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00:00What's up everybody, Griffey here.
00:02Creepy commercials, applying makeup to dead bodies, and putting a very famous jockstrap
00:07up for sale.
00:08Hollywood's biggest stars have done some pretty weird things to make a buck.
00:11How much do you know about Chechnya?
00:13Your default answer should be more than Hilary Swank.
00:17In 2011, Swank was paid to attend a city day celebration in the Chechen Republic for Ramzan
00:22Kadyrov, as an infamous dictator and Putin puppet, Ramzan Kadyrov.
00:28A simple Google search would tell you everything you need to know about him.
00:32At the event, Swank gave a positive speech in which she acknowledged that city day is
00:37also Kadyrov's birthday.
00:39She added that she knew this because she did her own research.
00:43So I guess another thing you know is that you're a better researcher than Hilary Swank.
00:48After receiving major criticism for being paid to attend the event, Swank apologized
00:52on The Tonight Show, fired her CAA manager, donated her appearance fee to charity, and
00:58was dropped by her publicist.
01:00The Oscar winner has never revealed how much she made for attending the event, but it's
01:04likely to have been about six figures.
01:06But hey, at least she got a tax write-off from it.
01:09In 2019, Tom Hiddleston appeared in a Centrum commercial in China.
01:13In the ad, the actor cooks and serves breakfast to the viewer.
01:17He then gives over the breakfast and apologizes for needing to be away so much.
01:22I'll make it up to you soon, I promise.
01:24The ad ran in 2019 for Centrum's East Asian marketing campaign and did quite well there.
01:30There was, however, a less-than-positive response from folks in the United States and Britain
01:34who also saw the ad, with many calling it creepy and uncomfortable.
01:39I know what you're thinking.
01:40How out of character for a guy who wore an iHeartTS shirt to the beach while dating VTS.
01:47You would never expect that guy to be creepy and uncomfortable.
01:50But here we are.
01:51Luckily for Centrum and Hiddleston, the ad isn't meant for Western audiences, and it
01:56turns out the Chinese people appreciated the novelty of being served food by a famous,
02:01handsome actor.
02:03Hugh Jackman may be an international star, but his road to blockbuster success has been
02:07paved with a lot of crummy jobs.
02:09And we're not just talking Movie 43 and Van Helsing.
02:13You know, you need to revisit Van Helsing.
02:15You might remember it's bad, but it is oh so much worse than you even remember.
02:21Ironically, that would be his second stint in one of those.
02:25During an appearance on The Howard Stern Show, Jackman talked about working as a birthday
02:29clown before he found success as an actor.
02:32He told the radio host,
02:33I was good up to the age of three.
02:36You could climb on my head.
02:37I could juggle three things.
02:39I could juggle kind of anything.
02:41But nothing more.
02:42No balloon animals.
02:43No magic tricks.
02:44Nothing.
02:45You'll being high said the parents can just drink for an hour.
02:48Much like Van Helsing, which is an excuse to drink for two hours.
02:53Not many people can say they've been personally called out by the Human Rights Foundation,
02:57but Jennifer Lopez is not like most people.
03:00According to the HRF, Lopez has made more than $10 million performing for various dictators
03:06around the world.
03:07In 2013, Lopez performed at the birthday party of the dictator of Turkmenistan, whose name
03:12is something I'm not even going to try.
03:15Here, I'll point to the screen.
03:17That's it.
03:18The Independent reported that Lopez affirmed her team's vetting process.
03:22The outlet also said that the star wouldn't have performed for the dictator had she known
03:27of his behavior.
03:28However, J.Lo has also performed for the dictator of Belarus, Chechen dictator Ramzad Kadyrov,
03:34hey hey, there's our boy again, and several other unsavory individuals and institutions.
03:40That said, she has also never responded to calls that she donate her fees from these
03:44performances to charity.
03:46In her defense, divorce lawyers are expensive.
03:50Kim Basinger once purchased more than 50 buildings and 1,700 acres of land in a Georgia town
03:55named Brazelton.
03:57On the bright side, this wasn't the country of Georgia, and she bought it off some dictator.
04:02It was here in the good old U.S. of A. But she also went broke doing it.
04:06So there's that.
04:07In 1990, Basinger and a team of investors envisioned that the town would become a home
04:12to an exciting film and music production studio, as well as a non-Hollywood hub of
04:17movie-related tourism.
04:19Basinger even envisioned building an entire theme park alongside shopping centers, hotels,
04:25and restaurants.
04:26The town and the people who lived there were promised a lucrative, stimulating economic
04:30project that would pay for itself many times over.
04:34Basinger and her team bought nearly the whole town of Brazleton for about $20 million in
04:391990.
04:40However, they were forced to sell the same assets just five years later for a mere $4.3
04:45million.
04:46That certainly helped with Basinger's 1993 bankruptcy filing.
04:50In the end, no one in the 90s was going to film something in Georgia, as opposed to today
04:55when everything's filmed in Georgia.
04:57You know, maybe we're being a bit too hard on Kim for this one.
05:01She was just way ahead of the curve here.
05:03It's not easy to pay the bills as an up-and-coming actor, so you gotta do what you gotta do.
05:08For Whoopi Goldberg, that meant being a morgue cosmetologist.
05:12Whoopi's job was to do makeup on dead bodies before their open-casket funerals.
05:17It's one of those jobs that few people think about, but which someone has to do.
05:21Goldberg was a licensed beautician, so it was an easy way to make money.
05:25She said that on her first day of work, her boss pretended to be a dead body, climbing
05:29out of a morgue drawer.
05:31Goldberg was so scared that she bolted out of the room and smacked her head on the door.
05:35When she came to, she recalled her boss telling her,
05:38"...the worst thing that you could imagine has happened.
05:41That's it.
05:42You still want to work?"
05:43She replied,
05:44"...well, it beats giving a speech in Turkmenistan for money."
05:46Kidding, kidding, kidding.
05:49When we think of Crocs, we usually think of nurses and line cooks.
05:53Maybe the company was trying to avoid those stigmas when it asked John Cena to endorse
05:57its product in a 2017 commercial.
06:00Cena spends the commercial talking about how he was bullied as a child and overcame that
06:04by beefing up.
06:05I asked my dad, is it okay if I start working out?
06:09It's not exactly a story that screams Crocs.
06:12The thing is, Crocs was launching its Come As You Are campaign, a marketing strategy
06:16built around the idea of encouraging kids and young people to be themselves and celebrate
06:22the things that made them different.
06:24And the company wanted people to embrace their uniqueness by wearing its dorky shoes.
06:29Were you picked on as a kid?
06:30Nothing like some Crocs to show those bullies who's who.
06:33Sure, working out six days a week with a daily intake of 4,500 calories of pure protein
06:38helps too, but Crocs really drives the point home.
06:42Citizen Kane is one of the finest films ever made.
06:45When you think all-time classics, it's up there with Highlander and The Godfather.
06:49But making classics doesn't pay the bills all the time, so Orson Welles still occasionally
06:54took a gig or two in order to make a paycheck.
06:57You probably know about his commercial work, like his infamous peas commercial, but you're
07:01forgetting his best money grabs.
07:03Orson Welles voiced the robot Unicron in the film Transformers The Movie.
07:07You underestimate me, Galvatron.
07:11While talking about his role in the animated film, Welles told his biographer, Barbara
07:15Leeming,
07:16I menace somebody called something-or-other.
07:18Then I'm destroyed.
07:19My plan to destroy whoever it is is then thwarted and I tear myself apart on the screen.
07:25It's clear that the veteran actor found the role of Unicron to be a far less stimulating
07:29role than, say, Othello.
07:31And unfortunately, he didn't even have time to enjoy the fruits of his labor.
07:35Welles died five days after finishing his work on the film.
07:40Many celebrities have tried their hand at restaurant management.
07:43Some have even opened restaurants, only to watch them fail soon after.
07:47However, Eva Longoria is the only actor who failed at opening a restaurant that specifically
07:52catered to women.
07:53Longoria's Steakhouse called SHE, wait, it's just pronounced SHE, but the SH are
07:58shouldn't it be SHIGGY?
08:00I think they really dropped the ball there.
08:02Anyway, it was meant to serve as a restaurant destination in Las Vegas that would attract
08:07women and clients interested in a more feminine eating experience.
08:10Get your minds out of the gutter.
08:12It opened in 2012, and the menu featured SHE cuts and HE cuts of steak.
08:17The restaurant closed in 2014 after a string of health code violations, and there wasn't
08:21much of an uproar from customers over it.
08:24Guess you could say the food was SHIT.
08:27If you've been to the Australia Zoo recently, you might be wondering why there's an area
08:30known as the John Oliver Koala Chlamydia Ward.
08:34If you haven't been to the Australia Zoo recently, you might also be wondering why
08:38there's an area known as the John Oliver Koala Chlamydia Ward.
08:43Let's take it a step further.
08:45If you're on Earth right this second, you might be wondering why anything is called
08:49the John Oliver Koala Chlamydia Ward.
08:52Well, we can thank Russell Crowe's jockstrap.
08:55In April 2018, Crowe decided to auction off a number of his personal film-related items
09:00and memorabilia with Sotheby's Australia.
09:03He was in the middle of a contentious divorce and needed some scratch.
09:06The auction was called Russell Crowe, The Art of Divorce.
09:09In addition to his Cinderella Man jockstrap, Crowe auctioned the plate armor he wore in
09:13Gladiator and costumes from Robin Hood and Master and Commander, among other things.
09:19John Oliver and his writers, who are notorious for finding ways to troll people in real life,
09:23decided to bid on several items, including Crowe's jockstrap, which cost nearly $7,000.
09:29They donated the items to one of the last standing blockbuster stores in the world,
09:33located in Anchorage, Alaska, as a way for them to attract visitors.
09:38Turns out the good folks of Alaska were not entertained.
09:41Nobody wanted to go to the blockbuster video to see his jockstrap?
09:44Obviously, I'm different from the people of Alaska.
09:47When Crowe found out about the shenanigans, he donated the proceeds from that specific
09:51sale to the Australia Zoo to support the construction of a chlamydia ward for koalas.
09:57And with that, we learned that no one cares more about Koala Chlamydia than Russell Crowe.
10:03You think it can't get weirder than a bingo card with Russell Crowe, Koala Chlamydia,
10:07Turkmenistan, and Transformers Orson Welles?
10:10How about Susan Sarandon ping pong balls?
10:13When she's not busy acting, helping UNICEF, or trying to rid the Earth of landmines, Susan
10:18Sarandon loves her some table tennis.
10:20She co-owns a chain of ping pong clubs known as SPIN.
10:24I'm more of a propagandist.
10:26A propagandist?
10:27I'm a ping pong propagandist.
10:28Susan didn't come up with the idea for SPIN.
10:30She happened upon a SPIN ping pong party, began dating a semi-pro ping pong player,
10:36and then became professionally involved with the company.
10:38Okay, hang on, time out.
10:40Is this real?
10:41Are you guys putting me on?
10:43Seriously?
10:44The club soon skyrocketed in popularity and expanded with multiple locations.
10:49Unsurprisingly, SPIN is about more than just making money.
10:53Its mission is also about generating spaces for adults to meet up and find community and
10:58fun.
10:59So if pickleball is just way too much exercise for you, try out Susan Sarandon's ping pong
11:03balls.
11:04It might be your speed.