My interview with the comedian Sarah Silverman is in the Guardian's Weekend magazine tomorrow (update: and now here); could there possibly be a better way to spend part of your Saturday than reading it?
Today is also the start of The Great Schlep, the very clever lobbying effort that Silverman promoted in a video I posted here a little while ago. Organised by the pro-Obama Jewish Council for Education and Research, it involves young Jews travelling to Florida to persuade their grandparents -- who've been reluctant to support Obama, but who certainly love their grandchildren -- to vote Democratic in November. As the South Florida Sun-Sentinel reports, the first schleppers have already arrived, and didn't waste time in resorting to extreme measures:
Ari Kuschnir, 28, of Brooklyn... arrived earlier this week and was unable to talk his grandmother into voting for Obama. So he promised to get engaged to his girlfriend of four years if she changes her vote and Obama wins.
Now that's commitment to a cause.
Silverman is performing at the Hammersmith Apollo in London later this month.
