Greetings From Hell
Greetings From Hell is a new series of video ecards featuring puppets from JibJab.
JibJab – the Flash animation studio best known for the famous 2004 U.S. election parody This Land – have introduced a new service on their web site called Sendables; funny videos that you can send to someone with a personalized message. A series of Sendables called Greetings From Hell feature puppets of Satan and his minions fretting over getting old, accidentally torturing the wrong celebrity and forgetting anniversaries. Puppet video ecards aren’t a new idea of course (Puppet Greetings has been doing this for a few years now) but Greetings From Hell is pretty clever and filled with the kind of sharp humour you expect from JibJab.
All the characters in Greetings From Hell were performed by Sean Johnson and Patrick Johnson (who apparently never sleep). The puppets themselves were built by Nate Pacheco.
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