15 minutes into this show and I don’t think I’ve laughed once. Who knew that making fun of Bush could be this unfunny?
My fairly liberal husband says, “This is like watching a left-wing propaganda cartoon - and it’s not funny, either!” Yeah, this is just… wow. Dull.
Oh god, the lil-kid-Cheney bedding Barbara Bush - boring and oogy.
Even less funny than the live action Bush show they had a few years back- when the first joke is about his cocaine use, you know you’re in for a long half hour. Who’s the target audience- really dumb Bush haters?
L’il Bush pales in comparison to the vastly superior L’il Bill and Hill and Friends. I’m not watching the show, but I can’t believe it was created by the same man who gave the world Mr. Sparkle.
I gave it 45 seconds and switched to a Futurama I’ve seen at least a dozen times.
Note to Comedy Central: The Bania effect doesn’t always work.
Aw, I really liked the live action That’s my Bush from back in 2000ish. I was wishing they’d just bring that back instead.
But yea, caught the last 10 minutes of l’il Bush, and it was just painful. Worse then Mind of Mencia, and that’s saying something.
Saw the suck coming a mile away.
I also liked That’s My Bush. Especially Princess and her memory enhancing pills.
I find it’s usually easy to determine the quality of a show or movie based on its adverts. When the best bits that find their way onto a commercial fall flat, it’s not a good sign. You gotta figure that when they throw their best material at you to hype the show up and the best material is awful, then the show must be horrifically bad. I think making fun of Bush is like making fun of retarded kids … it’s not hard because just experiencing Bush is the joke itself, and expounding on his absurdity isn’t funny because it’s just beating the horse. Parker & Stone’s format for ‘That’s My Bush’ was brilliant because it wasn’t trying to make fun of Bush by committing character assassination because they knew doing so was superfluous. Instead, he and all the characters were alternate versions of themselves made into sitcom stereotypes. Alas, the whole tone of the show was lost on most, probably because they were expecting a lame driveby show like Lil’ Bush.
That being said, I wouldn’t be surprised if Lil’ Bush gets picked up for a full season.
To be fair to Comedy Central, “That’s My Bush” wasn’t cancelled because they thought it was bad, it was cancelled because producing a real live sitcom cost more than what a niche cable station could afford. If only a real network - or deep-pockets HBO - would have considered picking it up, it might still be with us.
Parker and Stone are geniuses. They really know how to effectively spoof all the elements of their target genre, unlike, say, the guys who produce the “___ Movie” franchise.
Perhaps my memory on That’s My Bush is faulty- I don’t recall liking it, but since others here did, maybe I need to revisit it…
My thought was that it looked stupid and is probably no longer relevant.
“That’s My Bush” didn’t work because there a fine line between making a parody of a stupid sitcom and making a stupid sitcom.
Yeah. The promos for this cartoon for the last month were among the most unfunny things I’ve seen Comedy Central put out. Glad I missed the premiere.
As anamnesis pointed out, there really is no point in making a parody of someone who is a walking joke already. It would be cheaper, easier and funnier to just tape 23 minutes of Dubya’s real life once a week and put that out instead. Videos of his malaprops are infinitely funnier than last nights show.
This thread proves once again that the “all you damn SDMB liberals hate Bush so much that anything pro-Bush is automatically stupid and unfunny and anything anti-Bush is automatically brilliant comedic gold” excuse for (for instance) the disdain showered up The Half Hour News Hour is so much bunk.
Agreed. I’m no fan of Bush and don’t sit in the same theater of the political arena, but I found this show to be boring, irrelevant, and slightly distasteful. To be fair, I wasn’t able to force myself to watch past the first half of it, so it’s theoretically possible it became a brilliant show in the last half.
Is this a whoosh? Are you honestly positing that Dubya is a smart man who absolutely got his degrees on his own merit? I doubt he has ever gotten anything in life on merit. And also, you do know there have been many exposes about illeterate people (literal not figurative) graduating high school, and rarely college? Does the fact that this man can’t string threee sentences together without a grammatical error not lend credence to the thoery that he’s gotten by on nepotism? And what does that say about Harvard that an idiot like him got a degree there?
Good grief, learn the meaning of an “analogy” mate. 
Oh, dear Wee Bairn, ye make me weep for the future of western civilization. Let us all convert and be done with it.
Come now, I know you think they’re biased, but haven’t you ever read one of the hundeds of webpages compiling his many boneheaded statements? What do you chalk those up to- camera shyness? Or perhaps - he feigns utter stupidity to keep the enemy offbalance- that wily and crafty guy, now I get it!
But even if I generously allow that he’s of average American intelligence, shouldn’t he still be ridiculed for that? Shouldn’t the POTUS be the smartest man in the room, or at least close? Where would he rank among World leaders today, or all US Presidents? And just for comparison, Clinton could have probably been able to name the leader of 95% of the worlds countries, as well as their type of government and political climate right before he entered office. As for Dubya, he thought President Poutine of Canada (or PM, not sure it would have mattered) was endorsing him in 2000.
And for disclosure, I have no degree and a shit job, but also no famous relative.