Now that they have your attention, these naked celebs have an important message for US voters. Video / Represent Us
In just what this year's wild US election needed, a hoard of celebrities have stripped down naked to tell Americans how to vote.
A new clip doing the rounds on social media today sees stars in the buff delivering an "important message" in which they read through the steps onhow to post a ballot, including tips like "read the instructions".
Mark Ruffalo and Sarah Silverman – who participated in Gal Gadot's widely-panned "Imagine" video from March – join Amy Schumer, Chris Rock, Tiffany Haddish, Naomi Campbell and Borat for the public service announcement.
Just as the dust has settled from March's widely-panned "Imagine" video, celebrities have gone and dropped another montage. Photo / Supplied
Unsurprisingly, it has already incited fierce backlash.
"I know what you're thinking, you're thinking Ruffalo, put your clothes on," Avengers star Ruffalo says from his bathroom.
"I'm here to talk to you about voting," Chelsea Handler chimes in from inside a walk-in robe.
I don’t know if there is anyone in America who will be convinced to vote because of a montage of horrifically naked celebrities, but if there are, they are precisely the sorts of people who shouldn’t be voting at all
If the link between voting and not wearing clothes was unclear – Amy Schumer then explains: "There are two envelopes you have to stuff your envelope in, otherwise it's called a naked ballot."
Taking to the comments section, viewers have been quick to slam the misguided approach.
"Man, celebrities suck. It's like they want Trump to win," one wrote.
“I was totally going to vote one way, but then these has-been celebrities got naked in a video and told me to vote the other way...so of course I decided to do an ideological 180.” - no sane individual
"Just a reminder: Nobody asked for this," another pointed out.
"My word! These people are complete fools. FOOLS!," one more said. While another simply offered: "Celebs are weird."
Several went on to reference March's infamous coronavirus singing clip, which saw a number of celebrities join forces to sing John Lennon's Imagine from lockdown in their mansions.
"Imagine no celebrities … Imagine if you tried …," one commenter wrote today.
"It's like Imagine and Taking Responsibility for Whiteness had a baby," another said in reference to the celebrity public service announcement from June in response to the Black Lives Matter protests.
While most of the celebrities involved in the videos this year have avoided responding to the criticism, one agreed the backlash to Imagine was justified – going so far as to call it "creative diarrhoea".
Julianne Moore, Kristen Bell and Sarah Paulson took part in the anti-racism campaign. Photo / YouTube
Bridesmaids star Chris O'Dowd opened up about participating in the video during an episode of the podcast Groundedin July, explaining that he was coaxed into it by Kristen Wiig.
"I'd do anything Kristen (Wiig) asks me to do, so of course, we just did it. It took five minutes, didn't think about it. I presumed it was for kids. I know that Gal (Gadot) works for UNICEF, so I presumed it was a charity thing."
O'Dowd said the video came about as part of "that first wave of creative diarrhoea" once people were asked to stay home.
"It was just a bunch of people running around thinking that they had to do something when we really didn't," he said. "We just needed to chill out and take everything in."
