Sneak Preview of Comedy Central's Lil' Bush
In the first episode of Comedy Central's new cartoon Lil' Bush, a juvenile rendering of Vice President Dick Cheney tears off the head of not one, not two, but three birds, and drinks their blood.
Which is to say that the show's creator, Donick Cary, ought to be careful about who he goes pheasant-hunting with in the years to come.
In a Tuesday evening screening of the first episode of Lil' Bush, Cary repeatedly described the show, which premieres Wednesday, June 13 at 10:30 PM eastern time, as 'silly.' And he's right.
The show doesn't have a broad message that will inspire you. Instead, it finds its best moments in your peripheral vision: Lil' Bush describing how he gets hugs not from the nation's 41st president, but from his father's top advisers; the children flashing their American passports to gain entry to a rainbow-bannered Green Zone; or, a young President Bill Clinton reminding us that abortion clinics are "where good dates end."
The little jokes like these keep coming, and the general plotline of the show just bulldozes right over them.
At the Tuesday screening, Cary was already aware of what might be the liberal objection to the show: that infantilizing President Bush and his top officials isn't really what this nation needs after 6 1/2 years of the Bush administration. The creator, who has written for Fox's The Simpsons was hoping to catch a crowd that's just seeking a laugh.
Here's a sneak preview of the show; you can decide if it's the kind of laugh you need.
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Comedy Central has also made an additional introduction of the main characters in the show available at its Motherload website.
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