18 Million Rising (18MR), an organization promoting voter registration among the Asian American community, has launched a series of online spots worth checking out for their humor and educational value. As CNN’s Moni Basu reports, the series of “Bee a Winner” videos features comedian Bob Saget and South Asian actors- with Parvesh Cheena of Outsourced and Sonal Shal of Scrubs-as contestants in a mock spelling bee (nine of the last 13 Scripps National Spelling Bee Winners have been South Asian).
In the videos targeting mostly younger voters, contestants tackle campaign and civic related vocabulary. In typical spelling bee fashion, they ask for the words to be used in sentences.
In what is arbitrarily the funniest spot, Kosha Patel comes up with her own sentence before the moderator (Saget) gets his thoughts organized:
Her word: Swing Voter. Her sentence: “Asian-Americans will be the deciding swing voters in November’s elections.”
