USA for USA.
October 25, 2001 9:32 AM   Subscribe

USA for USA. A spoof of "We are the World." Probably ten years old, but I for one have never seen it before. Streaming video.
posted by swift (14 comments total)
 
Depends -- is that puppet Gulf War Bush or Terrorism Bush?
posted by jragon at 9:55 AM on October 25, 2001


Pretty funny, but I had a hard time figuring which politicians those puppets were supposed to be besides the Bush one... Still, kind of strange to see European puppet satire of American leaders...

And damn if I don't have that song stuck in my head now...
posted by mattpusateri at 10:00 AM on October 25, 2001


What the Sam Kinison? These are the puppets from that old Brit show if I am not mistaken (also the Genesis video). IT seems to be GulF War Bush. All of the singeers looked and sounded like Sylvester Stallone - the typical American. Are they singing "We fought the world" or "We fu*k the world"? So the French think that we make the world a better place for the US? Maybe we should have let the Germans keep France - turn it into VW, Mercedes and BMW factories. Okay I will lay off of the French now.
posted by Stretch at 10:02 AM on October 25, 2001


So who was the dude with glasses? Looked like reagan with bi-focals or something...

Wasn't there an American political show with the same style puppets for a while? I have vague recollections of a Geraldo Rivera puppet hounding a John Sununu puppet...

Come to think of it, American TV hasn't had enough quality puppet co-stars in sitcoms since that beloved extraterrestrial scamp, Alf...
posted by mattpusateri at 10:20 AM on October 25, 2001


Why are Brits, Europeans, and Mexicans obsessed with creepy looking puppets doing slightly humorous things? I once was aboard a Transatlantic flight showing a Jerry Lewis movie. I shit you not, whenever Jerry did some lame slapstick, the majority of the laughter was coming from the French passengers.
posted by sharksandwich at 10:21 AM on October 25, 2001


Why are Brits, Europeans, and Mexicans obsessed with creepy looking puppets doing slightly humorous things? I once was aboard a Transatlantic flight showing a Jerry Lewis movie. I shit you not, whenever Jerry did some lame slapstick, the majority of the laughter was coming from the French passengers.
posted by sharksandwich at 10:22 AM on October 25, 2001


Why are Brits, Europeans, and Mexicans obsessed with creepy looking puppets doing slightly humorous things? I once was aboard a Transatlantic flight showing a Jerry Lewis movie. I shit you not, whenever Jerry did some lame slapstick, the majority of the laughter was coming from the French passengers.
posted by sharksandwich at 10:22 AM on October 25, 2001


Jerry Lewis is huge in France.
Jerry Lewis is huge in France.
Jerry Lewis is huge in France.

;)
posted by jragon at 3:00 PM on October 25, 2001


Jerry Lewis also happens to be a comic genius. That's one thing I don't get when comedians wack the French for liking Jerry Lewis, as Jerry Lewis is one of the top physical comedians of all time. Not to get all off-topic or anything.
posted by cell divide at 3:09 PM on October 25, 2001


The show was called Spitting Image.

In case you were wondering or anything.

And the guy in the glasses - if he's grey all over - will be John Major, who was the prime minister from 1990 to 1997. Don't worry, we find him quite difficult to remember as well.
posted by Grangousier at 3:16 PM on October 25, 2001


The USA had its own "puppets as political figures" show in the late '80s called D.C Follies. I remember a hilarious musical number they did post-Gulf War called "Can't Beat The Bush" sung by Nixon, Carter, Reagan and Ford. But I think I'm the only one who ever saw it.

There was also a "recovering dictator" skit with Idi Amin and Fidel Castro.
posted by owillis at 3:28 PM on October 25, 2001


Sorry bout the triple comment posting earlier, I am not a buffoon. An evil puppet was repaetedly ramming my cranium into the keyboard...
posted by sharksandwich at 3:34 PM on October 25, 2001


Damn that Bert.
posted by darukaru at 4:41 PM on October 25, 2001


OK, I'm a little late here, but the name of the show is actually Les Guignols d'Info, a French show.
posted by jeffvc at 1:27 AM on November 13, 2001


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