Kidsploitation Komedy

December 14, 2007 2:30 PM

Camp Liberty: exposing the dire fate of the littlest enemy combatants. Another chilling (albeit fictitious) video from Jon Benjamin.

Recently Benjamin has been making videos for the new comedy news site 23/6: see these shadowy issue ads from the Swift Kids for Truth. Before that, he made the kidsploitation comedy classic Baby Pranks.

posted by TheWash (8 comments total)

Eight year olds, dude.
posted by mullingitover at 2:42 PM on December 14, 2007 [1 favorite]

"she's not a woman...she's a man" i <3 hjbenjamin! lulz.
posted by wowbobwow at 2:47 PM on December 14, 2007

I still miss Home Movies.
posted by allen.spaulding at 3:29 PM on December 14, 2007

"George W. Bush gave his life in Vietnam. He died there."
posted by anazgnos at 7:08 PM on December 14, 2007

The SwiftKids bit that uses 9/11 references to poke Giuliani is in pretty poor taste. Giuliani as a politician is fair game, but if you don't think he ought to be discussing 9/11, there's got to be a better way of making your point. I guess it's good that they didn't make a flat footed attempt to Remember the Maine, or commemorate Pearl Harbor, too.

Not much on the 23/6 site worth watching, as far as I could see.
posted by paulsc at 1:00 AM on December 15, 2007

Mounting a political campaign on the coattails of a tragedy in which 3000+ people were murdered for religious reasons is also "in pretty poor taste" (much more so in fact). Giuliani rightly gets shit for employing his never-fail-Never-Forget mantra because it is the only thrust of his campaign! It's disingenuous and exploitive.
posted by inoculatedcities at 8:55 AM on December 15, 2007

Giuliani as a politician is fair game, but if you don't think he ought to be discussing 9/11, there's got to be a better way of making your point.

Is he fair game or not?
posted by Blazecock Pileon at 10:17 AM on December 15, 2007

Giuliani is fair game for ridicule; 9/11 is not.
posted by Kadin2048 at 10:37 PM on December 16, 2007