Alec Baldwin Giving All His Capital One Paychecks To Charity
Even Alec Baldwin knows he looks kind of ridiculous shilling for one of the largest banks in the world while at the same time supporting the Occupy Wall Street movement and even writing posts in support of it. Alec told The Daily Caller that he only does so because Capital One gives a lot of money to the arts. Yeah, to make up for the fact they are charging tons of fees and interest and sticking in the pins and the pain wherever they can. Alec says that he gives every penny he makes from the commercials to arts organizations also. Now, he didn't really say which ones so if one of them is the Alec Baldwin fund I wouldn't be surprised. Alec says he is doing another round of the commercials.
In fairness, I think most of the commercials are really funny. I really don't like Alec Baldwin as a human being but I do think he is funny and a great actor.
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I don't get too many fees on my cc from Capital One, but maybe Alec should give the paychecks to the OWS people? That would be fitting, at least in my eyes.
That's good if he's giving that money to charity.
But I am yet to behold his greatness as an actor.
I actually like Capital One. Chase on the other hand....
The guy is a blowhard, but he is a great actor, both dramatic and comic.
That said, I doubt he's giving all his CC endorsement fees to charity, given how hard he's been pushing to get raises for extending his role on 30 Rock.
It's tax day !! Great fake deduction for AB. He's also 'paid' with great freebies that come with this endorsement. He used to be an actor-see Glengarry Glenn Ross
I actually like his commercials! He is charismatic and funny in them!
He is a good performer and the commercials are funny.
Love the commercials and kinda surprised at the comment about Capital One. Enty must be referring to checking and/or savings accounts. I've had a Cap1 credit card for about five years and have found their rates to be fair and/or competitive with others. They routinely offer a 12 mos. same as cash deal which I like, because their 3% service charge (flat, not compounding) is still better than the 10-15% charge of the card from which I transferred the funds. I'm not trying to shill for Capital One, just pointing that out. Now I'm curious to know what others think.
The one where Alec says "only on runways" at the end always makes me chuckle.
I like the ads, and I like him as an actor. 30 Rock is still one of my favorite shows, and I adore him as Jack Donaghy.
I'm glad he's giving the money to charity.
I *love* his CapitalOne ads, especially the ones w/the Vikings and the goat. Always with the goat -- I started loving him when they used a goat as a document shredder.
I have to get out more. But I still think their spots are hysterical. If I have to watch a bank commercial, it's better than those smug yuppies texting their $30 dinner shares to each other over the dining table. Total turnoff.
I would rather support capital one than bank of America or chase or citi. They're the
Lesser of the evils
Until this blowhard hypocrite backs it up with receipts and proof that he's donated anything, this means nothing.
$30 dinners make you a yuppie?? I thought they just meant I like a good meal...
I love his acting, love the commercials, love his narration in Frozen Planet, but dude needs anger management classes. I'd hate to go through life always pissed off at someone or about something.
@califblondy -- could be worse (Mel) but yeah.
I love him and I know it's wrong, but I don't care. It's his money to do with what he pleases, but I do hope he is giving it to charity. A real charity.
I love Tina Fey, but Alec Baldwin MAKES 30 Rock ! He's a great actor and always will be. Good for him supporting the arts !
I love Tina Fey, but Alec Baldwin MAKES 30 Rock ! He's a great actor and always will be. Good for him supporting the arts !
I love Tina Fey, but Alec Baldwin MAKES 30 Rock ! He's a great actor and always will be. Good for him supporting the arts !
I like the Capitol One commercials, but I don't like the 750 middle class jobs in my city they shipped overseas.
Sorry Fawn Neun, I didn't know about the loss of all those jobs to outsourcing for all those households. I'll look at CapOne in a different light from now on. Thanks for the heads-up.
This is just the most recent evidence that he's a hypocrite. Do not like him at all.
I can't stand this abusive ahole, and am surprised so many of you are fans. There are enough stories out there documenting his temper and degrading treatment of Kim basinger and his daughter, that I refuse to watch his shows or support him in any way. He is in the same category as Chris Brown.
Seachica: it takes two; Basinger is batshit almost certifiably crazy. No that doesn't excuse his behavior, but it doesn't excuse hers, either. Same with Chris Brown. It takes two.
Should've added: I know a few female domestic abusers, and a few more females who know how and which buttons to push to get the desired reaction. I just can't _always_ takes the chick's side as a matter of course.
It doesn't ALWAYS take two.
Sometimes an abuser is just an abuser, who needs no provocation to abuse others.
@Angus- Agreed. Just because celebrities say they're going to donate all or some money to charity, doesn't mean they're going to do it. Donating the money to charity is ALWAYS the PR answer when trying to justify shady/hypocritical means of making money. Why do people fall for this BS line??? I don't understand.
Look, we all have to make money to pay our bills and support our lifestyle, but celebrities are such hypocrites about their reasons for making money.
I like Alec but if he left 30 Rock I wouldn't miss him. All the best material on that show now goes to Jane Krakowski and she is phenomenal.
Great actor, love his charity work and specifically his work on behalf of PETA and other animal orgs. And that's all I'll say ;)
AB served as the guest auctioneer for the Hole in the Wall Camp's charity fundraiser last summer. (HitW is Paul Newman's camp for kids with terminal/severe illnesses.) He drove to the middle of nowhere in Connecticut and spent the entire day there, was awesome as the auctioneer (thereby getting people to spend way more than they intended), spontaneously added tons of prizes to the auction that came from his own time/pocket and bid like $100K on some item related to Joanne Woodward (maybe a dinner with her or a poster she had signed) just to show his respect for her as her health fails. I have liked him a lot more since then.
He stated this when he first started doing the commercials. Personality aside, he is well known to be a huge philanthropist, PETA, started a breast cancer foundation when his mother was diagnosed (survivor) and much much more.
Funny he helps abused animals but calls his daughter a fat pig.
I agree with Enty's last sentence.
Ok, so a long time ago there was a blind-ish item about an actor whose career hadn't followed the path he'd imagined, and he needed money, and we'd know who he was when we saw him in commercials. Right after that, the Alec Baldwin Capital One commercials started, and the John Stamos yogurt ones, and the football video game ones voiced by Ben Affleck. Anyway, if Alec is donating his money, he can't be the answer, so it must be Stamos, right? Anyone able to find the post? (IIRC, it wasn't a blind, it was just a blind-like post and supposedly the answer would reveal itself in time.)
RQ..Forgot to say welcome back to you and Rocket Princess!
Maybe people on this board get good rates, but trust me, Capitol One makes a living off fleecing poor people at 29 percent interest. It makes me thoroughly appalled to see actors like Jimmy Fallon and Baldwin shilling for these monsters who, let's not forget, are all complicit in the largest recession in our nation's history, which is still going on.
Anybody who has a REAL career doesn't need to do Capitol One commercials. Both Fallon and Baldwin suck.
@WUWT
I don't remember that blindish post, but Stamos has done a lot of craptastic commercials all the way back to Neet hair removal in 1983. Don't you remember his 1-800 commercials? I think selling the yogurt is rather classy for him. He is half Greek at least. I guess Tina Fey was busy.
As for Baldin, he may be a prick, but he is a good actor and actually funny. Who can forget Schwetty Balls?
Remember Baldwin was also the one who said he would move out of the country if Bush jr was elected. I take his proclaimations with a huge grain of salt.
Alec Baldwin has indeed given the money to various arts and arts related charities. Two of which are on the East End of Long Island and have been well publicized. One is Guild Hall ( an arts center ) and the East Hampton library for the expansion of the children's wing. He gave both non profit organizations $250k.
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