JibJab

JibJab is a website created by Evan and Gregg Spiridellis in 1999. JibJab was noticed in the 2004 U.S. presidential election with their video of George W. Bush and John Kerry singing "This Land is your Land" became so popular. The company creates original content. It has three main sections on the website: eCards; "Everyday Fun Sendables" such as funny videos; and "Originals," including "This Land," "Time for Some Campaignin'," and "Big Box Mart."

JibJab has also produced commercials for clients like Sony, Noggin, Disney and Cartoon Network.

Political comedy

Capitol III 
JibJab made a flash movie for the 2000 United States presidential election in July 2000, which featured a rap battle between the two main candidates, Vice President Al Gore and Texas governor George W. Bush. Presidents Bill Clinton and George H. W. Bush also make cameos.

Ahnuld for Governor 
In 2003, JibJab made a flash movie making fun of Arnold Schwarzenegger running for governor of California.

This Land 
For the 2004 United States presidential election, JibJab made a flash movie entitled "This Land", which is a parody of This Land Is Your Land. The two main candidates, President George W. Bush and US Senator John Kerry are the main stars. The parody was very popular.

Good to Be in DC 
JibJab followed up with another animation set to the tune of Dixie. In this video, animated versions of Bush, Kerry, and their running mates, Dick Cheney and John Edwards, singing about their hopes for the upcoming election.

Second Term 
Immediately after Bush's election victory, JibJab released a third video, "Second Term", in the tune of She'll be Coming 'Round the Mountain.

Time for Some Campaigning 
For the 2008 United States presidential election, JibJab released another animation. It is in the tune of Bob Dylan's The Times They Are a-Changin. Animated versions of the two main candidates, US Senators Barack Obama and John McCain, sing about their hopes for the election.

He's Barack Obama 
Upon Obama's election victory and him taking power, JibJab released another animation, where they showed Obama as a superhero. The music is a rock version of When Johnny Comes Marching Home, and it is about Obama's promises as President.

2012 election 
JibJab did not make another animation and instead focused on their e-card business. However, an election web-app released in October of that year.

Year in Review 
JibJab started the tradition of making animations reviewing the events that happened each year, with an animation released between Christmas and New Year's Eve, sung to all classic melodies. The tradition originally lasted from 2005 to 2014, however JibJab revived the tradition in 2020 due to popular demand.

"2-0-5" (2005) 
This is a parody of the songs Auld Lang Syne and Turkey in the Straw, and is sung in the perspective of George W. Bush. The events mentioned include:
 Kim Jong-il
 A space shuttle mission
 Israeli disengagement from Gaza
 The 2005 United States federal budget
 Decline of U.S. jobs
 Al-Qaeda insurgency
 Bush's declining popularity
 Plame affair grand jury investigation
 Karl Rove
 Energy Policy Act of 2005
 Michael D. Brown
 Harriet Miers Supreme Court nomination
 United States housing bubble
 Gas prices
 Overseas job decline
 Hurricane Katrina
 Federal Emergency Management Agency
 Guantanamo Bay detention camp
 Avian influenza
 Camp Casey, Crawford, Texas protests
 Somalian piracy attack on the MV Seabourn Spirit
 Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
 The increase in popularity of same-sex marriage in the United States and the 2005 Civil Marriage Act of Canada
 Stem cells
 Scooter Libby
 Tom DeLay

Nuckin' Futz (2006) 
This is a parody of Jingle Bells sung in an elementary-school Christmas concert. Notable events mentioned include:
 Iraqi Civil War (2006-2008)
 War in Afghanistan
 Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie having a baby
 Osama bin Laden's compound in Abbottabad
 Britney Spears undergoing rehab
 The trial and execution of Saddam Hussein
 Dick Cheney accidentally shooting friend Harry Whittington during a hunting trip
 The 2006 transatlantic aircraft plot and subsequent liquid bans
 Hugo Chavez's UN Speech
 Tom Cruise's appearance on The Oprah Winfrey Show
 2006 Thai coup d'état
 Mel Gibson’s DUI incident
 Ted Haggard's sex scandal
 Death of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi
 Google buying YouTube
 Fidel Castro's failing health
 Ariel Sharon suffering a stroke
 The Jack Abramoff Indian lobbying scandal
 Tom DeLay's trial
 The William J. Jefferson corruption case
 The Mark Foley scandal
 Paris Hilton swearing she never had sex
 Religious conflict in various parts of the world
 Kim Jong-il testing a bomb
 Kenneth Lay's death following his trial
 Lance Bass coming out as gay
 Donald Rumsfield resigning from being Secretary of Defense
 2006 Lebanon War
 Iran's nuclear program

In 2007 (2007) 
This is a parody of Billy Joel's We Didn't Start the Fire, portrayed by angels, who were afraid God would be upsetted by the year's tragic events and would rather sugar-coat it in the song. Notable events mentioned include:
 Global warming
 Terrorism, especially from Osama bin Laden
 Oil prices
 Michael Vick's role in the Bad Newz Kennels dog fighting investigation
 Al Gonzales resigning as attorney general
 Lindsay Lohan's cocaine bust
 Dennis Kucinich swearing that he saw a UFO
 The 2007 Chinese export recalls
 The campaigning of Republican candidates Rudy Giuliani, Mitt Romney, John Boehner, John McCain, and Fred Thompson and Democratic candidates Hillary Clinton, John Edwards, and Barack Obama for the 2008 United States presidential election
 The War in Dafur
 The war in Iraq
 The Don Imus Rutgers University women's basketball team controversy
 The coverage of Anna Nicole Smith's death
 Blackwater USA
 Britney Spears' performance at the 2007 MTV Video Music Awards
 The Barry Bonds perjury case
 The Malibu forest fires
 The first flight of the Airbus A380
 Bob Barker retiring as host of The Price is Right
 Karl Rove dancing
 The O.J. Simpson robbery case
 President of Pakistan Pervez Musharraf
 President of Syria Bashar al-Assad
 President of Iran Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
 Caitlin Upton winning the Miss Team USA pageant
 Cargill's beef recalls
 The Larry Craig scandal
 The rise of Facebook
 2007 Boston Red Sox season
 The release of Halo 3 for Xbox 360
 The rise of the Nintendo Wii
 Martin Scorsese winning at the Academy Awards
 Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie adopting another baby
 Knut the polar bear's debut to the public
 The initial release of the iPhone
 Sanjaya Malakar's performance on American Idol

The JibJab Year in Review 2008 
This is a parody of Miss Suzie sang by Baby New Year 2008. Notable events mentioned include
 The 2007-08 financial crisis
 The federal takeover of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac
 The liquidity crisis of the American International Group
 The bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers
 The continuing War in Afghanistan
 The automotive industry crisis's impact on the Big Three automobile manufacturers
 Jesse Jackson threatening to castrate Obama
 Rick Dyer and Matthew Whitton's YouTube video claiming to have seen Bigfoot's corpse in northern Georgia
 The Eliot Spitzer prostitution scandal
 David Duchovny undergoing rehabilitation
 Dick Cheney having a heart attack
 Energy crisis
 Barack Obama defeating John McCain in the 2008 United States presidential election
 McCain forgetting how many houses he owned
 Sarah Palin being McCain's running mate, which shocked the press
 The Islamabad Marriott Hotel bombing
 Bill Gates leaving day-to-day operations at Microsoft
 Vladimir Putin's role in the Russo-Georgian War
 Hurricanes Ike and Gustav
 John Edwards cheating on his wife

Never a Year like '09 (2009) 
This is a parody of The Entertainer. Notable events mentioned include
 Barack Obama's inauguration
Obama being the first African-American president in American history
 Fraud in Afghanistan during a presidential election
 Protests over the Iranian presidential election
 The Henry Louis Gates arrest controversy
 John and Kate Gosselin getting divorced
 The finger-biting incident at a pro-Obama healthcare rally in Thousand Oaks, California
 The public health insurance option
 Sarah Palin resigns from her post as Governor of Alaska
 Bill Clinton picks up Laura Ling and Euna Lee during his trip to North Korea
 The swine flu pandemic
 The David Letterman extortion attempt
 The General Motors Chapter 11 reorganization
 The "Miracle on the Hudson" water landing of US Airways Flight 1549 by captain Sully Sullenberger
 The Michael Phelps marijuana scandal
 "Octomom" makes headlines for giving birth to octuplets
 Chicago's failed Summer Olympics bid
 Michael Vick returning from his NFL suspension
 Brett Favre joining the Minnesota Vikings
 Joe Wilson yelling "You lie!" during Obama's speech to Congress
 The balloon boy hoax
 The California budget crisis
 The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009
 Carrie Prejean
 Mark Sanford going to Argentina and cheating on his wife
 David Souter
 Sonia Sotomayor becomes the first Latina to go into the Supreme Court
 Obama wins a Nobel Peace Prize
 Muammar Gaddafi's United Nations speech
 The "Three-Wolved Moon"
 The deaths of Billy Mays, Patrick Swayze, Walter Cronkite, Farrah Fawcett, Ed McMahon, Ted Kennedy, and Michael Jackson
 Keyboard Cat
 Levi Johnston's Playboy cover magazine
 Kanye West interrupting Taylor Swift

So Long to Ya 2010 (2010) 
This is a parody of The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze portrayed by Barack Obama and Joe Biden. Notable events mentioned include:
 Tea Party movement
 The foreclosure crisis
 Obamacare
 Joe Biden swearing on national television while introducing Obama during the signing ceremony
 An earthquake in Haiti
 The eruption of Eyjafjallajökull in Iceland, disrupting air travel across Europe
 Greece's debt crisis
 The Deepwater Horizon oil spill
 The Mosque at Ground Zero
 WikiLeaks
 The campaign finance reform in the United States
 Elena Kagan
 Obama's popularity declining
 Charles B. Rangel, Stanley A. McChrystal, and Hamid Karzai
 The war in Iraq
 Don't Ask, Don't Tell Repeal Act of 2010
 Sarah Palin and Glenn Beck on Fox News
 Colleen LaRose
 Michelle Obama going to Spain
 JetBlue flight attendant incident
 Rahm Emanuel's resignation
 Russian spies
 2010 Times Square car bombing attempt
 Support Our Law Enforcement and Safe Neighborhoods Act
 California legalizing marijuana
 Inherited wars
 Debt
 Gridlocking politicians
 Iran's nuclear threats
 Presidential seal falls off podium during speech at women's conference

2011 Buh-Bye (2011) 
This is a parody of My Bonnie Lies Over The Ocean. Notable events mentioned include:
 The introduction of Ben & Jerry's new ice cream flavor, "Schweddy Balls", inspired by Saturday Night Live
 Charlie Sheen
 Theft claims by Lindsay Lohan
 Charges of sexual assaults against Dominique Strauss-Kahn
 The campaigning of Republicans Mitt Romney, Rick Perry, and Herman Cain for the 2012 United States presidential election
 The trial and conviction of Dr. Conrad Murray
 Arnold Schwarzenegger's love child scandal
 Standard & Poor lowering America's rating
 The high unemployment rate
 The United States debt-ceiling crisis
 Weinergate
 Taxation and Class War debates
 Rupert Murdoch getting hit with a pie
 The 2011 United States listeriosis outbreak
 Greek debt
 The Arab Spring (including the 2011 Egyptian revolution and the 2011 Libyan civil war)
 The death of Muhamar Gaddafi
 The removal of Don't ask, don't tell
 The claims and denials of homosexuality in Sesame Street characters Bert and Ernie
 The death of Osama bin Laden
 An earthquake and nuclear crisis in Japan
 Riots in Great Britain
 The 2011 end times prediction by Harold Camping
 The widespread 2012 phenomenon (also called the Mayan Prophecy or the Mayan Apocalypse)
 The short-lived marriage by Kim Kardashian and Kris Humphries
 Jessica Simpson and Beyoncé have babies
 The bankruptcy of Borders Group
 Netflix policy changes lead people to unsubscribe, consequently losing over 75% brand value
 Justin Bieber's new hairstyle
 Rebecca Black's hit song "Friday"
 The Royal Wedding
 The Occupy Wall Street movement and the widespread of the Occupy movement
 The deaths of Steve Jobs, Elizabeth Taylor, Betty Ford, Randy Savage, Andy Rooney, Peter Falk, Ryan Dunn, and Amy Winehouse
 The Nyan Cat
 The last Space Shuttle mission
 The incident in Zanesville, Ohio when exotic animals, such as lions, tigers, and bears were released.

2012 The End is Near (2012) 
This is a parody of Down By The Riverside portrayed by Mayans. Notable events mentioned include:
 Global warming causing Arctic ice to melt
 Felix Baumgartner jumping to solid ground from the edge of the atmosphere (Red Bull Stratos)
 The ongoing conflict in Libya
 The United States fiscal cliff
 Zumba
 Fifty Shades of Gray
 Sam Champion and Anderson Cooper coming out as gay
 Chick-Fil-A hating gay people
 Kristen Stewart cheating on Robert Pattinson
 The divorce of Katie Holmes and Tom Cruise
 Lance Armstrong blowing his career for using steroids
 The disappointing price plunge of Facebook stock once the company went public
 The record-breaking success of Marvel's Avengers movie, surpassing the same year's films The Dark Knight Rises; The Hunger Games and The Amazing Spider-Man
 Rush Limbaugh's sexist tirade against Sandra Fluke, calling her such names as a "slut"
 Disney's purchase of Lucasfilm
 Here Comes Honey Boo Boo
 Gangnam Style by Psy
 The failed restoration of Elías García Martínez's Ecce Homo by amateur restorer Cecilia Giménez
 Erhmagerd memes
 The Secret Service escort scandal
 The Petraeus scandal
 Obamacare
 The 2012 United States presidential election, Barack Obama defeating Mitt Romney
 The Olympics
 Arnold Schwarzenegger's autobiography Total Recall: My Unbelievably True Life Story
 The deaths of Michael Clarke Duncan, Andy Griffith, Phyllis Diller, Sherman Hemsley, Dick Clark, Larry Hagman, Whitney Houston, Jerry Nelson, Donna Summer, Neil Armstrong, Hector Camacho, Alastair Burnet, Ernest Borgnine, Maurice Sendak, Dave Brubeck, and Ray Bradbury
 Hurricane Sandy
 Fail Mary, the controversial game between the Green Bay Packers and Seattle Seahawks that led to public outcry over NFL's replacement referees
 Israel and Palestine arguing
 Snooki having a baby

2013 What a Year (2013)  
This is a parody of Give My Regards To Broadway. Notable events mentioned include:
 The 2012–13 Egyptian protests and the overthrow of Mohamed Morsi
 Drone warfare in Pakistan
 Edward Snowden exposing the NSA scandal
 Sequestering
 A government shutdown
 Obamacare
 Rob Ford smoking crack
 Weinergate again
 The movie Gravity
 The Pope quits
 The striking down of the Defense of Marriage Act and California Propisition 8
 Kanye West having a baby
 A royal baby
 The popularity of The Walking Dead and Breaking Bad, as well as the latter's series finale
 The launch of the iPhone 5S and 5C
 Harlem Shake by Bauuer
 Wrecking Ball by Miley Cyrus
 Jeff Bezos buying the Washington Post
 Paula Deen allegedly saying the N-word
 Blurred Lines
 The deaths of James Gandolfini, Lou Reed, Nelson Mandela, and Margaret Thatcher among others
 Blockbuster going out of business
 Batkid
 Grand Theft Auto V
 What Does the Fox Say by Ylvis
 Floods in Colorado
 A typhoon in the Philippines
 A tornado in Oklahoma
 Sharknado
 The Justin Bieber-Anne Frank controversy
 Marissa Mayer buying Tumblr
 The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
 Jennifer Lawrence playing Katniss Everdeen
 Jason Collins coming out as gay

2014 You are History (2014) 
This is a parody of Beethoven's 9th Symphony. Notable events mentioned include: 
 2014 Winter Olympics
 2014 Israel–Gaza conflict
 The December 2014 Sony Pictures Entertainment hack and temporary cancellation of The Interview
 The How I Met Your Mother series finale
 Renée Zellweger's facial reconstruction
 The 2014 Omar J. Gonzalez White House intrusion
 Kim Kardiashian's butt
 ISIS
 Russia fighting against Ukraine
 The Republicans taking over Congress
 Barack Obama's executive orders
 Michael Brown and Eric Garner's deaths, and subsequent unrest
 Ebola
 Washington, D.C. and Colorado legalizing marijuana
 Jay Leno retiring from the Night Show, being replaced by Jimmy Fallon
 The ending of Colbert Report
 All About that Bass by Megan Trainor
 Shia LaBeouf no longer being relevant
 Roger Goodell terminating Ray Rice from the Baltimore Ravens and Adrian Peterson from the Minnesota Vikings over domestic violence cases
 The marriage of Brad Pitt to Angelina Jolie and George Clooney to Amal Alamuddin
 The divorce of Chris Martin and Gwyneth Paltrow
 Justin Bieber's egg-throwing and DUI incidents, subsequent arrest, and continued career downfall
 The Solange Knowles-Jay-Z elevator brawl
 Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey hosted by Neil deGrasse Tyson
 The Rosetta Spacecraft successfully landing on a comet
 The success of Guardians of the Galaxy and Interstellar
 4Chan
 "Happy" by Pharrell Williams and his giant mountie hat from the 56th Annual Grammy Awards
 "Weird Al" Yankovic
 Jane Foster becomes Marvel Comics' first ever female Thor
 The deaths of Casey Kasem, Norman Bridwell, Robin Williams, Sid Caesar, Pete Seeger, Richard Attenborough, Mickey Rooney, Maya Angelou, Jan Hooks, Harold Ramis, Joan Rivers, and Philip Seymour Hoffman
 The 2014 FIFA World Cup, specifically Germany's 7-1 thrashing of Brazil in the semifinals
 "Anaconda" by Nicki Minaj and Eaten Alive
 The iPhone 6
 Malaysia Airlines aircraft losses (The disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 and shooting down of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17)
 Potato Salad Kickstarter
 Gamergate controversy
 The Chase Bank, Home Depot, and Sony data breaches
 Tracy Morgan's traffic accident and subsequent lawsuit against Walmart
 The Washington Redskins change their logo
 Malala Yousafzai winning a 2014 Nobel Peace Prize
 The discovery of Dreadnoughtus schrani, believed to be the largest dinosaur ever to exist
 Star Wars: The Force Awakens announcement
 Janet Yellen becomes Chairwoman of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors
 The racist comments made by Donald Sterling, and the ensuing controversy

2020 You've Got to Go (2020) 
This is an original song. Notable events mentioned include: 
 Billie Eilish winning at the Grammys
 Parasite winning an Academy Award
 Brexit
 Donald Trump getting impeached
 The COVID-19 pandemic and resulting lockdowns
 The usage of face masks
 The use of "Karen" as an insult
 The use of hand sanitizer during the pandemic
 The closing of barber shops during the pandemic, resulting in "pandemic hair"
 Panic buying of toilet paper during the pandemic
 The use of the app Zoom to communicate during the pandemic
 The closing of movie theaters during the pandemic, resulting in the rise of streaming service
 The killing of George Floyd and subsequent unrest
 Donald Trump's tweets
 Sweatpants
 Tiger King
 The murder hornet scare
 The rise of Tik Tok and Donald Trump's attempt to ban the service
 Jeff Bezos being rich
 Sports events held in empty stadiums due to the pandemic
 LeBron James wins his fourth NBA championship
 The deaths of Kobe Bryant, Chadwick Boseman, and Ruth Bader Ginsburg, among others
 Incidents during the 2020 United States presidential election, including Donald Trump interrupting Joe Biden and a fly landing on Mike Pence
 The delay of the final results of the election, due to mail-in voting caused by the pandemic
 Joe Biden defeating Donald Trump in the election, and Trump's accusitions of voting fraud and attempts to overturn the election in favor of Trump
 US West Coast fires
 The failing economy caused by the pandemic

References

American websites
1999 establishments in California