Obama Girl: the First 365 Days
By Tim.Today marked the first year of Obama Girl’s term of office as reigning queen of political comedy on the web, since “I’ve Got a Crush… on Obama” first showed up on YouTube June 13, 2007. 100 Videos later, after over 50 million views and countless press stories, Barely Political has the #1 Most Viewed Video on YouTube again today, with a new rival for Obama Girl: the Incredible McCain Girl.
I think it’s some of the best work the Barely Political team has done — which has now grown to include the great preditor Tom Small, the hilarious writer and performer Rusty Ward, the still-rocking core team of Ben Relles, Leah Kaufman, and Amber Lee Ettinger, and new guys Mark Douglas and David Feingold. But they haven’t just been churning out Obama Girl videos and creating an increasingly weird and hilarious mythology for the characters, including OG’s alter-ego, Super Obama Girl — they’re also developing a truly unique brand of political satire with a YouTube aesthetic, with videos like Hillary Wasn’t Lying About Bosnia (by NNN’s Justin Johnson), Political Sex Scandals (a great Douglas / Kaufman collab) and a NNN staff favorite, Stimulus Package, where a couple of ’90’s rap rejects (played brilliantly by Ward and Douglas) fantasize about what mack daddies they’ll be with their $600 (embedded below, after the jump). Congrats to Ben, Amber, and Leah on a killer year, and thanks to everyone who’s helped expose the world to Barely Political, video after video, especially the Next New Networks team, YouTube, MSNBC, CNN and FOX News.
June 13th, 2008 at 12:28 pm
[…] Vid-Biz: McCain Girl, AT&T, SAG First Obama Girl, Now the Incredible McCain Girl Smash! You wouldn’t like her when she’s angry, but the Internets will like that Barely Political has kept all the boobs and short shorts in their work. (Next New Networks Blog) […]
June 13th, 2008 at 2:03 pm
you know this is a joke on the net right?
June 14th, 2008 at 12:04 am
Not exactly sure what you mean, Wendy, but in my experience, everything on the net’s a joke to someone. Glad we’re making you laugh one way or another.