# Awesomely funny celebrity PSA

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awesomely-funny-celebrity-psa/766538>\
**Category:** Politics & Elections\
**Created:** [September 21, 2016, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awesomely-funny-celebrity-psa/766538 "2016-09-21T22:19:50Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 11\
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**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\
**Post date:** [September 22, 2016, 1:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awesomely-funny-celebrity-psa/766538/21 "2016-09-22T13:17:05Z")

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Cool video. I read some of the YouTube comments. As a nation, we’re doomed. One Trump supporter wrote something along the lines of: I liked this video until I realized it was in support of Hillary.  
I wonder how long that took. :smack:

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**Author:** ![Folacin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/folacin/32/3195_2.png) [@Folacin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Folacin)\
**Post date:** [September 22, 2016, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awesomely-funny-celebrity-psa/766538/22 "2016-09-22T13:26:30Z")

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> [@bobot](#):
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> Cool video. I read some of the YouTube comments. As a nation, we’re doomed. One Trump supporter wrote something along the lines of: I liked this video until I realized it was in support of Hillary.  
> I wonder how long that took. :smack:

In his defense, I started watching the video expecting it to be pro-Hillary, and thought it took quite a while to get from generic ‘register and vote’ to ‘register, and then vote against Trump’.

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**Author:** ![Grumman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/43a26b/32.png) [@Grumman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grumman)\
**Post date:** [September 22, 2016, 1:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awesomely-funny-celebrity-psa/766538/23 "2016-09-22T13:28:56Z")

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> [@bobot](#):
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> Cool video. I read some of the YouTube comments. As a nation, we’re doomed. One Trump supporter wrote something along the lines of: I liked this video until I realized it was in support of Hillary.  
> I wonder how long that took. :smack:

Have you seen the website?

> [@SaveTheDay.vote](#):
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> We are a short-form digital production company dedicated to the idea that voting is a necessary and heroic act. That every voice in this wonderfully diverse nation should, and must, be heard. That the only thing that can save democracy is the act that defines it. We are committed to fighting the apathy, cynicism, and honest confusion that keeps citizens from using their vote. And to reminding an increasingly out-of-touch and compromised set of representatives that they are answerable to the people they were hired to serve.

Does that read to you like a group trying to encourage people to vote, or only encourage people to vote _for Hillary_? If anything, that is an anti-Hillary statement, given she is a representative of that “increasingly out-of-touch and compromised set of representatives” that are the establishment.

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**Author:** ![Steve\_MB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steve_mb/32/5339_2.png) [@Steve\_MB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_MB)\
**Post date:** [September 22, 2016, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awesomely-funny-celebrity-psa/766538/24 "2016-09-22T14:17:57Z")

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> [@CarnalK](#):
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> Ouch indeed. You gotta be pretty ignorant to think Hollywood actors are in the top tenth of the 1%. Never heard of Bill Gates, Koch brothers or oh I don’t know DONALD TRUMP, brainiacs?

To be fair, they may have dismissed the last example based on one obvious theory on why he’s afraid to release his tax returns.

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**Author:** ![Icarus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/icarus/32/72_2.png) [@Icarus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Icarus)\
**Post date:** [September 22, 2016, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awesomely-funny-celebrity-psa/766538/25 "2016-09-22T16:06:13Z")

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> [@Grumman](#):
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> Have you seen the website?  
> Does that read to you like a group trying to encourage people to vote, or only encourage people to vote _for Hillary_? If anything, that is an anti-Hillary statement, given she is a representative of that “increasingly out-of-touch and compromised set of representatives” that are the establishment.

Well, to be fair, for those raised on certain media, if someone doesn’t explicitly endorse a candidate or point-of-view, then they are OBVIOUSLY in the other camp.

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**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\
**Post date:** [September 27, 2016, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awesomely-funny-celebrity-psa/766538/26 "2016-09-27T16:39:35Z")

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Loved the video - funny and even a bit moving, with RDJ at his self-parodying best.

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**Author:** ![SlackerInc](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slackerinc/32/275_2.png) [@SlackerInc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SlackerInc)\
**Post date:** [September 28, 2016, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awesomely-funny-celebrity-psa/766538/27 "2016-09-28T01:50:40Z")

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> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#):
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> Loved the video - funny and even a bit moving, with RDJ at his self-parodying best.

Indeed. People forget, this is the guy who satirically wore blackface in a major movie only _eight years ago_–and instead of becoming a pariah like Michael Richards, went on to become (as he cheekily references here) one of Hollywood’s most marketable stars. That takes some serious chutzpah, and the skill to pull it off.

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**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\
**Post date:** [September 28, 2016, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awesomely-funny-celebrity-psa/766538/28 "2016-09-28T02:18:15Z")

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I think I’ll post this here instead of starting a new thread, since it goes with the title.

[Will & Grace Reunion spot for Hillary](https://youtu.be/jzae4DKexko)

Hilarious! It’s just under 10 minutes.

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**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\
**Post date:** [September 28, 2016, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awesomely-funny-celebrity-psa/766538/29 "2016-09-28T02:32:30Z")

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Pretty sure I’ve seen a shorter version of this. (the OP)

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**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\
**Post date:** [September 28, 2016, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awesomely-funny-celebrity-psa/766538/30 "2016-09-28T02:32:31Z")

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Okay, upon reflection I just realized this isn’t a PSA. Sorry. But it is really great.

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**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\
**Post date:** [September 28, 2016, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awesomely-funny-celebrity-psa/766538/31 "2016-09-28T02:34:09Z")

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> [@BigT](#):
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> Pretty sure I’ve seen a shorter version of this.

There probably are snippets of it around. Since I have a Roku and no cable, I don’t see regular TV or commercials any more.

For those of us who are diehard W&G fans and really miss the show, I’d watch a 30-minute version (or longer).

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