Reviewed by Randee Dawn
(April 2011, screening at the 2011 Tribeca Film Festival)
Directed by: Gaukur Úlfarsson
Featuring: Jón Gnarr
Some say politics are a joke. But it takes real cojones to actually elect a comedian.
Meet Jón Gnarr, a former punk musician-turned-comedian who resembles a younger Eddie Izzard (sans makeup) and until recently was best known in his native Iceland for his edgy, satirical humor. (This is a guy who will do a faux commercial for an album of Adolph Hitler’s love songs.) But following his country’s financial meltdown in 2008, he came up with his biggest joke yet: the Best Party, a political organization that would help him run for local office in Reykjavik. Qualifications? As he states in a webcam video, Gnarr can drive a truck, nearly earned his maritime license and once worked in a mental ward.
That works. So he builds his campaign on ridiculous promises,...
(April 2011, screening at the 2011 Tribeca Film Festival)
Directed by: Gaukur Úlfarsson
Featuring: Jón Gnarr
Some say politics are a joke. But it takes real cojones to actually elect a comedian.
Meet Jón Gnarr, a former punk musician-turned-comedian who resembles a younger Eddie Izzard (sans makeup) and until recently was best known in his native Iceland for his edgy, satirical humor. (This is a guy who will do a faux commercial for an album of Adolph Hitler’s love songs.) But following his country’s financial meltdown in 2008, he came up with his biggest joke yet: the Best Party, a political organization that would help him run for local office in Reykjavik. Qualifications? As he states in a webcam video, Gnarr can drive a truck, nearly earned his maritime license and once worked in a mental ward.
That works. So he builds his campaign on ridiculous promises,...
- 4/17/2011
- by admin
- Moving Pictures Magazine
Reviewed by Randee Dawn
(April 2011, screening at the 2011 Tribeca Film Festival)
Directed by: Gaukur Úlfarsson
Featuring: Jón Gnarr
Some say politics are a joke. But it takes real cojones to actually elect a comedian.
Meet Jón Gnarr, a former punk musician-turned-comedian who resembles a younger Eddie Izzard (sans makeup) and until recently was best known in his native Iceland for his edgy, satirical humor. (This is a guy who will do a faux commercial for an album of Adolph Hitler’s love songs.) But following his country’s financial meltdown in 2008, he came up with his biggest joke yet: the Best Party, a political organization that would help him run for local office in Reykjavik. Qualifications? As he states in a webcam video, Gnarr can drive a truck, nearly earned his maritime license and once worked in a mental ward.
That works. So he builds his campaign on ridiculous promises,...
(April 2011, screening at the 2011 Tribeca Film Festival)
Directed by: Gaukur Úlfarsson
Featuring: Jón Gnarr
Some say politics are a joke. But it takes real cojones to actually elect a comedian.
Meet Jón Gnarr, a former punk musician-turned-comedian who resembles a younger Eddie Izzard (sans makeup) and until recently was best known in his native Iceland for his edgy, satirical humor. (This is a guy who will do a faux commercial for an album of Adolph Hitler’s love songs.) But following his country’s financial meltdown in 2008, he came up with his biggest joke yet: the Best Party, a political organization that would help him run for local office in Reykjavik. Qualifications? As he states in a webcam video, Gnarr can drive a truck, nearly earned his maritime license and once worked in a mental ward.
That works. So he builds his campaign on ridiculous promises,...
- 4/17/2011
- by admin
- Moving Pictures Network
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