Blog: Harlem

Working Assets commissioned some people affiliated with Laughing Liberally and The Tank to make a comedic video about political corruption. We brought the hilarious Bush impersonator James Adomian to New York City.

It seems President Bush is on a personal mission of sorts, to understand why his good friends keep getting sent to jail. You'll have to wait to see the final video, but along the way he stopped at Congressman Charlie Rangel's district office and interviews the (real) Congressman.

James has an amazing ability not only to act and sound and speak like George W. Bush, but to do it unscripted - making up Bushisms on the spot and relevant to any subject. Rangel was almost as funny as James, and biting - at one point he says "while you're over there in California visiting Randy Duke Cunningham in jail, you might want to make a reservation for some space for yourself." He's clearly very eager for the possibility of retaking the majority in the House and getting himself on one of those panels that will be sending subpoenas up Pennsylvania Avenue.

After the interview, President Bush toured Harlem, meeting some of the locals (people Bush isn't very accustomed to talking to), seeing the Apollo Theatre ("that's where the space program got started") and buying a giro from a street vendor ("you're doing a heckuva job, vendy").