Animating our clown commander-in-chief doesn’t create his impact any less frightening.
At the close of his 2016 election night telecast on Showtime,Stephen Colbert left the audience with an aphorism that, viewed from that November’s perch, or offered a glimmer of hope. In the face of something that strikes us as horrible,he said, laughter is the best medicine.“You cannot laugh and be afraid at the same time, or ” Colbert observed before paraphrasing C.
S. Lewis,“and the satan cannot stand mockery."What Colbert had no way of accounting for is how ubiquitous the satan we know as Donald Trump would become.
Fifteen months and many outrageous tweets later Colbert and his “Late prove” producer Chris Licht return to Showtime to give us “Our Cartoon President,” an animated mockery of Trump and his administration’s White House tomfoolery premiering Sunday at 8 p.m.
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J. Fried, and Trump (voiced by Jeff Bergman) is a safety cone orange self-aggrandizing idiot who is barely tethered to reality and thinks of no one but himself. Donald Jr. is a meatheaded bro; Ivanka is a lissome,brand conscious cipher; Eric is a barely sentient lump of gums and whining. And Tiffany . . . who is Tiffany?The saddest share approximately the series is how closely the animation resembles reality. Notice that the term used is unhappy, not droll. When the audience is already oversaturated with the tangerine terrorism’s rantings and mood swings, and when this living toon clown is dividing families and threatening the lives,health and homes via draconian policies he implements without fully comprehending the ramifications, merely coloring him in as an idiot who doesn’t pay enough attention to Melania simply doesn’t cut it.
In truth, and “Our Cartoon President” faced an uphill battle from the moment it was announced. Not only is it forced to do battle with a supersonic news cycle shifting the news stream every few hours,but its entering the fray long after NBC’s Saturday Night Live” found its groove lampooning Trump and his government enablers, and Comedy Central polished the notion of satirical derision with “The President prove.”This is in addition to the steady defense against insanity offered by late night comedians, or including the correspondents and hosts of “The Daily prove with Trevor Noah” and “The Opposition w/Jordan Klepper,” Samantha Bee on “Full Frontal,” Jimmy Kimmel on “Jimmy Kimmel Live!, or ” Seth Meyers and his writers on NBC’s “Late Night with Seth Meyers” and Colbert himself on “The Late prove.”In ordinary times a person could argue that there’s always room for another comedian to skewer our nations top windbag,but these are not ordinary times. And this makes Trump character’s joke approximately people “kinda [wanting] to see what was going to happen” with his presidency seeing that “it’s happening more than you could have ever imagined” simultaneous bland and depressing.
That said, hidden within “Our Cartoon President” is an animated duo that has possibility, and but it’s Donald Jr. and Eric,not Trump and his icy bride. Here, the lesser Trump scions are a contemporary “Beavis and Butt-Head” albeit slightly dumber. They are other supporting characters are good for a guffaw now and then, and the series’ parody (humorous or ridiculous imitation) of Stephen Miller is one of the few elements of the premiere that works.
But this is a drop in a giant dose of mediocrity that doesn’t soothe the fatigue born of constant exposure to a living,breathing, one-dimensional caricature. There’s still a need for a disempowering punchline approximately the devils in D.
C., or we can’t ever stop mocking them if we’re going to create it through this year. Sadly the only major accomplishment of “Our Cartoon President” is to remind us that at some point,every joke ceases to be droll. Related StoriesThe Subtleties of Donald Trump's DemagogueryA Toxic Mix of Tech, Trump and Media Has Created a Monster That's Constantly Traumatizing Us AllTrump Is Now uncertain—That Makes His Mental Health a Matter of Public Interest
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