Jewish comics stump against Trump

In a bunch of new videos released just days before the election, Jewish comics have been calling on millennials to get out and vote for Hillary Clinton.

Rachel Bloom, from Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, co-wrote a “We Are the World”-type song featuring dozens of stars in an expletive-filled video entitled “Holy Sh*t, You’ve Got to Vote.” The video was released on the “Funny or Die” channel on Thursday and has already garnered more than two million views.

The song opens with Bloom at the piano, singing the opening line: “I can’t believe I’ve had to stoop so low, but an orange talking STD has driven me to this recording studio, and now Moby is on the drums, while Elizabeth Banks plays bass, so we can try to convince the USA not to shoot itself in the face.”

The song was written by Bloom, Zach Reino and Jack Dolgen. It stars Rachel Bloom, Moby and Elizabeth Banks, Jane Lynch and Patti Lupone, Adam Pally, Adam Scott, Amber Rose, Felicia Day, Ginger Gonzaga, Jaime Camil, Jason George, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, June Diane Raphael and Paul Scheer, Mayim Bialik, Melissa Rauch, Misha Collins, Naya Rivera, Sean Patrick Thomas and Shannon Woodward.

Another Jewish star, Daveed Diggs, who won a Grammy and a Tony for playing Marquis de Lafayette/Thomas Jefferson in the hit musical “Hamilton,” released a Facebook video on Friday explaining the difference between Donald Trump and Clinton, or as he puts it, “a side-by-side comparison of a racist misogynist Cheeto-dusted trash fire to a woman who’s devoted the last 40 years of her life to public service, as first lady, senator, secretary of state, and now the first woman in history to be nominated for president of the United States. Because millennials.”

Diggs is the son of a white Jewish mother and an African-American father. The unusual spelling of his first name is intended to make it read like the Hebrew pronunciation of the name David.

In the eight-minute video, Diggs explains the difference between the Republican and Democrat on issues such as climate change, healthcare, women’s rights, immigration, guns, and the economy.

Meanwhile, Jewish comedienne Amy Schumer tries to embarrass young people into voting on November 8 in her video, released on Friday. Schumer tells her audience that “your voting history is public record,” though not who you voted for. She says that anyone can check whether or not someone voted in the elections, so people who want to say that they voted actually have to go and vote “and not just pretend like you did at dinner parties.”

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Schumer ends with a very clear message to “vote for Hillary.”