that gets me through the holidays is the anticipation and enjoyment of JibJab’s annual year-end song parody. When Twitter rumors about CNN’s announcing Morgan Freeman’s death this week, I called JibJab’s Voice Jim Meskimen (website/on YouTube) to see if he’d do his classic Freeman impersonation. He did in this “Morgan Freeman is Alive” video, and it fooled many.
I’m a raving fan of Jim, who does virtually every voice you’ve heard on JibJab. (Go subscribe to him and you’ll see his Knestor learn ya about gift giving), and he tipped me off to the fact that the 2010 JibJab review is now out! You can also add your face to the first-ever JibJab stop action in “Santa Claus is Coming To Town.”
Check it out below, and notice it’s all puppets instead of the typical flash animation. JibJab took us behind the curtain with a step-by-step “behind scenes” blog. I can’t find what I’d hoped to see: Jim singing in the studio (there is a scratch music page that’s currently sparse).
Kevin, thank you for passing this along! My brother was wondering when if was going to be posted. 🙂
– Jason
That doesn’t seem like all that much for a whole year, but I can’t think of what’s missing.
In other news, Yahoo Video is dumping user-generated content as of March 15, 2011 in favor of “videos from Yahoo! and our partners.”
http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/video/notices/ugc-notice-01.html;_ylt=ArrK9UBLn5mSTDDTzCIVsBrNSXpG
http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/video/notices/ugc-notice-06.html;_ylt=ApozQtklSXOW2IDYXB4oqWfNSXpG
As a chain smoker who quit smoking 19 months ago, I can really appreciate the “Just give me a damned cigarette” title but they can’t fool me, Obama is out behind the White House smoking like a chimney.