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Josh Gad

@joshgad

23 Aug

Today will be my final day on Twitter for a little while so that I can focus on some work related things. I hope before my absence I can say a few things that are clear and important to me:

1) Democracy is only as strong as those who hold it to account. I’m old enough to remember a world in which we weren’t a frog in boiling water, accepting every insane lie with a shrug and a roll of the eyes. Do not let the abnormal become normal.

2) At a time in which we are all essentially stuck at home with nowhere to go, five minutes to register to vote is not only easier than its ever been, but basically inexcusable to not allot the time to do if you are remotely concerned about the state of this troubled nation.

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Josh Gad

@joshgad

31 Jul

I don't want to do this. I'm on vacation, but frankly, I don't see an alternative. In 2016, misinformation helped elect a man with zero qualifications. 3 and a half years later, 150,000 Americans are unnecessarily dead because of his incompetence and our Democracy is hanging by

a thread. The only way this would-be-Despot wins is if we all take his bait. He is once again, with the help of foreign assistance and his GOP cronies doing everything in his power to play on irrational and unsubstantiated fears like mail-in-ballot fraud, even though he and

his family and many in his cabinet, all vote by mail. He is going to try to do what he did in 2016 to create a "but her emails" logic for not voting for Biden and we all have one choice...to not let him distract us. No logical person can look at this man and not see that he

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Josh Gad

@joshgad

4 Jul

@Lin_Manuel

We now need to talk about @Lin_Manuel who is an unantural talent. I don’t know that I’ve ever left a theater so genuinely shaken by the level of writing I’d just witnessed. It was what I imagined people felt when they first saw Hamlet in 1603. To have a musical filled with over

Two and a half hours of lyrics and have ever single one of the words not only land to utter perfection but transcend the cultural zeitgeist to become more than a Broadway musical but a part of our everyday vernacular is something I’ve frankly never really witnessed or imagined

Possible. To add to the insanity of the talent behind the words and music, he also makes it impossible to imagine any other human being playing the role of Hamiton because he literally transforms into the man and almost doesn’t allow you to see the founding father as anything

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Josh Gad

@joshgad

2 Jul

@leslieodomjr

#HamiltonFilm a thread. The first time I saw #Hamilton on stage at the #PublicTheater I knew absolutely nothing about what I was in for. My college classmate @leslieodomjr had told me briefly over the years that he was working on something with @Lin_Manuel that was unlike

Anything else that had ever been done. The stage is a resoivoir for overhyped products, so I didn’t quite know what to expect other than an explosion of talent based on the cast involved I already knew. The lights lowered, I put my playbill aside and at intermission turned to

@MarkRuffalo

My friends, also in the audience that night, @MarkRuffalo and his amazing wife Sunny and said what would become a familiar phrase out of my mouth from that point on, “Hamilton” is the most inspired piece of art I’ve ever seen.” Over the course of the next 2 years, I was blessed

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Josh Gad

@joshgad

28 Aug 19

Thread- I don’t want to be the guy always shouting at the top of his lungs about the same thing. Life is too short. So this (I’m hoping) will be the last time I try to put into words how I feel about the current political situation we are in and reach out to those of you content

With where things are right now in our country. So here we go. I know some of you wanted and hoped to throw the whole system out and see what happened if we disrupted political norms and elected a “guy who says it like it is” and in a weird way, I guess I even understand

That impulse. But this is where we are now objectively: Donald Trump has never been fit for office and it appears that he is mentally unhinged. We can talk around it. We can play word games. We can debate what that means. But by all appearances he is truly a “madman.”

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