Are You Smarter Than The Fake News
November 30, 2025
Simulated satire game show with contestants battling to see who has mastery of the latest "fake news".
This is the first short I've done that doesn't center around the Trump puppet, and it isn't tied to a specific news story. I came up with the idea of orchestrating a game show - about interpreting the meaning of Trump's most famous whoppers.
The first challenge was to come up with a format and characters – a host and 2 contestants all in the tiny 9×16 format. I borrowed a bit from the old Hollywood Squares setup. And randomly I found a voice to fit with the host character.
A game show needs to have a game board. Here I borrowed from the Jeopardy, to inject complete sarcasm into both the categories and items.
Here the format allows mixing of cartoons and live video. It was easy to find outrageous videos of Trump.
Coming up with the title – I tried out several other titles before settling on this. It’s up to everyone to determine what’s fake news, and what is it to be smarter than the fake news.