# Celebrity Telethon for Hurricane Relief

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-telethon-for-hurricane-relief/796225>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [September 13, 2017, 9:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-telethon-for-hurricane-relief/796225 "2017-09-13T09:34:53Z")\
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**Author:** ![Potestas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/50afbb/32.png) [@Potestas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Potestas)\
**Post date:** [September 13, 2017, 9:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-telethon-for-hurricane-relief/796225/1 "2017-09-13T09:34:53Z")

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> **[Stars come together for hurricane relief telethon](https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-4878622/Stevie-Wonder-opens-star-studded-Hand-Hand-telethon.html)**
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> Tuesday night's Hand in Hand: A Benefit for Hurricane Harvey Relief telethon raised more than $14million to help victims of Hurricanes Harvey and Irma, which devastated the southern US.

Is it me or are those phones that the “celebrities” are using not even hooked up? They look like they are just props

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**Author:** ![yojimbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yojimbo/32/232_2.png) [@yojimbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yojimbo)\
**Post date:** [September 13, 2017, 12:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-telethon-for-hurricane-relief/796225/2 "2017-09-13T12:20:02Z")

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They are hooked up. It’s just a nice neat job. Look at the pick of Oprah with the ‘Donate Now’ paddle in her hand. You can see the phone is plugged in and the wire goes straight down through the table.

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**Author:** ![That\_Don\_Guy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/that_don_guy/32/538_2.png) [@That\_Don\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/That_Don_Guy)\
**Post date:** [September 13, 2017, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-telethon-for-hurricane-relief/796225/3 "2017-09-13T20:27:42Z")

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There’s always one that decides to make it political…it’s just that the last person I expected it to be would be Stevie Wonder.

And while you had the big-name celebrities up front, who was answering the phones in the back - and did any of the names stick around to answer the phones for the Mountain and Pacific time zone viewers that got the show tape delayed?

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**Author:** ![Folly](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/folly/32/3219_2.png) [@Folly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Folly)\
**Post date:** [September 13, 2017, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-telethon-for-hurricane-relief/796225/4 "2017-09-13T20:38:42Z")

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> [@yojimbo](#):
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> They are hooked up. It’s just a nice neat job. Look at the pick of Oprah with the ‘Donate Now’ paddle in her hand. You can see the phone is plugged in and the wire goes straight down through the table.

Nitpick. You can see the little hill in some of the pictures where the wire goes to the back of the table under the table ‘cloth’.

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**Author:** ![yojimbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yojimbo/32/232_2.png) [@yojimbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yojimbo)\
**Post date:** [September 14, 2017, 12:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-telethon-for-hurricane-relief/796225/5 "2017-09-14T12:00:06Z")

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> [@Folly](#):
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> Nitpick. You can see the little hill in some of the pictures where the wire goes to the back of the table under the table ‘cloth’.

Yup. Didn’t see them first time. Now you point them out they are very obvious.