Round Two of Colbert's Make John McCain More Exciting 'Green Screen Challenge'
By SilentPatriot Friday Jul 18, 2008 11:00am
(guest-blogged by Heather)
A few weeks ago Stephen Colbert aired his second edition of the John McCain 'Green Screen Challenge'.
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Well ladies and gentlemen the big story out there continues to be the high cost of gasoline. Four bucks a gallon. I have stopped traveling anywhere that is not down hill. Luckily John McCain has the solution, Jim...
Three hundred million dollar prize for the development of a battery package that has the size, capacity, cost and power to leap frog the commercially available plug-in hybrids or electric cars.....
Fabulous prizes!...Who says McCain's campaign has no new ideas? They have the new idea of offering millions of dollars to people who actually have ideas. Ladies and gentlemen this is the latest example of John McCain's brave fight to keep Americans awake while he talks. It all started three weeks ago when he spoke in front of a green screen, challenging Americans to fill that green space with something more interesting than John McCain. Well to help his valiant effort I posted that green screen footage at ColbertNation.com and you the heroes have responded to my make McCain exciting challenge.
I believe this one topped the first edition and the Vogue clip was my favorite. SilentPatriot said his vote was for the Elvis clip. Which one is your favorite?
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God bless satire, whatever would we do without it?
Looks like those hip replacements worked real good!
I loved the Vogue clip, but I gotta give it up for the founder of Photoshop, John Knoll.
Vogue
Are Satirists the name of the people who live on Saturn?
McAyn prizes for blowing harder than the wind next on agenda?
Here's the latest McCain green screen, as Travolta, Princess Leia and Steven himself.
http://democurmudgeon.blogspot.com/2008/07/mccain-green-screen-travolta-...
My favorite was the one that was done as a O'Reilly interview with O'reilly loosing his temper. But I thought this was up to the third round.
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(slightly O/T)
techie question: anyone out there have a rec for a good plug-in for iMovie to separate mccain from the green background? i downloaded something (forget its name) and it did an awful job, and i'm trying to find something better--yet, still free (if there is such a thing). suggestions?
john mccain is as exciting as a bowl of three-day old grits.
And I hate fresh grits.
Good thing we'll have plenty of hilarious videos to watch while they're bombing yet another sovereign nation and murdering it's citizens.
Reslugs kill social programs and block reproductive rights but hey, mcsame sure got nailed on the colbert report.
Yeah sorry. My sense of humor died along with my personal rights and freedoms.
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Now grits with scrapple is another matter
Here in Texas we have our own name for it
Garbage.
good stuff! funny!
Same as Bush's mission to mars
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ar7Ty-4grR8
That was some really good work by those guys.
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Given I'm a software geek and gamer, I'm tempted by the "Capt. McCain", but I think I have to go with Elvis. Too funny!
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Vogue! funny as hell.
The compositing, rotoscoping, and getting the McCain to rhyme with madge takes some skill, too.
Laughter banishes fear. Thanks for posting this!
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neoconned @ 23:
It was covered in Mike's Blog Roundup here on July 16th.
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The pic preview makes John McCain look like Nosferatu. How apt.
you're mighty excited that we all jump up and "do something right now," neoconned, but somehow i missed what you suggest we do that you believe we are not already doing.
do you think none of us do anything but hang out here all day? like you?
take your buzz kill outside, neoconned. hysterical shrieking is rarely useful and even less rarely appreciated.
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Vogue.
ysbaddaden @ 10:
What are grits? It's an American 'thing'.
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Bill @ 7:
That was mine, glad you liked it. You can see the whole thing on my youtube at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=516fjW4ehvY
This past week, he had another set of green-screen respondents from which my favorite emerged -- John McCain took the place of Colbert in the opening of the show. It was very, very well done....
(as are all of them, of course...)
I liked the Vogue clip, but I loved the Elvis clip. It was more absurd, somehow.
And the Colbert open was fantastic - perfect execution. But I had a real soft spot for the O'Reilly rant face-off. That was just brilliant concept.
I can't hear John McCain's voice or see his picture on TV any more without thinking of these silly, goofball Green Screen Challenges, and I break into laughter. Not that I didn't feel that way, anyway, but now I hear him as a photoshopped head in some campy old TV or movie footage. This must have been the ultimate intent of the evil comedic geniuses behind the Colbert Report. These Green Screen Challenges should get more mainstream media airplay ... they'd sink his campaign for good.
ysbaddaden @ 10:
Even with butter and syrup ? Thats madness i say !
Also, I vote Vogue without hesitation.
The "Vogue" job was a masterpiece.
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