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Editor’s Note: This article contains explicit language. They’ve used their star power. They’ve tried nudity. Now, they’re employing crude and extremist language. In the most recent of a string of Hollywood voting videos, twenty-five celebs banded together with the convincing message: “Holy fucking shit, you’ve got to vote.”

The deep thinkers at the animal-rights group PETA strike again with an ad comparing animals “born into the meat, egg, and dairy industries” to rape and sexual assault victims. PETA tweeted the ad on November 2 with the caption, “No mother should have to go through any of this.” The black-and-white video begins with distressed looking women recounting stories of what appear to be sexual assaults.

The NBC comedy Superstore continues to insert pro-labor propaganda into its show. Thursday night's episode "Election Day" once again pits employees against their "unethical" corporation. 

Chelsea Handler has devoted many of her shows to getting out the vote for Hillary Clinton and on Thursday’s episode “So Fiercely Proud of My Mom,” Handler interviewed former First Daughter Chelsea Clinton on her Netflix show, Chelsea.

NBC’s The Good Place aired the episode “…Someone Like Me as a Member” Thursday and put President Richard Nixon's infamous tapes in the same category with dictator Benito Mussolini's fascist speeches.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, FXX show You’re The Worst just “featured the most matter-of-fact TV abortion” yet to hit the screen. 

Objectification is awful, right? Yes …unless you’re wielding your body to gain votes for Hillary. Even with their star power, celebrities know that merely explaining Clinton’s policy positions won’t make their voting videos go viral. So, they took a cue from lazy filmmakers – throw in some sex and nudity when all else fails. As writer/producer Lena Dunham recently reminded us: it’s just “what you…

Know what’s really funny? VA hospitals. Real fertile territory for sitcom wackiness, what with the amputees and PTSD and the needless suffering of veterans at the hands of an incompetent and callous bureaucracy. 

Wednesday night’s Country Music Association Awards were so chock full of tributes, special appearances, and medleys to celebrate its 50th anniversary that there wasn’t much time to get political. Last year hosts Carrie Underwood and Brad Paisley made a bunch of political references. This year the hosts were over it and sang, “We're so freaking sick of politics we don't care who wins. The election…

Ideas for show themes must be in short supply in the world of Chelsea Handler’s Netflix show. In Wednesday’s “How Dark My Life Once Was,” she goes to the well for a second time to gather support for her lame threat to move to Canada should Donald Trump win the election on November 8. 

Fresh Off the Boat just abandoned all pretense of being a fun family comedy to deliver its viewers a stern lecture on illegal immigration. In Tuesday's episode “Citizen Jessica,” Jessica Huang (Constance Wu) fully supports Florida’s Proposition 187, which seeks “to end illegal immigration by putting up a wall of Border Patrol agents on our shore.” 

“Not everything is about you being gay, Kenny!” Oh, how happy I was to hear those words finally spoken on ABC’s The Real O’Neals, Tuesday. Unfortunately, even when the show takes its attention off how gay Kenny O’Neal (Noah Galvin) is, they can’t seem to shake off being anti-Catholic, anti-conservative, or anti-anything decent. This episode focuses on taking down the sanctity of marriage.

ABC’s The Middle sure had some hilarious scenes this week as a liberal loudmouthed environmentalist got put in his place. The episode “True Grit” shows Sue Heck (Eden Sher) can no longer stand her loser liberal boyfriend Jeremy (Will Green) and his environmentalist rants. She attempts to break-up with him based off the advice her brother Axl (Charlie McDermott) provides: be a jerk. This does not…

On October 21, radio show This American Life featured a song imagining how President Obama feels about “flexing” “demagogue” Donald Trump.