The death of Osama Bin Laden brings some degree closure to a number of different things, both real and symbolic (my submission to the 2011 General Sentence Awards!) Perhaps least importantly (but still a thing), the deaths of Bin Laden and Saddam Hussein and the subsequent Twitter eulogy of the former means the merciful end of Osama and Saddam parodies, in all their forms.
About 90% of all Saddam and Osama jokes were, like 90% of all things, extremely lame, but once in a very rare while someone would just absolutely nail it, and unsurprisingly, Robert Smigel’s “Saddam & Osama” Saturday TV Funhouse cartoon was one of those things. Below, let’s watch the “Saddam & Osama” cartoon one last time, and close the book on a thick compendium of lazy satire with one perfectly absurd nod to two of the most-parodied caricatures in recent history:
I would watch the CRAP out of that Batman episode. Too late to make that the Dark Knight Returns plot? Jackie Mason’s definitely alive and available.
