For more than seven years, David Rees unflinchingly satirized the Bush administration with his Get Your War On web comic. For his next act, the humorist is taking on the recent Nsa surveillance scandal with Codefellas, an animated web series set at a government agency similar to Prism. Codefellas stars John Hodgman, fresh off the release of his online special, as the voice of Agent Topple, a government agent, and comedian Emily Heller (who previously starred in Above Average's very funny fortune telling spoof, The Future), as Nicole Winters, a young hacker in his employ. Topple assigns Winters to a top-secret surveillance program, all while babbling on about clandestine government projects and his own bizarre personal life. The end result lies somewhere between Doonesbury and Archer. Amazingly, Codefellas began production before the Nsa scandal hit the presses, making its 'ripped from the headlines' format an amazing coincidence. David Rees is...
- 6/26/2013
- by Sam Gutelle
- Tubefilter.com
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