Sarah Silverman: 'No one' wants to hear from celebrities on politics 

Comedian Sarah Silverman said she did not campaign during the 2024 election cycle because, in part, she sensed “no one” wanted to hear from celebrities.

“I was on the road with this tour, for one thing,” Silverman said in an interview with The Minnesota Star Tribune, when asked why she wasn’t more involved the Trump vs. Harris campaign.

“A lot of people asked me if I was going to make a video or something. But my feeling was that no one wanted to hear from celebrities right now. Maybe I was wrong. I just focused on reposting thoughts from smarter people.”

Silverman has been more politically active in the past, including vocal criticism of President-elect Trump.

“There is one thing I wish I had done,” she said. “In 2008, I did something called the Great Schlep where I told young Jews to tell their grandparents they wouldn’t visit them again unless they voted for Obama.”

“I should have done something like that again. Not that it would have made a difference,” she added.

In the lead-up to the 2024 election, celebrity endorsements flocked to Vice President Harris’s campaign, prompting some Democrats to ultimately question whether the strategy had the unintended effect of repelling working-class voters, who broke more toward Trump.