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Bakshi Pokes Fun at Politics in ‘Trickle Dickle Down’ Short
Legendary animator Ralph Bakshi has released a new, political short film called Trickle Dickle Down he has released on YouTube.
Baskhi, who is best known for directing such adult-oriented animated fare as Fritz the Cat, Wizards, The Lord of the Rings, American Pop, Fire and Ice and Cool World, uses the short to take aim at Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney.
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What do you think, Animag readers? Is this spot on? Or should Bakshi cast his votes in another genre? Let us know in the comments.
Pizza Amendment Pokes Fun At Medical Marijuana Measure
?It seems everyone’s a comedian when it comes to cannabis. Now a Washington legislator has added a joke pizza amendment to a bill which would expand the state’s medical marijuana law.Rep. Glenn Anderson (F-Fall City) proposed a joke amendment requiring the state to reimburse medical marijuana patients for pizza the eat while legally high. Anderson’s amendment specifies it would not reimburse for more than three toppings, or for tips to pizza delivery drivers.Philip Dawdy, spokesman for the Washington Cannabis Association, a trade group for the medical marijuana industry in the state, didn’t seem to mind the joke. “It’s the best amendment in the history of the Legislature,” Dawdy told reporter Jonathan Martin at The Seattle Times.Some cannabis activists, however, weren’t so amused. After all, Washington’s medical marijuana law requires that patients must be suffering from a “terminal or debilitating” disease.
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Russia TV pokes fun at ruling tandem in New Year cartoon
AFP – Russia’s state television poked gentle fun at its ruling duo of Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and President Dmitry Medvedev, in a New Year cartoon of them dancing and singing on Red Square. Amid
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Colbert Report Pokes Fun At ‘It’s On Like Donkey Kong’ Trademark Stunt
If Nintendo’s announcement from earlier this week that it has filed for the trademark to “It’s on like Donkey Kong” was a publicity stunt, then the company has struck gold, as Comedy Central’s The Colbert Report made light of it on national television Thursday.
In a clip explaining the story, Colbert jokes that the company is “still finishing the paperwork to trademark other Nintendo-centric phrases, like ‘Don’t front like Duck Hunt,’ ‘I’m going to bring the pain-ya like Castlevania’ and ‘Nah, I don’t feel like playing Kirby’s Adventure.’”
