23 comments on “Check this out”

  2. Check out all the comments if ya have the time, trust me, you’ll shake your head for a week. Especially when you realize how many people out there misunderstand the words patriotism and satire.

  3. Satire aside, it’s not funny. The opening is such a tired joke. What Stephen Colbert does is funny satire, this sucks.

  5. I don’t consider apathy or hypocracy to be political. I thought this was well done.

  8. ROTFLMAO!!!!
    Have you played any of the group’s other clips?
    Where/how did Shana discover them to begin with?
    This is just as good as the Jib-Jab stuff. LOL!

  9. Especially when you realize how many people out there misunderstand the words patriotism and satire.

    Or when you realize that idiots truly are everywhere.

    Some people who posted comments, obviously, just don’t get it.

  11. “This is just as good as the Jib-Jab stuff”

    Well, considering most of the Jib-Jab stuff is pretty lame, I guess that’s dámņìņg with faint praise.

  12. This video has a joy and an insistence that you rarely see anywhere – the fat guy with the top hat and cane really makes it.

    But the thing that impresses me is the stagecraft. Even given that they undoubtedly stopped down to change costumes and stage settings, and edited the video to them, this looks like it almost COULD be done live before an audience.

    Back when I was in public TV in Ohio, there was a classroom video we broadcast during the school year that was done on this kind of “pocket stage” about Andrew Jackson’s Presidency, with the rapid backdrop change and actors in position every time the curtain raised. That must have been done for the Chautaqua shows, and it was neat that someone bothered to resurrect it for sleepy, drug-addled schoolkids.

    The reason music videos died out as an art form is that too many musicians and their directors had no real imagination or creativity. You don’t just stick a singer with no acting capability in a funny outfit and expect to create visually compelling theatre. The Asylum Street Spankers are more than singers or parodists, they’re entertainers, a lost art in this day. They ought to be doing stuff on broadcast TV, if anyone had the guts to let them.

  14. Reminds me of something Bill Maher said after 9/11: “Go ahead, Put a flag on your car, it is LITERALLY the least you can do”.

  15. I posted the video to buckdharma.com. A few people have seen it. No comments yet. I, for one, thought it was hysterical.

    Miles

  16. I’ve been a Spankers fan for awhile now, and saw them do this song in concert several months ago. The visuals really enhance the song! I commend Shana for her impeccable taste! :^)

  17. God bless the Asylum Street Spankers, another fine product of Austin, Texas. (Asylum Street was a nickname for Guadalupe, the street that was home to the state mental hospital.) I actually attended the wedding of Spankers singer Christina Marrs. Okay, granted the wedding was at a Spankers show at Antone’s (home of the blues), and anybody who bought a ticket to the show could attend, but even so… 🙂

  18. To “jb”:

    To each his own opinion, while the Constitution still lets us.
    But I happen to like the Jib-Jab shorts, so I personally do not consider it “dámņìņg with faint praise”.

  21. Alan Coil,

    You haven’t seen the samething done a million times before? The swear word fake out is played out. I’m not familar with any of their other work but this is hacky.

    I’m not a fan of the magnetic car ribbons, but why do you think the people who put them on their cars should be made fun of? Do you know if they have any loved ones over there? That they are insincere in their support?

    What about this is “brilliant”?

  22. It’s not a matter of being insincere, but putting the yellow ribbon on the car really doesn’t help now does it? Yes, it shows support but let’s face it, most of the people that put the yellow ribbons on the car are doing the LEAST they can do.

    Instead of making sure that the soldiers are getting the best armor on their vehicles and whatnot, they spend $1.93 to put a ribbon on their vehicle?

    Madness.

  23. Rev. Snow,

    Where can people go to donate their $1.93 to buy armor for the troops? And you admit it shows support, is $1.93 too much and is the “least” worse than nothing? It’s not madness, what are you doing beyond that? Is singing an unfunny song making fun of people who support the troops a good way to support the troops?

    I don’t mind the criticism or the “satire”, I just think that these are some unfunny self-righteous áššhølëš. Bill Maher, Jon Stewart and Steve Colbert all do satire right every night and don’t pretend to say “çûņŧ” and call it funny.

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