The cast of the NBC comedy Will
& Grace reunited for a political skit released on the same day as
the first presidential debate between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, her GOP
rival.
Released on YouTube ten years after the
series ended, the nearly 10-minute skit features all four of the show's lead
cast members: Eric McCormack, Debra Messing, Megan Mullally and Sean Hayes, who
is openly gay.
Will & Grace, which
premiered in 1998, was the first prime time network sitcom to feature a gay
lead in McCormack's uptight lawyer, Will.
Over the weekend, all four actors
posted images from the show's set. Then on Monday, Messing tweeted a video with
a hidden message: Will & Grace is back.
In the scene, best friends Will (played
by McCormack) and Grace (Messing) and socialite Karen (Mullally) learn that
Jack (Hayes) is registered to vote in swing state Pennsylvania. Each tries to
persuade Jack to vote for the candidate of their choice.
“Honey, if you don't vote for Trumpie,
there will be wars and monsoons and locusts and hordes of brown people pouring
over our borders from every direction,” Karen tells Jack.
Grace argues that a vote for Clinton
would send a positive message to “millions of little girls, and little boys who
are going to be little girls, and little girls who are going to be little
boys.”
In the scene's final frames, Rosario
(Shelley Morrison), Karen's maid, appears in the doorway wearing her signature
sunglasses and Members Only jacket. “Talk about a basket of deplorables,” she
says as she waves at the foursome.
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