President Bush to Return to Celebrity Jackass
Befitting his stature as leader of the world’s only superpower and protected a resolution of Congress under the War Powers Act, President Bush will again perform the stunts on selected subjects instead of himself. Achmed Aziz, the unsuspecting Egyptian engineering student at Ohio State University who was stalked, maced and tasered by President Bush in the first hit episode, complained “I don’t see why he should be allowed to do this.”
But according to polls, the American public disagrees and wants to see more — much more. Preliminary word is that more elaborate stunts in exotic locales are planned for the forthcoming episode, including a segment in which the President sets fire to a aerosol can of bug spray and runs amok in a crowded disco in Bali.
Industry observers believe the concept has “legs”. “The public is fascinated by the air of gleeful, devil-may-care mischief the President brings to the show,” commented a top studio executive who, like all Hollywood, has been closely following the entertainment phenomenon.
The White House is already pitching a weekly program featuring President Bush, tentatively titled “Jackass-in-Chief”, to network executives. In the pilot, “Pucker Up”, catastrophic depressurization leads to some surprising outcomes for the occupants of an Iraqi command bunker after the president detonates a hyperbaric bomb directly overhead.
Industry insiders who have seen the footage describe it as “eye-popping.”
