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'etat
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 Eyjafjallajokull 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 Beyonce 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 Elias Garcia Martinez's Ecce Homo by amateur restorer Cecilia Gimenez
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
Renee 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