Sporting mutton chops and a guitar slung over his shoulder, actor and comedian Nick Offerman delivered his own original song to Monday night’s Comics for Kamala fundraiser. The event aimed to raise funds to support Kamala Harris‘ presidential campaign, and was organized by Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA), Dani Zoldan (owner of Stand Up New York), producer Jamie Patricof, and David Rosenberg.
Introduced by host Paul Mecurio, Offerman began by saying he was “grateful to vote for a presidential candidate in Kamala Harris, who didn’t just prosecute rapists, but also is not one herself.” He then turned his attention to “Kamala curious” Republicans tuning in, and said he had written a song “from the point of view of one of these Republicans that might they might have once been blind, but now can see a way clear to decency.”
Singing to the tune of “God Bless the USA,” Offerman crooned, “I’m proud to be a Kamala man, who has quit the GOP, because I can’t just abide by a man who’s tried for 34 felonies. And I’ll proudly stand up and face the facts that the men that I once cheered are a bunch of wingnut white nationalists … Well, those guys are fucking weird.”
Notably, the actor once played Parks and Recreation‘s mayor Ron Swanson — which Rolling Stone‘s Rob Sheffield once dubbed “the perfect depiction of aggrieved American manhood at the twilight of the empire.”
Leaning into theme, Offerman continued, “I’m proud to be on Kamala’s side, where I know I’ll never see some spray-tanned tool denying a girl her ethnic identity. And JD Vance looks like a baby’s butt underneath that creepy beard. So I’ll say it loud and I’ll sing it proud, those guys are fucking weird.”
“From Wisconsin to Pennsylvania, from Georgia to AZ, Michigan and Nevada, they’ll all swing with our diversity,” he sang, before declaring “She’s a POTUS that you could hug, and if he was here, I’d like to crack a beer with future first husband Doug.”
For the song’s crescendo, he concluded: “Trump and Vance, they don’t got a chance — those guys are fucking weird.”
Monday Zoom fundraiser saw appearances by a slew of comedians including Ben Stiller, Tiffany Haddish, John Stamos, Margaret Cho, Ed Helms, Patton Oswalt, Keegan-Michael Key, Mark Hamill, and Ken Jeong among them. By the end of the evening, the event had raised more $530,000 for Harris’ campaign.
