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Via Newsweek:
The adult animated series Barry & Joe—a “bromantic comedy” featuring former president Barack Obama and former vice president Joe Biden—is one step closer to reality. Conan O’Brien, through his production company Conaco, has joined the project as an executive producer, as has the animation production company Titmouse (Big Mouth, The Venture Bros.).
Related: Barack Obama and Joe Biden will take on Trump and try to save humanity in animated series ‘Barry & Joe’“My nerdy heart is exploding,” Adam Reid, the series creator, said in a statement. He told Newsweek on Friday that he cried when Conaco called to say O’Brien’s company was on board. “This whole time I’m like, ‘Conan and Titmouse, Conan and Titmouse, Conan and Titmous,’ in the cheesiest way thinking about it and putting it out there,” he said. “That it’s really happening—it’s bananas.”
Barry & Joe is a time-travel adventure, inspired in part by the 1980s show Quantum Leap. After Donald Trump’s inauguration, Biden goes back to different points in history to recruit an unknowing Obama, or “Barry,” over and over again as his partner to save the world. Reid styled the show’s villain, Trump, after the unseen ones of the past, like Dr. Claw in Inspector Gadget. Viewers will never see his face, only a “tiny orange hand.”
“It’s an escapist liberal fantasy, but it’s also kind of about things we care about and characters we care about,” Reid said. “I think the goal is that people laugh and feel catharsis at the same time.”