LOS ANGELES-An original animated cartoon featured on Amp’d Mobile will reportedly be picked up and distributed by Comedy Central.
“Lil Bush: Resident of the United States” features kid-versions of President George W. Bush and his leading political cronies, and skewers them mercilessly. In the pilot episode, the pint-sized president-to-be is dismayed when all-American hot dogs are replaced by more “international” fare at the school lunch, so he and Lil Condi, Lil Rummy and unintelligible mumbler Lil Cheney stage Abu Ghraib-esque torture of the cafeteria staff to protest-all set to an upbeat rock ditty about how “hot dogs are so much fun.”
Three Lil Bush episodes are archived on YouTube.com. The show is written and produced by Donick Cary, whose credits include writing for television shows including “The Simpsons” and “Just Shoot Me.”
According to The Daily Reel.com, Comedy Central will take Lil Bush mobi-sodes, which run about five minutes long, and turn them into 11-minute cartoons for television; two cartoons will run during a half-hour time slot, with the rest of the time filled by commercials. Reuters reported that Amp’d is licensing the show to Comedy Central but retaining the right to air episodes on its own Comedy Central-branded video channel, as well as “an exclusive hold on wallpaper and ringtones that emerge from the series.”
Representatives from Amp’d Mobile were not immediately available for comment.
