SuperNews!

SuperNews!
Genre	Animation, satire, political humour
Created by	Josh Faure-Brac
Starring	Josh Faure-Brac
Theme music composer	Ghetto Blaster
Country of origin	United States
Original language	English
No. of seasons	2
No. of episodes	67
Production
Running time	5-30 minutes
Production company	Current TV
Original release
Release	August 19, 2005 (2005-08-19) – August 2010 (2010-128)

SuperNews! is a half-hour, satirical animated television series which aired on Current TV. It was created by Josh Faure-Brac who also wrote for the show and performed the majority of male voices. The show is primarily based on popular culture satire and political humor. Frequent characters include animated interpretations of such mainstream figures as President of the United States Barack Obama, Vice President Joe Biden, Hillary Clinton, Senator John McCain, and various pop-culture icons and celebrities such as Lindsay Lohan, Perez Hilton, and Britney Spears. Episodes are also available for viewing on the official website, along with behind the scenes content.

History

Josh Faure-Brac created the pilot for SuperNews! in 2005 which was developed to appear with the launch of the new cable network Current TV and subsequently all of the art and animation was created by Faure-Brac and Steven K. L. Olson until 2006. Faure-Brac and Olson were then joined by animator Dustin McLean (of literal music video) who later became assistant director for the show. SuperNews! episodes (short-form segments) aired in Current TV's "shuffle" rotation.

In March 2009, as Current TV started shifting to more traditional 30-minute programming, the show transitioned to a full half-hour program consisting of several shorts married together by thematic transitions. During these transitions, the show's logo and mascot Earf would appear in very brief scenes that often related to the previous or upcoming segment.

Season 2 premiered on November 12, 2009.

SuperNews! formerly aired every Thursday night on Current TV at 11:00 P.M./10:00 P.M. Central

SuperNews! was cancelled on May 12, 2010.

Episode list

Main article: List of SuperNews! Episodes

1. Davos 08.19.05 (pilot)
2. Rove 08.19.05
3. Bolton 08.27.05
4. Pat Robertson 09.12.05
5. Hurricane Katrina 09.20.05
6. Iraqi Constitution Club 10.05.05
7. GOP in Jeopardy 10.22.05
8. Operation Omega Pattern B 11.10.05
9. The Story of Thanksgiving 11.22.05
10. I'm Dreaming of a Warm Christmas 12.17.05
11. The Gods Must Be Bowling 01.23.06 briefly offline due to the Danish Cartoon controversy
12. State of the Union 02.04.06
13. Wire Tappin'! 02.16.06
14. Cheney Shooting: The Quail Speaks! 02.18.06
15. Brokeback White House 03.09.06
16. The Wacky Trial of Saddam Hussein 03.28.06
17. MySpace and K-Fed 04.10.06
18. The Immigration Debate 04.29.06
19. Oprah Drops a Da Vinci Load 05.20.06
20. Low Ratings of the Season Finale 05.31.06
21. Iran: Deal Or No Deal? 06.16.06
22. A Night With Ann Coulter 07.06.06
23. Bush and Blair's Candid Moment 07.22.06
24. Osama Bin Lohan 09.28.06
25. Star-Spangled Terror 10.17.06
26. You Gotta Vote 11.01.06
27. Joke Botchin' John Kerry 11.04.06
28. The K-Fed Effect 11.13.06
29. Jackass: N. Korea 11.22.06
30. Christmas Wars 12.20.06
31. Iraq Speech Outtakes 01.13.07
32. Revenge of the Nerds 01.24.07
33. State Of The Union 01.27.07
34. Gates vs. Jobs 02.14.07
35. The (Oval) Office 03.09.07
36. Perez Hilton Show 04.24.07
37. First Dem Debate '08 05.03.07
38. First Repub Debate '08 05.12.07
39. Shawskank Redemption 06.05.07
40. Entourage D.C. 06.21.07
41. Mike Gravel Rocks! 06.23.07
42. Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen? 07.11.07
43. Super Tube Debate 08.11.07
44. The Hills 09.12.07
45. Miss Teen President 09.18.07
46. Oh That Mahmoud 09.27.07
47. Goodbye, Mr. Rove 10.3.07
48. My Dinner with Bill O' 10.16.07
49. White House Halloween Party 10.25.07
50. Becks Strikes the USA 12.6.07
51. It's a Horrible Life 12.18.07
52. Rambo vs. Terror pt. 1 01.24.08
53. Rambo vs. Terror pt. 2 01.31.08
54. Rambo vs. Terror pt. 3 02.24.08
55. The Democratic Messiah 02.27.08
56. Spitzer Blows It 03.15.08
57. Blue Collar Hillary 04.16.08
58. Texting Your Way to Love 04.17.08
59. Social Networking Wars 04.22.08
60. American Ap-perv-el 05.16.08
61. Hipsters in Space 07.1.08
62. Mugged At The Gas Station 07.26.08
63. Socrates on Phelps 08.18.08
64. McCain's VP Rejects 09.3.08
65. Supernews Does The Internet 09.8.08 half-hour special
66. Uncle Sam & 9/11 09.11.08
67. Internet Porn & You 09.12.08
68. Top Gov 10.17.08
69. George Calling Orson 01.17.09

Half-hour episodes

1st Season

Date	Number of episode	Title	1st video	2nd video	3rd video	4th video	5th video	6th video
3.20.09	1	The Death of MTV	Obama Hits the AIG Spot	Twouble with Twitters*	Rachel Maddow's and Anderson Cooper's Hot Date	MTV Down	Friend Request: Hookin' Up	Lobster Abs
3.27.09	2	Return of the Jabba	Jabba the Rush*	Ex-Texting	Project Britney	The Craigslist Genie
4.3.09	3	It's Gotta Be Swexty	The Glenn Beck Apocalypse	Evite Master*	Life On Mars... Is Gay!	The Instant DJ Toolbox	Larry King's Spicy Interview	Friend Request: Delete a friend
4.10.09	4	Totally Up Our Own Asses	Euro-Bama	Texting Your Way Through Work	Hipsters in Space: Judgementotron	Going Green	Project Britney: Future Britney	The Craigslist Genie: Missed Connections
4.17.09	5	SuperNews! Recycles	Gates vs. Jobs	SuperNews! Recycles Some Crap	Jimmy Does Rambo	Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen?	fragment of I'm Dreaming of a Warm Christmas	The Great Immigration Debate of 1621
5.1.09	6	We've Been Tea-Bagged	Swine Flu Panic!!!	Your Dad asks Computer Questions	Using Pets to Get You Laid	The War on Terror of 1776	Hot Three-Way Action
5.8.09	7	I Don't Wanna Go Bowling	Celebrity Twitter Overkill	Texting Your Way Through Friday Night	Hipsters in Space: Fashion Edition	The Ikea Relationship	Larry King Interviews Yoga Expert	Passive Aggressive E-mail Boxing*
5.17.09	8	Strippers? Hookers? Hair Gel?	Dick goes Waterboarding	Friend Request: Stalker	Larry King Interviews the Hadron Collider	The Divine Comedy of Vegas	DilDos and DilDon'ts	Gorgon the Awkward Alien
5.22.09	9	The End of Television	Adam Lambert's Duet With Susan Boyle*	Friend Request: Chat Windows*	Homeless TV	Project Britney: Perez Hilton	Larry King on Larry King*	What's Your Fantasy?*
5.29.09	10	SuperNews! Best Of Season One	5th The Instant DJ Toolbox*	4th Your Dad asks Computer Questions*	3rd MTV Down*	Six Degrees of SuperNews!	2nd Emoticons War*	1st Twouble with Twitters*

2nd Season

Date	Number of episode	Title	1st video	2nd video	3rd video	4th video	5th video	6th video	7th Video
11.12.09	11	Rise of the Stupids	Obama Aborts Abortion	Douchey-Doo!: The Mystery of the VIP List	Emoticons Have Cybersex*	The Stupid Virus	Texting While Driving	Uncle Sam & Lady Liberty on Immigration
11.19.09	12	Twilight of the Vampires	Parasailin' With Sarah Palin	Linked In...to what?	The Obamas: After Dark	Vampires: Hollywood Bloodsuckers	PSA: Stop Clam Jamming!*	Master Debaters: Pot v.s. Meth
12.03.09	13	Soggy Doobies and Strippers	Obama's White House "Job" Fair	Gorgon Has Body Image Issues	Your Mom Has TIVO Questions	Smarmy Time With Bill Maher	Girlfriend Texts During Football*	Uncle Sam & Lady Liberty: Slave Memorial?
12.10.09	14	Obama Googles Jesus	Obama's Awkward Peace Prize Ceremony	Hipster's In Space: Jihad is Rad	Dennis Miller 1989 v.s. Dennis Miller 2009	The Google Toilet	TMZ: Jesus Gossip!	Spirit and Opportunity: Showdown on Mars	The Obamas: Bathroom Talk
12.17.09	15	The Christmas Bailout	Obama & Biden's "Drummer Boy" Duet	The Tale of The Dollar	The Dangers of Mass Texting	Uncle Sam & Lady Liberty: Indian Casino*	Weird Al Yankovic's "Ringtone"*	Santa Saves Christmas
1.14.10	16	Say Halo to 2010!	The Return of the GOP	The Obamas: Date Night	The Death of MySpace	Larry King Interviews 2010	Gorgon the Awkward Alien: Gym*	Gates vs. Jobs II
1.21.10	17	Monoliths, Missiles and Pubes Oh My!	Obama Says F*ck It	Your Dad Asks iPhone Questions	A Hipster Space Odyssey	Uncle Sam's Throbbing Military	Outta Control Pubes
1.28.10	18	Douchebag Powers Activate!	Scott Brown has the Power	Douchey Doo! Pool Party Mystery	The First Halloween*	Memes of Memetasia	Socrates and Plato: Hot or Not	The Craigslist Genie: Casual Encounters

*Episode was earlier on the Internet

Voice performers

Frequent voice performers are Josh Faure-Brac, Jason Nash, Natasha Leggero, Jordan Peele, Brian Shortall, Rebecca Sage Allen, Jonah Ray, Jerry Minor, Sarah Haskins.

Between Seasons 1 and 2

SuperNews! Collabo-Jam Hosted by Josh Faure-Brac and "Weird Al" Yankovic, this Collabo-Jam Super Special includes Al and Josh's favorite clips from SuperNews! and some of Al's classic music videos. Plus, the World Premiere of the new "Weird Al" music video, "Ringtone" animated by the SuperNews! team.

SuperNews! Classics From August to October 2009, SuperNews! produced a compilation of previously released episodes from before it became a full-time show.

1. SuperNews! Has Sex! 08.06.09
2. Starring George W. Bush! 08.17.09
3. Josh's Classic Favorites 08.29.09
4. Political Moments in Time 09.12.09
5. The Real Divas of SuperNews! 09.19.09
6. Staff Picks 09.26.09
7. Scary S#@! 10.03.09
8. Pre-President Obama 10.10.09

Rambo vs. Terror was also recompiled and aired as a classic.

In October 2009, SuperNews! made a cartoon called The First Halloween, seemingly to explain the holiday in addition to their already explained Thanksgiving and Christmas.

Deletions

• During the Danish cartoon controversy, Current TV briefly took down the cartoon The Gods Must Be Bowling off of their website.
• The cartoon Goodbye, Mr. Rove has been disabled from Current TV's website due to a reservation copyright on the song Against All Odds (Take a Look at Me Now); however it's possible to see it on Current TV's YouTube profile.
• Current TV had a problem with some copyrighted songs in Rambo vs. Terror, and deleted all episodes of this cartoon series on Current TV's website. All episodes eventually appeared in a SuperNews! Classics episodes with changed songs.
• After Michael Jackson's and Ted Kennedy's death, their caricatures were deleted from the opening sequence, but the episode with Ted Kennedy (Revenge of the Nerds) was reemitted after his death in an edition of SuperNews! Classics.

External links

• Official website
• SuperNews! at IMDb