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...borderline adult in the rambunctious, satisfying You Don't Mess With the Zohan. Director Adam Shankman, who had slummed in Disney comedies about exasperated adults and the sassy kids in their care (The Pacifier, Cheaper by the Dozen 2), brought movie zazz to a pair of composer Marc Shaiman's tuneful parodies: Hairspray and this month's vidcast Prop 8: The Musical. Let's hear it for the prodigal sons...
...those crazy Hollywood liberals-show 'em an opportunity to school the nation on civic duty, and they never fail to jump. While this tendency can sometimes lean towards the sanctimonious, not so this farcical Funny or Die skit, in which composer Marc Shaiman wrangled a glittering cast of comedians to weigh in on the controversial California ballot initiative passed last month...
...might expect, "Prop 8 - The Musical" is Shaiman's attempt to pick apart the anti-gay marriage lobby's logic. Lending support to the cause are Jack Black, John C. Reilly, Maya Rudolph, Craig Robinson, Neil Patrick Harris and Allison Janney (who, in a cheeky nod to Mormons' support of the ballot initiative, is listed in the title credits as "Prop 8 Leader's #1 Wife"). Despite the collection of comedic chops on stage, the spoof isn't trying to be funny. Well, OK, it is - but the larger point it intends to hammer home is that not all Biblical...
...Shaiman, whose songwriting credits include showstoppers from South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut, called his troupe the "Sacramento Community College Players" because of outrage that the city's California Musical Theater director had given money to a pro-Prop 8 campaign. In an interview with the New York Times, he calls the video a "viral picket sign." Though he concedes he executed the idea "six weeks later than he shoulda," he nailed the viral aspect. In just a few days, it's racked up more than 2 million views...
...Hankey is a talking turd who, in the early years of South Park, emerged for the annual Christmas show - notably the all-singing episode that sprang from this, the most obscene and fabulous of all holiday CDs. Parker and uber-chartsman Marc Shaiman worked their coprophagic magic on material both traditional and original. Parker uses the pseudonym Juan Schwartz for the fatalist's folk tune "Dead, Dead, Dead" ("And so on Christmas morning / Let good tidings fill your head / What a festive season! / Some day you'll be dead"). Eric Cartman warbles a soulful misdirection of "O Holy Night" ("Jesus...