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CHIMO

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Fri May 17, 2013, 08:45 PM May 2013

Comedy website raises $50,000 for anti-Stephen Harper ad

The young comedians behind a satirical website with an unprintable name — ahem, “Stuff” Harper Did — are bridging the gap between comedy and political activism with a new campaign.

The Vancouver-based group is raising money to air a TV ad that mocks the federal Conservatives’ slick Economic Action Plan spots. In three weeks, they’ve raised more than $50,000, enough to air eight prime-time ads.

But this time, the band of Harper-hating pranksters has more on their minds than making people laugh. Instead, they hope to amass their thousands of social media followers to create real change.

“We’ve always taken issues that are hard to think about and tried to make them more accessible — to have a laugh before the sadness sinks in,” said Sean Devlin, the 29-year-old standup comic who founded the website (which is actually called S--- Harper Did).

They have no clothes!
http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/story/2013/05/17/pol-pamela-wallin-conservative-caucus.html

http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/story/2013/05/17/pol-duffy-friday.html

http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2013/05/17/rob_ford_crack_scandal_the_mayor_should_speak_up_2.html

Absolute porn what we have now. Altogether now. We will only smirk!

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